Happy 2010; designers contest is closed & photography contest to start

First of all the whole JUSTPROUD team wishes all of you a happy, prosperous & healthy 2010!

Designers contest is closed
Today January 4th the designers contest is closed; over the next week we will validate all candidates and votes & announce the winner asap next week. We thank all contestants & looking forward working with you.

Photographer contest starts
Today we will start the last contest before going live with our next site release: the photographer contest! WE invite all photographers to join & upload their example picture, profile & motivation (in addition to this we will ask potential winners before the end of the contest a full portfolio overview, to make sure the uploaded picture is actually theirs.
The winner will win a trip to Europe and have a photo shoot with Vanessa Jace Sanz (and the runners up) in the 1st JUSTPROUD collection. This is your chance!

3 months of JUSTPROUD pre-start.
This week we are 3 months live with the pre-site of JUSTPROUD. The results are very encouraging & warm. When we started the project 9 months ago, we thought it should have a chance & this believe grows by the day. At first we just wanted to launch a website that would explain the concept, but after the enormous enthusiasm we decided to involve the ‘founding members’ right from the start by organizing contests. We started with 414 models, then 66 designers & now we end with the photographers. Our Facebook Fanpage has about 3100 fans & we have ‘founding members’ from over 72 countries! The USA & UK are still the top countries and Singapore is a rising star.

Next site release
We expect to have the next site release ready at the end of next month; we will keep you informed about this & hopefully we can give you the new site designs early next week. We are looking forward to your opinion about it. If anyone has an idea about launching JUSTPROUD at the end of February, please let us know; over the next weeks we will explain our plan for launching & hopefully you can add something to it.