Regular Digital Web readers might have hazarded an educated guess about our contest topic for Web Directions South . Such that it is, Digital Web is proud to partner with Web Directions South to offer one lucky DW reader with a killer surfboard design a free conference pass ! We also have a few excellent runners-up prizes , courtesy of WDS partner Wacom.

Not a designer? Well, we have an option for you (though no guarantees you’ll like it): express the iconic Sydney Opera House in SVG , or as an architecturally themed microformat. We don’t have any real guidance on that one…actually, we’d just like to see someone try.

Check out the rules below, fire up Photoshop and get your design going. To get you started, here’s a template—classic longboard, dude !

Contest Rules

• Contest starts at Midnight (Pacific Daylight Time) on Monday, July 14, 2008 and ends at Midnight (Pacific Daylight Time) on Monday, July 28, 2008 ends at Midnight (Pacific Daylight Time) on Friday, August 1st, 2008
• One entry per person, sent in gif, png, jpg or zip format to digweb.contest~at~gmail.com
• Winner receives one free pass to the conference. Workshops are not included. Travel and accommodations are not included. Free pass is non-transferable and cannot be exchanged for cash or cash equivalent.
• Artists keep the right to the designs. Digital Web & Web Directions will not use them for any non-conference purposes (though we do need to display them in conjunction with the contest).

Conference Details

Conference & Expo, September 25 & 26 – Sydney Convention Centre, Darling Harbour Parkside
Workshops, September 23 & 24 – PowerHouse Museum

Conference Price

• $850 before July 19th
• $950 Before September 6th
• $1050 full price

Workshop Prices

• $450 Conference attendees
• $550 Workshops only

Questions?
Hit up the comments.

Web Directions South Surfboard design contest!

A little birdie tells me that tickets are fast running out for what is likely to be an unmissable social event, in both senses. You’re not likely to find a smarter bunch of people working in the social network space than the speakers lined up for this year’s dConstruct conference , taking place in Brighton, England this September 5th.

From the names you know — Digg’s Daniel Burka, Joshua “Bokardo” Porter, Jeremy Keith, and Tantek — to the names you probably don’t but really should, including the super-smart Matt “Dopplr” Biddulph, and pioneering thinker and writer Steven Johnson the one-day event is shaping up to be something quite special.

dConstruct 2008 - don’t miss out!

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