Today we hit the CENTURY MARK! Over 100 entries have been submitted into the BoNE Show. Congratulations; keep up the good work. And remember, you can’t win a bone if you don’t enter!
Calling all New England designers, our deadlines for entries is fast approaching! The deadline to enter your design and avoid a $25 late fee is February 12. Please remember we must receive your mailed entry by 5:00pm. Late entries will be accepted until 5:00pm February 19.
This year’s MEET THE JUDGES event at CLINK. is free for AIGA members, free for non-members, and free for students. We want you to meet our judges and have some fun. Did we mention it’s FREE?
The venue for our Party on Friday, February 20 @ 6pm is CLINK. at the Liberty Hotel in Boston. Come meet Alice, Alan, and Will and have a drink(s) with us. Boston AIGA hosts this party so we can all MEET THE JUDGES and find out what they are looking for when they judge your work.
The Call for Entry Posters have been printed and mailed to our New England Design Community. Concept of the poster reinforces this year’s theme of community by featuring several previous BoNE Show winners within a New England outline.
What’s missing from this year’s poster? It’s the entry form. For the first time, we are accepting your entry/ies electronically on our website. Who wants to fill out paperwork anyway? Thanks for reading and good luck with your entries. Oh by the way, If you want/need a poster, send us an email with your info!
Thank you to those who have entered your work into this unique design competition. We have received over 60 entries so far and it’s not even February (yet). Reminder that our deadline for entries is February 12. Thanks for all the positive feedback on our B(oNE) Show website. Good luck with your entries and keep ‘em coming. You can’t win a BoNE if you don’t Enter!
Keep coming back to see updates and see the many ways you can take part in this years Best of New England Show! Here are some recent updates:
The site is coming along great. On the landing pages at http://www.boneshow.org/, many new items have been added such as:
Three Videos of designers explaning why they should win or B(oNE)
Dynamic Photos from Flickr, utilizing the TiltViewer app from AirtightInteractive
A video viewer thanks to the AIGABoston YouTube account
A map of landmarks and submitter information, provided by Google and geo-coding.
On the inside, many updates as well. Just look around to see most of these changes.
A map of the New England AIGA Chapters
Flickr dynamic sidebar
SMS message capabilities
A live sidebar message board
Judge information
Credits and Sponsor information
I would like to introduce you all to Katie Marcotte. She is a design and visual arts student at UMass Dartmouth. Watch to find out why she wants be one of New England’s Best..
The focus for the Best of New England design show this year, is on the very people who make up the New England design community. Join the B(oNE) community by submitting you photo and video today!
See all of this years videos on the AIGA Boston YouTube channel.
This year, B(oNE) is utilizing the photo-social networking site Flickr to host and share all B(oNE) related photo content. By hosting photos at Flickr, and then pulling them dynamically into the B(oNE) website, we create an instant virtual bridge for people to cross over, spreading the word of B(oNE) as far as possible.
From a back-end perspective, Flickr is just one many services that enables content to be tagged, categorized and shared easily. All of these said things, enable search engines and web surfers to find B(oNE) more easily, and enables us to track all sorts of useful data.
An example may be to track website hits before a printed piece goes in the mail, and then track the hits a few days after the mail has been received. If the hits show an increase, then the printed collateral has been received, and those people are following up, just by visiting the site.
Overall, this ROI (return on investment) data shows that people are out there, looking and wanting to know more about B(oNE).
Community Photos
