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Ello ello!

You may ask the question: Why does Springleap.com have set theme competitions these days?
Well I suppose there is a whole host of reasons, but for now it seems this trend is here to stay…or is it? With the popularity of the Battle of the Best and our most recent competition What you got?, we have to wonder how much longer the day of the theme will last.

Perhaps this is a fine line we tread! Personally I enjoy the theme competitions. It focuses the communities design power onto a single subject and also makes the comparison of voting that much more easier, because we all then know exactly what we are voting FOR!
From that perspective yes the theme competition are much better. However do you feel that we are stunting the creative abilities of the average designer?

Check this out, not all of the designers that submit here are Speedy Gonzales artists. It takes them time to formulate a cool design concept and then put it down for submission. Yes we give our artist quite a bit of time and yes we do have extensions if a theme competition requires it for whatever reason. However maybe it’s less an issue of time and more an issue of association!
Think about it, if a theme competition doesn’t sit well with you and the concept doesn’t literally grab you by the ears and pull you in you may be likely to simply say, “Nah not my scene, I’ll wait for the next one”. Yes indeed this is quite a pickle we are presented with, are the theme competitions doing more harm than we think?

Hello out there all you Springleapers.

Here is a bit of an update on our What you got? theme competition.
We have had a change of date which will, I’m sure, make a few of you very happy. I have also included an update for our Advanced Photoshop competition.
Check it out yo!

First off let’s deal with the What you got? theme competition as it is most probably our most important competition update for the moment. Unless you haven’t already checked the site you would probably not know that this competition has had its final submission date extended for a few days. The reason for this is not about there not being enough design submissions, but rather the opposite. We have too many that still need to come through. There seems to have been quite the bombardment of designs for this competition and the designs submissions just keep coming. This is going to be a fast and furious competition without doubt. In all honesty I’d like to see more of these competitions in the works. So that date extension I just mentioned will now run until the 27^th April 2010. That gives you an extra 6 days from not…enough time to create another design if you really want to, or tweak your current designs to even more amazing levels.