contest

Jul 3 2012

MacMerc MOO-Mania — Enter to win 100 MOO Luxe cards!!

I’m totally jazzed that MOO has offered us such a fantastic prize for one lucky MacMerc.com reader in an exclusive giveaway!

Who’s MOO?

If you’ve never heard of MOO before, they are a web-based company that sprang up out of a passion for beautiful, high-quality print and design. I first remember seeing their stuff at MacWorld 2009 where I saw many fellow Mac geeks passing out interestingly cropped business cards with their own photography on the back—each card was a special and unique snowflake with a different photo. Since launching on the scene with business cards, MOO have expanded into Postcards, unique MiniCards, StickerBooks, Greeting Cards, and a whole lot more!

It’s simple to order your own MOO creations, too. Just upload your images or artwork to create truly creative cards, or you can choose a designer business card template to personalize with your own details.

So what’s up with the contest?

Quark VS InDesign.com launches contest to design alternate Adobe CS3 icons

Quark VS InDesign.com has announced an open competition to redesign the icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3, CS3-version, and other Adobe software products. The contest is open to graphic designers, illustrators, interface designers, and skinners anywhere in the world. A cornucopia of software, books, and videos are offered to three winners in a prize chest valued at more than USD$7,000.

In late December 2006, Adobe revealed a portion of its branding scheme for the next generation of Adobe applications, including the upcoming Creative Suite 3 and all CS3-version point products like Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Except in a few instances, the branding scheme, which incorporates all the formerly Macromedia-published products, foregoes the symbols and iconography familiar to creative professionals from previous versions of the applications of the last 20 years in favor of color-coded, two-letter symbols for each application. The branding change has met with passionately polarized opinions–some creative professionals adore the new icons while others despise them.

Without taking sides or expressing its own opinion, Quark VS InDesign.com created the Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition to give users of Adobe products the opportunity to express their visions of the perfect Creative Suite 3 application icons. The competition is open to all “citizens of planet Earth . . . even Adobe employees”. Only the organizer’s employees, partners, and relatives are excluded from entering. Additionally, anyone wishing to contribute icons to the collection without competing in the contest may check a box on the entry form. Each entrant may submit up to three suites of icons for consideration in the competition, and the icons may be for any Adobe CS3 application and/or QuarkXPress.
Entries are being accepted from 29 January 2007 through 23 April 2007, with winners announced a week after the deadline.

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Oct 24 2006

Woz, Kawasaki judge My Dream App finals

My Dream App, a Mac contest in search of the next killer app, features Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, and Xbox and zune creator J. Allard as guest judges for its final round. Visitors can vote for their 3 favorite app ideas, and receive free licenses to both Overflow 2 and the Apple Design Award winning PhotoPresenter. Voting is open until Wednesday at 8:00 PM EDT, at which point the three winners will be announced. The winners, who will have emerged from an initial pool of more than 2,700 entrants, will see their app idea realized as a Mac shareware application and earn royalties on sales.

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