The basic idea is as follows: each week, you have an HTML file with some content, and your goal is to create the CSS file that makes this a beautiful piece of (web) art. The contest runs on Github on top of some automation. Contributions, entries, and content suggestions are all handled there. At the end of each week, the project bot selects a winning entry (you vote by reacting to the entry PR), which is then deployed to
https://csscontest.com and stays there for the whole week. A more detailed explanation is here:
https://github.com/bitsofart/contest/#welcome.
This project is the result of a lot of my interests put together. I wanted to be a designer at the beginning of my career. Back in those days,
https://www.awwwards.com/ was a fantastic source of inspiration, and I dreamed of one day having that website of the day ribbon on my website. This day never came, and my interests shifted towards programming and code. But I still love seeing amazing visuals on the web, and I've always thought how nice it would be to have an award, like the Awwwards' site of the day, but more open, both in terms of content and selection.
Along with that, I'm also fascinated by evolution and the idea of things organically progressing in ways no one can anticipate. And I've been long thinking of this idea of a "crowdsourced" code project, and where a community of coders would take it.
So I merged the two ideas in this project: An open space for the community to participate in a contest to make beautiful things on the web. All the few contest's rules and their application are open-source (there are links for them in the repo), and everything is automated so we can have as few single-person interferences as possible. In an ideal world, everyone interested can participate, and I, as the owner of the repo, don't even have to look at it.