Crowdsourcing my Tattoo – It’s web 2.0h

by Nic Haralambous on 21/04/2008

I have done a lot of drawing, thinking and talking over the past few months regarding my tattoo.

There is a lot of design work that goes in to something like this, something so permanent.

I am at a bit of a black hole. I have design, ideas and ways that I want things to work out. I have pooled my resources, googles, downloaded free brush sets, drawn, redrawn, traced and visualised. But I think that I need some popular opinion or some professional assistance.

So what I am asking for is a little help. I want to crowdsource some ideas for the design of my tattoo.

The size of the entire thing cannot exceed the dimensions of an A4 piece of paper. Below is some of the design that I have (a cropped version of what I have, there is alot of stuff missing), if you want more, please email me and I can send you what I have so far: nharalambous at gmail dot com.

I can’t and wont promise to use stuff that is sent in to me as is, but I can be sure that I will use the ideas and credit the designers on this blog when the final design is placed on to me arm. By the way, the design is for my left arm, above the elbow and below neck/shoulder.

nharalambous@gmail.com

There are 4 comments in this article:

  1. 22/04/2008adii says:

    Help design a tattoo…

    Since this blog is all about design and Web 2.0 principles (such as crowdsourcing), I figured I’d help out a friend that requested some help from any of you with regards to the designing of his tattoo. Considering that I’m just a web design…

  2. 22/04/2008Crowdsourcing, email, blogs and manic Mondays. | FeistyFemale says:

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  3. 6/05/2008Mick says:

    Why don’t you post this over at http://99designs.com. That’s what the site is for, crowdsourcing graphic design work.

  4. 6/05/2008Nic says:

    Mick! Thanks so much for the idea, but I’ve almost finalised the tattoo design, will be posting it soon and the videos of the actual tattoo are to follow next week!!

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