Hi All

There is a new graphic design competition around the corner. See press release below about the competition


Graphic Design Competition Online

Malaysia - Labuan
February 28, 2006

LABUAN.NET is organizing a graphic design competition online at http://www.7Creation.com . 7Creation has been opened for public testing from 15 Feb 2006 and be launched around 01 Apr 2006 if no major fault was found.

Labuan.net founder Alvin Han said 7Creation is expected to attract around 50 unique visitors per day by the end of the testing, and subsequently 350 unique visitors per day by the end of the entire competition.

The competition will be subdivided into 3 seasons which consist of the qualifying, semi and final seasons. Each season will be given a different design theme to challenge. Designers that have won each season shall proceed to the next season. Top 3 winners in the final will be presented with awards and prizes.

With the availability of a self contented forum, feedback form and graphics comment page, 7Creation has further created an interactive environment for the participants, designers and visitors.

"7Creation is quite exciting," Mr. Alvin Han said during the interview, "It is purposefully created for your pleasure. This is also a direct action to bring a different excitement to the Labuan community."

Specifically, 7Creation said there will be no cost to join and compete in the competition. Top three winners will however be offered with awards and prizes USD 300 - USD 100. In addition, the good news is everyone can join, regardless of the participant's nationality. For more news about 7Creation, please visit : http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announcement.asp

"We have a vision for 7Creation to be one of the special events in Labuan," the volunteered committee Mr. Gary Wong said. "Hopefully the final test will be completed with success soon."

Labuan.Net, first online at 2002 and with more than 1400 members from around the world such as Brunei, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Australia, Russia, UK, Scotland, Canada, USA, Nepal, Chile, Malaysia and etc.
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Yours sincerely
Gary Wong
7Creation.Com
Graphic Design Competition

7Creation.com competition has eventually be launched by far from 01 April 2006, since no major bug has been found. The website features have proven to be working well and usable.

7Creation is proud to announce that it has been recognized by Google with a pagerank (5) as a quality website since its existence from 2 months ago. This is an unexpected good result to 7Creation. To view the pagerank, please download google toolbar and visit www.7Creation.com. To know more of why 7Creation is being awarded with a pagerank (5), you are encouraged to visit www.7Creation.com now.

The registration and qualifying season will be running concurrently until 14 May 2006. Hence, it is still not too late to participate in the competition yet. 7Creation looks forward to seeing more participants from many more nationalities. Upon the approval of your participation, you are allowed to immediately submit your designed graphics. Once your graphics are approved, it should be exposed for public voting too.

Thanks to all our dearest participants for being part of 7Creation competition. It is indeed our honour to have organized an event as such. You are not required to be a professional designer to join the competition. Designers of all levels are encouraged to join in and compete because we believe that everyone can join!!

For your convenience, we have provided to you the following links:

1. Rules and regulation see http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-rules.asp
2. Voting page, see http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote.asp

We look forward to seeing your graphic design soon. Come and be part of the history ;-)

Yours sincerely
Gary Wong
7Creation.Com

Labuan, Malaysia – 22 Jun 2006

7Creation.Com, a graphic design competition online, announced the results of the top 20 winners from the qualifying season on 15 Jun 2006. There are 9 graphic artworks already being submitted in the semi final to date.

On the 15 Jun 2006, 7Creation has successfully transited from a qualifying season to a semi final season. The process of the transition consists of the aggregation of points converted from all anonymous, member and sponsor votes. The designers, of the first 20 winning graphics among 58 graphics submitted by international participants from Singapore, Scotland, India, Polland, Malaysia, etc, shall enter into the semi final season. Result of the qualifying season together with its calculating formula can be viewed at
http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-announce-qualifying-winning-result.asp

To date, there are already 9 submitted graphics in the semi final season viewable at http://www.7creation.com/graphic-competition-vote-semi.asp in 6 days. Surfers are also welcomed to visit the artworks submitted in the past season by clicking the 'See Qualifying Graphics' link near the top from the above link. Nonetheless, voting points will only and currently be calculated for graphics submitted in the semi final season.

7Creation continues to grow strong in the search ranking result of major search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN with a PageRank 5 that indicates 7Creation as a website full of quality content. Unlike 3 months ago, 7Creation does not depend solely on new unique visitors anymore; it currently has a group of strong and regular steadfast visitors that will keep re visiting the site to check out for new graphic submission.

Winning participants from the qualifying season will be given a dateline until the 24 Jun 2006 to submit the design source of their winning graphics. This is to authenticate the authorship of the artworks. Designers failing to submit the design source shall be disqualified from carrying on the participation in the semi final.

"Since the organizers of 7Creation are entrusted with the responsibility to verify the authorship of each artwork, we will try our very best to make sure that each participant is treated fairly throughout the process," said Gary Wong, one of the Founders of 7Creation.com. “In addition, we have constantly been receiving constructive feedbacks from visitors from all around the world suggesting for ways to improvise our infrastructures such as the point system and its usability. This shows a good sign of its growing popularity.”

“The graphic design competition is getting fiercer. The first graphic was submitted on the first open day of semi final itself,” said Alvin Han, a founder of 7Creation.com. “In order to gain more advantages of the timing for a higher voting rate, the participants have almost immediately made use each opportunity to market their graphics via Tell Your Friend, graphic description and the blogging facilities.”

7Creation will continue to strive in enhancing the website features so as to bring in more convenience and fun to the international participants and visitors. To know more about 7Creation, visit http://www.7Creation.Com

About 7Creation.Com
7Creation is a graphic design competition website designed to encourage hundreds of people around the world for competition. Headed since 01 Mar 2006, by 2 young Malaysians Gary Wong and Alvin Han, 7Creation today has more than 160 international members and 67 graphics in competition. Within 2 months, 7Creation has proudly recognized by major search engines like MSN, Yahoo and Google with PageRank (5) as a quality website. http://www.7Creation.com