You Can Win Ten Thousand Dollars by Designing a Logo

Contests get launched all the time, and they have worked as means to launch new startup companies or famous designers and inventors in the past. One such competition, sponsored by Nanyang Technological University and the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, has just begun.

This is the third edition of the contest, called the Singapore International 3D Printing Competition, but the theme is different from the others.

Which is a natural part of the contest, since a new theme is meant to be tackled each year. It is a way to encourage both variety and thoroughness at once.

This year's theme is to create a fully functional 3D printed model of a toy that includes contemporary engineering while having a retro feel.

Quite the task, but we imagine that quite a few people will have good idea. The grand prize is a good motivator after all.

3D print a toy or logo and you get ten grand

This is the laconic description of third edition of the competition. To make a new type of toy, and to create a logo design that “embodies the innovation of 3D printing.”

It is a big departure from the normal focus of the Singapore Centre for 3D Printing, which makes products and performs services for aerospace and defense, building and construction, and marine and offshore industrial sectors.

Then again, if enough people make toy aircraft, ships and cars, perhaps the theme will not be so out of left field after all.

The prizes

As we said before, the grand prize is of $10,000 SNG, which corresponds to roughly $8,000 and €7,000. As demanded by tradition, however, there are two other prizes as well.

They are not the standard second and third prizes though. Instead, they are two equal monetary recompenses that are available to different kinds of applicants.

Second prize, for which Singapore school students from primary, secondary, and junior-college levels are eligible, is $5,000 SNG / $4,000 / €3,300.

The third prize of just as much money is only available to students from tertiary level educational institutions, like universities and polytechnic schools.