Guest post: Mobile challenge in Europe
I’m happy to announce the official launch of a contest for EU residents: The Adobe Mobile Challenge. Adobe are challenging you to build a great AIR app and publish it into the Apple Store, the Android Marketplace and the BlackBerry App World for a chance to win a trip to Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, California this October. The first prize includes a flight, hotel accommodation and entry to Adobe MAX. Runner up prizes include Creative Suite 5.5 and Flash Builder Premium 4.5.1.
This is your chance to show us and the world what you can do. Using AS3 or Adobe Flex you can now develop advanced mobile applications and run them on iOS, Android and on the BlackBerry PlayBook. So what are you waiting for? Get coding. That said, you don’t have to build a new or exclusive application for this contest; if you’ve already published an application, feel free to submit it.
This challenge is managed by Adobe Europe, that’s why the competition is open to EU residents only :Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden & United Kingdom.
The submissions end on the 1st of September. Then the members of the jury will elect the best applications.You just need to develop an AIR mobile application with or without the Flex framework. It can be a game, a pure artistic experience, a lifestyle application, or even a productivity application… there’s no restriction except that it be a useful and interesting app. If you have already developed an application, you can submit that as well. You are not forced to create a new exclusive AIR application for this challenge.
Visit the dedicated website of this contest to discover its rules, the prizes and members of the jury: www.adobemobilechallenge.com
And the winner is…
Well… Picking a winner in my blog design contest was far from easy. I had multiple favorites and so I asked a few friends to help me pick the winner. We eventually narrowed it down to two and then did a final voting round.
The winner is Marten De Jongh, a freelance photographer/designer from The Netherlands. You’ll see his design appear on my blog mid-january.
I’d like to thank everyone who participated. You guys did an fantastic job!
Blog design contest: Design my blog and win CS4 Master Collection!
Last week I realized that I am not 100% happy with the blog theme I recently installed. I like it, but it’s not quite exactly what I wanted. In all honesty, I don’t really like fiddling around with CSS and HTML. I hate having to navigate around different browser implementations and therefore never really got in to CSS and HTML. I also realize that there are people out there with much better design skills than me.
Last week I asked my Twitter followers if someone would be interested in designing/building a theme for my blog in exchange for CS4 Master Collection. I also asked if they would want to participate in a contest or if I should just pick one person based on previous work. The majority of the “votes” went to an open contest and so here we are…
What am I looking for?
A nice, fresh, clean and unique theme for my blog. You would provide both the PSD files and the WordPress theme files. The code has to be 100% valid and as SEO friendly as possible. The main content area must be at least 640 pixels wide. The theme would have at least 1 widget enabled sidebar on the right.
What’s in it for you?
Eternal fame ;-) and CS4 Master Collection (a €3300 value).
Moodboard
To get you started, I put together a little moodboard that should hopefully give you an idea of what I like. I like minimalistic and clean with nice typography.
I also like these designs (or parts of it):
http://www.fontshop.be/
http://www.engadget.com/
http://www.adobeusergroup.nl/
http://www.adobeusergroupxl.nl/
http://www.8020studio.com/
http://aigany.org
http://concentric-studio.com/work/
Deadline
To spare you from doing unnecessary work, I will judge this based on the static designs. You can add a link to the design in the comment section. The designs have to be in on December 18th 2009. I will pick and announce a winner on December 21st. The winner will then create the actual WordPress theme. The final theme has to be delivered on January 15th 2010. Don’t forget: delivering the WordPress theme is part of this contest! The contest is open to anyone anywhere.
More questions?
If you have more questions, feel free to leave a comment or use the “Get in touch” form.
Looking forward to seeing your designs!
And the winners are…
As you probably know by now, Flash On The Beach is in just 1 week time and is completely sold out. Luckily we were able to get a hold of the last tickets and asked you to be creative with the “beach” theme and the AIR, Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, Adobe logos. Here are the winners who all get a full conference pass to Flash On The Beach in Brighton. I’m sure you’ll agree that these clearly are winners. Congrats to all of them and see you in Brighton!
FOTB is sold out! Get the last tickets here… for free!
Flash On The Beach is now just 2 weeks away and is also officially sold out. If you were too late in getting your tickets, this is your last chance to get one… for free!
The only thing you have to do is get a little creative! A couple of weeks ago, Adobe’s European platform evangelist team launched this contest. Although the deadline was officially last week, we want to give you guys a little bit more time to get creative and win your ticket for FOTB especially since it’s now sold out and these are the last available tickets out there. So we’re extending the deadline until Wednesday September 17, 1pm CET. That same afternoon we’ll announce the winners.
I got to tell you that the competition is already pretty strong. So get creative and see you at Flash On The Beach!
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