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Attention Infectious Operatives. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design a skin that will conceal the identity of the device underneath it.

We want you to use all visual trickery at your disposal to take an innocuous looking laptop, iPhone or iPod and craft a vinyl skin that will camouflage it's true identity. Channel the phrase "Transformers: Devices in Disguise." No limitation on what facade you dream up. For inspiration refer to Mikey Ion's Monochrome, where he turned an iPhone into a Game Boy. A trompe-l'oeil, if you will.

Remember:
  • Your design needs to be shown composited on to a laptop, iPhone or iPod.
  • Designs will be in voting for 2 weeks.
  • Winners are chosen by community voting and Team Infectious.

This is a covert action operation. As always, should you be caught or killed, your Infectious contacts will disavow any knowledge of your actions.

Bang and burn Infectoids. Bang and burn.

First Prize

$750 cash

$100 of Infectious Product, 5% of net sales

All runners up recieve

$100 of Infectious Product, 5% of net sales
DEADLINE: January 11, 2010

Judges

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timroberts

Got any questions or comments about the design challenge? We are all ears.

 
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dennis

bring it folks, lets see who gets the most creative and has the most savvy design.

 
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Haggar

rubs hands… evil laugher

 
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joey

:)

 
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geo_pz

any templates? or we just do our own?

 
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chaitanyak

hmm probably have to use the default templates?

 
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joey

Feel free to use your own. Or you can go to here and click on the drop down menu to grab the site templates.

 
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RhysMcDonald

I have an *awesome idea for this one

*I think it’s awesome, you may find it awful

 
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manitaaan

just another awesome contest and for sure i’m in

 
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Pixie

does it have to be a device of some sort or can it be other product?

 
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burbskate

i have a couple ideas too… gotta get em in.

 
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viebong

cant find the template following your link, any specific link?
thanks

 
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ruidovisual

@ viebong: all the templates are here

The “hidding” idea blows my mind out! Incognito Rocks : )

 

sedwards

I can’t wait to see these designs!!

 
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joey

@Pixie. Sky’s the limit – doesn’t have to be a device necessarily. Best of luck!

 
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viebong

@ruidovisual: thanks, I’ve got all the kit, cheers.

 
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ThirstyFly

YES! I am dying to see what Rhys does, personally. I have to wait for some subs to come in to figure out if my idea is in line with the challenge!

 
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joey

ThirstyFly - no need to wait Rachel! Feel free to bounce any ideas off of me if you'd like (joeyinfectious.com) :)

 
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RhysMcDonald

I’m really jazzed for this!

I’ve been working away on my design. It’s been a pretty horrible week here and this has been my escape (when I’m able to get in front my monitor!)

 
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burbskate

i just hope no one does my design idea before i have a chance to do it!

 
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SteveOramA

Same here burbskate. I’m away from my computer and drawing stuff so I’ll have to get to work on something when I get back.

 
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midimoik

thought i’d resubmit my iSardines entry for this one, but someone has already made their own sardine-styled entry. dang!

 
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visheshunni

wonder since we are talking about deception, can we have a closed laptop layout? Me got an idea ;)

 
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joey

@visheshunni do you mean can you show your design on a closed laptop? If so yes! As long as you can see that it’s a laptop, and it’s not just a rectangle of art, that should be fine. We don’t have any photos of one closed for you to use, but feel free to source/take your own pic and comp it on.

 
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el_square

Experiencing some error while voting. After I click on a heart setting, it keeps bringing me back to the previous piece that I already voted for.

 
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visheshunni

@joey: thanks :)

 

wicked-poo

Is there a limit to how many you can submit?

 
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joey

@el_square – we’re looking into it – thanks for the heads up!

@wicked-poo – no limitation, we just ask that you don’t inundate the voting gallery with lots of submission. The community tends to get overwhelmed and the score tends to reflect that. Feel free to space any submissions out over the course of the contest.

Cheers Joey

 
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CrackedEgo

There have been some awesome entries. Keep up the great work.

 
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burbskate

deadline is monday!

 
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midimoik

Good Luck Everyone! :)

 
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mjau-92

if there arent any winners, than what is the point of it?

 
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burbskate

they announced in a different topic that the winners will be announced Feb. 11

 
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joey

@mjau-92

Greg is right we did mention elsewhere that winners will be announced in the am on Thursday February 11th. Would have been helpful to put it on this thread too – sorry about that! Also please note that the contest ended on January 11th, but designs that entered the voting gallery on this last day still have two weeks worth of voting. This means that everyone’s scores were not finalized until January 25th. We then needed to have a team meeting to decide on the winners and now we’re in the middle of prepping for the launch. We try and launch winning art as soon as possible, to keep the excitement going for the community, but it does take a little bit of time to coordinate it all. In general we will launch the winners of any design challenge three – four weeks after the end of the contest. Hope that helps a little. Let us know if you’d like us to clarify anything further.

Cheers,
Joey

 
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Vanaire

Looking forward to the 11th!

 
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joey

Huge congrats to Estera Kecek and her winning design Let’s Play!

Kudos as well to our runners up Mike Tesch and his Infectious ES, to Greg Koenig and his iAcoustic design and Dennis McNulty and his Supertape Cassette. Huzzah!

We saw some mindblowingly clever designs and it was really hard to whittle it down to just 4. So as per Rachel’s suggestion, we wanted to give some special shout outs to some of the other designs that very, very nearly made the final cut…

So additional high fives go to:
Juan Vivas for making us long to pop his bubble wrap with Relax
Dee H for fitting the format so well and reminding us that so many electronic devices in the olden days were manufactured in that unique tan color with Retro Radioshack Flashback
Hollis Brown Thornton and his oh so pretty Roygbiv Circuits
Rachel Caldwell for her stunningly executed Infectious TV Dinner
and last but not least to Tim Roberts for taking the time out from being our ultra-busy CEO and flexing his design muscles with his first ever submission Ingredients :)

Thanks so much for all who shared their truly imaginative designs with us. We hope you’ll keep sharing your incredible art with us via our Off The Wall challenge and February Free4All

 
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SteveOramA

Great picks! Congrats to the winners!

 
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RhysMcDonald

Big congratulations to all the winners! These are some really rad designs

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