![[RED]](pic/icehouse-medal-red.jpeg)
![[GREEN]](pic/icehouse-medal-green.jpeg)
![[BLUE]](pic/icehouse-medal-blue.jpeg)
![[YELLOW]](pic/icehouse-medal-yellow.jpeg)
There was a mini-competition to design the award medallions for the Tenth Annual International Icehouse Tournament (July 1999). This is what I came up with.
![[COOLER THAN ICE]](pic/icehouse-medal-cool.jpeg)
![[TOURNAMENT WINNER]](pic/icehouse-medal-winner.jpeg)
(Images are links to larger versions.)
The work is done in PostScript, of course. The random arrangement of
pyramids is really random -- PostScript has a random
operator, so the medals come out differently each time the document
is printed. (Heh.) I actually printed six versions of each medal,
and then we picked the most pleasing set.
In retrospect, I should have spent a little more time. (And several more test printouts... but I was using a color printer at Kinko's, for way too much money per copy.) There is a color gradient on each of the four finalist medals -- they get darker towards the back (top) -- but it didn't turn out visible on paper. And the rainbow pattern on the winner doesn't seem right. Perhaps a spiral rainbow pattern, rather than the straight radial rainbow I used.
Last updated July 9, 1999.