Use our logo to win Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard!

Written on June 26, 2008 – 12:33 pm
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

After six months of happy blogging and welcoming you and 3499 other RSS readers, we think it’s about time to professionalize the design of The Next Web Blog. We can’t do that alone though, as we need your opinion. To be exact: we need you to inspire us, as you’re the ones we’re blogging for.

Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard That’s why we came up with this challenge: we would like to ask you to use our logo to create something that will inspire us while designing the new lay-out. There are virtually no limits, as long as the file extension is .jpg, .png or .gif. It doesn’t even have to be static. It can be a drawing, wallpaper, or icon set.

The designer who manages to take our breath away - or something close to it - will receive the Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard. Yes, you read that right. Adobe is a really generous company and we’re delighted that they wanted to sponsor this competition. So thanks to these guys, the winner will receive programs like InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Acrobat 9 Professional, and more.

Put your Next Web Blog creation on Flickr or another image hosting service and link to it in the comments of this post. Take your time, as the design competition is closing on August 1st 2008.

The jury consist of The Next Web Blog co-founder Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Adobe Marketing Project Manager Bert Hagendoorn, and undersigned. Our judgments will be based on originality - we want an out-of-the-box spirit - and the link with the actual subject of our blog: European start-up news and the future of the web.

We will send the winning design to our web designers, who will give it a prominent spot on their mood boards. So you can actually influence the new lay-out of your source for European tech news.

I hope you like that post!

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About the author: Ernst-Jan is blogger and co-organizer of BLOG08, who previously worked in New York to cover news at the United Nations. Next to writing, he's also a singer in the band Christina Five. Follow him on Twitter or read his personal blog Dutchproblogger.com .

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8 comments/trackbacks to “Use our logo to win Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Standard!”

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By Hoof on Jun 26, 2008

Count me in. Already thinking about it.

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By joshua on Jun 26, 2008

Yeah. Me too! (Two more weeks of school and then…!)

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By Renato on Jul 1, 2008

As Ernst-Jan requested: http://www.postmachina.com/clients/nextweb/

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By Steven Carrol on Jul 6, 2008

I actually think the design is already very cool and sexy, but it’s always good to have a competition and I’d be interested to see who can beat the status quo.

On a side note, I’m personally looking forward to the competition where Adobe give away their Flash media server: ($4k5) here on the-next-web to the best Flash App developer… hehe

adobe.com/products/flashmediainteractive/

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By Sjors on Jul 31, 2008

Wow, will Renato win that easy?

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By Courtney on Aug 1, 2008

my try at it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/2.....720161919/

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By Renato on Aug 1, 2008

@Sjors I hope not :)

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