[EDIT: A current list of Entries lives HERE.]

It's my birthday in a couple of days; my subscription runs out the day before. My original goal was to have won a subscription by this point; however, this goal was subsumed by work.

So I'm giving them away instead!

For a three-month subscription, either make, modify or point me at a DevArt skin and/or Journal CSS that I utterly love. Yep, you can win this just by finding the perfect stock skin or stock Journal CSS, and sending me the link! I'll send the original author a subscription also. See, praising others has its own rewards :}

If you throw in an icon that you made yourself, I'll make it a six-month subscription.

If I don't fall in love with anything submitted, I'll still give out at least two one-month subscriptions to my favourite entries.

You have: HahaHA. TWO WEEKS FROM NOW. Until midnight October 22, 2007, Brisbane/Australia time!


Judges: Me.

The DA Skin and/or Journal CSS must:

1. Look "minimalist", "classic" or "vintage"
2. Be extremely easy to read at a glance
3. Have no animated features
4. Be quick to load
5. NOT include: "Mood:/Listening to:/Reading:/Watching:/Playing:/Eating:/Drinking:"
6. Include a section where I can feature deviations from my Faves gallery
7. Include a link to my gallery and my Faves gallery

The Skin/CSS MIGHT include:

1. Some of the stock textures found in my Faves gallery
2. Elements of nude or figure stock from my Faves gallery (luckily there's a glut of fantastic models here!), especially vintage photo stock. Please be careful to obey the stock rules, or your entry will be invalid.
3. Elements of, or textures from, pictures I've drawn/painted (You can use what you want from my gallery for this contest, but look at the Artist's Comments carefully. If my comments credit DA stock YOU MUST note the stock artist FIRST and RECEIVE PERMISSION TO USE IT.).
4. Lovely seamy textures (rust, scrubby paint, old photo plates,old paper)
5. Collage! Don't be afraid to use all sorts of media.

Again, less is better - I'd prefer tiny slivers of deviations, or even just colours sampled from them, to overkill.


Examples of Journal CSSes I love:

^thespook's "vintage journal CSS"
Simple-clean by `ClaireJones

*ginkgografix's
White-Glowing


The icon must:
1. NOT be animated.

The icon may:

1. Include any of the concepts or stock mentioned above.

(If you need examples, note me and I'll put them up in this post.)

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If you need clarification of anything above, or can help me publicise the contest, note me.

And if you have an entry: Send it via note!

Thanks :}
grin.
*cordwainersmith