Contest Final Results!
A hearty “thank you” to all our participants! We had 50 individuals submit over 80 board designs, with two intrepid photo entries. Judging was exceptionally difficult, but here's the final tally!
Prizes
The Big Stuff
- First Prize: A two-day full conference pass and one day at Whistler (includes luxury coach transfer to and from Vancouver/Whistler, and lift ticket). Value $USD1000.
- 50% off of Media Temple's great new Grid Server, FOR LIFE
- Studio 8 Software Bundle courtesy of Adobe
Rad Stuff
- Two one-day passes for coach and lift tickets. Value $USD100 each.
- Studiometry4 the professional's organization tool
- BBEdit, the pro HTML Editor for Macs courtesy of Bare Bones Software
- Yojimbo, a Mac-based information organizer courtesy of Bare Bones
- 100 istockphoto photo credits and a snappy t-shirt
- A large moleskin regular sketchbook, a large watercolor sketchbook, and a 2007 moleskin pocket planner courtesy of moleskinerie
- Your choice of 2 t-shirts from this page at Naature, a cool t-shirt company
- 17 hours of Illustrator CS2 Essential Training Videos courtesy of Lynda.com
- CSS for Designers Training Videos by Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag courtesy of Lynda.com
- A Training Video CD of your choice courtesy of Lynda.com
Books
- 5 copies of CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer courtesy of the folks at O'Reilly Media
- 3 copies of Transcending CSS by Andy Clarke courtesy of New Riders/Peach Pit
- 3 copies of Five Simple Steps, the much-anticipated new book from designer Mark Boulton
- Communicating Design by Dan Brown courtesy of New Riders/Peach Pit
- Pro CSS Techniques by Jeff Croft, Ian Lloyd, and Dan Rubin courtesy of Apress
- Beginning JavaScript with Ajax and DOM Scripting by Chris Heilmann courtesy of Apress
- Beginning Ajax with PHP by Lee Babin courtesy of Apress
- Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig courtesy of Apress
- HTML Mastery by Paul Haine courtesy of friends of Ed
- Rails Solutions: Ruby on Rails Made Easy by Justin Williams courtesy of friends of Ed
- Codin' for the Web (PHP) by Charles Wyke-Smith courtesy of New Riders/Peach Pit
The Top Five
The Top Ten
- Mark Hernandez
- David Melton
- Geoff Gibson
- Dene Denend
- Anton Peck
- Matt Webb
- Karen Lo
- Nina Karlavaris
- John Peele
- Michal Ordon
Innovative Board Awards
Photographer: David VanDusen

David notes that, while not snow-worthy, the cookie was delicious.

David notes that, while not snow-worthy, the cookie was delicious.
Thanks again to all our participants!



