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| Fifth Annual UniKeep Design Awards Adds Bonus Category and Raises Cash Prizes | ||||
Nationally Known Designers Judge Artwork for Up to $12,000 in Prizes For Designing UniKeep™ Binder and CD/DVD Case Covers Marysville, OH—February 13, 2008—UniKeep LLC, a Univenture company, announced today the addition of a quarterly Bonus Category to the “Fifth Annual UniKeep Design Awards Contest,” beginning January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. Each quarter will have a different theme; this quarter it’s Movies. Entrants can design covers for the home movie equivalent of an Academy Award winner, movie collections and more. Bonus themes include Celebrities, Recording Artists and Sports Teams. These will be announced on the company’s web site. “Our contest has become very popular, the number of outstanding creative entries increases each year. Including a Bonus Category and designing for our new eco-friendly products will provide loyal UniKeep users and designers more creative outlets,” noted Ross Youngs, CEO of UniKeep and inventor of the UniKeepä binder. “I’m delighted that Jane Guthrie, Natalie Rhinesmith and Judi Kauffman are continuing as contest judges and that Scrapbooking & Beyond and Creative TECHniques magazines will again be our sponsors,” added Youngs. The contest, now in its fifth year, began as an opportunity to win cash and prizes for entering creative, original cover designs and organizing solutions for UniKeep’s standard eco-friendly View Case Binder™ with copyright-free content authorized for public use. The contest has expanded to designing custom covers for any one of the many sizes of UniKeep’s eco-friendly binders and the new DVD Case. A video with contest information, how to submit entries and product dimensions can be seen at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_Od2B1ROF0. Scrapbooking & Beyond is the first complete “how-to” scrapbook magazine. Newly redesigned, Creative TECHniques is the magazine that shows how to effectively combine technology and creativity for unlimited imaginative design projects. Both are published by All American Crafts with dedicated editorial staffs of artists and writers. Judges for the UniKeep Design Awards will again be Jane Guthrie, Editor of Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine, Natalie Rhinesmith, Editor of Creative TECHniques Magazine and Judi Kauffman, nationally known designer, writer and teacher. "I'm very pleased and honored to be invited to judge the UniKeep Design Contest for 2008. The level of artistic talent has been truly amazing. I can't wait to see what this year holds in store for both the artists and UniKeep's ever versatile binder," stated Jane Guthrie. Natalie Rhinesmith exclaimed, "I had so much fun judging last year's design contest, I had to climb aboard for 2008. I can only hope the entries will be just as stunning as those received in 2007!" Entries may be submitted in one of five categories to win monthly cash prizes and the first 50 entries each month also receive a product prize. The new Bonus Category will change and be judged quarterly and bonus category winners are eligible for monthly categories.
Links to entries will be posted in the UniKeep 2008 Gallery for the public to access for personal use. The monthly award will be $100 to each category winner and $500 to each quarterly bonus category winner. At the end of the contest, $500 will be awarded to each overall "Best of Category" and $1,500 will be awarded as the Grand Prize to the overall “Best of Show”. No purchase is necessary. For complete rules and information visit www.unikeep.com/awards. About UniKeepHeadquartered in Marysville, Ohio, UniKeep, a Univenture company (www.univenture.com), has won numerous awards and rave reviews for product design, high quality printing and creative customer solutions. UniKeep™ brand binders and accessories offer more colors, more flexibility, and more options for customization and organized document storage, than any other products for filing, presentation, publication, and storage of printed and digital documents for school, home, office/SOHO, business and hobbyists. UniKeep Corporate Contact: Creative TECHniques MagazineContact: Scrapbooking & Beyond Magazine Contact: |
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©2008 UniKeep, LLC. All rights reserved. Specifications are subject to change without notice. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. The designer/contest entrant must own the copyright for all content. No copyright infringement. All work must be released for individual usage or purpose usage grants. And all entries must contain copyright-free art or art released for entrant's and public use. No unauthorized use of any copyrighted images, text or other material will be accepted. If a copyrighted material is posted without release from copyright owner it will be removed when requested by the copyright owner and not eligible for any award. |
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