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300 Personalized Stickers for Free from 1800Postcards.com!

Andy Sowards — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:24:05 +0000

Are you in the need for some stickers, for your career or just for fun? 1800Postcards.com is offering you the opportunity to win 300 custom stickers!

Who is 1800Postcards?

1800Postcards.com is the retail branch of Circle Press, a high-end commercial printing firm with a roster of Fortune 100 clients that includes Dior, Tiffany, Disney, American Express and most of the world’s leading brands. These companies demand nothing but the best in quality. To be specific, a quality standard called “G7,” which is only granted to printing firms that meet a very strict set of best practices and production quality. These clients sit with pre-press, have color proofs printed for spot color matching, they come in when the job is printed to make color adjustments and watch it run on the press to see the final results, the whole nine yards. They also pay tens of thousands of dollars for this type of service level.

1800Postcards produces your print work in the same facilities, with the same press-men and production staff, and adheres to the same quality standards as high-end commercial jobs. The only difference is that your job is “gang printed” or run together with other 1800Postcard clients, which is the secret of every online printing company and why they can be so cheap in pricing. However, 1800Postcards.com just brought it up to an almost unreasonable level of quality

But what if you don’t need postcards? Well they’re capable of more than just postcard printing. They offer brochures, business cards, flyers, posters, banners, postcards and pretty much any custom work your creative mind can imagine.

Bottom line, the print results are unbelievable… no one in the online printing space comes even close to this quality and attention to detail. You can see it yourself by requesting free samples @ http://www.1800postcards.com/brochure_request.aspx

The Giveaway – Rules

We will be selecting TWO lucky winners and each will receive 300 custom stickers. All you have to do is click on the “Participate” widget below and leave a brief comment on this post telling us why you should win. Giveaway last for two weeks. Winners will be chosen on February 16 and announced on February 17.

Specifics

Size: 3×3”
Quantity: 300
Stock: #60 Gloss Sticker
Turnaround: 3 business days

How To Win

Step 1) Participate by Clicking on This Link and Entering Your Info

Click here to Participate

Step 2) Leave Comment On This Post Telling Us Why You Should Win (use a valid email for contact!)

It’s That Easy! Good luck everyone!

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30+ Fresh & Creative Examples of Sticker Design Inspiration

Andy Sowards — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:05:17 +0000

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It’s Friday! And Friday is supposed to be fun right? Lets have fun with Stickers! we love stickers. Whether you are working on a client design or just a design for fun, you can usually get some sort of creative burst from looking at or playing with stickers. My kids love stickers just like I did and they often remind me how awesome stickers are haha. I hope these inspire you on your next sticker printing project!

Enjoy!

Did you play with stickers as a kid? Yes or no. In the comments below. Now!

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40+ Amazing Ninja Design Illustrations & Epic Artwork Inspiration

Andy Sowards — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 06:45:28 +0000

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Oh man. I was a huge ninja geek growing up. I was so into Ninja stuff it was not even cool haha. I was obsessed with Teenage mutant ninja turtles as a kid, and anything karate/ninja’ish, I was a ninja at least 3 years in a row that I can remember for Halloween. There is nothing more badass to me than a masked ninja with a sword, but that is just me. Today we have some amazing Ninja Illustrations & Artworks for you to drool over! I hope these inspire you to do something cool in your current project, a ninja throwback, or just some sort of badassery.

Oh also, if you enjoy this, you will probably enjoy the badass Samurai Illustrations we featured a while back – jus’ sayin’.

BANZAI.. I mean, Enjoy!!

You need more Ninjas!? Be careful what you ask for, there is one behind you! Watch out! Just kidding. here are some more awesome ninja resources!

Collection Of 50 Ninja Illustration Artwork

Illustrator Tutorial – Create a Gang of Vector Ninjas

40 Supreme Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Illustrations

What was your favorite Ninja thing as a kid? Mine was definitely Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Mortal Kombat. How bout you guys!? leave it in the comments below!

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50+ Amazing & Clever Examples of Alternative Movie Poster Design

Andy Sowards — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:28:47 +0000

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Everyone loves movies. As designers, we tend to love the movie posters that come along with those movies as well. What I tend to love more than the actual movie posters, are ALTERNATE Movie posters! These are creative artworks made by pretty much anyone who wants to – that depict a different poster of the movie based on the story of the movie or a piece of the movie that they felt sums up the movie. These things get really clever, and beautiful – so I hope they inspire you to do something similar, or inspire you to do something different with the design you are working on. Hope you enjoy!

What was your favorite movie? Was it in the list? Let us know below in the comments! If your favorite movie wasn’t listed, then why don’t you go and create one for your fav movie and leave a link in the comments so we can check it out! Challenge Accepted? lol

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WINNER ANNOUNCED! Epic T-Shirt Giveaway – Win Any Shirt You Want From Threadless.com For FREE!

Andy Sowards — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:56:17 +0000

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We Have A Winner!

The lucky Winner is

Adam Safar

Congratulations!

Adam picked up this shirt that he asked for entitled “A Birth Day” (which is funny because today is my son Kayden’s bday! Happy 5th Bday Kayden!) – design on that shirt is shown below, pretty awesome!

Special thanks to everyone that participated! Your support was overwhelming! Don’t worry if you didn’t win though, there is always another awesome design giveaway around the corner! Stay tuned!

Today we are honored to partner with our favorite t-shirt company, Threadless, to bring you this exclusive giveaway. As you have probably seen, they have some seriously awesome & funny t-shirts, well today is your chance to get your hands on one of these sweet shirts absolutely Free!

Who is Threadless?

Threadless is an online community of artists and an e-commerce website based in Chicago, Illinois. Threadless designs are created by and chosen by an online community. Each week, about 1,000 designs are submitted online and are put to a public vote. After seven days the staff reviews the top-scoring designs. Based on the average score and community feedback, about 10 designs are selected each week, printed on clothing and other products, and sold worldwide through the online store and at their retail store in Chicago. Designers whose work is printed receive $2,000 in cash and $500 in Threadless gift cards, which can be exchanged for $200 cash. Each time a design is reprinted, the respective artist receives $500 cash. Threadless keeps rights to the design on clothing; designers keep the rights to their designs on all other media.

What Can I Win?

1 lucky winner will receive ANY SHIRT OF THEIR CHOICE that is currently in stock in their size from Threadless.com – See all the shirts.

These are just examples of what they have, you can pick any shirt you want to win

How Do I Win?

EASY! Here is what you have to do.

1) Leave a Comment on this blog post about which shirt you want to win from the available shirts at threadless – NOTE: Make sure the shirt is in stock with your size – also leave a valid email so we can contact you.

2) That is it! Told you it was simple

Rules: Entries must be received before 5PM EST on February 7th, 2012

Our system will choose the winner using random.org and we’ll announce them in a short followup post the day after the giveaway.

Good Luck Everyone!!

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