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Psdtuts+! New Dawn Poster Design Contest Winners!

on Jan 7th 2009 with 79 comments

We have the results in for the New Dawn Poster Design Contest. Up for grabs is a Wacom tablet, a Logitech G9 laser mouse, subscriptions to ‘Wired’ magazine, loads of marketplaces credit and 1-year memberships to Psdtuts+. We had a whole lot of artists enter the contest, and well over 250 entries. I hope everyone had a lot of fun! Learn all about the winning entries at the jump!

About the Contest

We looked at overall artistic quality, technical execution, originality, and thematic execution in judging these entries! Thanks to everyone who entered. Now let’s give it up to the winners. A round of applause please!

First Place Winner

The first place winner is Horizon Fire. The story submitted with this entry is: “Who knows what the mysterious force is that has taken hold of this city, but clearly it has left no-one to keep up with the gardening.”

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

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Second Place Winner

The second place winner is Etagon. The story submitted with this entry is: “Some strange spheres made of an unknown metal fall down from the sky everywhere in the world waiting to a sign to make their move. You can hear this disturbing noise coming from the sphere, a sound of chaos, fear and death…But for some people this cannot be the end.”

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

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Third Place Winner

The third place winner is simoncpage. The story submitted with this entry is: “The Earth is an awful state and we are facing worldwide drought many millions of people have died and the story follows 4 survivors as they search for water. They are unaware of how many have died and that they are mans last hope of escaping extinction.” The story and images can be found on the artist’s blog.

Congratulations, and your prizes are:

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Link to Image in Psdtuts+ Flickr group

Psdtuts+! New Dawn Poster Design Contest!

Congratulations to our winners! Great job to everyone that participated in the contest. I’ll be contacting the winners shortly to assist them with collecting their prizes. The winners should keep an eye on the Flickr email boxes for the next couple days.

Some More Great Entries

There were quite a few entries that came very close to winning. Also, there are certainly more good entries submitted into the contest that are in the Psdtuts+ Flickr Group. Here are just a handful more that really captured our attention. Also, feel free to submit a tutorial concept for your contest entry designs. Many of the posters I saw would make great Photoshop tutorials.

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  • http://www.adammarsh.com Adam

    Next time the winner should be decided by public vote. Period

  • aMs

    @rasterboy, by selecting winner you cannot satisfy everyone. the jury had it’s own rules and expectations.

  • http://blog.insicdesigns.com insic

    Great job to those who win and who participate.

  • xedner

    Congratulations Horizon Fire! Well done. Leaves me with awe.

    To rasterboy, lowpop, chedesigner: your works are really amazing! they’re the real deal.

    Thanks PSDTUTS!
    I’m looking forward for more competitions like this.

  • http://URL(Optional) MiroARRR

    Gratz to the winners
    First one reminds well of “I AM LEGEND”, but the one with the chinese portrait (with military hat) could have done this too with some more work on typography. GG’s awy

  • http://www.mattmcrae.co.uk Matt McRae

    The quality of the work here is stunning, well done to all those involved – I only wish I’d had the time to submit an entry myself!

    Definately check out simoncpage’s other posters, they’re all fantastic – well done on getting third place mate

  • Carlo

    Holy Sweet Bananas!
    You guys are great, these posters are waaaay better than most of the official posters of some movies nowadays..
    And I’ve seen a lot..

    Keep up the good work and congrats to you all!

  • Paolo

    congratulations to all winners and other artists. i’ve only to notice, for my personal idea, that there’re some great similarities between the 2nd place and this one http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikydesign/3115136959/sizes/o/in/pool-613394@N22/ which is mine. look at the date. i’ve to say that is quite obvious that the 2nd place is surely better but… anyway, let’s go with another contest ;-)

  • http://isis-m.deviantart.com Isis

    The winner deserved it, but I think there are better posters for 2nd and 3rd places.

    Loved the last one (except for the tipography) and the military girl. I think they’re representative for our nowadays blockbusters porsters.

    But everyone made a very good job, and I can see a lot of hints given by PSDTUTS in the works.

    Congrats for everyone. I’ll try to participate next time! ^^

  • Topflysecurity

    congrats to the winner..

    must been hart to choose with so many good posters.. i personally think my was the best.. lol jk

    it was fun doin this.. i hope there gone be a contest soon, that is a superb way to test you skillz an creativity..

  • seemore

    beautyful works!!!
    congrats all …

  • himangshu

    NO#3 has to be the 1st winner. its great and balanced in all proportion and i think truly reflects the theme
    all are great entries though….wish i had joined the contest

  • http://www.artofpx.net Px

    I like the last and the one with russian style lady profile most. Well done…

  • Pearl

    Good to see from the Russian style profile entry that “Oakley” sunglasses are still around LOL.

    I think number 3 is an awesome composition and the runner-ups need a course in typography.

    Nice competition lets have another one!

  • Etagon

    My first participation to a contest and i get the second place…I’m so happy, thank you.
    I worked a lot on this poster experiencing some new stuffs that i never done before like working with fire for example.
    I know that my entry is not perfect and i am agree with some people that wrote that there is a lack of finition, some problems with the light sources or the composition and i know i can do better…much better!
    I think the jury also took in consideration the amount of work for this contest…i don’t know.

    Thank again and i enjoyed a lot doing this – can’t wait the next one.

  • http://www.itcamefromthelab.com/ sean steezy

    Great job everyone, they were all really good!

    Congrats to the winners! Party time excellent!

  • SpeakFlames

    Well I must say that I am not agree with the jury… first had at least a dozen images that had more work to third place, I do not want to detract from anyone, but I disagree …

    These were my favorites to the throne:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/33869557@N03/3158676003/sizes/o/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/26420992@N02/3148523828/sizes/o/

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/diegomattei/3138028921/sizes/o/in/photostream/

    I don’t understand these two pieces appeared even to be mentioned that… there are some that are well below them.

    It’s just my opinion I am not own the absolute truth.

  • http://www.pcbymp.nl/mennopietersen ThaClown

    Nice!!! Great job guys!

  • Chris

    @Adam – that would be interesting, to at least have a member favorite by site vote or something.

  • AGA7

    personally I like the 3rdp place winner. Good, quiet execution.

  • taksan

    awesome design!

  • Electric

    Absolutely great artwork. Now the winner or the runner up should make a tut.

  • Tom

    Well, after reading through these comments, I really feel like I need to chime in. I have been a working designer for over 20 years, and as a person with design management experience, I have to say that there are many problems with the winning entries. The work itself is fantastic! It all looks really good. There are some basic typography issues, but I see that a lot, so I’m not going to harp on those. On the whole, the winners look great, but they don’t work with the theme of the project. If you use a phrase like, “Extinction is not an option.” then you need to have that concept illustrated in the piece, otherwise the imagery doesn’t make any sense. Winners one and two show no struggle for life, extinction is not just an option, it’s a reality! Entry three does show the continuance of life, but it violates the very first criteria. “In this movie the setting is a post-apocalyptic cityscape.” Any entry not showing a cityscape should have been disqualified. If this was a real freelance piece then the client has the right to decide to modify the criteria after seeing what the designer has done. However, it’s a contest, the criteria need to be adhered to be fair to all entrants. At the end of the day, the judges have the final say and they have spoken. End of sermon.

  • SpeakFlames

    That’s realy realy true Tom…

  • Tasha

    Many congratulations to the winners! I entered the contest as well, and while I really didn’t expect to win, it was great design exercise, not just designing myself, but taking cues from other designs submitted. It was excellent practice, and I hope that I’ll be a lot more polished for the next contest to come!

  • http://www.v2lab.com Steve Forbes

    I agree with Tom, very fine point there! None the less some great work! I definitely think no1 wins on the basis of attention to detail! Congrats! :)

  • Chris

    @Tom – well said.

  • John

    So I was just wondering, in a true post apocalyptic cityscape wouldn’t there be hardly any city left? and kudos to horizonfire, in a situation in which humanity was instantly wiped out (i.e suddenly disappear) then what is depicted in his picture would become a reality.

    Gz to all winners and runners up some truly amazing work there

  • Cruze

    I have to agree. The Gas Mask Poster was my favorite, I could even see thats as a poster for a upcoming movie or game cover that would make me research further to see what it’s about.

    ALL of these were great pieces of work.

    So… when do you guys start the tutorials?

    These type of tutorials would draw in lots of traffic since they are originally done by the members here. Hack… even if you make them plus only… id buy the subscription for member tuts instead of ones you can find on most blogs.

    Just my 5 cents.

  • http://simoncpage.co.uk/ Simon Page

    I’m planning on doing a tutorial on here – just not sure which one to do it on?

    The Gas Mask Poster?
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/52128710@N00/sets/72157611598464992/

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