If your didn’t know already, this week Adobe are having daily competition for UK and Ireland residents to win a conference pass to MAX Europe plus addition prizes. Each day the competition will be (and has been) announced on Andrew Shorten’s blog.
Why not give it a crack?
With the official naming of Apollo to AIR (Adobe® Integrated Runtime), Adobe have also launched a competition to build the most unique AIR application.
The grand prize is $100, 000 to spend on a travel of the winners choice (now thats some holiday!).
There are 2 main categories, ‘Best Business Applicatio’ and ‘Best Community Application’ and and ‘Wildcard’ category. There’s a load of other prizes and the competition is open to everyone wherever you are based. Entries must be received by 5th September 2007.
Friends of ED keep churning out great books. At the last 2 LFPUG meetings we’ve had a copy of Foundation Flash 8 Video to give away.
To celebrate this latest title FOED have a competition to showcase what can be done with video using Flash by creating a piece of work that promotes the FOED brand and/or their books, as well as showcasing what the Flash platform is capable of when it comes to incorporating and delivering interactive video content.
They have some great prizes, the grand prize including a Apple MacBook. Submissions are open until 31st December.
You can find the full info on the competition at http://www.friendsofed.com/flved/.
Robin has the results up for the Rest of the World Flex Developer Space Race.
Some great entries doing some stuff I didn’t expect!
You can view all the entries here.
And thanks to Robin for sorting out the whole thing out!
Earlier this week D&AD had their annual awards ceremony in London.
Congrats to Leo Burnett Canada, a couple of whom I managed to hook up and have some fun with whilst they were over here, for winning 1 of the coveted 2 Black Pencils awarded.
A couple of days ago ActionScript.com announced the 2006 The Battle of the Script.
There some great prizes on offer (5 in all) for the best text effects using their text effect engine TextScript. You have until May 1st!
Yesterday Robin Hilliard of RocketBoots announced the RocketBoots Rest of World Flex Developer Space Race! and I’m honoured to have been asked to be one of the judges.
The competition is open to any human over 18 years old who doesn’t qualify for the Adobe Flex Developer Derby (you aint in the US or Canada, or you are in Quebec). Both competitions are along the same lines (build a badass Flex 2.0 app). Better get in there quick as the first 25 entries get a Flex 2 Visual reference poster too.
I’ve just got offline from judging the 10 projects presented for the Humber + RIT Interactive Design Charrette along with Gabe Kean of Born Magazine.
The idea was that 40 students (20 from each university) would be split into teams of 4 to collaborate and create an informative interactive experience on “Lake Ontario”. Each team wrote their own brief to fit the main topic.