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So, recently I entered the new Smashing Magazine competition to design some colourful and inventive lines that others could use. The idea was to take a simple, often boring (but nonetheless omnipresent) design element and jazz it up a bit or see just what was possible without straying too far from original purpose or usability. I’m now more than a little happy to report that 2 of the 4 designs that I submitted made it into the final selection! Of these, my ‘lightsabres’ design also made it into the final download pack of 109 hr lines, which is even better news.

Sven and Vitaly apparently had to look through a total of 1,290 different submissions so to get 2 into the final article and one into the download makes me feel pretty good, thanks! You can see the whole article and the top 25 designs (there’s always next time) here.

Below are the four designs I submitted, the lightsabres and donut graphics were the ones that SM selected..