Archive for August 2009

72-Hour Kit Comp Entry Gallery

Thanks again to all who participated and made this an interesting competition. We’re excited to post this work and hope that those who participated (submission or not) have had an opportunity to learn and grow. We’ll be having more open  competitions in the near future.

And the winner is . . .

Congratulations to Steve Casper! (Headplow) on winning this summer’s idsketching.com Sketch/Design Challenge. Our runner ups are Steve Boynton and Churu Yun, who each will be receiving a copy of Sketchbook Pro. Special thanks to Wacom technologies and Autodesk for Sponsoring this competition. Steve will be receiving a Wacom Intuous4 tablet as his prize. First Place [...]

Inspiration of the week: MiniGraff scale trains

So I know this does not have much to do with id sketching in particular, but I couldn’t help be impressed and inspired by the mini graff site. Here you will find creative graffiti that has been applied to miniature train cars. While I can’t condone tagging real trains…I am diggin the idea of taking [...]

72hr kit Competition Over

Thanks for all the awesome entries for the competition. It’ll be some fierce judging for sure. Once the judging has taken place, we’ll post ALL the work winners and non winners to the front page of the site. There was some good effort by many people. We’ll try to have more competitions in the future [...]

One Year Later, Still going strong

One year ago we shook things up on the internet with this little ditty. Yep, for you with the short term memories, that’s idsketching.com one year ago when we launched the website. it’s come a long way since then, and it’s only gotten better. When we started out with the website, we had big goals [...]

Sketch competition on CORE 77

Our friends over at Core 77 are sponsoring a one hour design competition based on ideation sketching. They want to see the most sketches you can possibly crank out on the topic of your choice in 60 minutes. This would be a great way to get some summer practice in before school is back in [...]

How to Win a Design Competition | Michael Roller

Found this very interesting write up on how to win design competitions. Might come in handy as you’re gearing up to submit your entry on time. Check it out! via - How to Win a Design Competition | Michael Roller.