Team Vox Japan's Banner Contest featuring Foxkeh

As previously announced, the participation in the Vox Banner Contest was extremely high with over 600 entries from Voxers worldwide.

As a follow up, Team Vox Japan would like to open up participation to U.S. users to their Vox Banner Contest featuring Foxkeh, the Mozilla Japan's recently named mascot.  Foxkeh was created by Mozilla Japan to help introduce Firefox to new users in Japan.

According to Team Japan's original post, the rules will be basically the same as the orginal Vox Banner Contest but please use the Foxkeh image somewhere in your design, other than that you can design or illustrate the banner in any way that you'd like, just follow the rules below and you'll be set.

The winner will see their Vox banner turned into a Vox theme in an upcoming release. Your theme will include a credit line ("Design by") with a link to your online design portfolio. This "Design by" link will appear on every Vox blog that uses your theme. In addition, your credit line will appear on the Design page underneath your theme thumbnail. This is a great way to gain exposure as a designer and to have your design used by Vox users worldwide.

In addition, the winner will receive 20 Vox invites deposited into their accounts and also some Mozilla Japan and Vox goodies. Everyone who enters (and correctly tags their entry) will receive 5 invites as well.

To get started:

• Download this banner graphic and also the graphics for Foxkeh. You must have graphics software that will allow you to open a layered Photoshop file. A 30-day free trial of Adobe Photoshop is available here or you could also try out the open source alternative "the GIMP."

• After creating your design, save your layered file. Create another copy and save it as a flattened .jpg, .gif, or .png.
• Upload the flattened image and tag the image "Mozilla Japan Vox Banner Contest" and we'll find your entries.  (You must tag the image.  If you write a post as well, please also tag the post.)

Rules

1. All entries must be submitted by 07:59 A.M. (PDT) on Friday, October 6, 2006. Unfortunately, we cannot review late submissions.
2. You may submit as many entries as you would like.
3. Any Vox user is welcome to submit an entry.
4. Because we only use HTML text on Vox published blogs, we do not allow graphical text in our banners.
5. Please select a system font that is available on a wide variety of computers. We have found that Helvetica, Arial, Trebuchet MS, Lucida Grande, Century Gothic, Franklin Gothic, Georgia, and Verdana work best.
6. You must own the copyright on any images or graphics used in your entry except for the Foxkeh images. Entries must not include images that infringe upon someone else's copyright, trademark, or license.  Foxkeh's images are owned by Mozilla Japan and governed under the Attribution-NonCommercial license of Creative Commons.
7. Entries must not include images that are unlawful, harmful, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable, the determination of which is up to the sole discretion of the contest organizers.
8. We reserve the right to use your banner and graphics in other Six Apart blogging services and platforms such as TypePad, LiveJournal, and Movable Type.  Winners will be announced on the Team Vox blog on Wednesday, October 11th.

Judging
Team Vox in Japan and Mena will judge all entries. Entries will be judged on the following criteria:

• Originality and uniqueness
• Creativity
• Appeal to a broad audience
• Appropriateness to the Vox design aesthetic

--Dice