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Design Contest: T-Shirts and Slogans

admin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:27 +0000

Here is another design contest you can throw your killer skills and pixels at. Go to threadless.com for information.

Possible Winnings: Good Luck!

$2,000 in cash
$500 Threadless Gift Certificate (can be redeemed for $200 cash)
$500 in cash each time your design is reprinted
Up to $22,500 more if you win a “Bestee” in the Threadless Awards
Alumni Club membership including a Medal of Honor and other goodies

Design Contest: Cover for .psd Magazine

admin — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:24:44 +0000

.psd Magazine is holding a design contest ending January 15, 2009. The subject is “retouching” and you can enter as often as you likes. Good luck. The picture below is one of the images you are up against. Spin on over to their website to learn more about the prizes and such.

MINI Space: Design Contest – An Urban Initiative

admin — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:01:42 +0000

As of this post there are 72 days left to get your designs uploaded to www.minispace.com (you know, the car MINI). Well, over at their website, creative folk like you can register as members. Signing up allows you to get involved in creative projects and competitions, get involved in MINI events and parties, and allows you to get featured with your creative work and meet others like yourself. I have not submitted my design as of yet, but plan on doing so before the deadline is up. The design topic for this contest is to reinterpret the topic “Electrified” for the electric version of the MINI – (MINI E). They are looking for a design for the background for the minispace.com website. Gert Hildebrand, the director of MINI Design along with his team will be choosing their favorite design – The winner gets a brand spanking new Macbook Air. You might think a Mac MINI might be more appropriate, but lets face it… I think we would all prefer the Macbook Air! Go ahead and surf on over to www.minispace.com to find out the specifics. Below is one of the top voted images so far. The design is by a guy named Reno Lamotte-Pongerard (yeah he’s from France).

MINI Space Design Contest Submission – Reno Lamotte-Pongerard

Salomon Snowboard Graphics Winners and Templates

admin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:12:25 +0000

I was wandering around cyberspace looking for info on Snowboard Graphics. Along with the many tutorials I found for creating snowboard graphics, one site stood out. Salomon (you know – the ski company) has a snowboard graphic design contest each year. The 2008 contest is over already, but the winners are listed on their site along with the winning designs. After browsing through the eye candy, I noticed that they had their snowboard templates still available for download! Sweet. You see, all of the tutorials I had seen for designing your own snowboard graphics all consisted mostly of how to create the outline/shape/vector of a snowboard (not thrilling). Then they tell you to put your graphic on it… Well anyways, I am going to skip the tutorial, because I know you know how to copy and paste your own graphics. Creating your own graphics is something that we all have to learn to do and is too large in scope to go through in just one post (ah duh). Now back to the templates… yes, they provide the front and back in both .psd and .eps formats so that you may either use Illustrator and or Photoshop to design your own cool snowboard graphics. I am going to redistribute the templates here at PaperFlame just in case they remove them (which I don’t think they will). The templates are at the bottom of this post. Enjoy! Oh yeah I almost forgot, here are the top five winners!

Here are the Snowboard Templates:
SSAC_LayoutsKit.zip - 501kb
(includes: Layout.eps, Layout_Board.psd, ssac_fullbriefing.pdf)

Note – The 2008 contest is over.
I am redistributing these templates for the fun of it.
Maybe you can give it a shot next year.