Win a Free Ticket to Web Directions North!
November 20, 2006 at 1:28 PM
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Win a full pass to Web Directions North, in Vancouver, Canada, February 6-10, 2007. Web Directions North features top-notch speakers including Dave Shea, Doug Bowman, Veerle Pieters, Andy Clarke, Cameron Moll, Kelly Goto, Jeremy Keith, Dan Cederholm, Derek Featherstone, John Allsopp, and many more. Making the gathering even cooler, the conference is followed by two days of optional skiing & snowboarding, with speakers and fellow conference goers, at the world-class mountains of Whistler-Blackcomb, home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Not much of a skiier/snowboarder? Whistler-Blackcomb features plenty for beginners, too.
- 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.
- Runner Up Prizes (2 winners): One day of coach and lift tickets. Value $USD100 each.
To win, submit your very own snowboard design! In the grand tradition of pro snowboarders and classic boardsmiths like Burton, Lib Tech, and Sims, we invite you to put your design skills into the most radical snowboard ever! Make it geeky, make it awesome, make it classic—whatever you want, it's your design.
Not a designer? We've got an option for you. Take a photo of yourself on an improvised snowboard of your own invention. Sure, it might not be snow-legal, but it could work in a pinch. The more inventive, the better! Absolutely can't attend? Enter your design anyway - join the fun! Plus, we just might have some other prizes.
- Limit: 3 photo or design submissions per person, from a verifiable e-mail address.
- Send a 400 x 400 pixel jpg of your entry (for the photo option) or a wider jpg—even 800 pixels or wider is fine—(for the snowboard design option) as an email attachment to digweb.contest@gmail.com. If you'd like to use a template, we have some you can download.
- 2 week deadline—submission window will close end of day, 12/4/2006.
We'll post the designs as we go along, and the winners on 12/11/2006. Good luck!
Comments
Nifty! I might just give this a shot. One quick question: Do we retain ownership of the design?
Great idea! I think you wanted to say "12/4/2007" and not "12/4/2006" :) Thank you for the opportunity! Valentina from Venice, Italy
Ops! I made a mistake too! Now my url is correct, sorry
@velentina - 12/4/2007 would be after the conference... so that is not correct. I think the submissions end on the 4th of December 2006. In Australia we would write that 04/12/2006... but for some crazy reason some countries place the month before the day.
Hi folks, Yes, you retain ownership of your design....as long as we can show it during the contest and others who blog about it (like the conference organizers) can, too. But, we won't use it for anything else, and its yours. The contest ends December 4, 2006...it's a quick contest! More prizes to be announced shortly.
What material will the board be made of? (Bamboo?) Where are the screw-holes for the bindings?
@SomebodyElse -- snowboard materials and screw-holes would most likely follow industry standards. But we won't actually be creating a board. The contest for Web Directions North is based around the design of a snowboard, to try to give a snow-related twist to designing.
I like the idea of a snowboard made out of ice. Ironic. Might be a bit brittle I guess. Bamboo is ironic too :-) j
Heh, this will be the second graphic design creation I've done... Bamboo's ironic? It's definitely not brittle! Then again, the ice isn't brittle when you face-plant.^^;;
Sweet. Thanks Carolyn... just wanted to make sure some snowboard company wasn't behind this trying to get free designs out of us ;)
I can't believe I missed this... I've been working on a new snowboard design to be used with a noboard pad and tested the prototype last weekend! (With great success too, I might add) Oh well...
