And the winners are…
Before we get into the winners, let me just say that the response to this contest exceeded the expectations of Adobe, EffectiveUI and myself. We got 27 total entries and enough to make it really hard to pick the final winners. That also means 27 more themes for people to access here on ScaleNine, so thanks to everyone who submitted.
Now, on to the winners. Oh, and if you don’t remember what each of the prizes were, you can refresh your memory here. With one exception. Initially, some of the prizes included Adobe Creative Suite 3 software, however, since Creative Suite 4 was just released, Adobe isn’t going to send you on your way with old software. Winners will now be getting CS4 software instead of CS3!
Ok, really, on to the winners.
First Place - Undefined by Alberto Alcaraz
Alberto did an awesome job of creating a really tight theme and paid attention to pixel by pixel details. As one judge put it:
I must say, [ this ] is some tight skinning. And although I have never agreed with the half-rounded half-rectangular aesthetic, this guy makes it look acceptable. He brings a designer’s eye to the developer’s table, in terms of his implementation of pixel-level precision and design consistency.
You can check out Alberto’s theme here. Congratulation’s Alberto!
Second Place - Brownie by Nahuel Foronda
I can tell you that it was a battle for first place between Nahuel’s entry and the winner. Judges found this entry both interesting and polished. Several were interested to see some of the technical detail that also went into the entry with some of the custom Flex code that came along with it.
You can check out Nahuel’s theme here. Congratulation’s Nahuel!
Third Place - iCandy by Phil Chung
Phil did a great job of mixing detail and color while throwing in some unique design touches into different components. Every component was represented in a consistent manner and he added in some extra programmatic bits as well.
You can check out Phil’s theme here. Congratulation’s Phil!
Spot Prizes
The idea for the Spot Prizes was to reward people because the judges found something interesting/inspiring/unusual about the entry. Judges decided to reward Spot Prizes to three entries:
Spot Prize - Aeon Graphical by Xu Jiajun
Spot Prize - Rock On by Bhavin Padhiyar
Spot Prize - Disco Type by Heather Ford
Thanks again to everyone who entered and congratulations to the winners. Winners will be receiving an email concerning their prizes shortly. Thanks to the sponsors: Adobe and EffectiveUI.
I’m hoping to have all the themes available for everyone to download by next week. As a side note, if you’d like to host your own theme and have the link from ScaleNine go to your site, blog or whatever for downloading, just let me know or send me a link to where you’re hosting the theme.
October 16th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Wow, really great skins. It’s great as a reference for people or clients what can be done in skinning Flex components.
Congrats to the winners!
October 17th, 2008 at 1:00 am
wow, those are some awesome designs
October 17th, 2008 at 2:57 am
As a member of Undefined Team I only can say that congratulations to everyone for the work done and enjoy our skin!
October 17th, 2008 at 2:58 am
Lots of thanks for that great prize! We’re actually in a RIA event in Madrid (Spain), when knew ’bout the great news.
I just wanna say that this isn’t only my work in any case. I want to congratulate my collegues of Undefined (specially to Lex, our “design guru”), as they’d did the hard work.
Undefined!!!
UUUU!!!!!
Thanks again.
Alberto
October 17th, 2008 at 8:21 am
congratulations to everyone !!!
really gr8 outcome of the event.
Thanks Adobe, Thanks EffectiveUI, Thanks Juan Sanchez
October 17th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
awesome work, all these skins are really cool
October 19th, 2008 at 1:18 am
27 neue Flex Skins…
Die Gewinner des “Skin to Win Challenge” von ScaleNine wurden gestern bekannt gegeben. Bei dem Wettbewerb ging es darum, neue Skins für Adobe Flex 3 zu erstellen.
Insgesamt wurden 27 neue Flex Skins eingereicht. Die Gewinner können bereit…
October 19th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Congrats to all involved! ‘Brownie’ rocks.
October 20th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
All great designs, but undefined made the difference. I totally agree with the decission.
Cheers!
October 21st, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Great!! I want to test them on my flex and air applications… So I am waiting for sources
November 1st, 2008 at 4:16 am
First Place - Undefined by Alberto Alcaraz — this UI is too attractive
November 21st, 2008 at 6:30 pm
thank you for everybody,because flex have you make great efforts,so web would become much more wonderful !
November 24th, 2008 at 10:56 am
very interesting… great themes design ..
more:
http://www.csshook.com
thanks
November 28th, 2008 at 10:24 am
The second place design is far more attractive than the first one. Congrats for the Winners!!!
December 9th, 2008 at 4:58 am
Wow! tht was kewl!!! congrats to all the winners…
btw, wens the next contest?
December 11th, 2008 at 8:47 pm
Its really great and useful to all flex designers.
December 19th, 2008 at 5:33 am
some good, some ok, some terrible…
December 23rd, 2008 at 3:06 am
i agree with Karan
i am a chinese.I like this website.
congrats for the winners
January 31st, 2009 at 8:19 am
Well….u guys have really done a marvellous job….
February 10th, 2009 at 7:45 am
Great job
How do I take advantage of these within the Flex Builder? I’ve imported them and the SampleTitleWindow.xml cannot run do to a missing html file. I’ve searched your site but I have not found any instructions.
Thank you
-Jim
February 10th, 2009 at 8:40 am
Got it, I just added the assets to my project and used
Thank you
-Jim
March 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Great designs, respect to all the participants.
First place in undoubtedly the best!