The committee brainstormed and discussed the graphical platform for Desktop Olympics. After careful crafting we ended up with a simple, monochrome logotype that subtly connotes our heritage to the ancient games yet expresses a new context:
The Desktop Olympic committee shares their working space with other fine Brain Workers at the Magdalena Festival: a workshop called [...]
File Archery is an intense sport for two players with precise pointing skills.
Mouse Boxing is a nerve-wrecking battle for two competitors with strong index fingers and a keen sense of dragging.
Flex those arrow-key muscles of yours in a one-to-one, double-keyboard struggle on reaching your side of a text document.
An insanely speedy ride through tight textual gates, inspired by the steep worldcup slopes of Maribor.
Erase your opponent. Literally.
Only the world´s most skilled drag-and-droppers dare enter into a match of Folder Wrestling - and risk the humiliation of having your folder put in your opponents folder.
All those years of wheeling through countless documents and wbesites are finally going to pay off.
The committee finished the work on definin the long-term, overarching strategies and then got to work. All progress were documented on the shared Google Docs workspace.
The web team elaborated the strategy and scope for the Desktop Olympics internet presence. They also started sketching on the information architechture. At the same time web strategy and started [...]
The committee assembled on the sunny shores of the river Drava and drafted mighty todo-lists. The committee divided responsibilities according to Sport Design, Event design, Communication”, Website, and Project organisation.
A new ideation tool, the Unsworn Heartwheel, was then successfully utilised to establish the important use qualites of the event, the sports and the community. [...]