There is a new graphic design competition around the corner. See press release below about the competition. For more press releases, see http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-press-release.asp
Graphic Design Competition – 7Creation.com
Malaysia - Labuan
April 18, 2006
A new graphic design competition has just launched at www.7Creation.com, which is opened to all international participants. After the testing phase since Feb 2006 until its launching date from 01 April 2006, most major bug has been fixed. To know more about the bug fixed, see announcement at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announcement.asp
In addition, 7Creation has further extended the invitation to education institutes such as UMS - University Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia, NTU - Nanyang Technological Univeristy, Singapore, and KML - Labuan Matriculation College, Malaysia. See more at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announce-invitation.asp
7Creation.Com initially launched since 15 Feb 2006 and have received a Google PageRank of (5) to date as a quality website. To view the PageRank, kindly download Google toolbar for viewing.
Labuan.net founder Alvin Han said 7Creation is expected to attract around 50 unique visitors per day by the end of the testing, and subsequently 350 unique visitors per day by the end of the entire competition.
The competition will be subdivided into 3 seasons that consist of the qualifying, semi and final seasons. Each season will be given a different design theme to challenge. I.e., “MY HOME”, “TRADITIONAL ART”, “POSTER THAT SELLS YOUR PRODUCTS OR SERVICES”. Designers that have won each season shall proceed to the next season. Top 3 winners in the final will be presented with humble awards and prizes.
With the availability of a self-established forum, feedback form and graphics comment page; 7Creation has further created an interactive environment for the participants, designers and visitors.
"7Creation is quite exciting," Mr. Alvin Han said during the interview, "It is purposefully created for your pleasure."
Specifically, 7Creation said more news about 7Creation, please visit: http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announcement.asp
”7Creation is developed from sketch for months. Much time and efforts have been spent to make it a usable program for all international participants. The overall result is however not solely for the purpose of distributing prizes; it is sincerely created in the belief of creating another sense of pleasure of graphics lovers and designers.” Said Gary Wong, the developer of 7Creation graphic design competition site.
“Whether you are a designers or not, 7Creation is sincerely inviting you to visit our competition at www.7creation.com. You are encouraged to see also the masterpieces of the participants at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote.asp. Give them your anonymous votes. What can be more encouraging to them than your votes!”
Best Regards
Gary Wong
7Creation.com
Graphic Design Competition
Malaysia, Labuan, 22 May 2006
7CREATION.COM announced new features to enhance and improve the graphic marketing experience. These new 7Creation features advance the state of the art in marketing by helping the participants worldwide to vote and share their participating graphics and information. The features all incorporate new capabilities that increase user communities, enabling users to either share more information with others or benefit from other users' voting powers to improve their voting results.
"The new features announced combine the power of 7Creation's technology with the interest, knowledge, and unique marketing preference of individuals," said Gary Wong, developer, 7Creation.Com. "As a result, users can share and market their graphics via email - using the Tell Your Friends link from the top menu - easier than ever. Additionally, more features will be coming soon too."
"Being a participant, you are encouraged to promote your graphics. It is absolutely significant to promote encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of your own graphics. In addition, more marketing and promotion will help other visitors to take note your graphics," said Alvin Han, the founder of Labuan.Net. "7Creation has newly enabled the capability to allow text descriptions, blogs and comments to increase the competitiveness between the graphics. A good marketer of one's own graphics undoubtedly stands a very high chance of winning the 7Creation competition."
See exisiting and new 7Creation features below :
Quick and Brief Statistics
- Instant statistics report such as the number of page views, total memberships, new members, current online visitors, forum topics, forum conversations, forum views, approved graphics, and submitted graphics were all provided at the bottom of each 7Creation page. (New)
Vote Summary
- Click vote button to vote the graphic from vote page
- Show the number of anonymous votes, member votes, and sponsor votes.
- Show all approved graphics in thumbnail size
- Click thumbnail graphics to zoom in for more graphic information
- Show the number of times a graphic is viewed. (New)
- Show the number of approved comments posted for the graphics (New)
Graphic Zoom In
- Click graphic to enlarge and zoom in for more information about the graphic and author
- Visitors are welcomed to comment (Only approved comments will be displayed)
- Once the comment is approved, 7Creation will notify the participant with email (New)
- Participants may narrate the graphic description (No text limit) (New)
- Another marketing tool to promote graphics and encourage more votes
- Allow voting on zoom in page (New)
- Allow Tell Your Friend feature on zoom in page (New)
Graphic Submission
- Improvise to accept same uploading filename. (New)
- Allow graphic description, without text limit. (New)
- Only approved graphic will be displayed at the vote page
- Email notification will be sent to the participant once their graphics are approved (New)
Member voting count
- Each member / registrant is allowed to vote for only 10 stars
User Account
- Allow user to insert self introduction. This is a Marketing tool for participants who would love to conduct self marketing of their own websites portfolios. (New)
Blog
- Write blog to promote your graphics by sharing your own inspiration, diary, progress report, marketing articles, nonsense or so on. (New)
Forum
- Allow user signature. This is a further marketing tool to self promote user's own profile or website (New)
- Email notification will be sent to the forum subscribers when there is a new forum. Each user is free to subscribe to any particular forum topic by simply entering their email. (New)
- New forum posted will be marked with a 'New' caption (New)
Tell Your Friends
- You probably would like to promote your graphics to your friends. Send them an email with your graphics being attached within.
- Your friends may click and vote for your graphics from the email
- Click preview to double check the graphics before sending email (New)
Feedback
- You probably have very much to tell the 7Creation organizers, write to us.
Sign Up Newsletter
To stay tuned with 7Creation and its graphics progress, sign up the newsletter and get more news about us.
Music
- The music is situated at the bottom of each page. Click the music and listen to the relaxing music.
- There is a new song for your selection now (New)
Member Registration / Application Online
- Members are required to register themselves online.
- A verification email will be sent to the registrant to authenticate themselves
Forget Password
- Should registrants forget about their own password, they could simply request for the password to be sent to their registered email again.
See All Latest 7Creation Features at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-7creation-features-list.asp
About 7Creation.Com
7Creation is a free graphic design competition website designed to encourage hundreds of people around the world for competition. Winners will get prizes ranging from USD300 and other prizes. Headed since 01 Mar 2006, by 2 young Malaysians Alvin Han and Gary Wong, 7Creation today has more than 130 international members and 39 graphics in competition. Within 2 months, 7Creation has proudly recognized by major search engines like Yahoo and Google with PageRank (5) as a quality website.
See http://www.7creation.com
Set Up Graphic Design Competition - We Need Your Contribution
In view and consideration of the raising need and interest of our members and visitors, 7Creation is planning to create a special page for graphic, website design or related tutorials. The tutorial page in plan should be one click away from the home page.
Note: All level of tutorial is welcomed. Our purpose is to create a helpful and healthy community to every visitor.
Thus, we are interested to find designers who are interested in composing graphic design tutorial. If you are interested in this, or you are currently having a tutorial website, you are welcomed to contact us at organizers@7creation.com. Please bear in mind that you are not limited to submit as many graphic design tutorials as possible, as long as it has not been repeated.
To credit for your contribution, you are welcomed to add link to one website url and a detailed self-introduction within your own tutorial. The click through rate is expected to be better than a normal website link. Upon agreed, your tutorial shall be up within 7 days.
It would be truly appreciative if you were willing to make a press release, newsletter or announcement about 7Creation Graphic Design Competition to your visitors after the publication of your tutorial in exchange.
Thank you so much :-)
Yours sincerely,
7Creation.Com
Labuan, Malaysia – 22 Jun 2006
7Creation.Com, a graphic design competition online, announced the results of the top 20 winners from the qualifying season on 15 Jun 2006. There are 9 graphic artworks already being submitted in the semi final to date.
On the 15 Jun 2006, 7Creation has successfully transited from a qualifying season to a semi final season. The process of the transition consists of the aggregation of points converted from all anonymous, member and sponsor votes. The designers, of the first 20 winning graphics among 58 graphics submitted by international participants from Singapore, Scotland, India, Polland, Malaysia, etc, shall enter into the semi final season. Result of the qualifying season together with its calculating formula can be viewed at
http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announce-qualifying-winning-result.asp
To date, there are already 9 submitted graphics in the semi final season viewable at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote-semi.asp in 6 days. Surfers are also welcomed to visit the artworks submitted in the past season by clicking the 'See Qualifying Graphics' link near the top from the above link. Nonetheless, voting points will only and currently be calculated for graphics submitted in the semi final season.
7Creation continues to grow strong in the search ranking result of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN with a PageRank 5 that indicates 7Creation as a website full of quality content. Unlike 3 months ago, 7Creation does not depend solely on new unique visitors anymore; it currently has a group of strong and regular steadfast visitors that will keep re visiting the site to check out for new graphic submission.
Winning participants from the qualifying season will be given a dateline until the 24 Jun 2006 to submit the design source of their winning graphics. This is to authenticate the authorship of the artworks. Designers failing to submit the design source shall be disqualified from carrying on the participation in the semi final.
"Since the organizers of 7Creation are entrusted with the responsibility to verify the authorship of each artwork, we will try our very best to make sure that each participant is treated fairly throughout the process," said Gary Wong, one of the Founders of 7Creation.com. “In addition, we have constantly been receiving constructive feedbacks from visitors from all around the world suggesting for ways to improvise our infrastructures such as the point system and its usability. This shows a good sign of its growing popularity.”
“The graphic design competition is getting fiercer. The first graphic was submitted on the first open day of semi final itself,” said Alvin Han, a founder of 7Creation.com. “In order to gain more advantages of the timing for a higher voting rate, the participants have almost immediately made use each opportunity to market their graphics via Tell Your Friend, graphic description and the blogging facilities.”
7Creation will continue to strive in enhancing the website features so as to bring in more convenience and fun to the international participants and visitors. To know more about 7Creation, visit http://www.7Creation.Com
About 7Creation.Com
7Creation is a graphic design competition website designed to encourage hundreds of people around the world for competition. Headed since 01 Mar 2006, by 2 young Malaysians Gary Wong and Alvin Han, 7Creation today has more than 160 international members and 67 graphics in competition. Within 2 months, 7Creation has proudly recognized by major search engines like MSN, Yahoo and Google with PageRank (5) as a quality website. http://www.7Creation.com
7Creation.com graphic design competition has successfully converted itself into a graphic design community fully developed from sketch again after its first competition with success.
7Creation.com is the first Malaysian graphic design competition online that commenced from 01-Apr-2006 and has successfully completed its 3 months season with a satisfactory result on the National Day of Malaysia, 31-Aug-2006.
The Gold championship goes to the artwork of ‘Under Skin Simulation’ of Roberta Cupo from Italy. The silver championship goes to ‘Brand Ad’ of Pratik Bagaria from India and the bronze championship goes to ‘Collapsible Climbing Helmet’ of Kelvin Langan from Scotland.
“The competition is indeed a great success. We have participants and winners from all around the globe. We hope to host more of such competition in the future. Nonetheless, it is equally important to maintain the traffic of the site with potential participants and designers during the interim, “said Gary Wong, the founder of 7Creation.com
7Creation will continue to develop more useful and functional features to support the growth of the designer community. This is to continue the pleasure for the designers and visitors. Designers are encouraged to look out for the fully self-developed features such as the forum where designers could easily post their resume or portfolio in seek for potential employers or contractual design projects.
In addition, there is a new 7Creation graphic design gallery purposefully designed to encourage designers of all professional level and fields to showcase their healthy artworks. Members can vote and comment on the displayed artworks they like. This will directly and indirectly encourage more graphic uploads and therefore a brand culture of the art.
”We believe healthy graphics and art form a great and positive part of our lives. We need to explore its fullest potential and creativity in order to live our lives a step nearer to its fullness. Beside, imaging is a form of expression of oneself. There is no right or wrong in it, except a different perspective of self expression of an individual.”
7Creation believes that designers should show their talents and express their creativities with everyone. It is basically a showcase for everyone. In addition, it is also an interaction platform for designers, commercial project managers, employers, part-time offers, visitors and more. To know more about 7Creation graphic design competition community, visit http://www.7creation.com