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Blizzard Entertainment is proud to announce our first Diablo Fan Art Competition.
Starting 3:00 P.M. PST on Friday, March 18, through 12:00 P.M. PST on Monday, April 18, we will be accepting submissions for our Diablo Fan Art Competition.
The time has come for all you artists to unleash your inner demon and show us just how awesome your artistic talents truly are.
All you have to do is draw any monster from the Diablo universe in a recognizable scene from the world of Sanctuary and submit your work via the Fan Art Submission form.
The artwork of the 10 winners will be displayed on the Blizzard fan art webpage.
We will be giving away a massive amount of rare loot as well, including a limited edition Diablo lithograph, the Diablo Battle Chest, Diablo action figures, books, and more.
So, conjure up the most hellish artistic talents that lurk inside of you and get to it.
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Pantone, Inc., the worldwide leading provider of professional color standards for design industries for over 40 years, today announced the PANTONE color bridge guide.
The guide shows how PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM Colors reproduce in CMYK on coated paper in a side-by-side comparison.
The color bridge guide reflects higher quality color matches and includes color swatches that are nearly 25 percent larger than previous guides, for increased accuracy and visual reference when specifying and matching colors.
Since 1927, Freeman has been one of the leading full service contractors in North America for expositions, conventions, corporate and special events and exhibit programs.
Ellen Beckert, corporate director of marketing and communication for Freeman, says, "We produce well over 10,000 corporate and special events each year and visual branding is a huge part of our services.
It's important to have one standard, the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM, to rely on, especially as we take shows on the road and are producing materials in different cities across the country.
We need to produce large-scale images for signs and banners for clients at every one of our events and our large-scale printers are CMYK only.
It's critical that we are able to accurately reproduce colors consistently.
The PANTONE color bridge guide allows us to predict whe
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The fourth annual Brand Keys Fashion Index, a national survey of fashion and apparel brand labels and logos, demonstrates that the power of fashion brands continues to decline, especially for major league sports, according to Brand Keys, Inc., a New York City-based brand loyalty research consultancy.
For the first time since 2002, "Favorite Sports Team," the perennial leader among men and women in all age segments, showed an over-all decrease of 13 percent in importance to consumers. Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League, brands that had always appeared on the Brand Keys Fashion Index Top 10 list, did not make the cut this year.
When asked how important apparel brand logos and labels are to consumers now versus "a few years ago," the majority of respondents (66 percent) reported that they are now less important. Of the 7,500 survey respondents, almost 9.5 times as many said logos and labels were now either "much less" or "less" important to them than said they were now "much more" or "more" important.
"Increasingly apparel brands do not generally resonate with the values of consumers and as marketers do not support their brands in appropriate ways, you can't really expect to find that the brands are more important to consumers." said Robert Passikoff, president, Brand Keys, Inc. "If you disappoint your c
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Apple Computer today announced that the U.S. copyright office has granted the company an exclusive copyright on all "iNames" such as iMac, iPod, iTunes, iLife, iWork, etc.
Such an unprecedented, broad copyright was a shock to the industry as it could effect hundreds of products which have jumped on the iName bandwagon. Apple lawyers plan to send cease and desist letters to all infringing companies next week.
"This is a draconian move I would have expected from Microsoft, not Apple," grumbled "Skidmark" on a popular Mac website.
Some in the industry worry that the ruling is too broad. "What about inSane Software?" asked one member of that software company's board. "All our inSane products begin with the letters 'in' -- are they effected?"
Los Gatos-based Elgato, makers of EyeTV, a Tivo-like USB video capture system for Macintoshes, were left confused by the ruling. "We're not sure if it effects us or not. EyeTV sounds like iTV, but it's not the same thing. Can phonetical sounds be copyrighted?"
Others were more blunt in their criticism. "It's an iNane ruling," muttered one Microsoft employee who quickly changed the topic when this reporter inquired how an ordinary household term like "windows" can be copyrighted by Microsoft.
But Apple insists they are only protecting their assets. "We iNvented the iName iC
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From April 10 to June 26 the Affichemuseum in Hoorn, Holland, will present an exhibition of modern Iranian and Arabic posters.
The exhibition, called "Bloem van het Oosten" (dutch for Flower of the East), shows some 60 superb posters from the collection of the famous Iranian designer Reza Abedini.
Apart from posters from his own hand works will be shown from Mostafa Asadollahi, Amir Ali Ghasemi, Mohammed Ehsay, Ebrahim Haghighi, Pedram Harbi, Morteza Momayez, Mehdi Saeedi, Ghobad Shiva, Parviz Bayami and others.
Thanks to the efforts of the Lebanese designer Tarek Atrissi who is based in Hilversum, Holland, but works internationally, the exhibition also shows a collection of modern posters from Lebanon, including works of Atrissi.
His choice gives an overview of the contemporaneous Lebanese poster culture for social, cultural or other purposes.
The Exhibition is guest curated by Tarek Atrissi from Lebanon and Reza Abedini from Iran.
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