The GUI Championships 2006 Begins!

Skinners, start your graphics apps!

http://www.guichamps.com
The GUI’s is the ultimate Graphical User Interface (GUI) competition. Graphics designers from around the world will be competing in three primary GUI categories; Icons, Visual Styles and Wallpapers. This years’ competition has a prize pool totaling near $12,000!

Starting Tuesday, September 12th, skinners will be able to submit their work to the competition website (http://www.guichamps.com), with the first events being judged in early October, and the overall "Best Skinner" crowned the second week of November.

The GUI Championships 2006 is the third run for the competition and is supported by a number of highly-regarded technology and artist community sites. This year, our primary community sponsors are:

WinCustomize DeviantArt
       
Neowin Betanews
       
Lockergnome Microangelo

In addition to our community sponsors, we’re very close to announcing our two premier corporate sponsors who are going to be offering up some of our top competition prizes. News on our premier sponsors and the top competition prizes will be posted to the competition site in the coming weeks.

We’ve got a lot planned for the competition this year, so be sure to head over to the site, check out the rules and schedule and get those graphics tools fired up! Participate as an individual artist, or sign-up with a team of artists to be considered for additional team prizes.

In years past, some of the best skins, icons and walls came out of this competition, so we can’t wait to see what comes out on top this year!

For quick reference, here are some important contest links:

Website [Link]
Rules [Link]
Schedule [Link]
Forums [Link]

UPDATE:  Help spread the word for the GUI Champs!  Go to Digg.com, create an account, and "digg" our announcement here:

http://digg.com/design/GUI_Champs_2006

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Let the games being.
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Looking good.


A small GUI Championships 2006 site bug guys. When logged in using my Stardock.net account, downloads don't work, logout and can download fine.
Browser Firefox 1.5.0.6
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Well i'm going to take a long weekend from work and try to get my Windowblind finnished cos it's going to be fun i think.......
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Unable to download with Opera! Another website, The GUI Championships 2006, optimized for IE and Firefox!
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Another website, The GUI Championships 2006, optimized for IE and Firefox!


I can't believe they'd spend time coding for the most popular broswers. Bastards!
Reply #7 Top
I'm in the same boat . . . DL's not working . . . hmmm.
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DLs not working is a known bug at the moment.
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Opera here too... Hope to see this fixed soon.
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Aside from the Download bug (which isn't browser specific), are there any other issues with Opera?

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are there any other issues with Opera?
Hello,

Globally, all works fine except this download bug.

thanx

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I have IE, and unable to download.Hope this gets fixed soon.What a bummer.
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In FF, clicking on the comments opens a new window with comments and loads the comments in the original window.
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In Opera, on the front page, text turns green on mouse over (all the text in the selected column)
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Please check the download links again, they should be working just fine now.

Our web dev dudes are looking at the comment issues in FireFox and the green text in opera now.

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Please check the download links again, they should be working just fine now.

Our web dev dudes are looking at the comment issues in FireFox and the green text in opera now.
Hello,

All works fine now with Opera. Thanx!

Reply #17 Top
Dear God, has anyone seen the Pixeleros starting line up? Some of the finest artists in the business! i hope some of us still stand a chance....
Reply #18 Top
I just took a look at whats already there - some wonderful stuff already. Good luck everyone. I just enjoy looking at everyones work.