The 83rd Academy Award nominations were not especially surprising, but for Best Costume
Design category there were a couple of major upsets.
Not exact matches
Undoubtedly
there are visionary entrepreneurs who are
designing mobile products right now that don't fit in any of the above
categories.
There were several age and skill
categories starting with Young Beginner
Designs and then Beginner Student
Designs.
There are really no
design limits on rugs in the eco-friendly
category; it's the way these rugs are made that sets them apart.
There are very few websites in the online interracial dating
category that sport a
design as good as InterracialMatch.com.
Her vividly sensual prose may make the novel a production designer's dream — and given what we've seen of the film thus far, it seems a likely awards contender in the
design categories — but
there should be more at play here than simple visual splendor.
There are any number of possible explanations for this trend, most probable simply being the increasing split between blockbuster «entertainment» films that dominate the technical
categories while low - budget (in) dependent films, driven by strong acting, directing and writing, dominate the more prestigious awards, making a 7 Oscar win relatively rare (in order to reach that number, a film has to do well in either the effects or
design categories, areas which favor big - budget spectacle).
Who we want to win: Though it could be a close one between Tim Burton's cinematic realization of the beloved stage show Sweeney Todd and the staid period piece Atonement in the
category of Best Costume
Design,
there's no getting around how much we're still thrilled by Burton's wacky
designs after all these years.
There are 17 awards
categories, which include best learning technologies project, excellence in the
design of learning content, best use of mobile learning and best learning came.
The New Schools Network (NSN) has today released an analysis of exclusion data that reveals 20 children are excluded from school each day for racist abuse, arguing that the new
category of opening free schools where
there is a «social need» would allow groups to «create schools
designed to build community cohesion».
In the Tennessee ranking system that he helped
design,
there's no limit as to how many teachers can be placed in each
category.
There is an emerging
category of curriculum
designed around developing the non-cognitive skills of our students.
There are basically 2 broad
categories of mobile learning solutions: Mobile Enabled, and Mobile
Designed.
Achieving good
design in any product
category is hard work, and if the majority of your business is sports cars,
there's the added problem of maintaining an instantly identifiable look while moving forward.
There is a
category for «book apps,» but in essence your interactive book, which is trying to push the limits of what eBooks can and can't do, is competing against Angry Birds and a host of other addictive, mind - numbing apps that are
designed to help people gobble up thirty - second chunks of their day.
Please leave a comment to let me know which are your favorites or, if you disagree, let me know why.Although
there is only winner in each
category, other covers that were considered for the award or which stood out in some exemplary way, are indicated with a gold star: ★ Award winners and Gold - Starred covers also win the right to display our badges on their websites, so don't forget to get your badge to get a little more attention for the work you've put into your book.Also please note that we are now linking winning covers to their sales page on Amazon or Smashwords.Now, without any further ado, here are the winners of this month's e-Book Cover
Design Awards.
After going through all the
designs in the Kindle Fire section at Gelaskins, I discovered that was only the «most popular»
category —
there are a whole bunch more
designs in the other
categories listed on the right column.
While
there is so much to like about every edition of Global Pet Expo, one of my favorite elements of the show year after year is the Retailer Excellence Awards program that honors independent pet specialty stores in variety of
categories, such as community service, marketing and store
design.
Despite being lower cost,
there are a wide selection of colors and
designs for retailers to choose from within this
category.
«
There is a lot of innovation in the cat toy
category related to electronics and
design in general,» says Davis.
There are a number of
categories a game can win in, such as visual art, audio, and
design, as well as the nuovo award, in which the festival encourages developers to enter games that are «abstract, shortform, and unconventional.»
However,
there's a whole other
category of apps for the Apple Watch that the company is classifying as Companion Apps which are
designed to supplement iOS games that are just too complicated for the little machine.
- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when
there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are
designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if
there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy
designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink -
there are more new weapon
categories which haven't been revealed yet -
there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule
designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects
Following the popularity of last year's new
categories,
there are separate awards for QA and Localisation,
Design and Creativity Tools, and Production Tools.
There were not distinct
categories for the games this year, with each being judged as a whole based on such aspects as «visual aesthetic,
design and innovation, technical excellence, audio and compositional aesthetic, narrative, accessibility and representation».
«Since
there will be more than 100 different spices and mixes, we decided to make
categories (herbs, general spices, flowers, Indian spices, vegetables, peppers and two different mixes), so each group would have its own
design,» explained DekoRatio.
There is, however, a debate about which
categories and items do actually belong in a «Sustainable
Design Standard».
Ars Technica reports, «The research aims of the bill fall into three broad
categories: to figure out how best to deal with the e-waste already out
there, to «develop and demonstrate environmentally friendly alternatives to the use of hazardous and potentially hazardous materials in electronic devices and the production of such devices,» and to «reconsider product
design and assembly to facilitate and improve refurbishment, reuse, and recycling of electronic devices, including an emphasis on
design for recycling.»
The forced binary distinction implicit in the phrase is
designed to misleadingly relegate anything about which
there is still uncertainty to the
category of completely unknown.
Really, I have to admit that
there is something weird in the Urban
Design category when the most popular post of the year is about a duck path.
It's a mish - mash:
there are 7
categories of
design but items of the same
category are not put all together in one place.
This year,
there were hundreds of submissions in the «Legal»
category, and they went through a rigorous evaluation process where they were scored on their
design, content, functionality, usability and standards compliance.
We have no idea about its price at the time of writing (although speculation places it in the vicinity of Rs 15,000 — somewhere between the Honor 7X and the Honor 9i), but
there is no doubt that it punches well above its weight in the sub-Rs 20,000
category as far as the
design goes.
It's difficult to pick an outright winner, especially since
there are so many different possible configurations, but it is worth considering that Microsoft has been honing its
design in the 2 - in - 1 space, whereas Apple is a newcomer to this
category.
Sure,
there are timepieces from the later
category designed to resemble the former, but not without sacrificing real mechanical movement.
There are plenty of bots
designed for customer service, but which
category do they belong in?
Like any ultra-portable notebook,
there are a few compromises in the
design which is meant to enhance battery life at the expense of all - out power, and is a typical trade - off in this
category.
There you may also get other free
design resources from different
categories.
There are lots and lots of colors and
designs to choose from, and you can find them all listed by
category here: Red Letter Words.