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[CLOSED] One.Page.Go! Design a 1-Page Site with IM Creator and Win BOSE Headphones!

Cadence Wu — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:50:52 +0000

We here at You The Designer are happy to announce the first contest on the blog for 2012!

IM Creator, a new HTML website builder, is holding a one-page design competition.

Design a one-page site on IM Creator choosing one of their templates or starting from a blank template.

The creator of the most original and beautiful template, as picked by IM Creator’s design team, will win BOSE QuietComfort® 15 Acoustic Noise Cancelling® headphones, valued at $300!

Enter here and create away!

Important:
All participants need to click PUBLISH and hit the Like button in the publish dialog box to get their free “http://i-m.co/yourusername/yoursitename” URL to submit to the competition.
Leave a comment on this post with your URL for IM Creator’s design team to judge your work!
This contest will run for one (1) week, ending on January 25, 2012, 12:00 midnight, PST.

EDIT: We’ve decided to extend the contest for 24 hours! The new deadline is January 26, 2012, 12:00 midnight, PST. Those who’ve already submitted can still make improvements to their entries until then.

A Message from the IM Creator team:

IM Creator is an elegant & simple HTML website builder that allows you to create a website for you or your clients in a trouble-free, accessible and pleasant way.

IM Creator is a “drag and drop” application – WYSIWYG, no monkey business. And because it’s HTML based, there are no Flash headaches, it looks great on mobile devices and Google just *loves* it.

Update: This contest is closed. The IM Creator team has chosen Ádám Hornyák’s entry as the winner! Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who participated! We hope that using IM Creator has helped and will continue to help you in your design projects =D

Design a Vinyl Sleeve to Benefit Teenage Cancer Trust

Cadence Wu — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 08:00:19 +0000

Talenthouse has an exciting Creative Invite right now, so much that we wanted to share it with you all here too! It’s a wonderful contest that not only gives winning designers that big break to get their art out there, but also benefits a great cause. Check out the details below:

Let us know in the comments if you have any questions, and we’ll add them to this post as necessary. We’re wishing the best to everyone who decides to participate!

Announcing the UPrinting Creative Suite Pillows Giveaway Winners!

Cadence Wu — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:09:38 +0000

We’ll make this short and sweet.

Congratulations to Alex Santurri and Ádám Hornyák for each winning a complete Creative Sleep pillow set from UPrinting! Screencaps of their responses to the contest announcement are below; please click on the images to enlarge them.

Ádám and Alex, we’ll be waiting for you to email us at admin [at] youthedesigner.com so we can guide you through the next steps!

To everyone else, thank you for participating! We love all the suggestions and input we got for our future canvas-themed posts, and we’ll work on including them in our freebies, tuts, and posts for the next few months!

2011 Graphic Designer Survey Raffle Winner Announcement!

Cadence Wu — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:00:15 +0000

Thank you to everyone who answered our 2011 Graphic Designer Survey – we got around 10,000 entries, which was nothing short of overwhelming! As promised, we ran entries submitted within the qualifying time period through our electronic raffle, and now we have a winner:

Congratulations to Kim Getker for winning a 13″ Macbook Pro! We’ll contact you via email to guide you through the next steps.

To everyone else, thank you for participating, and don’t fret – as you can see from our recent Creative Sleep Collection giveaway, we at You The Designer are working on more ways to show our appreciation to our readers!

As for the survey, once we finish going through all the data and preparing it in a helpful, easily digestible (and definitely aesthetically pleasing) format, we’ll publish it here on You The Designer for everyone’s benefit. For the meantime, let us know if there’s any other information/research of this caliber you’d like to see more on the You The Designer blog!

Adobe Creative Suite Pillows Giveaway from UPrinting!

Cadence Wu — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 06:57:09 +0000

UPrinting is giving away two (2) Adobe Creative Sleep sets of 10 pillows to two (2) lucky readers of the You The Designer blog!

(click the image to go to the product page)

Here’s what you need to do so you can win. All 3 steps are required!

2. +1 UPrinting’s Canvas Prints page through this button!

3. Leave a comment on this post telling us what canvas-themed post you’d like us to blog about next! (A free canvas print giveaway? Canvas printing inspiration? Free canvas paper textures in .psd?)

This contest will run up to December 8, 2011 (11:59 pm PST). We’ll announce the winners in another post once the contest is over.

The You The Designer staff will award the persons who contribute the most helpful / insightful / creative / quality comments. Only one entry per person, please! If you post two or more comments, please indicate which comment you want entered in the contest. We’re looking forward to seeing your best ideas!

This contest is open internationally! It’s our way of saying thank you to our loyal international subscribers who’ve stayed with us for so long despite our past contests being open only to US residents. Thanks for liking us so much, and we’re looking forward to hosting more international giveaways/contests in the future!

Disclaimer: This giveaway is sponsored by UPrinting.com. No monetary compensation was given for hosting this giveaway.

2011 Graphic Designer Survey Update

Cadence Wu — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 16:00:10 +0000

The raffle for the 2011 Graphic Designer Survey is coming to a close! For those who have yet to participate, you have until November 18, 2011 at 11:59:00 PM PDT to complete the survey and have your name included in the electronic raffle for a chance to win a brand new 13″ Macbook Pro. Entries submitted November 19 onwards will still be used for our study, but will no longer qualify for the raffle. We will be announcing the lucky winner of the Macbook Pro on November 25, 2011 here at YouTheDesigner and all our partner sites.

YouTheDesigner would like to thank the design community and our partners: