Your Swiss Army Knife 2015

Welcome to Victorinox 2015 Gianfranco :)

Facebook?

"After the submission period of six weeks Victorinox will pick a pre-selection and YOU can be part of the decision which 10 designs will be produced at the end by voting for your favourites on the “Victorinox Swiss Army” facebook fanpage!"

Ah.... the glorious FB voting. Sucks, but that is also part of marketing the whole collection, so I completely understand why they go that way.

Hi there Leonard! No it doesn't mean that you can only use these colors in the background. But since only flat parts can be printed and the round ones not anymore anymore, the edges of the knife will have to stay one of the basic colors. This is something to consider when you are working on your design :) I hope this helps! Cheers

https://victorinox2015.jovoto.com/ideas/new

The link to upload/ submit is at the top right of the project page.

Thanks Gila for your help! @valentinafischman: if you are still experiencing problems, just drop me a message and i will guide you trough :)

If it is the main image, you cannot delete. But. Go to "Edit Idea" (top navigation on the right when viewing the idea), upload a new image and move it to the top spot by simply dragging it. As soon as you have a new image on the top spot, you have the "delete" option at the other image(s) - just click that and save.

Okay. Thanks a lot.

HI there, and thanks again Gila! Also you have 24 hours to delete images, after that period the Project Guide can help you doing that!

Yes, You can!

Indeed, that's right - thanks ru_flair! If you have a look at previous collections, the logo is not always the same color either.

Hey Marc! If you hit the "Submit idea" button you will find this sentence at the bottom: "In this project you can submit max. 10 ideas. This means for you that you can submit 10 more ideas." --> so you're allowed to submitted max. 10 ideas..

thank you, eva! 10, that seems to be enough. ;-)

Thanks Eva for the answer, That's right! Let's see what you've got for us Marc :)

Could we agree also that we do not submit unfounded insinuations..So we all play fair play..right?

Ah, the red wine! Meant to apologize yesterday... :) I am so used to clipart in this contest... and you are apparently good at making it look like a photo!

P.S. As for mocking up - just checked, last year, 13 of the 15 community winners were actually mocked up in a way that cannot be produced. It just looks better... so f%$% it. I am off to make my entries look great, too. :(

Dear Cross the Lime! Yes, that's right: it has always been this way and the client seems to be happy with it.

maybe there aren't submitted 100 designs up to moment?! so all ideas are automatically in the top 100…my declaration:)

Hmm thank you both! We will look into this and see what's up!

The only thing provided is the packshot upright/ both sides & lying down one side. I think we all just made our own mock-ups and templates...

Yes, there are some Download Materials for you to work with in briefing: such as the pack shots and the "Position of the logo" pdf.

I always fake the logo by placing the vector on top of the packshot, emulating the size & position. Victorinox will have their own graphic designers making the designs fit once they go into production.

Thanks Gila for your helpful answers! Indeed the pack shots show the knife in a perspective, therefore the logo is not 100% in the middle. That's why we have added the "Position" Download. I hope it helps. And yes, for the production it will be fitted 100% perfectly :)

Dear pedroalvarez!

Most designers work with illustrations and professional software – but feel free to create your design the way that works best for you, as long as you can submit a great design.

Yours Jesko

Hey there Lidija, thanks for asking!

I believe all requirements are in the briefing that you should be aware of. Colorwise it might be useful to keep in mind the basic colors : "your design will then be printed on the scales which have mostly the basic colour red, white, black, blue, yellow, green and are non-transparent." This is going to be visible on the edges as they are round and therefore not printable.

Some other extra info about the print I remembered (and looked up) from last year - I guess it's the same again - maybe this is useful to you?

"Tampon Print 54 line screen /CMYK 1/10 mm thick Lines/Letters"

Cheers, Dora

Thanks, Dora!!! So I take it from that that there is no color limitation except for making sure that there are no details so fine that they get lost in the print. Got it!

:) Very much looking forward to see your design too!

Hi there, Thanks for checking! There were ideas in each years project that were based on glow in the dark. As far as I remember they don't desire to produce GID knives - at least fact is that they never did so far. I will double check this for you to be sure though ;)

Ok thank you Dora for feedback...that just a thought... about using GID Ink Color 0=)

Hi there! The tools of the Limited Edition knives are always the same: just have a look at the second image in the "Packshots" download :) Thanks

Ok that's great, thanks for clarifying!

Sure, Bariom! That's no problem - just always contact the project guide with links to which ideas you wish to get deleted :) Thanks

OK, thank you Dora.

Hi there :) Sure you can upload up to 10 ideas and also always update them with new versions too until the end of the submission period in 19 days. Or are you experiencing some technical problems? If so, it would be great if you could send me a private message describing what's the error. Thanks!

I doubt there is a video covering all your questions. Making tutorials is not an casual job and I belive everyone here have smarter way to spend time. If it helps, here is short list of techniques you need to learn in order to make usable mockup: - creating and using MASKS (with this technique you'll make selection of entire knife scale, on which design will be applied) - BLENDING MODE (with diferent blending modes you can apply your design to knife scale, and change how it coresponds with background, so you'll have some of the realistic effects visible). tip: use "multiply" blending mode - lastly, you can enchance preview by adding more layers with gradients, which will give it shadow and light on spots where they should be Its simple, though it will take time to gain skill and ease of use ;)

hope this helps, cheers!

Hi there! Thanks a lot Branko! I hope this was helpful to you saithen, looking forward to see your design/s!

Thank you so much, the list has been most helpful and I have find many tutorials covering these specific techniques! :) Will try to learn everything in a few days :)

Try to find a collaborator and submit as a team?

ey Saithen, I can help you if you still need help. just send me a message, cheers!

I can also help if you're still stuck. Send me a message and I'll send you a templated PSD where you can drop your designs into ;)

:) Thanks Matias & Lee - that's great of you! :)

@Branko, Dora answers my similar question: Dora ( guide ) 8 days ago Sure, Bariom! That's no problem - just always contact the project guide with links to which ideas you wish to get deleted :) Thanks

Branko is talking about one image, not the whole idea. :) And... it doesn't work. You can only delete within 24 hours. After that, you can move it downwards - I often insert a slide "old stuff" to clearly separate, though that doesn't work as well anymore with the new site layout.

yep, Cross the Lime got it right :) I have droped few more previews pushing unwanted one down ;)

Hi guys! You are all right: if you need something deleted just get in touch with me (or the project guide of the project you are participating in) . Indeed there's a 24 hour period for each slide - after that the guide can help you!

Hi there Goce & welcome to jovoto it's great to see your first ideas!

Thanks a lot for checking with us - this is an important question. It is okay to share your ideas and the project on Facebook etc. - but with the hint that the people who get involved (and also become part of the community) also vote on the ideas fair and objective. You can read more about ratings under "Support".

There will be LOTS of votes in this particular project - and a lucky person has the job to also monitor these ratings with the help of an algorithm we have developed. (me!) ;)

"If we, or our handy jovoto algorithm notices that your ratings seem unfair, for either supporting or bashing an idea or community member, your votes will not be taken into consideration."

Again, you will find this under "Support" -nr.4 (on the bottom of the page)

I hope this was helpful! If you have any more questions let me know!

Hi Dora, thank you for the fast reply. I understand it, and i just wanted to be sure that the voting, i really don't want to get unfair votes from friends/family/spam engines :)

I'll make sure to read the Support page. Have a great day.

Yeah that's great - thanks for that! :) Have a nice day as well!

I use .JPG or .PNG for upload. Did you mean this?

Hi there & Thanks.

Yes, Image formats are the following: "PNG, PDF, JPG and GIF. PNG guarantees best quality. (Maximum size: 20MB) Image sizes: Images should be uploaded at a minimum of 1000x1000px."

This info is also displayed in the Upload form (Submit idea) under "Attachments" > "Learn more"

Hi Ru flair, we are working on a dashboard upgrade that will add these features and cause more interaction . For now you mostly want to use the notifications, here you can see if someone replies to your comment.

Thanks for the short but important answer!:))

Ru flair, i agree with you. Especially for the part about the update of ideas and where the past idea don't have a chance since they get buried under the stack.

let's hope that the Jury will have the patience to watch all of the work here not only top 100 ;)

Up to ten... good luck ;-)

Thank you!

Thats correct - Thanks Bariom! This information is also displayed in the Upload form "Submit idea" under "IDEA LIMIT" :)

The position is fix! The only thing you can change is the color of the logo. Good luck!

Thank you for the answer, I will update my designs!

Yes, that's correct - thanks for the answer. This is also stated in the briefing: "The position, size and shape of the Victorinox logo on the knife may not be changed"

Hi there Jessica, thanks for your questions. 1 - There is no guideline for marking your updates : you are very welcome to do so in any way you feel is best. 2 - You are certainly welcome to show as many variations of an idea as you wish :) 3 - You can delete slides and ideas - but you only have 24 hours to do do. After this period please contact the Project Guide via PM with links and descriptions explaining what you wish to get deleted. I hope this helps!

Oh and maybe it's also cool to mention that you don't need to delete the original (regarding question 3) . You can also just arrange your slides in chronological order - so that everyone can see and follow the improvements of the idea ;)

I'll do exactly that. Thanks for the reply!

Hi there :) Thanks for your suggestions to Victorinox.

I agree!! :)

Hi there & welcome to jovoto :)

Indeed the Community Prizes go to the designs with the highest votes (ratings) from the community. The Clients Choice is independent from that. Clients choose whatever ideas they like from the pool of submissions. In this case, Victorinox will take their hand picked selection to a facebook voting. The winners (top 10) of this will determine which designs make it into the new Limited Edition.

This info is also stated in the briefing (last bit of the first part "Background")

I hope this was helpful! Cheers

Yes that helped a loot thank you !!

Perfect! :)) Must ask for help about deleting artworks... my first two ideas are with mistake (logo position and size)I corrected that but it took my place for a new idea.. On which e-mail I should send a request? Thanks a million Milka

You can delete slides and ideas . You have only 24 hours to do it. Than you can contact the projekt guide via PM!

These are the first two ideas from 2 days ago. Thank you very much Sundesign :)!Good luck

in cases like this just contact the project guide (who would me in this case) via pm :) Thanks!

Thank you! Greetings back :)

Great! Good luck to everybody!

I think there was also a site traffic record on jovoto these days! :)) It's amazing that the Victorinox project got so many talented people involved. Let's hope we have the patience to go through all of the submitted ideas.

1423 designs !! Nooo really too much! :-D It's also my fault ... I used all ten possibilities... ah ah ah

Okay, is it me or are the bashers back? Just dropped 25 places in a day...

I was at 83rd place with one idea, the next day it dropped at 1080...

The same happened to some of my ideas…I think it's of the algorithm.. The points and ranks changed because the more designs come in and get voting the less the points of the own design have a constant value. Just my two cent thoughts:)

Hi there! Any community member can get involved in the voting - that's why it's the "Community Prize". If you wish to find out more about this topic, please have a look at our FAQs in "Support" on the bottom of the page :) http://www.jovoto.com/support/basics#4

And indeed very exceptional works!

that helps! thank you :)

I agree with you, swatch has so mamy fans around the world. It would be great.

You need karma points for your vote to count.

1. What is Karma?

Karma shows us how active a person is and what quality the community member’s activity has. High Karma is always a good thing! Plus, we sometimes use karma to decide who should win special extra rewards.

In addition because we want fair rating we also introduced a Karma threshold of 150 Karma points - only after a new community member collected 50 Karma points his/her rating status is activated. This protects the platform form manipulation efforts and creates an understanding of the importance of fair rating.

In the future, Karma is going to be even more important and it will open up whole new opportunities for the ones with the most Karma… It’s best to start collecting now!

Thanks Adriana! That's right. These infos anyone can find under "Support" (bottom of the page)

Our system recognizes obvious manipulative behavior (in terms of rating) in that case we reach out to the specific individual to clarify the situation until it has been clarified a flash msg on the profile page will appear.

Thx.! Than I'll hope you can clarify the problems!

We're definitely on it - Thanks!

Hi there! I DID answer you pm already. Please check your inbox. Thanks!

You wrote me not even 24 hours ago on a sunday and you got an answer from me an hour ago. And yes you could imagine that I have a lot of messages and requests ;) Thanks.

I understand that. Thank you:)

And yes, can't repeat this often enough: please stay fair in your ratings! Thanks everyone :)

:)

There are so many great ideas here, how could there be fairness to get only 15 community prizes, just pray for the client choice :D, btw thanks Kathleen for your great vote to my ideas :)

Hey there, thanks for checking!

Half of this is actually answered in the briefing: "After the submission period of six weeks Victorinox will pick a pre-selection and YOU can be part of the decision which 10 designs will be produced at the end by voting for your favourites on the “Victorinox Swiss Army” facebook fan page!"

So now first Victorinox is internally deciding which ideas they would like to take to the Facebook voting. As soon as we have news, we will first let the chosen ones know and once everything is ready to go, we will inform everyone!

About the Community Prizes: It's the same in every case: you (the community) leave your votes. After the end of the project, the Guide will go trough the ratings with the help of our rating monitoring system to make sure that everything went fair. This takes some time - depending on how many votes have been left.

In this case we are talking about the largest project ever on jovoto: with over 1.400 ideas and by now almost 53.000 ratings.

SO yes, it will take a couple of weeks in this case. I can not tell you a date though. We will keep you informed here, under the briefing so keep on watching out for this space :)

Thanks, D.

Thanks so much, Dora. I read the briefing was still just a bit confused-but now its all clear! Is it a disadvantage that I submitted mine the last day?

*Excellent XD

Well, yes, the more ideas there are, the smaller the differences between 2 ranks.. = roller coaster ride ;)

That's what I already mentioned in pm to Dora. When you reach top 100 your idea is immediately bashed. That happened two times to me. Now I'm not even more in the top 200. 140 ranks back with only one rating? That can only be a 1-star-rating and it's surely not a honest rating.

The same happened to me, and I'm curious about if the guides will find the mistake out. Only one rating 100 ranks back, after this some votes with 10 stars BUT nothing changed in the rank…

let's hope that the Jury will have the patience to watch all of the works here not only top 100

You can be absolutely sure of that! I also say this from the experience of the past projects :)

I wish you a good dive…but let your head above!:)

Thanks :) I'll try!

Thx for the great job which you have did and good luck while diving.

Just being realistic ;) Better promise less and have a nice surprise, than the other way round, right? :)

Of course, That's why I put a big LOL :) you just do your thing, we'll be patient :)

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ахаха))) nice remark!

=)

Hey guys :) Okay so I wanted to reply to please try to asks questions in english if possible, becuase neither me nor the mayority of the community understands russian - and then I put everything in google translate. Thanks Dmitry ;) And so yes, dear Tanya, I also included this in my big comment above. That will answer you question - it will take a little while ;) Thanks !!

Hey there Nikolas! No, not exactly - The Community Ranking is independent from the Client's Choice. The client will go trough ALL ideas and pick their favourites. This is actually what's happening right now. Soon we will be able to see which ideas out of the 1400+ will be picked for the facebook voting and eventually make it into the new Limited Edition! EXCITING! So yes, stay tuned ;)

Dora, Can I see Facebook voting status in facebook page?

Oh ok! Thank you Dora! Once again you are very helpfull :)

Hey Rajeev! We will let you know here when the fb voting starts. That part will be run by Victorinox and not by jovoto. ( I am pretty certain though that you will not see the "voting status" - in case you are referring to the intermediate status. ) Thanks

And maybe the Victorinox Comunity winners and Victorinox Facebook winners, should give Dora a Victorinox with all they're "thanks you notes" on, for all her tremendous work.

Thank you Tyby for your kind words!

Agree with @tyby!!! Dora Super Rocks!!! =D

huh... Cheers! Starting to blush here soon. Thanks a lot, that's really nice to hear & means a lot to me! :) And yes indeed YOU guys made it into a real SUPERPROJECT!

Welcome to jovoto once again Esther, it's great to have you in the community! Very glad you had a nice (amazing!!!) start on here.

And it's real nice to read all these comments :) (:

Thank you, Dora - I feel honored :) And you really deserved this great feedback!

you can still wish good luck for the Clients Choice selection ;)

Oh yes, thanks Dora. Fingers crossed for all the awesome designs that are waiting for the Client Choice :)

Hey Carmen!

It will take a little while (and no, I don't have a date yet). Victorinox is in the phase of choosing the designs that will go to their facebook voting. They have more rounds of expert voting on this matter (exciting!) , which takes some time - which they also have, they are not in a rush to determine the winners timing wise, the collection should not be ready for Christmas - it's the 2015 collection ;) And given that there are 1400+ designs to chose from, it's not an easy job I'd say. I think it also really shows that they are taking them all into consideration and putting a lot of effort into picking the ones they think are perfect to be turned into and original Swiss Army Knife! So that's what's happening now.

Once the 40 designs are picked, they'll go into the facebook voting for a while and only after that we'll know the final 10 Client's Choices.

We'll give you a heads up as soon as there's any news, ok? :)

No problem! Of course it's an exciting time :D I'm also reeeaaalllyy curious!

Hi there ru flair! What we were talking about ,and also did, was the so called rating monitoring. Which means we made sure that votes from creatives with a suspicious / unbalanced / unfair rating behavior didn't count. You might have read in comments before, that there were nearly 55.000 ratings, which is a LOT (and even that's an understatement). Not sure if this answers your question but I hope it helps you understand a bit better? Best, Dora

i think to make this voting really fair here is absolutely impossible!!

I agree!

Congrats to whoever. :) Can you please ask Victorinox to then remove my entry from their Facebook page, as I will be selling it elsewhere? Thanks.

Hi there Gila, Thanks for asking and checking with us!

Since this is a personal issue, I will get back to you in a private message on this matter.

Here you have it: https://www.facebook.com/VictorinoxAG?v=app_258907774285685&app_data=entry_id%3D78467557%26gaReferrerOverride%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.facebook.com%252F

Hi there Antoana, Thanks for checking!

You are right, once I mentioned in a comment the number 40, I just see. I should have said "around 40", as each year until now there were something between 35-40 designs going into the voting. Victorinox is the one who picks them of course!

So yeah, No, there's nothing missing :) Go ahead ;)

Thanks, Dora

Already did, thank you Dora! :)

I have a question? Why are only 35 designs on the facebook voting? Is it by random order or by votes? Good luck to everyone

Hi there!

The order of the knives is random, it changes each time. Just open the link in 2 tabs / 2 browsers and you'll see :)

Why "only"? Each year 30 -40 are going to the Facebook voting, the designs were selected by Victorinox of course.

The briefing also says: "After the submission period of six weeks Victorinox will pick a pre-selection and YOU can be part of the decision which 10 designs will be produced at the end by voting for your favourites on the “Victorinox Swiss Army” facebook fan page!"

Cheers, Dora

I just saw that in one earlier comment I mentioned the number 40 - sorry! I should have said "around 40" as that would have been more correct. Something around 35/40 ;)

The Client's Choice winners are yet to be determined in the voting ;) And yeah, congrats to the Community Prize winners and to those who made it to the final round!

Hi there, Yes, the facebook voting result will determine the Client's Choice. The top 10 will be licensed produced. Exciting! Did you vote yet for your favourite? :)

The funniest thing is, that one of this designers is blocked because of unfair voting behavior! In no game in the world this would be possible! You get the red card and the game is finished for you...maybe next time... But the Jovotos system mechanisms gives every unfair voter a big chance by ratings of the other community members with fair rating behaviour… Unbelievable in my opinion!!!

But this designer is very new on jovoto (I guess). Maybe he do his voting like that because on other platforms it is normal. When I was new on jovoto, I often get some private messages with "I give you 10 - so please give me 10, too". You need time to learn how it works. :)

Obviously it's all a matter of audience and how many fans you got here, they will love you no matter what you do, it is the relationships that matters here, not designs i'd say, but i guess it has to go that way when that's how the voting works, community chooses their winners. All the best in upcoming holidays !

Considering that there is also clipart in that voting... and some truly bleh ideas... Oh well. I am personally done with Victorinox for the years to come - a company that first uses my design to promote the contest (which then does not even make it into the %$%&% voting), then refuses to delete from their Facebook after the promotional use is obsolete, and chooses numerous ideas from the same mediocre "designer" along with clipart... it is just not worth the time in the years to come.

Hi there all, Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

All clients are of course always free to chose whatever they like and wish to produce. I guess that makes sense for everyone.

Have a great holiday season too and let's see which designs get really into the top 10, we're not even there yet ;)

I am sorry that you are so unhappy. You can be very proud of your work indeed, you have also made it to place 145 out of over 1400 designs, that's a great achievement! And regardless the place you have made a nice design and as you said, you keep on improving, which is fantastic! Well, the client chooses what they like (;

Not because of the ranking or rating. I proud of it because it is a wonderful idea! Thank you very much, Dora! Let's enjoy the Christmas's Holiday! May God bless you, bless all Jovoto's staff & bless everyone in the community! Merry Chirstmas!

Thank You & Merry Christmas!

Cool! Big congrats to all Client Choice Winners!!! :)

YEAH! CONGRATS to all winners! :D