"A Comic Book Christmas" Greeting Card Design Contest (plus a few ideas to get you guys started)

 

That's right! It's time for our second contest!

This time around, we're decking the halls... with comics!

Once again, it's the same rules. Pure flat colour vector art. No rasters, filters, shadows or trasnparencies.

For the theme, anything to do with christmas and comics will suffice. What kinda comics? ANY KIND! Anime, superhero, newspaperstrips, Single picture, modern, classic, pop-art, old school, new school, whatever!

Here are a coupla ideas to get you guys started off!

• Cards with covers that look like comic book covers

• Covers with multiple section punch-lines like comic strips

• One page gags

• Two page gags, with the 2nd page inside the card

As usual with our contests, go nuts! Let those creative juices flow and let's make it a Christmas to remember!

What's in it for you?

Whoah. We've got something well and truly nuts this time. In the spirit of Christmas and giving, we've got 10 awesome prizes! Better still, you get to pick what you win!

No comprende?

We have a list of prizes ranging from iPods to multi-function printers, and depending on how highly-ranked your card is rated by the public, you get preference of your prize. meaning 1st place winner will pick first, 2nd place winner will pick 2nd and so on...

What are the prizes? click here!

Also, we've got US$600 cold hard cash for 1st prize (in addition to the prize you pick from Santa's Bag'O'Gadgets), US$300 for 2nd, and US$150 for third!

How to Join?

Easy! just download our AI Template, follow the instructions, and upload your files here!

The contest is open to anyone from anywhere, as long as there's some way we can get those prizes to you (whether by boat, plane or air-balloon).

Contest ends 20th October 2008, but remember, the earlier you submit, the more we can help you tweak your designs!

So get cracking!

Free Cards sent & The Making of THE "We Are All Geeks" PHOTOSHOOT

Ok first of all, (and i find myself saying this alot) SORRY FOR THE DELAY! But for those of you who took the time to review all 70 cards on our site, your FREE CARDS are on their way! We Just posted them today. If you didn't receive yours, just drop me a quick email at chak@foldees.com.

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Now, onto the making. The honest truth is that we didn't decide to put photos of the cards on the main page until the very last minute.

So it took a borrowed SLR (thanks Amy) and an entire 48 hours of stumbling aorund our various houses and personal belongings to find the items necessary to shoot the photos you see currently on our website.

 

The bed we used for most of the indoor shots

Shots were taken in the garden, bathroom, bed, sink, kitchen counter and oven of my house in PJ.

Anyways, in case you were curious, here's the shopping list of items we used: -

MAGIC THE GATHERING Cards / RPG dice / RPG book / Evangelion Eva01 toy / Evangelion models / Iron Giant plastic toy / Creative Nomad 1 / Palm handspring / Palm PDA / Old Nokia phones / old FILA shoebox / whiteboard from Ikea / Faber-Castell marker pens / Fantasy Cards / broken office chair / three keyboards / two notebooks / The Official Foldees Shoe / Elite Stormtrooper helmet / Millenium falcon miniature model / 1 vanilla cupcake / 1 chocolate cupcake / 2 candles / one almond moist cake / iPod / broken iPod earphones / scissors / Kermit the pirate figurine / motherboard box and cables / SATA and PATA cables / hard disk plastic wrap / Blackboard from Ikea / chalk / duster / WIZARD Magazine / Pentium4 processor carrying case / 2 screwdrivers / iTalk mic / wine glass (with real red wine!) / forks / spoons / plates / Monopoly money / green checkered tablecloth / Foldees coloured office chair (mine) / 6 pairs of sunglasses / 5 pairs of glasses / red panties of unidentified origin / party popper / Netgear Router / lightbulb / PSP with Tony Hawk UMD / PS2 + controllers / LAN cables / iPod Cables / USB cables / Rockfire game controller / Stikfas robot / paper and toothpicks / Alien figurine / DangerGirl Major Maxim Action figure / assorted comics and trading cards / map of Kuala Lumpur / ZACT toothpaste / Brawn Oral B electric toothbrush / Mickey Mouse toothbrush holder / WACOM pen / baby bottle (with Farmhouse milk) / 3D glasses / Samsung 22inch monitor / Ribena.

*whew*

If there's anything we missed lemme know...

 

The baking of the Gadget Cake. Yes, we used real cake and real gadgets. Yes, we ate the cake too.

Meanwhile, enjoy the pics :)

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Our first print article!

We're into print! I was interviewed by SURF Magazine last month, and the article was published in Issue 10, which is on newsstands NOW!

The picture of me looks really smug n corny (I'm not really like that!), but the interview's pretty good i reckon :)

Click on the thumbnail below to read.

We're FINALLY SELLING SOME CARDS!

Yup, that's right. After spending two months collecting designs through our "We Are All Geeks" greeting card contest,, Foldees.com is finally ready to sell some cards!

We are proud to present 70 of the GEEKIEST greeting cards in the world, made by some of the most talented designers in the world (including US, Japan, the Philippines and of course, Malaysia), with topics ranging from Superpoking to lightsaber-syringes!

How to buy?

We're currently offering two ways of getting your favourite cards through to your friends/stalkees/enemies. You can either:-

• Buy Blank Card(s) - and have them packaged nicely with envelopes and sent to your doorstep

OR

• Customise & Send - which allows you to type your messages online, and have our beautifully printed cards sent to any doorstep in the world! Login and you can even sign off with your own personal avatar.

Each card retails for US$ 2.00 and is printed on Evolution 280g, which is a heavy-duty yet environmentally-friendly paper, approved by the FSC, the world's leading authority on minimising the impact of paper on our planet.

The flyer is attached. We also have (really awesomely cool) hi-res pictures of every card, so if you need any additional information to help us spread the word, then just drop me a message at chak@foldees.com. We really, really need your help at this point to blog about this! Also, if you could do us a favour and let any of your friends in the media know about this, it would really really help!

Remember, the more people that buy your cards, the more royalties we pay out for each card sold, creating smiles all around :)

ANNOUNCING: The Winners of the "We Are All Geeks" Contest!

Well, the past two months have come to this moment. Ladies & Gentlemen, we have tabulated the results, and are proud to present... The 5 highest-rated cards on Foldees, winners of acclaim, street credibility and some awesome drawing tablets!

The scoring was very very close, with only 0.15 points (out of 5) separating the Top Five! As we've learnt from watching various reality TV shows and award ceremonies, let's play the tension a bit. Starting with...

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Winner of the WACOM Bamboo Fun Tablet A6 Size (worth RM399) with an average score of 3.04!

cheeChingy - Farewell - Decipher

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ALSO the Winner of the WACOM Bamboo Fun Tablet A6 Size (worth RM399) with an average score of 3.08!

Chapit - Sorry

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Winner of RM500 cash & a WACOM Bamboo Fun Tablet A5 Size (worth RM699) with an average score of 3.12!!

noelevz - A Geeky Birthday

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Winner of RM1000 cash + WACOM Intuos3 A6 Wide (worth RM1039) with an average score of 3.16!

bem69 - Geek & GPS - Thinking Of You

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And finally...

The big kahuna.

The luck-had-nothing-to-do-with-it winner.

and incidentally the second card we ever received as a submission on the site...

Winner of RM2000 cash + WACOM Intuos3 A4 Wide (worth RM1699) with an average score of 3.18!

Emila Yusof - We Clicked Together

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Thank you to all the participants! We will be contacting you very shortly about how best to get those prizes to you. It was a very, very close competition, so please don't feel bad if you didn't win. Remember, you will still be getting royalties for every purchase of your card on the site, which you can check by clicking on the new Royalties tab on the top right of the site.

Also, we will be holding another contest this month, so keep your ears peeled for another chance to win some AWESOME prizes!

We are also in the midst of organising a small, informal prize-giving ceremony at Palate Pallete in Kuala Lumpur later this month, which we will be letting you guys know about on Facebook so you guys can RSVP. All designers who have submitted cards to the site are automatically invited!

If you haven't joined our Facebook group yet, click here.

Also, our Worldpay account is being activated as we speak. In about 48 hours, we'll be letting you guys in to buy some cards! We've got a few more surprises up our sleeves when that happens. Keep your fingers close to the F5 button on your inboxes. I promise you won't be disappointed.