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USD$1620 Raised For Charity + Prize Give Away Winners

Published on Monday, November 24, 2008 – 9:00 am | 16 brilliant comments »

First off I want to thank everyone for your donations, promotion, support and generosity - the project was a success, allowing us to raise $1620 for charity.

In total there was exactly 200 entries, 148 donations and 52 articles submitted.

So now your probably wondering who the winners are? Head over to the original post and look for the names under each prize sponsor. Please contact the prize sponsor to claim your prize unless otherwise noted. If you have any troubles at all please contact me and I will help you out. Please also let me know if you do not want the prize so I can pass it on.

Congratulations to all winners and for those who missed out, stay tuned because there are more giveaways coming up very soon.

Please have a look around the sites below and once again, thank you!

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5 Days To Go! - $11,000 In Prizes! You Must Enter!

Published on Monday, November 17, 2008 – 8:29 pm | 12 brilliant comments »

If you haven’t already heard, there are 67 prizes up for grabs including a digital camera worth $1200. To enter all you have to do is donate at least $5.00 to charity and / or write an article!

There has been only 50 entries so far and there is 67 prizes so chances are you ARE going to win a prize!

For entry info and prizes please visit the annoucement post.

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$400 Raised So Far | Donate or Write To Win Your Share of $11,000!

Published on Monday, November 10, 2008 – 5:55 pm | 2 brilliant comments »

Just a reminder to get your entry in to the $11,000 Prize Giveaway Design Group Writing Project For Charity.

So far there has been $400 donated from just 20 (very generous) sponsors - if my maths is correct, that is an average of $20 per donation which is great, however, I am still quite disappointed… 20 donations from a subscriber base of 9350+ subscribers is quite a low number… in fact, very low.

I have also only received 3 written articles from non-blog-owners and 7 articles from blog owners. That makes a total of 30 entries… and there is 67 69 different prizes up for grabs!

My point? Donate now or get your articles in because you have an extremely good chance of winning some sweet prizes!

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$11,000 Prize Giveaway - Design Group Writing Project For Charity

Published on Friday, November 7, 2008 – 1:36 am | 127 brilliant comments »

Update: A total of USD$1620 dollars was raised and donated to the Blog Action Day Poverty Fund - thank you everyone for your support!

To celebrate my blog’s 1st birthday (November 7th) I have been working hard to put together this massive project for my readers, the design community and charity.

There is a total of 66 different prizes worth exactly $11,000 all up so there will be 66 lucky winners.

100% of all proceeds will go to the Blog Action Day Poverty Fund.

To Enter… Please Read Very Carefully

There are two ways you can enter and you can do both for a maximum of two entries per person. All entries will be checked before any prizes are given.

Entry 1: Donate To Charity

To enter the competition you may donate to charity…. All money goes to the global fund that helps fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria - some of the leading causes of poverty.

Instructions:

There are two options - via Change.org or via PayPal.

I have been told that sometimes a ’server error’ message is being displayed on Change.org, please be patient and try again at another time or use PayPal instead, the donate button is below.

Change.Org

If you choose to go through change.org money will go straight into the global fund account and will not touch my hands. If you do not have a credit card, you may choose to use PayPal. If you choose to use change.org the instructions are below.

1. Go to the Just Creative Design Blog Action Day Fundraiser Page.
2. Click the blue ‘Donate Now’ button.
3. Fill out the page, please donate a minimum of $5. (Heh, it’s only a coffee!) Ensure you leave a donation comment so your entry counts. You can donate from any country as long as you have a credit card, don’t get fooled by the billing address being US states.

PayPal

By request I have also set up a PayPal donation page. You can donate by clicking the donate button below. I will collect the donations here and then donate the funds to the global fund at the end of the project.

Entry 2: Write An Article (even without a blog)

For those of you who do not have a credit card or are limited in funds, there is another alternative, you can write an article - hence the design group writing project! I will compile all the entries at the end of the competition.

Instructions:

1. Write an article related to design. Even if you are not a designer, you could make a list of your favourite designs or list your favourite websites, books, photos? There are no boundaries… just relate the article some how back to design… be creative.
   
2. If you don’t have a blog go to step 3, if you have a blog, continue reading. When you post your article on your blog, ensure you leave a trackback to this post so I can track your article or preferably, link back to this article / home page in the first paragraph. Please make the post at least 500 words.
   
3. If you don’t have a blog, send me an article in a Word or HTML document to my email address. Ensure it is at least 500 words, with no slang and with your best spelling. I will post some of the best entries on this blog.

Deadline & How To Win

Entries will close November 22nd GMT+11. There will be 1 prize per person.

A list of all the people who have donated and all the people who have written an article will be compiled and then submitted into random.org where it will output a persons name with a prize number. This makes the selection totally random. Winners will be announced the same week.

Share The Love

• Stumble This Post
• Digg This Post
• Blog About This Fundraiser
• Add A Banner: I have made a 125×125 banner for you to place on your blog if you wish. If you do use the banner, please just link back to this article.

Prizes

Another HUGE thank you to all the sponsors on this project, it would not have been possible without you!

Anyway, these are all the prizes up for grabs! Ensure you browse the sponsor’s sites!

Olympus Evolt E250 Digital Camera from GetPrice.com.au
This digital camera is courtesy of GetPrice.com.au - the place to compare before you buy.
Value: $1200

Winner: Deborah M Ens (Please contact me directly)

Photoshop World Tickets, Scott Kelby Book Bundle, Layers Subscription, NAPP Membership
Courtesy of RC Concepcion, Host of Layers TV, the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, and Kelby Training.
Value: $720 (Tickets & NAPP membership $600, Books $90, Layers Subscription $30)

Winner: Andrew Yee (Please contact me directly)

7x Books (each to different person) - Photoshop CS4 For Dummies, Aperture 2, Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom
Courtesy of Natalie Lin from Wiley. A HUGE thanks to Natalie for getting these prizes to give away to 7 lucky readers. You too can get these books by going to the links below!

• 3x Copies of Photoshop CS4 For Dummies ($29.99 value per book)
• 3x Copies of Aperture 2 Portable Genius by David Schloss ($25 value per book)
• 1x Copy of Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom ($49.99 value per book)

Total Value: $215

Winners: Please email Natalie and tell them what prize you have won, your address and show proof of identity - contact Natalie at [nlin AT wiley DOT com].

1. Photoshop CS4 For Dummies - Meryl Evans

2. Photoshop CS4 For Dummies - Elizabeth Fulghum

3. Photoshop CS4 For Dummies - Adrian Szefke

4. Aperture 2 Portable Genius - Tanner Christenson

5. Aperture 2 Portable Genius - Haroon Baig

6. Aperture 2 Portable Genius - Frank Hakl

7. Photoshop CS4 Digital Classroom - Xhilacom

Your Logo Cut Into HUGE Perspex Letters 80cm Wide (Wow)
Courtesy of Sander Baumann from Geveletters. To get what we mean by huge, check out their site!
Value: $600

Winner: JCM Enterprises

Total Blog Makeover
Courtesy of the very kind and talented Joni Mueller from Pixelita, a design studio based in Houston, Texas. The blog makeover can be for a WordPress, TextPattern, Blogger or Movable Type Blog.
Value: $650

Winner: Janette Toral

A Unique Web Theme for Either WordPress, PixelPost or a Straight XHTML page.
Courtesy of the very kind Kristarella, who runs a personal / design blog over at the very aptly named Kristarella. If you don’t want to change your site, customisation/optimisation of your current page can also be done.
Value: $300.

Winner: Anca Foster

Sumo Omni Chair + Lounge + Love Seat + Floor Pillow (Girl Not Included)
Courtesy of Andrew Milligan from Sumo Lounge, a website offering seriously awesome urban lounge gear. Andrew has been marketing his Sumo range by contacting blog authors and offering them a free Omni Chair in exchange for a review (over 500 reviews so far) … and let’s face it, who wouldn’t want one of these? There is a sale on now and on top of that there is free shipping too. Check out Sumo! NB: This is not part of the prize pool.
Value: $150

2x PSD to XHTML / CSS Conversions
Courtesy of Jay of Creative Cranes, a new intuitive design studio. You can follow Jay on Twitter too.
Value: $45/h up to $1000.

Winners:
1. Lori Kasbeer
2. Harley Alexander

$100 Gift Voucher For Threadless Tshirts
Courtesy of Bob Nanna from Threadless, an awesome designer submission t-shirt shop.
Value: $100

Winner: Jessica Garner (Please contact me directly)

Blog / Site Review with Design Critique by Vivien
Courtesy of Vivien from Inspiration Bit, a unique & inspirational design blog. Vivien’s reviews are not the normal type of review, she really gets under the hood of your design. See what I mean here.
Value: $400

Winner: Daniel Cavanaugh

1 Year Shuttle-Bus Subscription to Freshbooks Invoicing
Courtesy of Mitch Solway from Freshbooks, an online invoicing application, and our site sponsor.
Value: $168

Winner: Brian Lovin

Bgears b-Enspirer Theatre Quality 7.1 Channel Sound Card
Courtesy of Angie Bowen from Arbenting, a blog on creativity and design.
Value: $120

Winner: Marco Folio

300 Premium Textures from ColorBurned
Courtesy of Grant Friedman from ColorBurned, a great design resources blog and shop.
Value: $70

Winner: Pedro Panduro

Custom Logo Design by NetBramha Studios

Courtesty of Aashish Solanki from NetBramha Studios, a design studio based out of Bangalore, India.

Value: $300

Winner: Jeffrey Jose

2x Design Prints from 3 Lambs Design (via Etsy)

Courtesy of Amy of 3 Lambs Designs. You can get any two 8″ x 8″ or 8″ x 10″ prints, including shipping.

Value: $75.00

Winner: Camille Good

1x FlickR Pro Account For One Year
Courtesy of the very kind Joni Mueller from Pixelita, a design studio based in Houston, Texas
Value: $25

Winner: Michael Wheaton

LoveClub Coupon
Courtesy also of James Deer, from ThemeLovers, a new site offering great themes. The Loveclub coupon gives you unlimited access to every theme on offer on ThemeLovers.
Value: $499

Winner: Synergetek S.A.

$25 Gift Voucher For Amazon
Courtesy of the talented Meryl K Evans from Meryl.net. Meryl really is a ‘Content Maven’, just read her about page.
Value: $25

Winner: Jeff Wolff

2x Designer T-shirts from Design By Humans (Split Into 2 Prizes)

Courtesy of Design By Humans, an awesome designer tshirt submission site and affiliate sponsor of this site. Check out some of my favourites here.
Value: $60

Winners: (Please contact Jason at jason AT designbyhumans DOT com with your address and proof of identity.)

1. Angelina Dominguez

2. Jonathan Illig

1000 Business Cards from UPrinting
Courtesy of Gino Orlandi from Uprinting, a quality online printing service based in the USA that prints business cards among many other things. Shipping free only in USA and Canada.
Value: $50

Winner: Ryan Williams (Please contact Gino at gino AT youthedesigner DOT com)

5x Anistock Yearly Subscriptions
Courtesy of Brian O’Connell from Anistock, a multimedia haven… Anistock has 7.8 million photos, clip art, fonts, graphics and more. You can win access to all this for one year!
Value: $500 ($99 each)

Winners: Please contact Brian at brian AT anistock DOT com

1.Tanya Nichols

2. Caroline Murphy

3. Eli Burford

4. Ben Redington

5. Adam Holt

1 Year Website Hosting from URLuscious
Courtesy of Faryl Zaklin from URLuscious, a website hosting service for small businesses.
Value: $80

Winner: Brian Yerkes

26 iStockPhoto Credits
Courtesy of Olga Mizrahi from ohso! design, a web design and graphic design studio based in Long Beach California.
Value: $35

Winner: Mohd Rafie

125×126 Advertising on LogoDesign.org for 6 Months

Courtesy of the generous George Ryan from Logo Design.Org

Value: $600

Winner: Faryl Z

30 Minute Coaching Consultation on Organisation & Productivity
Courtesy of Kris Rowlands, a Professional Organisation and Productivity Consultant.
Value: $50

Winner: Julie Walker

10x T-Shirts from Advertees
Courtesty of Steve from Advertees, a promotional clothing company. You may choose any make or style from the site (preferably organic) printed in water based inks with a design of the winners choice in up to 3 colours and sizes. Shipped to wherever in the world.
Value: $280

Winner: Jared Fraser

25 High Resolution Exclusive Custom Made Textures

Courtesy of Alexander Hommel from High Resolution Textures, a website offering high resolution textures. The winner can choose the category and will receive 25 custom made hi-res images in return.

Value: $75

Winner: David Klein

$40 Voucher to Spend at DealExtreme

Courtesy of Marco Kuiper, who also freelances as a graphic designer. This voucher you can spend on any gadget at Deal Extreme, which let me tell you is a lot!
Value: $40

Winner: Michael Kristof

$150 to spend on ThemeForest / FlashDen / AudioJungle
Courtesy of Collis T’aeed, the man behind many, many websites.

• FlashDen - The best place to get awesome Flash components.
• AudioJungle - A new audio marketplace.
• ThemeForest - WordPress and Template marketplace.

Value: $150

Winner: Kristen Oaxaca

Please email your username from one of the sites above & proof of identity to Collis at collis AT envato DOT com.

12 Large Woodgrain Photoshop Brushes
Courtesy of Curtis McHale. Each brush is around 2000px square at 300ppi and is only available through Just Creative Design.
Value: $24

Winner: Thanh Pham

4x Single License $79 Theme Coupons for ThemeLovers
Courtesy of James Deer, from ThemeLovers, a new site offering great themes. Period.
Value: $316

Winners:

1. More Guitar

2. Andi Berekely

3. Piyusg Agarwal

4. Paticia Lupien

30min Design Consultation with Logo Designer, David Airey
Courtesy of David Airey… you should know him by now, if you don’t, fly over to his blog now!
Value: $50

Winner: Melanie Fox

1x FlickR Pro Account For One Year
Courtesy of the very kind and talented Lauren Krause from the awesome design blog Creative Curio.
Value: $25

Winner: Maria Colomy

Static Banner Ad Design by iDesign Studios
Courtesy of the kind Selene Bowlby from iDesign Studios, a very talented designer with a studio & blog based in Florida.

Value: $100

Winner: Lucy Beaman

Islamic Design Package & Tour
Courtesy of Mohd Rafie, the man who donated an electric guitar last competition.

1. Book - Title: Islamic Design: A Genius for Geometry by Daud Sutton.
2. A3 poster. Title: “Pedulikah Kita” Do we care?
3. Mini poster by ISAC Studio.
4. 3 Islamic design stock photos.
5. Free admission to the Design Museum, London
6. 10% off any merchandise at the Design Museum shop.

Value: $50

Winner: Zac Hill

1x T-Shirt from TurnNocturnal
Courtesy of the kind Matt McInerney, who runs the store Turn Nocturnal. I have one of their shirts and the service was awesome, highly recommended. The winner may choose any shirt and size up to $20. Postage is included up to $10.
Value: $20

Winner: Dennis Garcia

234×60 Advertising on Lost & Taken for 3 Months
Courtesy of Caleb Kimbrough from Lost & Taken a blog with many high resolution textures.
Value: $90

Winner: Francois Anselmo

Choice of 1 Premium Wordpress Theme from ANYWHERE
Courtesy of the generous Penny from WP Premiums. Your choice is from any premium shop on the internet up to the value of $100.
Value: $100

Winner: Paul Stevens

$25 Amazon Gift Voucher
Courtesy of River Girl (Bari) from Ask The Boater. You can follow River Girl on Twitter too!
Value: $25

Winner: Jason Slater

1 Hour of Website Updates
Courtesy of Eric Benoit from Ebenoit, where he freelances as a graphic and web designer.
Value: $100

Winner: Truong Nguyen

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$7000+ Worth Of Prizes | Donate For Charity

Published on Saturday, November 1, 2008 – 12:01 am | 2 brilliant comments »

So far I have managed to get over $7000+ worth of prizes from some very kind sponsors for Just Creative Design’s blog birthday bash + design group writing project + charity fundraiser. This is your last chance if you want to donate a prize to help charity & get some link love. People will have to donate (and/or write an article) to enter the competition. 100% of all proceeds from this project will be going to the Blog Action Day Fight Against Poverty cause - proceeds never touch my hands.

To sponsor a prize please email me (jacobcass [AT] justcreativedesign [DOT] com) with the prize you are kindly willing to donate along with a link to your website so I can link back to your site and the value in $ of your prize. For prize ideas see what was donated last time. Please send entries to me within 3 days of this post.

Excited?

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Calling For Sponsorship: MASSIVE Design Group Writing Project for 1 Year Old Birthday

Published on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 – 4:25 pm | 16 brilliant comments »

In a few weeks Just Creative Design is turning 1 year old and to celebrate I am holding a MASSIVE design group writing project with LOTS (I mean lots) of prizes. This is going to be huge!

Back in June I held my first group design project and I managed to gather $5000 worth of prizes (including an electric guitar) when I had less than 2000 subscribers so I wonder what can be done with 8300+ subscribers?

I am not going to tell you much more for now but if you want to sponsor you will get many links back to your website from this website and from other blogs posting about this contest (plus a warm giddy feeling that you are donating) plus a big surprise for 1 lucky random sponsor.

To Sponsor

To sponsor a prize please email me (jacobcass [AT] justcreativedesign [DOT] com) with the prize you are kindly willing to donate along with a link to your website so I can link back to your site and the value in $ of your prize. For prize ideas see what was donated last time.

Excited? I am.

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Design Group Writing Project (#2)

Published on Wednesday, March 19, 2008 – 12:22 am | 11 brilliant comments »

Due to the success of the last $5000 design group writing project I have decided to turn it into a fortnightly event however with smaller prizes… it’s not so easy to get $5000 worth of prizes to give away each time I have a competition. The purpose of these competitions is to bring all the design freaks, graphic design blogs and people who subscribe to them a bit closer together by sharing valuable articles in one location.

What do you have to do?

• Write a NEW post on your blog on anything at all to do with design in any language (ie. English or your mother tongue).
• Leave a link back to this post if you wish or you can let me know of your post by email if you prefer not to.
• Each post (only one per blog) gains you one entry and I will link back to your post on this page. Gotta love the link love.

Prizes?

• $10 for one lucky winner via PayPal to the best article. The judge is me.
• All entries will receive a link back to their website plus lots of traffic.

Want to donate for the next competition? Drop me an email.

The Deadline is March Saturday 29th. Good luck!

Due to a lack of entries this competition was cancelled.

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