Poster Design: Echo for the World

Echo for the World
Originally uploaded by GraphicIdentity

Here is my design submission for Big Typography Contest launched at MyInkBlog.
I don't know if Andrew Houle would accept this entry :P, since this is the last day to submit the design poster for this contest.

I just want to come with simple typography, so for me... ARIAL ruleeeeeeees! :D

You can also enjoy amazing posters from various designers at Big Typography Contest Flickr Group and don't forget to shout comments there!

PSDTUTS Contest: "Solving Poverty" Button Design

Poverty is a worldwide social issue, and do you know as a graphic designer, your talent and skills can help to solve today's most complex issue in the world. PSDTUTS just starts a design contest with the spirit of "Solving Poverty".

It's easy to think that there isn't much an individual can do. Fortunately this isn't the case at all. There is a range of activities one can contribute to a cause.

All you have to do is to design button(s) that will both raise awareness of solving poverty and contribute funds directly to help entrepreneurs in developing countries lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. Give a real act now to solve poverty!


HOW TO JOIN THE CONTEST
The Buttons should have positive visual statement and may use the words "Solving Poverty," or another equally uplifting message on the theme of poverty. You can download the button template format file before you start designing. Submit your entries to the PSDTUTS Flickr group, tagged "solvingpoverty". There will be no limits to the number of buttons you can submit for this contest. For more detailed information, just visit the PSDTUTS "Solving Poverty" Button Design announcement post.


FOLLOW UPs
The best of 10 Buttons will be featured on PSDTUTS, and will be available for sale on Cafepress. These buttons will then be publicized as part of Blog Action Day too. The artists behind the winning entries will receive exposure through these channels and on the sales page of Cafepress. Any money raised from the sale of buttons will also go straight to Kiva.org. Prizes are wonderful too as you can get the chance to help others simply by participating this contest! All entries must be submitted before midnight September 28th, 2008.


INTERESTING BUTTONS SUBMISSION
While the contest entries keep coming everyday, we stopped by at PSDTUTS Flickr group and found these interesting buttons design submission for your inspiration. Just click the button designs below to shout a comment if you like :)

designed by EAMejia

designed by _Fer.nan.do_

designed by badiali

designed by IMMarus

Arbenting Celebrates the New Theme Design

Arbenting is a great new comer of design website, now is having a new look. I like how Angie (Arbenting web author) picks elegant color scheme and the floral graphics for header is just awesome ;)



I came accross the redesign announcement on Arbenting and here is the good news for you :) They have been given 1000 free business cards by UPrinting to give away to Arbenting's readers and subscribers!

All you have to do is just write a comment to the Arbenting web theme redesign announcement then just say up that you are interested in the free business card printing (and if you want, what you think of the new site layout). There will be 2 winners for this easy blog contest, and each will receive 500 free business cards from UPrinting. Three weeks left to join the contest, so start dropping your comment now!

Good luck for ya all!

CSSnewbie Contest

CSSnewbie celebrates the August with the first-ever CSSnewbie Contest! CSSnewbie is one of our favorite CSS resources website. We have joined with over 1400 happy readers by subscribing to CSSnewbie email feed about a month now and absolutely happy reading the wonderful updates so far.

How to enter?

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You just need to subscribe to the CSSnewbie RSS feed and if you’re already a subscriber, you don’t have to do anything else except remain the subscriber you are.

Watch for a pass-phrase to appear at the bottom of an article in CSSnewbie RSS feed. The pass-phrase won’t be present in every article, but it’ll be there often enough that you’ll be able to find it if you’re looking for it.

Once you’ve found the pass-phrase, shoot an email to contest@cssnewbie.com. The subject line should be the pass-phrase and nothing else. The body of the message should contain a link to the website you’d like to have reviewed/promoted, and can also contain any other comments you’d like to include. Email them before the contest ends at the end of the day (11:59PM Central Time) on August 31, 2008.



The winner will receive:

1. A review of your website on CSSnewbie.
2. Eric Meyer’s book, CSS Pocket Reference: Visual Presentation for the Web.

Sounds great isn't it? Start your entry by visiting this cool CSSnewbie blog and subscribe now before you are running out of time ;)

The First PSDTUTS Contest!

Are you ready with another graphic design contest? PSDTUTS has started a contest that is so easy to join. The theme of this first month is Learning and Applying Your Knowledge. They will be looking at how you take techniques learned from any tutorial on PSDTUTS and apply it in your own work.

After you create an entry, be a member of PSDTUTS Flickr group and upload your submission to your Flickr account and place it in the PSDTUTS pool. There is no limit on the number of entries you can submit.

The deadline will be by the End of May. This means that the last day for all submissions is May 31st, 2008.

The announcement of the winner and showcase the top work will be posted during the first week of June.

Read the rest of the announcement and the list of awesome prizes on PSDTUTS and be inspired with the recent entries update now!

Visit PSDTUTS Contest Submissions Update where you can see the entries submitted by amazing graphic designers.

Meanwhile, here are my favorite entries on the PSDTUTS pool May contest and start your own entry right away!


designed by flatheadcatfish9



designed by Frederic Sean



designed by justinvg



designed by wordfish911



designed by baby_face2008

Graphic Design Group Writing Project Articles

“Graphic Design” is not that hard to imagine. When you start typing words using your keyboards, graphic design could give you tremendous outlines to your imagination and actually you are unconsciously experiencing it in every single day of your life. You see it, you touch it, you need it, and you feel it!

The first Group Writing Project that I have entered came up with wonderful selected articles. Jacob Cass was organizing this cool group writing contest nicely.If you’re one of the Graphic Design lovers, I send a bit of warm invitation for you to read the articles, socio bookmark, to link up and subscribe!

I tried to categorize these articles so it would help you to grasp the headlines a little. Please correct me if somehow I made some mistake in sorting them. Enjoy!


Designer Bits

• Creative Design by committee is OK, but who wants OK? - Submitted by Jason
• 3 Devastating Mistakes that every designer makes and how to avoid them - Submitted by Lauren
• The Lucky 7 Graphic Design Stretches - Submitted by Yonatan

Web Design

• Maybe Some Clients Are Just Not Ready for a Sophisticated Website - Submitted by Anthony
• 4 Must Have Firefox Extensions for Website Designers - Submitted by Firewalker
• Design Process of making a Wordpress Theme - Submitted by Andrew
• Behind The Scenes of Exquisite Web Typography - Submitted by Vivien

HTML and CSS

• The Basics of (X)HTML Tags (Video Tutorial) - Submitted by Learning Nerd
• Using CSS Themes without Coding Knowledgee - Submitted by Erica

Logo Design

• All About Paul Rand - Submitted by David Airey (Logo Design Love Blog)

Social Network

• Design Forums and Social Design Niche Social Media sites you have always wanted - Submitted by Audee
• 5 Great Social Networks for you - Submitted by Mirko

Content and Review

• How Far Will Your Blog Graphic Design Bring You? - Submitted by Dexter.
• Are You Neglecting Good Looks in Favor of Great Content? - Submitted by James
• Real Life Examples of Why Content Reigns and Design Boosts - Submitted by Meryl
• 8 Things That Intimidate Me About Graphic Design - Submitted by Ronald on Viviens Blog.

Color

• Color Branding: Geographic and Niche Targeting - Submitted by Ann Smarty
• The Ultimate Guide To Designing In Black - Submitted by Chris

Tutorial

• How To Use Photoshop to make notepad sketches (tutorial) - Submitted by Verne Ho
• How to Create Vector Wings (Tutorial) - Submitted by John Breo

Design Optimizing

• Vector vs Bitmap Graphics - Submitted by Cecile
• 9 Best Practices for Email Design - Submitted by Verne Ho
• The Basic Elements of Graphic Design - Submitted by PJ

Freebies

• Free Scalabe RSS Icons for your blog - Submitted by Jillian

Which one of those articles is your favorite? Drop your comment and share this post if you like :D!

Feed Flare Grand Opening Contest!

FeedFlare.ca has been launch just over a month. Collin, the owner of this fantastic Feed Flare community site has starting out a grand opening contest with total prize packages are worth just over $5200.00 (cash value) plus the 25,000 Entrecard credits.




THE LONG LIST OF PRIZES

I have informed you in my previous post that Graphic Identity blog has been taking part to sponsoring Feed Flare first contest. One of these prizes might be yours if you become one of the lucky winners of this amazing contest!

• Mini Unix web hosting package free for 1 year - Donated by BlurFur web hosting services (value - $70.00) - random draw


• Advertising voucher with Bidvertiser worth $200.00 in free clicks (value - $200.00) - random draw


• Blog branding package which includes (Favico, header, logo, 125x125 button) design package donated by Graphic Identity (value - $200.00) - random draw


• Free advertising for one month in the form of a 125x125 button on Blogging Cents. (value - $35.00) - random draw


• Win one of 3 free advertising spots on the “You Can Learn Series” blog in the form of a 125x125 ad button (value per spot - $10.00) - random draw


• Exclusive Theme donated by Unique Blog Designs (value - $99.00) there is around 10 different themes you can chose from if you win - random draw


• Win one of 2 copies of the “Written Promptly Everyday”; E-Book donated by The Prompt Writer (value per book -$5.00) random draw


• Win a copy of “How to launch a profitable free lancing business for under $50.00”; donated by the “Self Made Chick” (value - $12.00) random draw


• Custom banner design and the size will be of your choice donated by Dat Money dot com (value - $50.00) random draw


• One month free 125x125 advertising on Jason Boom dot com. (value - $20.00) random draw


• Grand Prise - 25,000 Entrecard credits (one lump some, the largest amount to be given away in a contest to date) draw date is March 31st (value - not really sure but some where around $250.00 I think)


• Bonus gifts - we have 200 pages on the “One Buck Wiki”; to give away - the first two hundred contest enterer’s will be each given one page as a bonus gift just for entering our grand opening contest.You will still be able to win any of the other prizes we have as well. The current selling price for a page on the “One Buck Wiki”; is $20.00 making this our largest prize package worth over $4000.00 in cash value.


• Featured Grand Prise = $500.00 cash payable via PayPal with the draw date being March 31st. You can thank my nice income tax return for this prize!!!

This event will be fun to enter and made simple so you can join anytime!
To join the contest is always easy! You can read the details at Feed Flare contest announcement post and submit your entry fast!


THE CONTEST SPONSORS

The contest sponsors listed below will serve the winners with their kind donation of prizes ;) You will recognize from the list that some of the sponsors are actually popular bloggers and well known site services in the blogosphere. The contest has been start and gets supported nicely by these sponsors. Don’t loose a chance to join this exclusive contest event by submitting your entry start from now! :D

1- Blogging Cents
2- My Radical Blogs
3- Jason Boom
4- Dat money
5- Graphic Identity
6- You Can Learn Series

7- BlueFur.com
8- BidVertiser

9- Firewalker Designs

10- The Prompt Writer

11- Self Made Chick
12- Revenue Canada (my tax return)
13- My Radical Blogs

14- One Buck Wiki
15- Unique Blog Designs

Have fun and take your part!

Finally, a Social Networking Moment with Graphic Identity

In the last week of February, I won’t publish any post about tutorial or creating another photoshop goodies to download. I think it is about time for Graphic Identity Blog to step outside, to see what’s going on in the internet world. Yes, nothing would be so much pleasurable, when you meet new people, sharing inspirational thoughts, and learning to reduce your own mistakes from other bloggers. For that reason, I took chances to spend a moment to build a strong social networking with great bloggers. Blog promotion comes as another benefit when you unite in a social networking event. It could be a moment to take this blog for re-evaluation and reviews to present better content for Graphic Identity Blog readers in advance.

The social networking events that I’ve been very excited to join with or soon will participate as well are:


Social Media Mega Project on InspirationBit.com



Vivien of InspirationBit.com has been setting a new deadline for the submissions to the Social Media Mega Project and giving everyone another full month of trying out different social networking sites and sharing your experience with the rest of us.

Take a look and see which social media site you’re interested in and would like to submit your entry to. Together the project covering 19 social networking sites, so you’re bound to find something that appeals to you.

• del.icio.us. Host: Aaron Stroud at On Financial Success


• Facebook. Host: Ina at Inspiring Wear


• Flickr & Zooomr (or anything photography related). Host: Brian Auer at Epic Edits


• Twitter, LinkedIn. Host: Isabella Mori at Change Therapy
  and Alphablogs


• StumbleUpon, YouTube, MySpace. Host: Karen Zara at a1-fan-fun


• Sphinn. Host Simonne at All Tips And Tricks


• Second Life. Host Dandellion at Living in the Metaverse


• Mixx, Propeller (formerly known as Netscape), Squidoo. Host: Pearl at Fresh Perspectives


• Sk*rt, Blogging Zoom, Bvibes. Host: JHS at Colloquium


• Technorati. Host: Monica at Me Like The Interweb


• Digg and Reddit. Host: Vivien at Inspiration Bit

Re-newed project timeline

• Start Date: Monday, January 21st


• End Date: Saturday, March 22nd


• Results Publication Date: Monday, March 24th


• Final Collaborative Results will be published on Inspiration Bit on Friday, March 28th


• End Date: Saturday, March 22nd

Bloghology on Search for Blogging.com

What Bloghology is all about? Bloghology is a collection of unique and remarkable bloggers and their profiles from all around the internet world compiled in PDF files to download. Mert Erkal http://www.searchforblogging.com/ invented the term of Bloghology and he is taking part to develop Peopleized.com.

Graphic Identity Blog apparently gets the opportunity to be featured in 2nd Edition of Bloghology.



If you want to be part of this Bloghology movement, sign up at www.bloghology.org to get your blogger profile featured. It will continue every quarter in 2008 and open to all bloggers. The number of downloads for Bloghology PDF files exceeded 4500 until February 19, 2008. The numbers keep growing on and on.

Bloghology is something insightful and powerful feature to promote your blog in a very exceptional way.

Graphic Design Group Writing Project on JustCreativeDesign.com



Jacob Cass includes me to be one of the sponsors for this project. The entries for this group writing project keeps flowing in and it will end in Tuesday 4th of March. This project is open for everyone, even though you’re not a graphic designer. There are lots of link love for the participants and great prizes to win!


Community Contest on FeedFlare.ca



It's been so wonderful when I meet Collin, who offers me to do the sponsorship for the FeedFlare’s upcoming contest. It would be held on March and I’m going to design a pack of new blog branding identity that will include a blog header, blog logo, favico, and 125x125px multi-purpose banner.


Thus for you who is interested to join it, just be connected to Graphic Identity blog for next updates about this contest!


Consider to experiment actively at those widespread blogging activities that I’ve mentioned above, be nice to give everyone favors and that what make all of your effort to build strong social network stand-out!

Connect to JustCreativeDesign.com Group Writing Project & Win $5000 PRIZE GIVEAWAY

This month, I’ve committed my self to enhance my network by sponsoring several blog contests and a Group Writing Project held by JustCreativeDesign.com.  Jacob Cass is the man behind this wonderful project. He is exclusively running the contest to bring all the design freaks, graphic design blogs and people who subscribe to them a bit closer together with $5000+ worth of prizes to give away.



I must say that winning the contest could be sounds so much fun, but then again what I love the most about this project is the opportunity to enhance your network, to link and be linked in with other participants. Your blog would have been nothing if you hold yourself away from the crowd. Participate to meet new people, to link love, to surf the submissions, leave comments and make connections with other fellow graphic designers & subscribers alike would dazzle the fun into hilarity to this group writing project.

My part in this contest is listed in Bonus Prize Sponsors. You could be the one who win A Blog Header design that is created by Graphic Identity team ;p.

I should add few more the updates regarding to the contest, that Jacob Cass will still accepting late sponsor up until the prize draw date. Sponsors are able to enter the contest; however you can not win your own prize.

The entries deadline will be on Tuesday 4th of March.


How to participate in this Group Writing Project?

This contest is open to all of you, even if you’re not a graphic designer. All you have to do is to write a new post on the subject of Graphic Design, and re-posting old article for this project is not OK.

As Jacob Cass, mentioned earlier:

By ‘Graphic Design’ I mean some sort of a post that gives advice, tips, resources lists or a tutorial on how to do something. What it’s about is totally up to you.

……You could write an easy tutorial or something that a designer may find useful (eg. 10 reasons why I subscribe to these design blogs). Be as creative as you’d like - take it in any direction you want - it can be on any topic on design in general (keep it clean and ‘family friendly’ please). It can be any length, it can be serious, funny, it can be a list post, a rant, an essay, a pictorial or video post… etc

Hi yaaaaa, you can also post your article in your own first language! :D

Read the rest of the Graphic Design Group Writing Project rules for the details before you start your entry submission.

Give your self a try and get “Connected” to JustCreativeDesign.com Group Writing Project!
Have fun by collecting much entry points as much as possible to win $5000 prizes give away!

EzMoneyOn.Net First Contest

Diana and Simonne collaborate to start a blog about how to make money online called EzMoneyOn.Net. This blog present you great writing articles about tips and tricks to make living from internet. There are a lot of make money online blogs, we know that. Some of them are quite successful in making money, many of them have some articles and that's it. But on how many "make money online" blogs do you really learn how you can make money online? I still find on many forums bloggers who ask that. The EzMoneyOn.Net blog authors present you the case studies, so you can choose what way suits better to your blog.

This brand new blog held the first contest since February 11th, 2008, and incredible prizes are waiting for you to participate to the contest. You can always have the opportunity to win first prize $100 cash, 1000 Entrecard credits for the second run winner and free banner design since this is a draw prize contest for the third prize.

Find out how to join this contest and remember the closing date to submit your entry should be on 11 March 2008.

Graphic-Illustration Design Contest: Win your Entrecard designed for free

For you who still haven’t try the powerful promotion advantage of Entrecard, I think it’s about time for you to get your own card submitted. Don’t loose time to promote your blog with Entrecard, while you can improve traffic and increase your potential readers only by submitting 125×125px size banner card.

What if you want to have your card submitted to Entrecard, but you don’t know how to design it, don’t have the skills or time to do it. Or you don’t have money to order it? Well…..I have wonderful news for you.

BSilvia, a good friend of mine, has been starting a design contest and she will make free 6 designs for the winners.

This is how to enter:

• Just go to graphics-illustrations.com, select the graphic style that you prefer.


• Leave your most creative, innovative, funny comment anywhere on graphics-illustrations.com blog.


• Post a link back to your blog.

Contest winners
Silvia will draw 3 (three) winners! Each of contest winners will receive two (2) cards designed by her.

Contest deadline
Deadline is Tuesday January 22nd. Contest winner will be announced on graphics-illustrations.com blog on Wednesday January 23rd!

:p so there’s not much time left huh! Commenting on a blog won’t took long time right? So hurry up, visit graphics-illustrations.com and please comment comment….!

If you like this article, you can subscribe in RSS feed reader or subscribe to Graphic Identity by email

My Lucky Number 13 First Contest - Win $100

Diana, has a very interesting blog, titled : "My lucky number 13". 

It's a A blog about her life experiences including personal matters and professional career. Recently, her personal blog is also nominated to win Blogger Choice Awards in Best Blog About Stuff category.



I love her blog since she wrote good and informative articles about blogging tips and only in two months, now she helds a first contest :)

To enter the contest is easy. Here is how:

• Write a post about My Lucky Number 13 contest in at least 100 words and include 2 links: one to the contest page and one to the My Lucky Number 13 homepage (the link to my homepage will have the anchor “personal blog”) --> - you will collect one entry
  
• Subscribe to blog RSS feed through a reader --> you will collect one entry
  
• Subscribe to blog feed by email --> you will collect two entries
  

The contest has started until 13 December. On 14 December Diana will announce the winner and she’ll write a post with link love for all the participants and the method you have choose to enter this contest. Besides the grand prize, all the participants will be rewarded with a link love. 

Everyone can win the contest, if you become the winner, $100 prize will be paid via PayPal.

Start your entry today and subscribe to My Lucky Number 13 blog now!

Photo Contest 2007 - “Photos On a Theme”

Jordan McClements of IrishViews.com with 70,000 visitors per month have started a photo contest this week. It’s an interesting contest to join and the submission entry is labeled “Photos on a Theme”.

If you have at least 6 really good photos on a specific theme, which you think would look good as a Desktop Background / PC Wallpaper, and then you have a chance to submit them right away.

Some examples of themes are:
“Scotland”, “London”, “Fishing”, “Snow, “Glaciers”, “Forests”, “Rivers”, “Boats” etc.


RULES

• THE PHOTOS MUST BE YOURS!
  
• NO recognisable faces of people.
  
• NO copyright stuff (Disney, Sydney Opera House etc)
  
• 1024x768 pixels in size (please crop if your camera does not take photos in 4:3 aspect ratio) (If your submissions are not 1024x768 pixels, 4:3 aspect ratio then they will have to be REALLY good for me to consider them)
  
• JPEG (reasonable quality – preferably between 200KB and 300KB file size)
  
• You must have at least 6 related photos on a theme.
  
• Email all photos on a specific theme as one email to jmcwd.com@gmail.com with the “theme” in the “subject” line.
  

Closing date: 31st October 2007

Visit Jordan McClements’s photo blog : Make Money From Photos Online  for further details



If you have any question about this contest, you can enter to Jordan McClements’s Discussion board at Blog Catalog

$4,000 David Airey Blog Anniversary Prize Draw

David Airey, a graphic designer from Northern Ireland, is holding an anniversary prize giveaway. Started on September 1st, 2007, there’s more than $4,000 worth in free prizes! :) You can achieve the maximum number of draw entries and chances to win are open wide.
Talking about Blog Designing? Check out the list of Design and Blog Review Prizes from Top Designer and Excellent Blog Reviewer Sponsors. They will contribute their time and profesional skills to design and to review the lucky winner’s Blog.

• Logo design from David Airey.
  
• Custom WordPress theme design from Nate Whitehill of Nate Whitehill dot Com.
  
• One year’s hosting and blog setup from John Boardley of I Love Typography.
  
• Logo design from Tara Roskell of Graphic Design Blog.
  
• Website critique from Randa Clay of Randa Clay Design.
  
• Logo / blog header design from Jonathan-C. Phillips of Smart Wealthy Rich.
  
• Revolution Premium WordPress theme package (personal package) from Brian Gardner, WordPress designer and consultant.
  
• Blog review and email interview published on Make It Great!  with Phil Gerbyshak.
  

Those are just some mouth watering prizes! I haven’t mentioned the SEO free consultation and lots of Bonus prizes. I hope that you won’t leave these prizes on the table after reading my blog contest postie!!!
Feel free to grab this graphic below to be put on your own blog and start your entry right away.
Mark the date and hurry up because all entries must be received by David on Wednesday, September 26th 2007.
Find out how to enter by reading the details on David’s graphic design blog. 



Grab image!

Pimp My Blog Contest - Win a Free Blog Header/Logo Design

Bored with the look of your own blog? And are you secretly feelin’ not proud with your blog logo or header ;) Or you might want some advice form a designer expert about how you can miraculously PIMP your blog out?



Randa Clay, a profesional designer blogger has started a contest in the beginning of August, (which I’m afraid I was quite late of knowing this ;p), and you only have 9 days left. She is offering two prizes:

1. One winner will receive a custom blog logo, along with a custom header if they would like one.
   
2. A second winner will receive a free blog review, including a feature article on this site.
   

You need to complete three easy entries to join this blog contest. What are they? And how? Have all the details for this contest at Randa Clay – Pimp My Blog Contest.
In the mean time, don’t miss this opportunity since all entries must be received by August 24th, midnight US Eastern Time.

BenSpark’s August Add it up Contest

Do you ever wish to have Flickr or Zooomr Pro account? Here is an interesting way to grabb it for free.

Ben Spark starts a contest in August, it has been going fun and so easy. All you have to do is collecting points by writing a Blog about this contest and just comment on Photo-A-Day post for the month of August. (limit one comment per PAD post).




Earn 5 points by voting The BenSpark Blog as Photography Blog of the year
And please do link back to my site  Graphic Identity Affiliate (http://graphic-identity-affiliate.blogspot.com) for the reason that you vote The BenSpark.

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