Central Wallpaper Contest Winners
Well, after going through the 80+ submission, and then counting all of the votes for the 10 finalists, we finally have a winner for the Central Desktop Wallpaper contest.
Here they are:
In 3rd place, and the winner of a stylish Macromedia Central T-Shirt, we actually have a tie:
http://www.sangles.com/centralContest/central800x600.jpg
Created by “sangles”
http://www.ugoletti.com/download/Plug%20different/800×600
Created by Daniele Ugoletti
In a very close 2nd place, and the winner of a Central tube of goodies:
http://www.airios.com/images/desktops/central/centralflow/800×600.jpg
Created by Abel Rios
And finally, in first place, and the proud new owner of an Xbox is:
http://www.mossyblog.com/centralcomp/centralwallpaper_800x600.jpg
Created by Scott Barnes / Team Mossy Blog
If you are one of the winners, send an email to me at mesh@macromedia.com with your mailing info.
Thanks to everyone who entered and voted. We were completely blown away by the response, and may do a similar contest for Flash in the future.
awesome competition – wonderful desktops – i grabbed a bunch of them i am using them.
to the winners – congratulations!! you did an awesome job!!
ericd
19 Feb 04 at 6:59 pm
Wooooo hoooooooo!
Have to set the record straight, it was created by Tony@MossyBlog our resident Graphic Guru.
Scott Barnes
19 Feb 04 at 7:11 pm
nice, very nice. It’s great to see you interacting with the community like this :) and congrats to all the winners! :)
Owen van Dijk
19 Feb 04 at 7:32 pm
Jeez, I LOVE the Central community!! Congrats to all the winners and a huge thumbs-up to everyone who entered. I saved damn-near every single one. Contests like this are few and far between. I’d like to see more of them. Good work! And thank you Mike!
Todd Fraser
19 Feb 04 at 8:24 pm
Congrats to all the winners!
Hard decision for the central team, but the winners rock!
I have all the wallpapers, thanks to everyone!
And thanks to the central team for provide le topic ;)
aSH
19 Feb 04 at 9:05 pm
So much fun paticipating in this contest.
Can’t wait for the next one :D
As aSH said, hard decision for the Central team
Congrats to everyone!
sangles
19 Feb 04 at 9:46 pm
Congrats to the top three as well as all who entered.. This contest was so much fun… gave us all something to talk about.. heheh…. other than that, it made us all think about what Central is… I love Central! If I could I would squeal like Dean! lol
Dominick Accattato
19 Feb 04 at 10:26 pm
yum stuff… kudos to all who participated. extra thumbs to scott (team mossy), abel, danielle and sangles
eokyere
19 Feb 04 at 10:37 pm
yeah, congratulations to the winners, amazing works here ! :)
Francis Bourre
20 Feb 04 at 2:29 am
Are there bigger versions available of the winning background? Maybe a 1280×1024 px version? :)
ddrum
20 Feb 04 at 4:55 am
>Are there bigger versions available of the winning background?
yep. Just look through the comments here:
http://www.markme.com/mesh/archives/004354.cfm
for the original entries. Almost all of them have multiple sizes.
mike chambers
mesh@macromedia.com
mike chambers
20 Feb 04 at 5:49 am
Props to all that entered. I actually created 4 or 5 myself that I’m using but didn’t have time to enter ‘em.
It’s interesting to note that the only winning images that I’d ever consider as good desktop backgrounds are 3rd place: Sangles & Daniele. All the others are too busy and aren’t feasible BG images for day-to-day work, IMHO.
2nd Place is good, but there’s way too much contrast, and a light background like that on a monitor is going to cause quite a bit of eyestrain (looks sweet though).
I’m a fan of simplicity and elegance. The most amount of effort went into the 1st place image. It also contains a better brand-execution than the others although it’s just way way too busy.
Too many desktops these days look like the stuff seen on the old H73.com site … i prefer not to have seizures while working all day long :)
Jon Bradley
20 Feb 04 at 11:08 am
I would apply for the next one.
I am not sure how I stumbled across this.
But I think that next time it would be better if this was also advertised on the main page news on the macromedia main page.
That way I would know it was happening, as no offence, but appart from this I haven’t seen anything else that would make me check your blog daily mike! Anyway, keep up the good work, what is the situation with Central? It has hardly any apps available, has it been fully launched yet or is it still the beta?
Jack Smith
20 Feb 04 at 1:01 pm
woooeeeee,
great, congrats to all winners, and good whishes for the runners-up. (including me ;)
mm can use these wallpapers as advertise banner on print mags as well.
this was the contest for designers, now lets see if mike can arrange one contest for central application developers…. but contest duration should be reasonable.
// chall3ng3r //
chall3ng3r
21 Feb 04 at 10:39 am
Esta muy pobre el soporte en español, nosotros tambien somos inportantes no creen.
Carlos Arturo
13 Mar 04 at 2:23 am
it would have been nice if the 1st place winner didn’t take the file down so quick…..
_hi
28 Mar 04 at 11:26 pm
ёбанутые!!! stupids wallpapers!
mak
5 Apr 04 at 6:49 pm