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Ben Harper, Andy Summers, Linda Perry and Flea (of the Red Hot Chili Peppers) are confirmed to perform at the Silverlake Conservatory Of Music’s annual Halloweenabaloo concert at Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles on October 31, 2009. Why are we blogging about this? Because we received two tickets to this event and we decided that these two tickets should go to our readers. Yes! That’s right. Keep reading to find out how you can win a pair of tickets to see Ben Harper and Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers! This is an intimate fundraiser with tons of big names in attendance. Not to mention the fact that you’ll get the chance to hear some awesome musicians jamming out (with an open bar at your disposal)!
UPrinting.com has recently launched a pretty cool new promotion for bloggers called the Blog Sponsor Program. The program is basically geared towards helping blog owners promote their new blogs and business ventures and its also a great way to attract new visitors to your blog. Giveaways are big in the design community especially brushes, free vector art, textures and so on and now you can get free printing, which is extremely useful and valuable.
Our friends from the AIGA wanted us to let you know about some great contests over at competitions.aiga.org. The deadline for submissions is soon, so be sure to enter before the party is over!
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The Design Gallery UCreative.com is hosting a sweet new T Shirt Contest Sponsored by Beautiful/Decay Apparel where designers will compete for a chance to get their design printed, $200 cash, $100 worth of free printing credits and more! Beautiful/Decay Apparel is known for letting artists express themselves via t shirt designs and the same goes for this contest.
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Hey all just wanted to let you all know about my new e-Book Fuel for Design! Fuel for Design is a complete guide on How to Start A Clothing Line and is packed full of the latest T Shirt Business and marketing tips. I know countless designers and many of them specialize in t-shirt design, but what they do is spend most of their time selling their amazing designs off for cheap or praying they will win a t-shirt design contest!
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Colorburned is an awesome site that offers High-Quality Texture Packs in their online store and they were kind enough to give us over 300 textures to give away to one lucky winner. Colorburned is a great resource site for graphic designers who need to quickly build up an arsenal of great design elements to use in their projects. Thanks to everyone who participated in this giveaway and be sure to Subscribe and stay tuned for more!
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We Are not Freelancers’ is hosting a fun little competition where you have to take an image provided by them and use it in a creative way. The contest is sponsored by UPrinting.com and there are some cool prizes being awarded.
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UPrinting.com is currently seeking a full-time senior level user experience and web designer to join their creative team in their West Los Angeles office!
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UCreative.com is a new Design Gallery I helped launch that lets designers submit, rate and view designs. Our goal with this site was to create a massive design gallery that designers could go to for inspiration. It also servers as great platform for designers to showcase their best work, allowing potential clients to find designers for jobs and gigs!
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The world is buzzing about the upcoming President elections in the U.S. and TemplateMonster has decided to hold its own elections, well to see which template will win of course! All you have to do is vote for the design that you consider to be better for America-the-beautiful. Then after the elections are over TemplateMonster will count the votes and the ones who voted for the design that eventually becomes the winner will be entered into the lottery. The voting is active from June 26th until July 9th 2008 so hurry and get your votes in!
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Hey all its finally time to announce the winner of the Markup4u.com comment contest! Markup4u.com can take your designs and convert them into a custom sliced WordPress theme or table-less xhtml/css template. The markup they provide is cross-browser compatible, SEO optimized and W3C valid!
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You (the designer) no longer need to worry about front-end coding and browser compatibility issues! leave it up to markup4u.com to take your designs and convert them into a custom sliced WordPress theme or table-less xhtml/css template. The markup they provide is cross-browser compatible, SEO optimized and W3C valid!
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The winners of Round 2 of the UPrinting.com International Poster design competition will be announced Friday! The entires were amazing and I want to thank everyone who participated including our sponsors for putting up such amazing prizes!
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Custom printing has always been associated with hefty printing costs, slow turnarounds and pre-press nightmares, but with advances in printing technologies this is finally no longer true! Custom printing sizes have many benefits, including more creative freedom, more personalization and it can be great for marketing campaigns looking to achieve a better (ROI) return on investment. Consumers are so used to standard sizes and like we’ve mentioned in previous posts, these new custom sizes can be very refreshing!
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MTV and HP are teaming up for a a cool new series that will air on MTV worldwide. This new show will pit creative minds from around the world against each other in a battle of digital art skills that will include graphic design, animation, mixing sounds, filmmaking and more.
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