We are excited to announce the Yes I'm a Designer Logo Design Contest!

At the beginning of this year, we hosted our very first creative event exclusively for Pro Annual Members. Thanks to its overwhelming success, we are turning it into an annual flagship event. As we prepare for our 2026 Design Sprint, we need your creativity to bring the event’s identity to life with a professional new logo.

Yes, you read that right: this is your chance to design the logo for our biggest annual event!

More about the event:

The Design Sprint is the most extensive virtual live workshop of its kind, running across 3 weeks and covering:

  • In-depth training on Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign + AI tools
  • 3 detailed projects + workflows
  • Live reviews, mentoring, and accountability from Martin

It’s the fastest way to level up your design skills, grow your portfolio, and start the new year strong.

How to enter?

  1. Read the design brief here  (also further down on this page)
  2. Submit your designs here Midnight 17th October 2025
  3. Join our YouTube livestream on Wednesday 22nd October 2025, 2PM GMT  to see the winners*

*We will be doing a live review on the design submissions and up to 3 winners will be announced live on our YouTube Channel on 22nd October 2025, 2PM GMT

The Brief:

The goal of this contest is to design a logo for the Yes I’m a Designer annual creative event: Design Sprint 2026.

Visual Style

Feel free to explore your unique styles or see how inspiration from the  Milanote Board.

Size & Dimensions

We are looking for Vector files using Adobe illustrator. AI-generated Logo designs will not be accepted.

Target Audience

Graphic designers and illustrators looking to boost their creative skill

Deliverables:

You may submit up to 3 different design directions. Please compile all designs into a single PDF (max 100 Mbytes)  Details of how to submit included on the Milanote Board.


Click here to access the Milanote board for some useful references to kick start your creative ideas


The Prizes

1st Place

  •  $500 cash prize
  • 12 months Pro Membership subscription
    (worth $804)
  •  Entry to Design Sprint 2026
    (worth $547)
  • Milanote Pro access
  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

2nd Place 

  •  Entry to Design Sprint 2026
    (worth $547)
  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

3rd Place

  • 1 month Pro Membership subscription.
    (worth $67)

  •  Entry to Design Sprint 2026 (worth $547)
  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

Contest sponsored by:

Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Our entire team at Yes I'm a Designer have been using Milanote to organize all of our projects since 2020.

BenQ has always been committed to empowering designers, artists, and creators worldwide. Their digital lifestyle devices help bring ideas to life, especially their color-accurate designer monitors and innovative technology that our team honestly can’t live without.


**Submit your designs here**

 

You may submit up to 3 different design directions. Please compile all designs into a single PDF (max 100 Mbytes).

Presentation matters. Please include sketches/ mock-ups/ Images or flat-lays that showcase your original concept and design thinking process. This helps to bring the brand’s visual identity to life.

Winners will be announced
live on our YouTube Channel

We will do a live review of the design submissions
and reveal the winners.
We can't wait to your awesome designs.

Subscribe to our channel to be notified  

Disclaimer :

We will review as many submissions as possible. While detailed feedback may not be given to everyone, all participants will receive general tips on improving logo their designs.  Plus, you can gain a lot of insight from feedback shared on other entries.


Find out more about all our
past Open Design Contests here!


About the author 

Shumi Perhiniak

Shumi is a self-taught graphic designer and Photoshop expert, currently the Marketing Director at Yes I'm a Designer, where she writes and designs marketing materials with a focus on design, creativity, and visual communication.
She brings over 10 years of industry experience, having worked in-house as a designer for brands including Toni&Guy, Renaissance Learning, and JWT Hotels.
She also ran a stationery shop in the UK for three years, selling her own art prints and paper goods, blending her passion for design, business, and creativity.

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