The Joy of Designing: Round Two - Designs
Ends 4/29

Workshop One: Open to All!



This a closed contest to those who made it through the application process. A big congratulations to all the applicants that made it into the competition! I can't wait to see what exciting things you come up with. (:

General Contest Information

The second round will kick off today as will voting (3/18). You will have until the Sunday after next (4/1) at 11:59pm to submit designs for the round once it is posted. The week after will be just for voting. But! I will release the prompt or theme for the next round at the start of the voting thread so you have around two weeks to work on your designs. It will alternate design/voting/design/voting... However, this means there is potential for you to work on these designs early, but be eliminated via the voting round.

Voting - please do not reveal your designs to anyone until voting is over! Revealing your designs or getting your friends to vote for your design set will result in an automatic elimination. This means don't submit these designs in other contest and please don't submit them publicly on the generator! Everyone will receive 3 votes. You may vote for three different designs/design sets. You may not put all three votes on one set, but you may elect to vote for less than 3. All applicants are allowed to vote, but! You may not vote for your own design. I will know who's design belongs to who - so no sneaky stuff. :P YOU MAY NOT CHANGE YOUR VOTE IF YOU'VE ALREADY VOTED - there will be no edits allowed. Please let me know if you'd like to be pinged for the voting threads!

Workshops - I will be hosting a workshop during each voting week. These workshops are designed to help you learn some fun tips and tricks about designing as well as give back to the community some as well. People in the contest and out of the contest are welcome to participate in these workshops! Those from our contest who participate will be awarded an extra vote for the next round. I will specify which round it applies to in the workshop description to eliminate confusion. The first workshop will be available starting on 3/11.

Questions - If you have any questions please send me a private message and do not post them in this thread. Please put The Joy of Designing: Round Two - Questions in the subject line. This is because I don't want any questions relevant to the designs created to affect the blind vote.

Round Themes - I will detail around 3 designs that fall into a theme for each week. It will be less writing intensive than the application though - perhaps a couple sentences here and there.

Submission Information

Official Submissions - Upon completing your designs, I ask you DO NOT save them to the generator publicly! This is very important as it ruins the blind vote. Send them to me via a PM with the subject line The Joy of Designing: Round Two - Designs. Please submit the image links with a size of 250. Please don't submit them to your moderator as the moderators were only being used in the application process.

Late Submissions - I understand life happens and things get in the way! What I have decided to do is allow submissions past the deadline through the voting week, but! The voting thread will be up within 24 hours of the submission deadline. If you submit past that time, you risk losing out on votes because the voting thread will still be going up on time. I.E. If you submit late - the voting still goes up, but your submissions will be added to it later. Thus, some people may have already voted.

Early submissions - meaning you submit up to 24 hours before the deadline - I will happily give you feedback on and allow you a resubmission as long as it is still in before the deadline. You may not ask for advice and then submit the revised designs past the deadline. Your original set will be used.

Round Two Theme - Wonders of the World



Please use different species for each design set and include any references used!

Design Set 1 - For this design set, I ask you create an identical design pair based on the official wonders of the world. This maybe be from the 7 wonders of the ancient world, 7 wonders of the modern world, or 7 wonders of the natural world. But please only use the official wonders!

Design Set 2 - For this design set, select a man made structure you believe should be added to the wonders of the world - ancient or modern. Design a pair around it - they must be identical and one of each gender present.

Design Set 3 - For this design set, select a something in nature you believe would be considered the 8th natural wonder of the world. Design a pair around it - they must be identical and one of each gender present.


I can't wait to see what you all come up with! Because this is posted early, you get two weeks to work, however, there is the possibility of being eliminated in round one's voting round - so please keep this is mind!

Official Wonders of the World List


7 Wonders of the Ancient World

Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Greece
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Colossus of Rhodes
Lighthouse at Alexandria, Egypt

7 Wonders of the Modern World

Chichn Itza, Mexico.
Christ the Redeemer Statue, Brazil
Colosseum, Italy
Taj Mahal, India
Great Wall of China
Petra, Jordan
Machu Picchu, Peru.

7 Natural Wonders of the World

Mount Everest
Grand Canyon
Northern Lights
Harbor at Rio de Janeiro
Great Barrier Reef
Paricutin: The Volcano in a Cornfield
Victoria Falls

Gonna ping myself so I dont lose track lol

i would love to help with this more but....i just wanna see the designs!

I'm excited to see everyone's round 1 designs and do some voting ^.^ Round 2 is definitely going to be interesting to design for too.

Now I regret that I am not participating in this contest. I would be so inspired for this round!!!
I can't wait to see the designs people will come too for the all these Wonders of the World, though!

Hi, you mentioned voting would be kicking off on 3/18 but I can't seem to find the thread. Could I get a ping for that and be added to the ping list please?

I know there must be a lot of questions as to what's going on since I've been MIA and things are going off schedule. I am working to revise the management of this contest given some serious health issues that have popped up recently which complicate my every day activities. I am going to press pause on this for the next couple of days, set out a plan, and let you all know how we will proceed as quickly as possible. I appreciate all the patience and I promise we will get this contest back on track shortly!

Your health comes first to be sure! Take care of you and keep us informed!

take care of yourself first, this can wait^^