Voting Begins
Voting has begun! Your votes will count for 50% of the entries' final scores, so check out the 55 entries, and feel free to try them out.
"Visitors can visit the contest page and rate each entry from one to five stars. The total percentage after user voting is over on December 3rd will count for half of the entry's final score. The other half will be determined by a panel of five, including staff members at MacThemes.net and artists.
The three winners will be announced December 6th. The first place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to use at Amazon.com to stock their library, a wireless bluetooth barcode scanner (valued at $175), and a copy of Delicious Library. The second place winner will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate and a copy of Delicious Library. The third place winner will receive a copy of Delicious Library."
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Lego
Lego, by Le Joshua
Final Rating: 55%
Information: LEGO's are a classic toy that touch many generations. The only limit is the imagination.
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Untitled, by Las Vegas Bathroom
Las Vegas Bathroom, by Justin Kimbro
Final Rating: 61%
Information: None provided.
Dave Auyuan
Untitled, by Dave Auyuan
Final Rating: 55%
Information: A late basic G5 metal entry, apparently.
Metal Man
Metal Man, by Ben Cruz
Final Rating: 70%
Information: It's very metallic, complementing your G5 or AlBook. Detailed, yet smooth.
Delicious Aluminum
Delicious Aluminum, by Steven Birkes
Final Rating: 53%
Information: None provided.
Apple G5 Theme, by Beachwood Light
Beachwood Light, by Samuel Sidler
Final Rating: 74%
Information: Beachwood Light is a replica of beachwood shelves I own. The background image is taken directly from a photo and heavily digitized. Labels in the theme are torn masking tape (the easiest way to revise labels in the "real world", should your shelving change). Enjoy!
Richard Brigante
Untitled, by Richard Brigante
Final Rating: 57%
Information: It's a modern design inspired by a piece furniture. I tried to keep it simple so that it could be used for all kinds of media and genres.
iVidi Sea, by Michelle Moss
Untitled, by Michelle Moss
Final Rating: 54%
Information: Pretty simple design... the background resembles a cork board and the shelves are brass bars.
Enlightened
Enlightened, by Michael B. Stuart
Final Rating: 82%
Information: I wanted to make a gallery like feel for the library items. Not to mention the lights are all solar powered, cool to the touch, and great for hydroponic projects!
Graffiti, by Clouds
Clouds, by Kris Black
Final Rating: 78%
Information: This theme was inspired by my favorite animation company, Pixar.
Fear Platinum Shelf
Fear Platinum Shelf, by JoE950
Final Rating: 74%
Information: Built to go with Fear Platinum 3, load it up with some great stuff!
Troppy, by Eric Sarmany
Untitled, by Eric Sarmany
Final Rating: 80%
Information: Simple metallic shelves with white under-shelf accent lights.
Wicker
Wicker, by Bryan Bray
Final Rating: 75%
Information: Well, not much to say really. I just tried to develop some shelf themes I would actually use. Hopefully you will enjoy them as well. Thanks for putting on the contest, it was a lot of fun.
Arctic Bear, by Bathroom
Bathroom, by Antonio Mingoia
Final Rating: 77%
Information: A simple design based on the glass shelves and glossy tiles found in the average bathroom.
Untitled, by Travis McHugh
Untitled, by Travis McHugh
Final Rating: 59%
Information: Red textured background with white dental molding shelves.
Untitled, by Patrick Keenan
Untitled, by Patrick Keenan
Final Rating: 84%
Information: This is a revival of the william morris Arts and Crafts movement. WIth the new world of textures the old art of textile design has a new importance. I wanted to give an comfortable home-like feel to the shelves and make people feel at comfortable in their library.
Carbon Brushed
Carbon Brushed, by Joakim Gunnarsson
Final Rating: 69%
Information: I wanted a design that was nice but yet subtile (not sure thats the right word tho..). I focused on having it blend in almost unnoticable and yet cool-looking.
Paranoia
Paranoia, by Jason Martin
Final Rating: 77%
Information: My original idea was to have a dark, almost sewer-like appearance. Since it is a tiled background, that pretty much limited it. So I tried to capture the look of a very dark rock. For the shelves, I added some LEDs to add interest and contrast to the design. Since there are more elements than the 5 required, I decided to to the Alternate Metal background. After an hour I got a white rock that I liked. To make it more consistent, I took an element from the metal background and the regular shelf background and placed them on each other and the labels so it would look unified. The titlebars weren't working for me either, so I redid those and the About box.
5th Place: Corrugated Metal
Corrugated Metal, by James Meister
Final Rating: 85%
Information: My design is inspired by some shelving we have at work. It's chromed steel and can hold quite a lot.
Black Laquer
Black Laquer, by Wiley Wiggins
Final Rating: 53%
Information: Simple, darker, laquered wood.
6th Place: iKea
iKea, by Si Buckmaster
Final Rating: 85%
Information: Sleek, affordable Swedish shelf design for your Mac. Made from the finest Scandinavian pine sourced only from sustainable forests. Stainless steel fittings and brackets. Features downlighting and recessed labelling areas to help illuminate your special collection. Includes additional warehouse shelving*. Guaranteed ten years.
*Some assembly required.
Rust, by 4th Place: Paul Armstrong
Untitled, by Paul Armstrong
Final Rating: 85%
Information: This design takes the complete opposite as the default wooden bookshelves into a smooth dark metal shelving system.
Holiday Lights
Holiday Lights, by Parker Bennett
Final Rating: 78%
Information: Holiday Lights-Curtains (v.1.0) - Classic wood shelves with holiday lights against a festive red curtain.
Fluorescent, by Football
Football, by John Kinsella
Final Rating: 57%
Information: I'm a big football fan (Go Bears) and felt inspired to create a football-based Delicious Library theme.
Brick in the Wall, by Danny Cohen
Untitled, by Danny Cohen
Final Rating: 74%
Information: Some of us require more than bare wood to showcase our belongings. Wallpaper, painted shelves, and some nice gold plaques give our "Mr.T's Be Somebody or Be Somebody's Fool" VHSes a better resting place.
Smooth Mac
Smooth Mac, by Daniel Counsell
Final Rating: 67%
Information: Clean, smooth and delicious , just like your new G5 iMac!
TimZ
TimZ, by Timothy Zulewski
Final Rating: 64%
Information: Designed to go nicely with metallic Shapeshifter themes.
Blue
Blue, by Christopher Forsythe
Final Rating: 72%
Information: Based on the colors of the default Growl notification called Bubbles. This design makes me think of a bookshelf I once saw that was old and used, but was nice due to the fact that the librarian covered the shelves in a blue paper. This also preserved the shelves for many years.
Christopher P. Cacho
Untitled, by Christopher P. Cacho
Final Rating: 64%
Information: I wanted to make something my girlfriend would love.
TA, by Monster's House
Monster's House, by Scott Williams
Final Rating: 72%
Information: The design shows what the delicious monster's home library may look like, every Monster loves Green so this was key in the design. If the design achieved what it set out to do the monster would be ROARING with delicious delight when he sets out his book and DVD on these library shelfs.
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G5, by Nitehawk Jarrett
Final Rating: 53%
Information: This design is based on the Mac G5 design.
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Dirty Library, by Mark Jardine
Final Rating: 76%
Information: I thought most people would try to design something really clean and beautiful (delicious) so I thought I would do something completely opposite and create something dirty and "ugly" (if you want to call it that). It almost has a dirty prison feel which I thought was kind of cool.
Swirly Metal
Swirly Metal, by Kim Clegg
Final Rating: 77%
Information: The swirly texture is from actual metal (thanks Bill!), the rest is just Photoshop. Grey is the best choice to make your DVD covers' color pop!
Smoked Glass, by Smoked Glass
Smoked Glass, by Jonathan Mulcahy
Final Rating: 73%
Information: I created a Smoked Glass / Aluminum bookcase. I spent about an hour on the train ride home this evening.
Boltz
Boltz, by John Kelly
Final Rating: 81%
Information: After seeing the design on the "Recent Imports" shelf, I thought a more industrial look would complement the application well. I went with a steel plated design for the background and shelves and brushed metal for the name tags. I call it Boltz.
Skulls
Skulls, by Johnny Larocque
Final Rating: 81%
Information: This theme was inspired by my vast horror DVD collection. I struggled with making the blood look realistic, so I went back to the drawing board and cut myself. Photographing that seemed to do the trick! Enjoy!
Delicious Library Shelf Theme Contest
Delicious Monster and MacThemes.net are pleased to announce a design contest to promote Delicious Monster's debut application, Delicious Library. Artists can design and submit shelf themes from November 15th through November 22nd, replacing Library's wooden shelves with modern or quirky alternatives.
The three winners will be selected by a combination of reader and panel votes, and receive almost $400 worth of prizes, including free copies of Delicious Library. The first place winner will receive a $50 gift certificate to use at Amazon.com to stock their library, a wireless bluetooth barcode scanner (valued at $175), and a copy of Delicious Library. The second place winner will receive a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate and a copy of Delicious Library. The third place winner will receive a copy of Delicious Library.
All theme submissions will be available on MacThemes.net for users to try out. There will be a one week voting period beginning November 23rd, and winners will be announced on the 30th.
Due to a large number of entries, we are now limiting submissions to one per person.
If you are interested in designing a submission, download the submission package by clicking the link below, and submit your design to contest@macthemes.net before the November 22nd deadline! All entries will be property of Delicious Monster Software LLC.
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