# ABSOLUT - Design Battle
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925
**Category:** design
**Created:** [June 24, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925 "2003-06-24T11:50:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@mlk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlk)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/1 "2003-06-24T11:50:55Z")
You’ve all seen the Absilut ads - all shaped up like vodka bottles. Although the tastes sucks:hangover: the ads are incredibly well made.
I was wondering if we could do an Absolut battle - that is, take a theme and turn it into a bottle - and maybe keep the theme computer/internet related
could be for example: Absolut Kirupa, Absolut Flash, Absolut Photoshop, Absolut Kit, Absolut Edwin, Absolut Smileys, whatever…
few examples (i guess there has been thousands made:)
[http://ilze.org/semio/media/thumbs\_absolut.htm](http://ilze.org/semio/media/thumbs_absolut.htm)
[http://www.absolutcollectors.com/gallery/letter.cgi?l=a](http://www.absolutcollectors.com/gallery/letter.cgi?l=a)
i’d say we’d give it a least a month so people can do a good job on them (-: . The format should be a good print size (for quality) but displayed in a smaller format (that would display entirely for a 1024x768 screen :crazy: )…
anyone up for it ? :+)
[edit: typos - and smileys]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 11:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/2 "2003-06-24T11:59:24Z")
Absolut Kit… :sure: I hate to think, I really do. 😛
I think it’s a good idea though, there must be loads of forum related topics you could use… 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/3 "2003-06-24T12:04:04Z")
Well, could be Absolut LineArt :trout: hehe
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 12:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/4 "2003-06-24T12:51:43Z")
Great idea!! I love this =) I’m in, boys!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 1:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/5 "2003-06-24T13:11:25Z")
oh god, i wish i didn’t throw away my Flash MX carton…i would so do this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/6 "2003-06-24T18:54:28Z")
this sounds cool, and i need inspiration for something photoshopy, so im in also:)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/7 "2003-06-24T20:33:09Z")
Yeah man. Sounds nice. Count me in.
No rules?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/8 "2003-06-24T21:06:59Z")
wow! fantastic idea! I may/maynot be in, depending on the timescale 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/9 "2003-06-25T21:54:32Z")
ok got a few things to add; the font used is ‘Futura Extra Bold Condensed’ for the absolut sentence… Try to keep as much the spirit of the ads…
hey can I post in the random section about the battle since it seems not everybody browses the battle section ?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/10 "2003-06-26T02:23:42Z")
yeah, we need more people to keep this exciting.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/11 "2003-06-26T09:31:24Z")
> \*Originally posted by mlkdesign \*
> **Try to keep as much the spirit of the ads…**
> was that pun fully intentional 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 9:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/12 "2003-06-26T09:31:37Z")
i have never seen the ads… have example? and btw, sorry for the noshow, pom ☹
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 9:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/13 "2003-06-26T09:36:38Z")
> \*Originally posted by mlkdesign \*
> \*\*few examples (i guess there has been thousands made:)
> **[::ilze.org::media gallery::](http://ilze.org/semio/media/thumbs_absolut.htm)**
>
> A Discursive-Semiotic Approach To Cultural Aspects In Persuasive Advertisements
[http://www.absolutcollectors.com/gallery/letter.cgi?l=a](http://www.absolutcollectors.com/gallery/letter.cgi?l=a)\*\*
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 9:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/14 "2003-06-26T09:39:38Z")
thanks! lol
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/15 "2003-06-26T09:40:26Z")
np 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 10:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/16 "2003-06-26T10:01:29Z")
> \*Originally posted by sushis \*
> \*\*and btw, sorry for the noshow, pom ☹ \*\*
> Hue??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 10:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/17 "2003-06-26T10:07:45Z")
the mouse trailer contest… i never got around to doing it
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 10:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/18 "2003-06-26T10:27:40Z")
that’s why i’d give more time, and besides, you can do a quick ad too, it’s not the quality which makes the ad sometimes, just the way it’s made… hey you could do a 4 color ad and call it ‘Absolut Warhol’… now come on, you _must_ have seen these ads once in your life ???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/19 "2003-06-26T10:35:44Z")
sushis \>\> No problemo, man 🙂 Actually, it’s probably my fault, I set the deadline too soon ☹ Maybe next time…
mlk \>\> I have a book full of those adds :beam: So don’t cheat, people, or you’ll be spotted, arrested and executed :bad: Do you want to make it official, mlk?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/absolut-design-battle/23925/20 "2003-06-26T10:45:57Z")
yeah, and leave the possibility for other people to enter, make it slightly opened up to everybody:
rules are - keep the format as big as you can (to keep quality) but will be showed in reduced screen format on the phorums (the ads are always printed in magazines, wich means the ratio is either ‘Legal Letter Sized’ for American or ‘A4’ for others =)
- stay in the ‘Absolut ------’ spirit, ie same font, same basic idea of having the shape bottle.
- theme can be anything but since we are an internet-flash-design-computer related phorum that could be kept as a theme - up to the person to decide…
thanks Ilyas, do make it official !
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