Gerard Metrailler
Tue, Feb 3 2009

This morning, Corel announced both the CorelDRAW International Design Contest as well as a Anniversary Edition (in limited quantities) of CorelDRAW® Graphics Suite to celebrate the 20 years of design innovation with CorelDRAW. 

The CorelDRAW International Design Contest first. It starts today and It features 6 different categories:

  • Advertising/Marketing
  • Promotional/Personalization
  • Vehicle Wraps
  • Textile/Fashion Design
  • General Illustration and Fine Art.
  • Students

With prizes across the different categories representing a total value of over $75,000, winners in each category will receive a prize pack, and the overall grand prize winner will receive a Roland® VersaCAMM™ VP-540 printer/cutter (approximate retail value of over US$21,000). The contest starts today and your submissions need to be in before May 31st, 2009, with the winning entries to be displayed on the CorelDRAW.com community. As this is a world-wide contest, here are the links around the world where you can find out more information in your language, read the terms and conditions, and submit your entries:

And now about the CorelDRAW Anniversary Edition (boxshot above). This special box, available in limited quantities, includes CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4, a Wacom® Intuos®3 A6 Wide (4x6) pen tablet and new Corel® Painter™ Sketch Pad sketching software in one complete package. With this package, you can lay the base for really great designs using the pen tablet and sketching software, then apply professional illustration, page layout, photo editing and tracing by opening files in CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. This box will be available as a Full as well as an Uprade version from the corel.com online store and selected channel partners around the world.

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