US$ 250 REWARD!

NI-Limits have decided that the temporary penguin we had been borrowing from KLews as our company mascot was simply not hot enough for us any longer, even though he was pretty cool, he was perhaps a little too cool, and not hot or funky as we would have liked.

What with the difficulties he has been having with the heat and all the crazy AJAX work we have been doing, we are going to return him to his owners in January of 2008, and give him some much needed rest.

What Does This Mean?

It means that as of next year, we will be without a mascot and as branded as a second-hand elastic-band.

We Need Your Help!

If you can design a mascot that meets or exceeds the quality levels associated with our temporary penguin, we will reward you with two hundred and fifty dollars ( US$ 250 ) for all your efforts.

In addition, we also reward the runner-up with fifty dollars ( US$ 50 ).

And if that was not enough, we are even asking fo help in the promotion of this competition, where if you place our corner-banner-badge-ribbon on your website, and someone learning about the competition from that website wins, we will reward the website owner with fifty dollars ( US$ 50 ), or US$ 25 for the runner-up referral site.

For those willing and wanting to help us promote this competition, and in turn stand to win US$ 50, please add the following line of code to your site:

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://lab.ni-limits.com/scripts/rewards_public.js"></script>

The Rules:

We are open to anyone and everyone living within the Milky Way, no matter of their age, occupation or nationality - so long as they are living on Earth.

We will even accept multiple entries per person, and even though the more ideas you are able to develop, the better your chances, be warned that we are all about quality, not quantity!

We will accept any digital form of entry, whether it be an illustration of just the mascot, a new logo concept or a splash page, animation, banner, or movie – so long as the proper entry-form is submitted, the more flushed-out your concept is, and the more supporting documentation or alternate visualizations and scenarios that are used to support your idea will obviously improve your chances of winning.

During the initial stage of submission, images alone will suffice, but all finalists will be required to re-submit their work along with the master-files and supporting documentation.

All initial entries must be provided before the 31st of December, 2007 and any entries already submitted can be re-submitted, altered or edited anytime before the deadline, so long as the proper submission forms are used to do so… By the 1st of January 2008, all finalists will be informed of their finalist status and will be required to submit the final master-files within 7 days in order to qualify for a chance at the title!

So long as someone has entered something that meets or exceeds the quality of our temporary penguin, a decision will be made by the 14th January 2008 and announced not only on the blog but with a private email to each and every person who entered the competition. Judges will include the five board of directors that control NI-Limits.

If upon reaching the deadline, there are no finalists (designs that meet or exceed our expectations of quality), we will notify all entrants and extended the deadline to accommodate new designs, for which we will provide a detailed breakdown of what we are looking for and why we are looking for it…

However, anyone that contacts us to ask more about what we want and why we want it will also find that we can be helpful and accommodating...

The NOT-so-Small Small-Print:

Please note that all designs must be composed of graphical elements either entirely designed by yourself, or using 100% royalty-free imagery.

Please also note that any finalists will need to submit master-files showing some form of history for the design in an editable state, for we will not accept unoriginal pieces of work and need some way to validate whether or not you have actually designed these pieces of art.

Please also note that any master-files sent to us will then become the intellectual property of NI-Limits for us to do as we wish with.

The Reward:

Not only will we give you two hundred and fifty dollars ( US$ 250 ) to spend on your friends or mother’s friends, but we will also feature you in several of our blogs and possibly even offer you a job, which at the very least, you could always turn-down and use as a story to brag about with your friends!

Did we already mention the two hundred and fifty ( US$ 250 ) dollars?

The Submission:

Ganjaran US$ 250!

NI-Limits merasakan bahawa penguin yang kami pinjam dari KLews sebagai maskot syarikat, tidak lagi cukup 'panas' untuk kami, atau mungkin kami yang terlalu 'panas' untuknya! Oleh itu, dengan semua kerja-kerja panas kami dengan AJAX, kami akan memulangkannya ke pangkuan tuannya pada Januari 2008. Lagipun, keadaan yang panas tidak baik untuk kesihatan penguin.

Apa Maksudnya?

Maksudnya, bermula tahun depan, kami akan kehilangan maskot! Alangkah bosannya!

Kami Perlu Bantuan Anda!

Jika anda boleh mereka maskot yang mempunyai kualiti yang sama atau mungkin lebih kacak dari penguin kami, kami akan memberi ganjaran dua ratus lima puluh dollar US ( US$ 250 ).

Kami juga memberi ganjaran lima puluh dolar US ( US$ 50 ) kepada pemenang kedua.

Tak cukup dengan itu, kami juga memerlukan bantuan anda untuk promosi pertandingan ini, dengan meminta anda meletakkan iklan pertandingan ini di laman web anda. Jika pemenang mendapat tahu tentang pertandingan ini melalui laman web anda, kami akan memberi anda lima puluh dollar US
( US$ 50 ), atau dua puluh lima dollar US ( US$ 25 ) jika orang itu adalah pemenang kedua.

Kepada sesiapa yang ingin mencuba nasib dalam memenangi US$ 50, sila letakkan kod di bawah di laman web anda.

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript" src="http://lab.ni-limits.com/scripts/rewards_public.js"></script>

Syarat-Syarat:

Pertandingan ini terbuka kepada semua penduduk alam cakerawala ini, tidak kira bangsa, pekerjaan, atau kerakyatan, asalkan anda tinggal di Bumi.

Kami juga menerima lebih dari satu penyertaan dari seorang peserta. Walaupun lagi banyak idea anda boleh hasilkan, pokoknya kualiti, bukan kuantiti!

kami menerima sebarang bentuk media digital, baik ilustrasi maskot itu sahaja, konsep logo baru, 'splash page', 'banner', atau animasi, asalkan borang penyertaan diisi selengkapnya. Untuk memudahkan proses pemilihan (dan menarik perhatian kami untuk menjadi pemurah kepada anda), entri anda perlulah jelas konsepnya, dan boleh juga disertakan dengan dokumentasi, atau senario/visualisasi alternatif untuk idea anda.

Pada peringkat awal submisi, anda cuma perlu menghantar idea anda dalam bentuk imej akhir sahaja (fail asal tidak perlu lagi buat masa ini). Namun, para finalis perlu menghantar semula beserta dengan fail asal, dan fail-fail lain yang perlu.

Semua entri peringkat awal haruslah di hantar sebelum 31 Disember 2007. Mana-mana entri yang telah di hantar, boleh di hantar semula, di edit, atau di ubah, sebelum tarikh tersebut, tapi jangan lupa untuk mengisi borang dengan lengkap. Pada 1 Januari 2008, senarai finalis akan di umumkan, dan para finalis perlu menghantar fail asal dalam jangka masa 7 hari, agar anda berpeluang untuk menang!

Jadi, selagi ada entri yang mencapai tahap dan kualiti yang sama atau lebih kacak dari penguin kami, keputusan akan diumumkan pada 14 Januari 2008 di blog kami, serta diemailkan kepada semua peserta. Hakim terdiri daripada kelima-lima orang lembaga pengarah kami.

Jika pada tarikh akhir, senarai finalis gagal dipilih (tiada rekaan yang dapat menambat hati kami), kami akan memaklumkan semua peserta akan tarikh akhir yang baru, dan kami akan memberikan penerangan tentang apa yang kami cari dan sebabnya.

Walaubagaimanapun, sesiapa yang menghubungi kami untuk bertanya lebih lanjut tentang apa yang kami mahu, dan sebabnya, akan kami layan dengan tahap kemesraan yang amat membanggakan.

Syarat-syarat tambahan:

Pastikan segala hasil kerja yang di hantar terdiri dari elemen grafikal yang sama ada rekaan anda 100% atau imej tanpa-royalti sahaja.

Sila ambil perhatian bahawa semua finalis perlu menghantar fail asal yang menunjukkan ini hasil kerja anda, dalam bentuk yang boleh diedit. Kami tidak akan menerima hasil kerja yang tidak original dan kami perlu buat begini untuk menilai ketulenan hasil kerja anda.

Semua fail asal yang dihantar kepada kami menjadi hak milik intelek NI-Limits.

Ganjarannya:

Bukan sahaja kami akan memberi anda US$ 250, kami juga akan mengiklankan anda dalam beberapa blog kami, dan mungkin juga menawarkan anda peluang kerja.

Oh ya, US$ 250 tau!

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