Theme Competitions

6 Dec 2007 – 3:29
By adam | Posted in blogging, design | Also tagged | Comments (8)

In true wordpress theme competition tradition, Lunarpages is launching a contest, overlapping with Design Vitality contest. Not that many people were entering that one, I guess I wasn't the only one who thought it sounded like a scam. Lunarpages at least has a ...

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Competition Entries

29 Jul 2007 – 1:01
By adam | Posted in design | Also tagged | Comments (7)

the Sandbox Designs Competition is now closed, and Scott's requested that we ping the closing post, so that all the designs show up in one place, until the live preview is ready. So here are my entries:
Promised Land
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Shameless Plugs

6 Jun 2007 – 7:53
By adam | Posted in design, geekery | Also tagged | Comments (3)

Scott's organizing a wordpress design competition, purely in CSS. which means it's open to:

wordpress.com users
anyone who can use CSS, since PHP and javascript won't be judged

Also, Sourceforge is running Community Choice awards, so ...

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of former professors and new magazines

10 Jan 2007 – 9:11
By adam | Posted in architecture, chicago | Also tagged | Comments (0)

AIA Chicago announced their 2006 Design Awards today. Ammar got an interior nomination for his Me Miyake interior:

It's very interesting, Ammar's work has always been minimal in the sense of how it reacts to program and having open plans. ...

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Monuments and Progress

29 Nov 2006 – 12:41
By adam | Posted in architecture | Also tagged | Comments (0)

i think they're ice cubes?

NYTimes thinks it's opposition to progress.  St. Petersburg thinks they're protecting their heritage.  Not that St. Petersburg has a beautiful history to begin with (supposedly more people ...

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