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RadioShack I Make My Case Contest

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We’re excited to announce you can now purchase I Make My Case codes at your local RadioShack to design your own custom case on Case-Mate.com

To celebrate we’re teaming up with @RadioShack to give away free I Make My Case codes over the next two weeks on Twitter!

Follow & Tweet to Win!

Here’s how to enter:

1. FOLLOW @RadioShack and @CaseMate on Twitter.

2. TWEET or INSTAGRAM us your favorite Valentine’s Day picture – include @RadioShack and @CaseMate and the hashtag #iMakeMyCase

3. The fun begins Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 at 11:59am EST and ends Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012 at 12pm EST (though you’re always welcome to share awesome photos with us!)

4. Winners will be chosen randomly and announced by @RadioShack after 12pm EST on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.

No payment or purchase necessary to win. Neither a purchase nor payment will improve your chances of winning. While you’re pretty cool in our book, you are not a winner of this contest yet. Void where prohibited. Must be a resident of the 50 United States to enter. Contest begins Friday, Feb. 10, 2012 at 11:59am Eastern Time and entries must be received by 12pm Eastern Time on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.

Want to design your own case? Well grab your favorite photos and we’ll show you how below!

1. Upload a Photo

First go to Case-Mate.com and click on Custom Case. To design a case using your own photos click on Get Started or if you want to remix art from professional artists you can click Get Inspired.

 

 2. Choose Your Device

Next choose your device. You can design a case for the iPhone 4/4S, iPhone 3G/3GS, Blackberry Bold 9700/9780, Blackberry Curve 8520/9300, Blackberry Bold 9900/9930, Samsung Galaxy S (T-Mobile Vibrant), and iPod Touch 4G. We will be adding more devices to this list so stay tuned!

 

3. Layout Options

Now you’ll need to choose the layout for your photos. You have four fun layouts to choose from: a single image to cover your whole case, three up, a photo booth style layout, and the grid to show off multiple photos.

 

 4. Upload Instagram and Facebook Photos

In addition to uploading images from your computer, you can also upload photos from your Facebook and Instagram accounts. Click on Upload Images and in the top left-hand corner you can choose which accounts you want to connect to. Once you have connected each of your accounts, you can drag and drop photos into your photo gallery.

 

 

5. Background Color Choices

You also have the option to choose from 11 different background colors. So feel free to test out which color you think works best with your pictures.

6. Sharing Your Design

Once you have perfected your case, make sure to share it with your friends on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr!

 

 

 

 

6 Reasons to See Case-Mate at CES 2012

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We’re looking forward to returning to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Jan. 10-13, 2012! We’ve got several great contests, giveaways and interactive modules planned to showcase all of our fashionable and innovative new accessories for a variety of devices, including the iPhone 4S, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy S II, Blackberry Bold 9900, Motorola Droid Razr, HTC Vivid/Raider 4G, iPad 2 and Kindle Fire.

So for all of you attending, make sure to come see us at the Las Vegas Convention Center, iLounge, North Hall, Booth #5816, to participate in the following:

1. New Year! New Case!

Bring us your tired, poor old beat-up case and we’ll trade it out for one of our new premium ($50) Phantom cases. Don’t wait too long though – we’re only bringing enough for the first 500 people who stop by our booth.

2. Titanium Case Giveaway

When you come to our booth, also make sure to drop one of your business cards in our Titanium Giveaway Bin to be entered for a chance to win one of our $300 Genuine Titanium iPhone 4/4S cases.

  • Day 1 (Jan. 10) Winner: Joseph Gomes, University of South Florida, Pediatrics Epidemiology Center
  • Day 2 (Jan. 11) Winner: Rodney Nieves, Link Distributors Corp
  • Day 3 (Jan. 12) Winner: Thomas Hare, Canadian Forces
  • Day 4 (Jan. 13) Winner: Pete Bratach, Tech Writer from Palo Alto, CA

 

3. Upgraded I Make My Case

We’re making some major changes and upgrades to our popular I Make My Case tool. Be one of the first to play with the new redesign and we’ll send you the custom case you design at our I Make My Case station!

4. Build Your Own Quartet

We’ll have barrels of fun colors for you to mix and match your favorite shades and create a special Quartet case for your new iPhone 4S that expresses your unique sense of style. Grab as many colors as you like so you’ll have the right case for any occasion.

5. Case-Mate <3′s Android

In addition to our Apple swag, we’ll also have fun stuff available for the massive Android community. We’ll be giving away samples of POP!, one of our most popular cases to date, for the Droid Razr and Samsung Galaxy S2.

6. Drink

And last but not least… we’ll have an open bar on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; where we’ll be serving specialty cocktails for visitors that stop by our booth between 4:30-6pm.

Keep up with our latest announcements by following @CaseMate on Twitter and Liking the Case-Mate Facebook page. For press inquiries, please contact Lauren Montero at lauren.montero@case-mate.com.

 

SModCast iPhone 4/4S Design Contest

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The Jay and Silent Bob designs we received in our last contest were so awesome that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes asked us to turn to you once more to design official SModcast cases to represent their Internet radio empire. The winning designs will be chosen by the fellas themselves and announced in early November.

How to Enter

1. Go to www.facebook.com/casemate –and follow these directions:

2. Create and upload one of the following designs via the iPhone 4 instructions in our DIY tool: custom.case-mate.com/diy. See the bottom of this post for step-by-step instructions.

  • Option 1: Submit a unique, original illustration using iconic scenes, lines and references to any of the 28 SModcast shows on Smodcast.com—make sure to include the title of the specific SModcast you are referencing in your design.
  • Option 2: Submit a unique, original interpretation of the S.I.R. logo.

Design Don’ts:

  • Don’t submit copyrighted work. Entries containing copyrighted material will be disqualified
  • Do not use clip art or photos
  • Entries deemed extremely vulgar or offensive will be disqualified.

2. Download your image and submit the JPEG file in our contest form on the Case-Mate Facebook page.

3. Get your friends to vote for your design! Once the submission period has ended, Case-Mate will send the artists of the 10 designs with the most votes on the app leaderboard their design on an iPhone 4/4S case.

4. If you are having trouble submitting  your design please email it with the following information to: molly.uhlig@case-mate.com

  • SUBJECT: SModcast Design Submission
  • FULL NAME:
  • EMAIL:
  • PHONE:
  • ADDRESS:
  • BIRTHDATE (Ex. 01/11/1981):
  • DESIGN NAME: (Must be less than 30 characters)
GRAND PRIZE AND OTHER PRIZES:

  • One (1) grand prize design will be chosen and awarded $500 along with their case signed by Kevin and Jason.
  • Five (5) other designs will be chosen and the designers will be awarded $100 along with their case signed by Kevin and Jason.
  • The ten (10) designs with the most votes on the app leaderboard will receive an iPhone 4/4S case with their design.
  • Winners will be announced in early November.

Upload your design by 12pm EST on Friday, Oct. 28, 2011.

How to Design Your SModCast Case:

1. Recommended canvas size 2000 x 1200 pixel JPEG.

2. Once you’ve created your design you’ll need to UPLOAD it into the Case-Mate DIY tool. 

3. Under select your device: Choose iPhone 4.

4. Adjust your design to fit the iPhone 4 case. Make sure your design wraps around the case and meets the dotted line like in the example below.

5. Once you are happy with your design click the DOWNLOAD button under Share your design. This will download the .jpg image to your desktop.

 

6. Next, UPLOAD this .jpg image into the SModCast Design app on the Case-Mate Facebook Page.

ACL Instagram Contest Winners

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We’re happy to announce the winners from our Austin City Limits Instagram Contest! During the past two weeks we received hundreds of photos through #ACLcase on Instagram. We chose 11 of you to win a free case and one grand prize winner to receive the ultimate ACL Swag Prize Pack, including:

GRAND PRIZE WINNER

Nicholas Osborn

FREE CASE WINNERS

1. Patrick Pluscht

 

2. Tiffany Ritter

 

3. Matthew Konrad

 

4. Geo M.

 

5. Kyrie Cassin

 

6. Jayna Finucane

 

7. Joey Garcia

 

8. Joakim Leijon

 

9. Andrew Medina

 

10. Caitlin

 

11. Reagan Hicks

 

Congratulations to the winners! Thanks to everyone who submitted pictures, we loved looking through them!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lollapalooza Instagram Contest Winner

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In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Lollapalooza, we challenged Instagram users to share nostalgic photos revealing the magic that turned Jane’s Addiction 1991 Farewell Tour into one of the most epic music festivals of all time. Our team traveled to the Chicago, Illinois during the first weekend of August to help stir up some Instagram fun with the 90,000+ crowd attending Lollapalooza each day.

We received hundreds of amazing photos and chose one randomly to win the grand prize. Colton Crowe of Illinois was the lucky winner of the 20th Anniversary frame, signed by Perry Farrell, with all eight versions of our Lollapalooza cases!

Check out some of the great photos we received.

Also make sure to check out the four limited edition designed cases for sale in the Lollapalooza online store.

Jay & Silent Bob Design Winners!

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We’re sorry for the delay, but there were so many great Jay and Silent Bob designs that Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes needed a little more time to look through and decide which they would select as the winners.

On July 21, we launched our Jay & Silent Bob design contest on Facebook in partnership with Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes at Comic-Con. We asked our fans to submit an original design using iconic scenes, lines and references to Jay and Silent Bob as inspiration.

After two weeks we received more than 250 incredible designs! At the close of the submission period we printed the ten designs with the most votes on our Facebook contest leaderboard, and five others that we really liked internally, onto iPhone 4 cases to send to Smith and Mewes. We also sent them a book with ALL the designs submitted, so they could see all the other great submissions. EVERY design submitted into this contest was viewed and had a chance to be chosen as one of the final winners.

On Friday morning, Aug. 12, Kevin and Jay were given the 15 cases and entire book of designs to review as they rode from Los Angeles to their next show in Las Vegas. They went back and forth during the four and a half hour drive to Vegas arguing which designs to choose – and said it was a very tough decision. They passed out the 15 cases to their team and are wearing their favorites – check out Kevin Smith’s iPhone.

After great debate Kevin and Jay chose the following designs. Congratulations to the winners!

Grand Prize Winner:  “Snoogans” By: Martin Laksman

1. Runner Up: “Jay & Silent Bob Eat BRAINS” By: Michael Batista

2. Runner Up: “Hetero life-mates” By: Manuel Peters

Lollapalooza Instagram Contest

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In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Lollapalooza, we’re challenging Instagram users to share nostalgic photos revealing the magic that turned Jane’s Addiction 1991 Farewell Tour into one of the most epic music festivals of all time. Also make sure to check out the four limited edition designed cases for sale in the grand merchandise at Lolla or available in the Lolla online store after the festival.

How to Enter

  • Download the FREE iPhone app Instagram from the iTunes App store and create an account.
  • SHARE a non-copyrighted photo related to Lollapalooza on Instagram with the hashtag #LollaCM and tag @CaseMate in the ‘What’ field.
  • Users may submit one (1) photo per day.
  • All designs must be uploaded by 11:59:59 pm EST on Friday, August 12, 2011.
  • Check out all #LollaCM photos here.
  • Please see Official Rules

Photo Restrictions

  • Do not submit copyrighted work.
  • Entries deemed offensive or vulgar will be disqualified.

Prizing

  • Daily Prizes: Each day during the contest period (Aug. 2-12, 2011) Case-Mate will randomly select one (1) photo entry and send that person a free case from www.case-mate.com.
  • Grand Prize: One (1) Grand Prize winner will be randomly selected on Monday, Aug. 15, 2011 to receive a framed display signed by Lollapalooza founder and lead singer of Jane’s Addiction, Perry Farrell, with all eight (8) Limited Edition 20th Anniversary Lollapalooza iPhone cases.
Don’t have an iPhone? Share some of your pictures from Lollapalooza over the past 20 years in the comments of this post. We’ll be giving cases away this way too.

Jay & Silent Bob Design Contest

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Kevin Smith is in the hizzzzzouse with us at Comic-Con, and we want you help us design a series of limited edition Jay and Silent Bob iPhone 4 cases! All you need to do is submit an original design using iconic scenes, lines and references to Jay and Silent Bob as your inspiration on our Facebook Page. And you better get your creative juices flowing for this contest because the three winning entries will be chosen by the fellas themselves, Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes!

“My Father taught me to weigh my words carefully, and speak up only when I had something insightful to add to the proceedings, or something really funny to say. He also taught me that if I couldn’t be that kind of guy in real life, that I could earn a healthy living pretending to be that guy in the movies–particularly when paired up with a long haired stoner.” ~ Kevin Smith, My Boring Ass Life

Design Inspiration

Silent Bob’s distinguishing features are his long coat, dark hair, beard, and backwards baseball cap. True to his name, Silent Bob rarely speaks but when he does he often has something profound or thoughtful to say, delivering insightful monologues to the other characters only in appropriate situations. Otherwise he relies on hand gestures and facial expressions to communicate. Jay once mentioned that Silent Bob rarely talks because he feels he leaves a major impact when he does speak.

Jay is thinner and slightly taller than Bob, and has long blond hair. In several of the later View Askewniverse films, Jay wears a black beanie. In Clerks, the first film to feature the duo, Jay wears a baseball cap.

Design Requirements

  • Submit ONE (1) unique, original illustrations. 2000×2000 pixel JPEG. (Use our DIY tool to see what your design will look like on an iPhone 4 case.)
  • Include BOTH Jay and Silent Bob in your design
  • Include the text, “Jay and Silent Bob” in your design
  • All designs must be uploaded by 11:59pm PST on Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Design Restrictions

  • Do not submit copyrighted work. (If you see artwork that belongs to another artist please let us know, by providing a link to the original, so we can delete it from the contest.)
  • Don’t use clip art or photos
  • Entries deemed offensive or vulgar will be disqualified. (Yes, we know it’s Jay and Silent Bob. Just try to be reasonable – we’ll be as open-minded as possible.)

Grand Prize

  • Three designs will be chosen: one (1) Grand Prize and two (2) runners-up.
  • One (1) Grand Prize winning designer will be awarded $500. The two (2) runners-up will be awarded $100 each.
  • The three winning designs will be featured on an iPhone 4 case from Case-Mate.
  • Winners will be announced during the JAY AND SILENT BOB GET OLD show at the Hard Rock Cafe in Las Vegas on Friday, August 12, 2011.

How to Enter

1. Go to www.facebook.com/casemate

2. Submit your unique Jay and Silent Bob design

3. Get your friends to vote for your design! Once the submission period has ended, Case-Mate will present the 10 images with the most votes and five of Case-Mate’s favorites to Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes, who will choose their top three cases (Their favorite and two runners-up).

4. If you are having trouble submitting  your design please email it with the following information to:

kathlene.hestir@case-mate.com

  • SUBJECT: Jay & Silent Bob Design Submission
  • FULL NAME:
  • EMAIL:
  • PHONE:
  • COUNTRY OF RESIDENCE:
  • BIRTHDATE (Ex. 01/11/1981):
  • DESIGN NAME: (Must be less than 30 characters)

Andy Khouri Makes His Case

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We came across this awesome post on Tumblr by graphic design artist Andy Khouri. He created these killer cases seen below simply by using our I Make My Case site for Underworld fans. Here, fans and artists like Andy Khouri can completely customize their own cases by using cool graphic designs and tools like the “Mirror,”  ”Kaleidoscope,” and more!

Andy Khouri is a writer and content producer specializing in comic books, music and social networking. He’s an editor for one of the biggest comic websites in the U.S., ComicsAlliance, and is also a frequent contributor to the fansite Born Dirty for one of our featured bands, Underworld. Khouri lives in Hollywood, where he is considered to be one of L.A.’s premier up-and-coming bloggers.

Want to Design Your Own Case?

If you want to design your own custom case like Andy Khouri did, visit imakemycase.com. You can upload your own pictures or designs to print onto a case or you can customize a case using any of our featured artists’ designs! If you’re a fan of Underworld, Nine Inch Nails, No Doubt, Metric, Yeasayer, Health, or Yo Gabba Gabba, you should definitely check out our website and make as many different designs as you want!