THIS PRIZE DRAW & DESIGN GROUP WRITING PROJECT IS NOW FINISHED. See the results at Results of $1000+ Prize Giveaway & 1st Birthday Design Group Writing Project.
On the 15th of October Design Droplets will be one year old. This is extremely exciting for me and I hope you are also excited – especially since, as a big thank you to our fantastic readers we are holding a 1st Birthday Celebration Prize Giveaway in the form of a Group Design Writing Project. With $1000+ of prizes to be won.
Please read this article in its entirety before submitting anything.
Deadline for entry: 27th of October.
Winners Announced: 30th of October.
Write to Win!
In order to win one of the great prizes your task is a simple one – write a new post relating to the subject of industrial design or product design (there are also bonus entry options, so read on). Please DO NOT submit old articles you have written before the 29th of September 2009.
By “relating to the subject of industrial design or product design” I mean an informative article that contributes in someway to the profession. Maybe it gives advice, is a tutorial on how to do something, a list of resources or even just some general tips.
Even if you are not an Industrial Designer/Product Designer or not a designer at all you can still enter – try writing something that you believe a designer might find valuable.
For Example If you are a Graphic Designer it might be: ‘Useful Photoshop techniques for Industrial Designers’ OR if you are NOT A DESIGNER and specialise in another field like marketing it might be something like ‘10 ways to successfully market your Industrial Design business’.
Once you have written your new post relating to the subject of industrial design or product design, then follow the participation instructions outlined below for your chance to win (Take note: to be eligible to win one of the gifts from our extremely generous sponsors you MUST follow the guidelines below)
Prizes
1st Prize
- 12 Month Prime subscription from Ponoko – The World’s Easiest Making System. Ponoko an online marketplace for everyone to click to make real things. It’s where creators, digital fabricators, materials suppliers and buyers meet to make almost anything. More than 30,000 user-generated designs have been instantly priced online and made since Ponoko set out to reinvent how goods are designed, made and distributed.
- The Hosting Gift Card – One Year of web hosting on Mediatemple* provided by Design Droplets. We love our host Mediatemple, so we thought we’d give one lucky reader the chance to win some hosting with them. Includes: 1 Year of (gs) Grid-Service Lite hosting, 1 Free Domain name, 5Gb of Disk Space, 500Gb Network Transfer, 500 GPU’s, 5 websites, 5 Databases, up to 100 email addresses, burstable clustered hosting and 24/7 Phone Support. You could use it to host your folio, personal site or blog.
2nd Prize
- 30 minute design consultation with Jacob Cass from Just Creative Design. Just Creative Design is a growing graphic design company (and a leading design blog) serving unique people like yourself and businesses across the world.
3rd Prize
- The Magazineologists from Mag Nation are very kindly providing a copy of Freestyle – New Australian Design For Living. A great design book that is out of their fantastic ‘the third floor’ book range, available at the Elizabeth Street store in Melbourne.
Bonus Prizes
- 2 Entrants will win 1 month of 125×125 button advertising on Group Writing Projects. Group Writing Projects is the one and only website for all things related to the blogger favourite, group writing projects. Follow GWP on Twitter at http://twitter.com/groupwritingpro
- 5 Sets of city skylines vectors from Designer Daily. Designer Daily is published by Mirko Humbert, a graphic & web designer from Switzerland. You can connect with him on Twitter, StumbleUpon or Tumblr.
UPrinting.com is a leading online printing company that provides high quality printing at the most affordable prices.
- One 18×24 Canvas Print from Uprinting.com
- A Fine Line: How Design Strategies Are Shaping the Future of Business
* by Hartmut Esslinger via Amazon – provided Design Droplets. A great book by legendary Frog Design founder.
How to Participate
There will be only ONE prize per person, entries are per published article/post not per blog – so you can submit multiple articles. (there are also bonus entry options, so read on).
Don’t have a blog? Then we strongly encourage you to start one via these FREE and reliable blog services blogger.com or wordpress.com and connect with the online industrial design community.
Prizes will be drawn in a similar manner to our previous giveaway – using a random number generator – it’s not a competition that is being judged – it is a draw. Each article submitted is worth three entries into the draw (e.g.: 1 article = 3 entries, 2 articles = 6 entries and so on). The bonus ways of entering are coming up so keep on reading.
ARTICLES SUBMITTED MUST BE PUBLISHED AFTER TODAY (29th of September).
1. Write an article
- Get creative, take the article in any direction you want (but keep it clean and family friendly) – serious, rant, list post, video post, essay…almost any format is acceptable, we just need to be able to link to it.
2. Tell us about it
- Send us a direct link to the article (not your blogs front page) via the contact page. Include your name as you wish it to appear on the final article list.
- Submissions must be in the Design Droplets inbox by 12 AM (midnight) Australian Eastern Standard Time the 27th of October.
- If the article arrives after the 22nd then it will not be included on the final article list and will therefore not be in the running for any prizes.
3. Design Droplets will link to your article
After you let us know about your article, we’ll add a link to it at the bottom of this post. We will also link to your article on the Winners Announcement post on the 27th of October, even if you are not a winner.
4. Make Friends through giving some link love and Commenting.
As the articles are posted on this page, you should visit and read the submissions, leave comments on the articles and connect with other Industrial Designers and subscribers alike. In other words participate in the online industrial design community – which is what this is all about.
Since this is a Draw, not a competition there is no ‘judging’ as such. So make sure you visit and read the articles submitted – why should you do this? To find great new sites to read, make more online friends and strengthen the online design community.
Bonus Entries
You can also get entries for doing one or more of the following:
1. Join our new Monthly Email Newsletter (if you are already subscribed you automatically get an entry) – 2 entries.
2. Tweet about the Design Group Writing Project – please also add in the #IDGWP tag so we can register your entry, without it we won’t know about it. – 1 entry.
3. Stumble and Review this post, Digg it or save it to Delicious – 1 entry per one of these.
4. Write a blog post about the Design Droplets Group Writing Project – 2 entries.
5. Comment on a blog that has submitted an article entry – 2 entries.
6. Subscribe to blogs that have written an article via email RSS – 2 entries per blog subscribed to. Keep checking back to this post for new articles.
7. Put out a call for sponsorship of this project on your own blog – 1 entry.
8. Fill out our feedback survey (make sure you include your email address at the end of the survey) – 1 entry.
6. Entry Submission
Don’t forget to tell us what you have done and how many entries you qualify for (we will need to know this by the 27th of October). Please use the template below and delete the ones you do not qualify for and then leave it in the comments below or email us. Where relevant please provide a link next to what you have done to demonstrate you have done it. You can add new things as you do them, just leave another comment with the updated number of entries you should have.
SUBMISSION TEMPLATE
- I have written, submitted and emailed Design Droplets the link to my Industrial Design/Product Design related article - 3 entries
- I have subscribed to Design Droplets Monthly Newsletter – 2 entries
- I have Tweeted about this prize draw and used the #IDGWP tag on the tweet - 1 entries
- I have written a blog post about the competition – 2 entries.
- I have Dugg this prize draw – 1 entry.
- I have added this page to My Del.icio.us – 1 entries
- I have Stumbled and reviewed this prize draw – 1 entries.
- I have commented on XXX articles - (2 entries per article commented on, not per comment) XXX entries – Tell us the name of the article/s or provide links.
- I have subscribed to XX blogs that have written an article (subscription must be via email RSS) – 2 entries per blog subscribed to – please tell us which ones you have subscribed to.
- I have put out a call for sponsorship of this project on my own blog – 1 entry.
- I have filled out the Design Droplets Feedback Survey – 1 entry. Please provide your email for verification.
- TOTAL ENTRIES TO DRAW: XXX
We will be using an honour system for the bonus prize winners, but for major prize winners (1st, 2nd, 3rd) we will be checking all claimed entry points so its best to be honest. Please do not try and cheat the community, we are doing this for everyones benefit.
7. Draw Details Clarification
Deadline for entry: 27th of October.
Winners Announced: 30th of October.
Winners will be selected using the random number generator at random.org – so we will compile a list of all entrants and then use the random number generator to select the winners.
Each article written after the 29th of September 2009 and submitted before 12am (midnight) AEST on the 27th of October 2009 will be eligible for one entry to the Design Droplets’ 1st Birthday Design Group Writing Project Prize Draw.
If you do win, then celebrate and look forward to participating in the next Design Droplets prize draw. If you are not lucky enough and don’t win, then you will have to wait until the next Design Droplets prize draw – but feel good that you wrote something that contributes to the industrial design profession’s online body of knowledge.
Prize sponsors are more than welcome to enter the draw (obviously not to win your own extremely generous gift).
If you win a prize that doesn’t suit your needs, please run your own blog giveaway, offering something back to your readers. This will create buzz on your blog and will give extra thanks to the draw sponsors.
A Massive THANK YOU to all our Amazing Sponsors
Please take the time to check out the websites of our extremely generous sponsors.
Late sponsors will also be accepted up until the prize draw date (30th of October). Please contact Design Droplets Editor Raph Goldsworthy to become a sponsor.
All sponsors will receive:
- A mention (link, 30-50 word blurb and if applicable a logo) on all posts regarding the prize draw.
- A random 6 sponsors will get a 125×125 ad for 1 month on Design Droplets. These 6 free ads will be drawn in a separate draw.
Articles
Life as a Freelancer – submitted by Nathan Partington.
Two Approaches, Two Very Different Customer Experience – submitted by Avil Beckford.
Think Different? No. Work Hard - submitted by Brandon Leedy.
Thoughts on Material Properties and Quality Control – submitted by Jessica Lea Dunn
Maxwell Render – Be a Show Off – submitted by Martin Gibson.
Ode to My Cup – submitted by Andrea Musso.
What Makes a Designer ? – submitted by Haley Smolenski.
25 Creative Office Ideas to Make Your Work Place Look Really Cool – submitted by Jacob Share
Please share this prize draw as it is all about connecting the online industrial design and product design community
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