The Winning Ideas for The Icon Contest
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I asked you to pick your favorite icon idea for the Marmalade Moon Icon Contest, to enter one idea for an icon that you would have exceptional use of in your digital environment. Then I’ll design a new set of beautiful and practical icons based on your ideas and the winners get this collection of icons for free.
And you came up with tons of great ideas! When going through your responses, I find three themes take form. One is icons that describe your work process, in a more specific way than the icons in the Workflow collection. The process theme includes valuable approaches for indicating how urgent your work is, when it needs to be done, what’s in transit or important, what’s a sketch, what’s overdue and what’s been approved and is a final version.
The next theme has to do with running a small business based around a blog (jacqueline, AG Ambroult, Lori, Wini, Valarie) and the third is a set of icons for a writer (David Gray, Lori, Valarie).
All these ideas are wonderful for reinventing your digital life through speeding up your work in a digital environment, by finding your files and folders with ease. This time, I’ll design a set of Process Icons! But, I find the runner up ideas really fantastic, and I’m seriously considering developing them into icons. I’ll keep you posted.
Congratulations everyone, and thanks for making this contest a huge success!
The following 8 icon ideas have been selected as the winners. Each winner wins the collection they have contributed to creating through submitting their idea. All the winners have already been contacted.
And the winners are:
Process Collection – 7 icons
- Annelie — sketches, drafts
- Mau Orozco — flux, in transition, traffic, stream
- David Clegg — overdue, late, urgent
- workerbee – dreaded report, urgent/important document
- StephenB — official, approved, final version
- Steve Robillard — today, tomorrow
- Edward Scott — safe, important
Bonus prize:
Sandy — medical (this icon will be added to the collection of Organizer icons)
A few other themes I wanted to mention was YodaMac’s suggestion for digital production, Calle Rehbinder’s idea for a set of media icons, Laura William’s idea for an events icon, Helen’s idea for a collection of icons for organizing the financial side of running a small business, Ian’s idea for a set of genealogy icons and Carla’s idea for icons around gratitude and envisioning.
Tags: contest, design, giveaway, productivity, workflow
Hooray for the winners! You got some great suggestions, Kate. Can’t wait to see the Process collection!
Thanks Amy, it’s been very exciting to see all the brilliant ideas take shape! It’ll be fun to get going with the Process collection and I’ve got a soft spot for the possibility of a set for people who run a small business too.
Wow what a great announcement of winners. It was so interesting to see what everyone was needing. Great contest.
Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to seeing the new collection!
Yippee and hooray to all the lucky winners! :) I am looking forward to see these new collections! Have a lovely merry happy day and love to yoU!
Congrats to the winners! Looking forward to seeing the new collection!