Apologies for the being late drawing and publication of the results of the Design Droplets $1000+ Prize Giveaway & 1st Birthday Design Group Writing Project. Unfortunately I fell quite sick early last week and the recovery has been slow, thus it did not happen when I had originally planned (the 30th of October).
Firstly a big thank you to everyone who participated and helped us celebrate Design Droplets 1st Birthday. Second, a massive thank you to our amazing sponsors who included Ponoko, Crumpler, Just Creative Design, Mag Nation, Group Writing Projects, Designer Daily and UPrinting.
Here are the fantastic articles that were submitted – please take the time to visit and read each one.
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
Now for the exciting part, results. I have included the name of the winner above the prize they have won. Winners were selected using the random number generator at random.org – I compiled a list of all entrants and their entries and assigned a number to each entry. I then used the random number generator to select the winners. A note to the prize winners – I will be contacting you through the email you provided as part of the entry process to get your fantastic prizes to you.
1st Prize – Martin Gibson
- 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 – Jessica Lea Dunn
- 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 – Brandon Leedy
- 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
Won by Jansen Lye & Chris from CP Design
- 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
Won by Michael Denham, Jacob Share, Mark Sandstrom, Jim Meredith and Reza Tehranian. (Note: There was some confusion here, I assumed Mirko was providing 5 sets for one winner, he meant it to be 1 set each for 5 winners. Apologies.)
- 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.
Won by Haley Smolenski
Won by Nathan Partington
- One 18×24 Canvas Print from Uprinting.com
Won by Avil Beckford
- 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.
Thank you again to all those who participated and I hope you continue to enjoy Design Droplets.
The 6 slots of one month of 125×125 px advertising for sponsors of the Design Droplets $1000+ Prize Giveaway & 1st Birthday Design Group Writing Project go to Ponoko, Designer Daily, Crumpler, Group Writing Projects, Mag Nation and Just Creative Design.
