Start a contest!Contest Prize Guide
This guide explains how to select an appropriate prize amount for your contest. All minimum and recommended amounts found in this guide are an extension of those found in the DesignContest.net prize table (the Table). Any inconsistencies between the Table and this guide should be interpreted in favor of this guide.
1. The Prize Table
Before consulting the remainder of this guide, please make absolutely sure that your contest is not listed in the prize table. The table covers many of the common contests, including the following:
- Logo - If you need an identifying symbol for your company. You will receive a vector rendering of the winning design, which you can scale to any size, put on your website, and/or print.
- Website - If you are planning on creating a website and you need to establish a look for it. You will receive a single image of the main web-page for your website. This image can later be used by a web developer to create your fully-functional site.
- Illustration - If you require a single digital drawing, up to a medium (8.5 x 11) size. You will receive the files necessary to print and otherwise use the winning design.
- Print - If you need a business card, flyer, medium-size poster, or any small/medium single-page design made for print. You will receive the files necessary to print the winning design.
- Flash - If you require a design that is built using Adobe Flash. You will receive a file that is playable using Adobe Flash Player.
2. Small designs
Icon sets
An icon may take anywhere from one hour
to several hours to create. It depends on how specific you are about
what you need, and how complicated the icon needs to be. A good icon is
somewhat like a logo, albeit without a company. It's important not to
underestimate the effort involved.
Minimum prize for each complex icon is $100
Add at least $50 to both of the above if you are not sure what the icon(s) will look like.
Web graphics
This includes all small/medium-size
website images such as banners, custom buttons, headers, and splash
pages. The prize should be relative to the size of the image, and its
complexity.
Minimum prize for a larger, more complex graphic is $100
3. Multi-page designs
Consult the prize table for the first page. For each additional page, consider whether the page looks the same or different from the one(s) already created. Unique pages take more time and creativity, and thus they are worth more. Designers will naturally expect to see this reflected in the prize.
Minimum prize increase for a unique page is [same as the first page]
4. Other designs
If you wish to start a contest that is not covered in this guide, please contact our contest administrator (the Admin). Please also note that any contest requested without consulting either this guide, the Table, or the Admin may be postponed by DesignContest.net until such time that the prize is corrected or the contest is canceled.
