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Designing the Kodak Challenge GIANT check
Every once in a while you get asked to do something totally different.
I've been working as a graphic designer for more than 25 years and in that time, I've done a lot of different things: print, packaging, corporate identity, exhibition, video, interactive, and so on. These days, I mostly I spend my time working on the user experience and visual design of our website and other online experiences, including the KODAK Challenge website. I get asked all the time for related pieces of work: posters, ads, etc. You name it, I've done it, or so I thought.
This week, I got asked to do something I have never done before...
I got to make the million dollar check given to the winner of the Kodak Challenge.
You know these things, people proudly standing behind them at charity events, lottery press announcements and the TV commercials with some guy knocking on the lucky winners door. My favorite, of course, is the collection of them piling up in the back of Adam Sandler's car in the movie 'Happy Gilmore'.
I'd never really thought about before. It's not a hard job, pretty basic stuff but I'd never really looked at what needed to be there. It is, of course, not a legal document, no bank name and routing numbers, etc. but there are some distinct conventions that we expect. Checks are a certain shape and certain elements: big logo in the top left, date, recipient name, signature and the all important amount. One meeeelilion dollars. $1,000,000.00. That's a whole bunch of zeroes.
I printed out a draft and left it on my desk for a while. Lots of people wanted to take it.
We didn't know for sure who was going to win so we had to make some extra versions. I guess those ones end up in a dumpster.
I've been working as a graphic designer for more than 25 years and in that time, I've done a lot of different things: print, packaging, corporate identity, exhibition, video, interactive, and so on. These days, I mostly I spend my time working on the user experience and visual design of our website and other online experiences, including the KODAK Challenge website. I get asked all the time for related pieces of work: posters, ads, etc. You name it, I've done it, or so I thought.
This week, I got asked to do something I have never done before...
I got to make the million dollar check given to the winner of the Kodak Challenge.
You know these things, people proudly standing behind them at charity events, lottery press announcements and the TV commercials with some guy knocking on the lucky winners door. My favorite, of course, is the collection of them piling up in the back of Adam Sandler's car in the movie 'Happy Gilmore'.
I'd never really thought about before. It's not a hard job, pretty basic stuff but I'd never really looked at what needed to be there. It is, of course, not a legal document, no bank name and routing numbers, etc. but there are some distinct conventions that we expect. Checks are a certain shape and certain elements: big logo in the top left, date, recipient name, signature and the all important amount. One meeeelilion dollars. $1,000,000.00. That's a whole bunch of zeroes.
I printed out a draft and left it on my desk for a while. Lots of people wanted to take it.
We didn't know for sure who was going to win so we had to make some extra versions. I guess those ones end up in a dumpster.
