Quark VS InDesign .com (www.quarkvsindesign.com), The Authority for News and Opinion on the War Between Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress® and Adobe® InDesign®, today announced an extension and expansion to its twin design contests celebrating and honoring InDesign and QuarkXPress.
Arising from circumstances beyond the control of either Quark VS InDesign .com or the entrants, a number of would-be entrants in the “Celebrate QuarkXPress” and “Celebrate InDesign” postcard design competitions were unable to submit their entries by the 2 May 2005 deadline.
“Because Quark VS InDesign .com and these two concurrent design contests in particular focus so intently on fairness and appreciation for the tools of our craft, we have decided the most equitable course of action for all involved is to extend the deadline for entries an additional two weeks,” said Editor In Chief, Pariah S. Burke. “During this time, we will resolve any outstanding issues with those affected by submission problems.”
New Deadline
The new deadline for submission of entries in either competition is 11:59 pm Pacific Time, Monday, 16 May 2005.
Canadian Designers
“The deadline extension provides an additional opportunity,” continued Burke. “We are very pleased to open both the ‘Celebrate InDesign Postcard Competition’ and the ‘Celebrate QuarkXPress Postcard Competition’ to Canadian designers as well as U.S. creatives.”
Formerly only U.S. residents were eligible for entry, now residents of Canada (except Quebec and wherever else prohibited by law) are eligible to compete for the approximately US$15,500.00 in prizes. Among the dozens of best-of-breed prizes are: 5 copies of Adobe InDesign CS2, 2 Adobe Expert Support contracts for InDesign CS2, 3 copies of QuarkXPress 6.5, 2 two-day training classes from creative training firm Sterling Ledet & Associates, autographed copies of top books by author David Blatner, subscriptions to InDesign Magazine and X-Ray Magazine, stock photography, stock layout templates, and a cornucopia of plug-ins, extensions, and QuarkXPress- or InDesign-related tools.
According to Burke: “Each of the three winners in both contests is going to walk away with an incredibly cool toolbox of goodies.”
Additionally, winning postcard designs will be prominently featured on the Quark VS InDesign .com website, and may appear in other media. Winning entries’ authors’ names, studios, and website addresses will also be promoted to a global audience.
For complete details on the “Celebrate InDesign Postcard Competition” and the “Celebrate QuarkXPress Postcard Competition,” including entry forms and a complete list of prizes, visit the official contests page at https://QuarkVSInDesign.com/contests/ .
About Quark VS InDesign .com
Everyday millions of design and production personnel the world over produce tens of millions of pages of newspapers, magazines, books, advertisements, and other printed material in page layout software; that work is done almost exclusively in InDesign or QuarkXPress. Historically, the graphics communications industries have not long tolerated two equal applications for the same tasks, opting instead to standardize across the industries on one. With billion dollar empires standing on either Quark or InDesign, a rivalry as bitter and legendary as the Hatfields and the McCoys, the world’s unblinking eye scrutinizes their every clash.
Quark VS InDesign .com (www.quarkvsindesign.com) is the authoritative correspondent in this bloody war, chronicling every salvo of each battle between entrenched publishing workhorse QuarkXPress, which ruled unchallenged for over a decade, and InDesign, the nimble newcomer built by the company that pioneered desktop publishing and developed every other standard application in the print designer’s tool belt, Adobe Systems, Inc.
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This article was first published on May 4, 2005
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