No, the techniques are just suggestions. The requirements for the particular challenge are always in the first paragraph of the challenge post. So for this month's challenge, 2x08, you just have to refrain from putting text on your icons. In the spirit of the challenge, try to make something where "a picture paints a thousand words".
Thus, this month's challenge is more of a "style" challenge than a "technique" challenge. We tend to have a mix of both. For example, Challenge 2x05 was more of a "technique" challenge, since you had to create icons with shadows in them. Of course, there's more than one technique for adding shadows, and more than one kind of shadow, but it was still technique-oriented. But, again, the list of techniques in that challenge were intended to be helpful suggestions of where to start.
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Date: 2010-03-03 05:01 am (UTC)Thus, this month's challenge is more of a "style" challenge than a "technique" challenge. We tend to have a mix of both. For example, Challenge 2x05 was more of a "technique" challenge, since you had to create icons with shadows in them. Of course, there's more than one technique for adding shadows, and more than one kind of shadow, but it was still technique-oriented. But, again, the list of techniques in that challenge were intended to be helpful suggestions of where to start.