The brand was cool. The brief was deceptively simple and the $1,500 contest prize got our designer community's attention.

Music Artwork Contest for Spotify

Recently, DesignCrowd hosted a graphic design contest for music streaming service, Spotify, to crowdsource a beautiful music inspired artwork for their #NowFeeling campaign. Spotify created the campaign that shares people's #NowFeeling stories of connecting with each other through music, enabled by Spotify. The winning artwork will be featured on Spotify social media channels, media campaigns and events.

The Brief

Create a digital artwork that best captures how music makes people feel and brings them together. Spotify's goal was to "showcase playful - but honest - moments between people, and in doing so showcase how the platform enables discovery, sharing, and conversation through music."

The Winner

The contest attracted 110 designers who submitted over 280 designs. The winning design was submitted by US designer Elylevy, a graphic designers and illustrator based in Los Angeles, California. Elylevy's design (featured below) is a compilation of flat, geometic icons inspired by how music connects and unites people in different ways.

Elylevy says:

With this design I wanted to communicate how Spotify's #NowFeeling campaign connects all kinds of different people (even animals!) and allows them to share moments of happiness... The bold, bright colors and idiosyncratic shapes represent the broad range of emotions felt while experiencing music...

Winning Design by Elylevy (USA)

by Elylevy from the United States

2nd Place - 'A True Intimation' by Cb1318

by Cb1318 from India

3d place

by Laura Irwin Illustration from the United Kingdom

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Best of the rest

by Joshua Carmichael from from the United States

by KRStudio from Japan

by Jagstar Design from the United Kingdom

by JJ Sleigh graphics from the United Kingdom

by DigitaLuna from the Philippines

by Evilrobot2 from the United States

by Simon Hon from Malaysia

by Y.N. Creative from the United States

by Lovely Claire from the Philippines

by Simon Merritt from the United Kingdom

by Florian Rota from the Netherlands

by Deadlyshape from Indonesia

by Logorice

by Jess BP from South Africa

See all the designs: https://graphic.designcrowd.es/contest.aspx?id=520612

Congratulations to all the designers who participated in the Spotify graphic design contest. Which was your favorite crowdsourced graphic design from the Spotify contest? Was your design featured in this article? Let us know in the comments below!

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Written by Jo Sabin on Thursday, August 28, 2014

Jo Sabin is Head of Designer Community at DesignCrowd. She's led the company's public relations and social media programs since 2012. With more than ten years' experience working with Australian and international tech startups in the creative industries, Jo has been instrumental in meeting DesignCrowd's objectives in Australia and abroad. Get in touch via Twitter.