Another great day for the Inspiredology community. First we introduced the new Inspiredology blog, and now today we are introducing our new contest. We have gathered a whole whack of awesome prizes worth over $5000, and we are going to reward 5 lucky people. We will call it “High Fives“, so to help you understand the contest here goes.
UPDATE: ProofHQ has donated to all the winners $500 credit toward your plan of choice.
How to Win:
We are interested in finding out the “High Fives” of the industry, basically we are looking for “Top 5 lists”. Submit a “Top 5 List” relating to the design industry. For example “Top 5 One Page Portfolios”, “Top 5 Social Networks”, “Top 5 Design Competitions”.
To submit your links, just place the “Top 5 List” in your comment. We will pick the 5 best lists, which then will be posted to Inspiredology and rewarded with one of our cool prize packages.
Example: Top 5 E-Commerce Designs
1. http://www.apple.com
2. http://www.quiksilver.com
3. http://www.goincase.com/
4. http://www.ae.com/
5. http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Details:
*The contest will be open from February 10 to February 17 5:00 p.m EST
*Limited to 2 entries
*Winners will be requested to supply images for all 5 items on their lists.
*Make sure you are a subscriber as we are not responsible for tracking you down.
#1 High Five Prize Package
1 year of hosting with WP Webhost courtesy of WP Webhost.
PSDTUTS 1 year PLUS membership courtesy of PSDTUTS.
5 premium fonts courtesy of BittBox.
$500 credit toward your plan of choice on proofHQ courtesy of proofHQ.
1 Corporate license courtesy of activeCollab
Shuttle Bus 1 year subscription courtesy of FreshBooks.
6-month membership to OnlineProfits.com courtesty of OnlineProfits.com
1 year Bona Fide Wufoo membership courtesy of Wufoo.
Stationary package including 500 business cards, 6 calendar magnets and24 letterheads courtesy of Bizcard.
30 minute consultation from David Airey via Skype.
FlashTextFX Flash component courtesy of Flashloaded.
#2 High Five Prize Package
1 year of hosting with WP Webhost courtesy of WP Webhost.
PSDTUTS 1 year PLUS membership courtesy of PSDTUTS.
5 premium fonts courtesy of BittBox.
1 Small Biz license courtesy of activeCollab.
Things iPhone app courtesty of Studio7 Design.
30 minute consultation from Jacob Cass via Skype.
1 month 125×125 ad spot onDesignBump.
FlashTextFX Flash component courtesy of Flashloaded.
$500 credit toward your plan of choice on proofHQ courtesy of proofHQ.
#3 High Five Prize Package
1 year of hosting with WP Webhost courtesy of WP Webhost.
PSDTUTS 1 year PLUS membership courtesy of PSDTUTS.
5 premium fonts courtesy of BittBox.
1 year license to Templatica courtesy of Templatica.
Things iPhone app courtesty of Studio7 Design.
WordPress personal license theme of your choice courtesy of Zidalgo.
FlashTextFX Flash component courtesy of Flashloaded.
$500 credit toward your plan of choice on proofHQ courtesy of proofHQ.
#4 High Five Prize Package
5 premium fonts courtesy of BittBox.
Urban Elements wordpress theme courtesy of Press75.
Retro Hero wordpress theme courtesy of WordPress Designers.
$500 credit toward your plan of choice on proofHQ courtesy of proofHQ.
#5 High Five Prize Package
5 premium fonts courtesy of BittBox.
Join the discussion
A small doubt: are we supposed to submit the link to the article or just the title or the article itself?
Raju,
Submit your Top 5 List in the comments, so for example
Top 5 E-Commerce Designs
1. http://www.apple.com
2. http://www.quiksilver.com
3. http://www.goincase.com/
4. http://www.ae.com/
5. http://www.crateandbarrel.com/
Does this give you a better idea.
Yes, thanks a lot, will love to participate
Top 5 Most Awesome Portfolio Designs
1. We Bleed Design
2. Duoh!
3. My Kinetic Kreations
4. Colourpixel
5. Flavor Innovator
Hello,
Here is my contribution…
Top Five unconventional navigation websites:
1. Bio Back
2. Conclave Obscurum
3. Don’t Click
4. Sprite Test laboratoies
5. Nurro
Here goes mine , the never done mashup of theroy:
Top Five Web design Theory (more text than images)
1. 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
2. 5 Principles And Ideas Of Setting Type On The Web
3. Five More Principles Of Effective Web Design
4. Creating A Successful Online Portfolio
5. 5 Tips For a Better Online Portfolio
just added more prizes, giveaway is worth over $5000 its easy to win
http://href.in/j15gdl
@mayhemstudios you should enter that into the inspiredology top 5 contest http://href.in/j15gdl
Yes, thanks a lot. will like to joint.
You want a chance to win over $5000 worth of prizes http://href.in/j15gdl
top 5 image search sites.
1. The Library of Congress: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/mdbquery.html
2. LIFE magazine archive: http://images.google.com/hosted/life
3. Huge texture library: http://www.cgtextures.com/
4. HQ Celebrity: http://www.elegancepixelfied.com/
5. Flickr search tool: http://www.compfight.com/
Quick note: Library of Congress supplies high-res when available (after you search click “preview images” to see the results). The texture website, and celebrity website are both high-res.
Top 5 Tech Brands:
1) Microsoft
2) Apple
3) Sony
4) Dell
5) Nokia
Great contest. I’m in already!
The Top Five Useless Websites
1. Zombo – You can do anything at Zombo!
2. Click Click Click – Join the international clicking competition.
3. Squirrel Underpants – Buy underpants for exhibitionist squirrels.
4. Text Flip – Flip text upside down.
5. Yahoo! Help – Get dead-end fixes and leave disregarded feed-back.
Inspiredology High Five Contest: http://tinyurl.com/anflw7 Prizes worth $5000!
Hey Chad–
Trying to get in touch with you re: a great media partnership. Can you please email me?
Thanks!
Genna
genna.mazor@cutandpaste.com
Just looking through the contest entries for the “high five” contest http://href.in/j15gdl and buying squirrel underpants. visit the link!
Is there a limit to the number of lists you can submit?
Jake yes there is a limit, we are setting the limit at 2.
Thanks very much
Haha, this is a pretty funny contest. Lets see…
Top 5 Sites to Waste Time at and End Up With Your Client Firing You
1. http://twitter.com
2. http://newgrounds.com
3. http://youtube.com
4. http://albinoblacksheep.com
5. http://failblog.org
The five top photoshop tutorial sites are. (in no particular order)…
1. Tutorial 9. That was the first place I discovered tutorials.
2. PSD Tuts. They have very thorough tutorials
3. Photoshop Lady. This website is constantly coming up with new ones.
4. Photoshop Essentials. They have good ones.
5. PS Hero
Worth $5000 Contest : 3 days Left – http://bit.ly/zy07N
rt @2experts Worth $5000 Contest : 3 days Left – http://bit.ly/zy07N
Even looking at other’s answers is inspirational.
Ooh, I thought of another good one, and after looking through my bookmarks, this is what I’ve come up with.
Top 5 “Top 5″ Lists
1. Paris Hilton’s Top 5 Tips for Freelancers
2. Top 5 Alternatives to Photoshop for Mac Users
3. Top 5 Coolest 404 Error Pages
4. Top 5 Firefox Extensions for Web Designers
5. Top 5 WordPress Navigation Menu Tutorials
Top 5 free vector ressources
#1 Vecteezy
#2 Bittbox
#3 Colorburned
#4 Go Media’s freebies section
#5 Smashing Magazine freebies
Top 5 ways to improve your web design skills:
1. Subscribe to the SmashingMagazine RSS feed
2. Install Miro & subscribe to video feeds from all Envato sites (PSDTuts, NETTuts, VectorTuts, ThemeForest)
3. Subscribe to the Most Inspired (http://www.mostinspired.com) gallery feed in Google Reader and use Feedly’s (http://www.feedly.com) picture grid view to quickly scan through them
4. Use http://vi.sualize.us to find and bookmark visual inspiration
5. Learn to draw; this tutorial collection (http://lostlover416.deviantart.com/favourites/?3249397#_3249397) at deviantArt might be a good start
RT @mayhemstudios: High Five Contest Prizes Worth $3000 from Inspiredology. http://tr.im/fq53 #Contest
Well, here is my contribution. I hope you like it.
Top 5 Design Tutorials Compilation.
1. 100 Photoshop Tutorials for creating beautiful Art
http://www.3dtotal.com/ps100/pstut100.html
2. Photoshop Tutorials you should see. Best tutorials of effects, web design, typography, digital painting, and more…
http://www.paintbits.com/2008/06/27/photoshop-tutorials-you-should-see/
3. Photoshop Top Secrets. The best training course. All kind of tutorials.
http://www.photoshoptopsecret.com/
4. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials. The best tutorials to become a master.
– Part 1: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/02/05/illustrator-tutorials-best-of/
– Part 2: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/10/08/adobe-illustrator-tutorials-best-of-part-2/
5. Excellent Logo Design Tutorials Using Illustrator
http://sixrevisions.com/graphics-design/15-excellent-logo-design-tutorials-using-illustrator/
Special mention:
* 100 Sources of Design Inspiration. Inspiration of Web Desing, Photos and Images, Graphic Design Showcases, Portfolios, Publications, Typography, Illustration, Logo Design, and more…
http://designm.ag/inspiration/design-inspiration-toolbox/
With this, love, patience and constancy, it would been a lot easier to become a good designer.
See ya.
Top 5 Collections of Vintage Art Resources
1. TimeLife Google Archive
2. Flickr
3. BibliOdyssey
4. grain edit
5. IAMPETH Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship
great stuff here….
how come my post dosen’t show up..
Top 5 Asian Designers
http://www.area105.com/
http://www.grafikas.com/index.html
http://www.theasylum.com.sg/v3/
http://www.huevisualab.com/
http://www.shin.co.nr/
Sorry for the repeat post, the last one is the correct one.
Wait, why did that show up but my list didn’t?
My list won’t show up, so I put it here: http://jakemates.com/tshirts.html
And another: http://jakemates.com/photographers.html
Top 5 Myspace Page Designs
1. http://www.myspace.com/tpain
2. http://www.myspace.com/lydia
3. http://www.myspace.com/mikeposner
4. http://www.myspace.com/hyalineeston
5. http://www.myspace.com/emarosa
Top 5 Sources for Design Inspiration
1. http://ideas.veer.com/
2. http://logopond.com/
3. http://www.colourlovers.com/
4. http://flickrleech.net/
5. http://www.deviantart.com/
For anyone who is having a problem commenting on this, it might be with the URL’s… the system might be thinking it’s spam. I will try to work on this for future comments.
Thanks
Top 5 CSS Galleries that will help drive traffic to your site:
Best Web Gallery
CSS Drive
CSS Mania
CSS Vault
CSS Elite
I went through my analytics stats and found all the galleries that are still driving traffic to my site months after being featured.
Will happily provide links/screenshots if needed. 
I so need activecollab. hehe.
hmmm.. why did it not post? time delay?
Ok, links not working…
As I am a high school art teacher now teaching graphic design as well, these are the programs that I look to for inspiration.
Top 5 public school graphic design programs (with an online presence)
1) http://www.wyckoffschools.org/eisenhower/teachers/olejarz/
2) http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/people/ureel/nsfgk12/design/tindex.html
3) http://www.darlingclass.com/index.html
4) nhsdesigns.com/index.php
5) web4j1.lane.edu/~eagen/
Top 5 places to visit weekly (if not daily) to learn a ton about design and the latest trends:
DesignM.ag
Noupe
Six Revisions
Script & Style
CSS Globe
Again, I will provide links and screenshots if needed.
Only a few hours remaining! Get in there and post! http://href.in/j15gdl
Top 5 new (over the last year give or take) up and coming design blogs.
We Are not Freelancers
Inspiredology
DesignM.ag
Script & Style
Fuel your Creativity
I will provide links and screenshots if needed.
Top 5 Daily Reads for Freelancers
Freelance Folder
Vandelay Design
Freelance Switch
Smashing Magazine
Design Float
I will provide links and screenshots if needed. Thanks!!
Here is my personal top 5 list of best web deisng related links news :
1. DesignFloat
2. CssGlobe
3. Noupe
4. Design:related
5. tutsplus network
I just won a TON of shit from Inspiredology.com http://tinyurl.com/anflw7 (first place winner)
1. http://www.apple.com
thanks nice topic
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