2009 Dirxion Mascot Contest Winner Announced!

After a grueling two weeks of pouring over entries for the Dirxion “Choose Our Mascot” contest, we finally chose a winner. It wasn’t easy, as we had a couple of stand out entries to narrow down, but after the Dirxion marketing group was locked up in a tiny, overheated conference room for 12 hours without one single break, a winner emerged from the pack.

Okay, so while it wasn’t quite that dramatic, in all honesty it was a fantastic contest and we did a lot of in-depth thinking before choosing the animal/person/object that will represent Dirxion as the official company mascot. This was not a light weight decision!

We’d like to take a moment to send out a HUGE congratulations to the winner of the mascot contest, Greg Norton!! Greg, who found our contest over on Reddit.com, sent us a very unique entry that no matter how hard we tried, we just could not take our eyes off of it.

You’ll see Greg’s artwork below, but just in case you’re not familiar with the “Pygmy Jerboa”, a jumping desert rodent found throughout Northern Africa and Asia, here is a quick Youtube video that shows the cute little thing in action. After watching this short clip of the amazing Pygmy Jerboa, and after looking at Greg’s awesome concept drawing, you’ll see why we picked it.

Pretty awesome, right!?

Anyway, for Greg’s big win, we sent him a $100 Amazon gift card. We would tell him not to spend it all in one place but that would be kind of hard to do since it is an Amazon gift card that is only redeemable at Amazon.com.

Seriously though - great work, Mr. Greg Norton, and may the jumping desert rodent gods reward you for spreading the good word.

The Dirxion “Choose Our Mascot” Contest Starts Today!

In celebration of our 100th blog posting (which happened last Friday), and also due to the fact that we’ve been trying to think up a killer mascot that symbolizes Dirxion’s digital publishing prowess, we’ve decided to launch the official Dirxion “Choose Our Mascot” contest.

Whoever sends in the best mascot idea will win a $100 Amazon Gift Card plus a lot of love from Dirxion and major bragging rights! The contest starts TODAY, so take a good look at the guidelines below, and get those creative gears in your head cranking.

Here’s how the mascot contest works …

1. Dream up a super-cool mascot for Dirxion. You’re only limited by your imagination and creativity. We found out that picking a mascot for a digital publishing company isn’t exactly easy - so that’s why we’re leaving it up to you to think of something great!*

2. Once the masterpiece is crafted, submit your entry via email (one entry per person, please) to marketing@dirxion.com with at least your first name by 5/31/09.

3. A team of in-house judges will review all of the entries during the two weeks that the contest is live, and on June 1st a triumphant winner will be announced on the Dirxion blog. We’ll contact the winner by email (so make sure to use an email address that you check regularly).

We also want to add that while it’s certainly not necessary to send any artwork, it definitely would not hurt your chances at scoring some extra creativity points!

I think that covers it. If not, just drop us a line at marketing@dirxion.com.

Thank you in advance for your participation. This might be the easiest $100 you’ll ever have a chance at winning!

*If more than one entry of the same winning mascot is received, a random drawing will be held to determine who gets the prize.