createMPLS: 6 theme concepts
Click a card to open the working mockup, then scroll it (the animations are part of each pitch).
Top Billing's marquee meets Shop Zine's hand-made warmth: a lit sign over a wall of First Avenue–style gig posters, real kids as die-cut stickers, and night marquee sections alternating with daytime poster sections.
Every program ends in a show, so kids are the headliners on a Hennepin Ave–style marquee. ADMISSION $0 on every ticket. The logo's pointer says "right here, at your school."
A riso-printed zine pasted up from the workbench: tape, Sharpie notes, sticker cutouts of real kids. Cover price "$0 for students & families." Feels made, not bought.
The site is an instruction booklet. Kids do the building; createMPLS brings every other part. Judges flagged that the bricks read as LEGO (trademark risk).
Minneapolis as a circuit board, with the Mississippi as the power trace. Judges found it the least ownable and too night-time and techy for families.
Blueprint sketches print into full-color photos as you scroll. The metaphor is strong, but the sketch filter turns kids' faces into muddy photocopies.