Fabric Community Sticker Challenge: Design & Submission Tips

The Fabric Community Sticker Challenge offers a fantastic avenue for community members to showcase their creativity and design skills. This blog post will explore the challenge, focusing on how to create impactful sticker designs and navigate the submission process effectively, while also highlighting some common design pitfalls to avoid. The focus will be on ensuring every sticker submission is not only creative but also aligns with the challenge's guidelines, leading to higher chances of recognition and community engagement. The challenge brings fabric community together.

What is the Fabric Community Sticker Challenge?

The Fabric Community Sticker Challenge, particularly the Vegas 2025 edition

, is an initiative aimed at engaging members of the Microsoft Fabric community, this challenges invites members of the fabric community to design stickers that represent various aspects of the platform and its surrounding community. These challenges provide platforms for creative expression and community building, and provide various opportunities for data professionals and hobbyists alike to showcase their design skill. Participants create designs within specific guidelines and themes, with winning designs often distributed at community events and conferences. Participating in challenges like these increases your familiarity and capabilities with the Fabric and Power BI ecosystems. It builds connections within the community, and helps to learn practical design implementation.

Design Criteria and Rules

Message and Designs: Designs must be positive, inclusive, encouraging, and promote community value. Use of Product Names and Logos: Use of product names, logos, or trademarked material is prohibited.

This is a very important rule to remember when designing your sticker. The use of any product names, logos, or trademarked material associated with Microsoft or otherwise is strictly prohibited. Print Size: Print size must be either 2x2 inches or 3x2 inches. It is also important to ensure that the text used in your design is legible when printed, ensuring it's no smaller than 12pts. Text must be legible at the print size to be eligible, the text must be larger than 12 points. Text must be printed on a white background with extra white space available for easier viewing. Sticker Designs: Designs are to be printed on a white background. Remember that any space left blank will be rendered white. Designs can be created as custom shapes; the Shape needs to provide a 1px line that will allow the design to be cut out. To ensure high quality printing, your design's resolution should be 300DPI. All colors should be set to CMYK, otherwise colors may appear off. File Attachment: Attach the sticker design file to the Community Sticker Challenge as a .png or .jpg image. Finally, you will need to specify which label category it matches when submitting your design to the challenge. Remember, it is extremely important that all entries submitted for this challenge are appropriate and Align with the Microsoft Code of Conduct guidelines.

Show Your Sparkle

This category encourages designs that highlight your personal creativity and passion within the Fabric community. Think of stickers that visually represent innovation, unique skills, or a love for data and technology. A design that captures the excitement and enthusiasm of being part of the Fabric ecosystem would fit well here.

Data Wisdom

Focus on creating designs that reflect insights, knowledge, and the clever application of data. Consider stickers that illustrate data concepts, problem-solving techniques, or the transformative power of analytics. Visual metaphors for Data Mining, predictive analysis, or the discovery of Hidden Patterns would be appropriate.

Community Excitement

This category is all about capturing the energy and collaborative spirit of the Fabric community. Designs should convey a sense of belonging, teamwork, and the shared enthusiasm for solving challenges together. Consider stickers that feature community events, meetups, or collaborative projects.

Super Users

Celebrate the experts and power users who drive the Fabric community forward. Designs could highlight valuable contributions, mentorship, or the ability to empower others through knowledge-sharing and support. Think of stickers that honor individuals who go above and beyond in helping others succeed with Fabric.

Entering the Challenge

To enter the challenge, you'll first need to select 'Enter the Challenge' from the given options on the challenge website. Once you have entered the challenge, you'll need to name your entry with under 50 characters. When you have found a good name for your entry, you will have to attach your sticker design file which must be in Adobe Acrobat .PDF or .png format. Make sure that all designs are correctly made. Finally, to complete your entry, you'll need to specify which label category your sticker design belongs to from the available options before submitting.

Challenge Participation: Free to Enter

Entering the Fabric Community Sticker Challenge is a free and accessible opportunity for all community members. There is no cost associated with submitting designs, making it an open platform for showcasing your creative abilities, data enthusiasm and design prowess, as well as having the fabric community discover your work. All you need is an idea and time to create!