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MOO’s Laptop Design StickerBook on sale now!

We’re delighted to announce that the 90 winning entries of our Laptop Sticker Design Competition are now on sale in a special StickerBook.

With 90 different images in this StickerBook, there are designs, illustrations, photos and slogans to suit every taste. These stickers are perfect for sticker-ing up your;

Laptop

photo by philcampbell,

Phone

photo by Claire Howson

or Camera

photo by yarnzombie

Just make sure you don’t get too carried away and end up looking like this;

And here are the 90 winning stickers and their very talented designers;

Radha Ramachandran	distie	Olimpia Zagnoli
Antti Rastivo	Gregory Gunther	Arie Greer
Jason Hill	Aloke Pillai	Chris Bolton
mojuni	Jen H	Jen H
Emma	Stefan Amport	Michael Scaife
Kumiko B	Kumiko B	Radha Ramachandran
Caitlin Snell	kate seaward	Gemma Correll
Gemma Correll	Derek Powazek	Ephdisc
cocograce	Lindsey Jupp	Jena
Cathy Hyland	randall cosco	Cynthia Ting
Stefan Amport	Ines Maldonado	Jason Hill
Matt DeTurck	Alex Petrowsky	Dominic Sohor
Dominic Sohor	Ines Maldonado	Emma
Emmie	Lorena Palomar	Sarah Green
Joaquim Peixoto	Sarah Green	Mauricio Giraldo
Jen	Jeremiah Maher	firat enderoglu
Arie Greer	Ms Jen	Jason Hill
Jena	Yenty Jap	Maureen Shaughnessy
Jolante	Lisa Willis	Flavio Condo
Jason Hill	Lizzie	Victoria Regner
karen barbe	S135	Matt DeTurck
Jason Hill	Stefan Amport	Claire Murray
Gemma Correll	Luca Guglielmi	Jacqueen
karen barbe	Angela Ling	kathrynlinge
ymcg	dario sartini	Seattle Roll
Victoria Regner	jrjw	Jason Y
Ines Maldonado	souki	benjwalker
Lindsay OConnell	Marianne S	Emma
Felicia	Luca Carciofo	Olimpia Zagnoli
benjwalker	Olimpia Zagnoli	Hannah Robinson

New home, new homies

We’ve moved! Not that far away from our previous office, but far enough to require a full investigation into local pubs and sandwich shops. I’ll keep you posted if we find anything spectacular. Our previous office was very nice - host to a lot of food…

a lot of birthdays…

Some sad times…

And some happier times…

We packed MiniCard Holders there:

We locked our CTO in the cupboard and refused to let him out,

All in all, we worked really hard.

But now, on to bigger and better things! Look at all this space:

It’s quite overwhelming…

Luckily we have tanks, to help with our global domination plan:

And, umm… this:

But, you know. We’re sure it’ll all be fine.

In the meantime, we have a new member of the MOO crew. The wonderful Julien - a special intern from France! He’s helping out with our localisation, and marketing initiatives. He’s also set up a French Facebook group for us, and he’s keeping a French MOO blog, too.

But enough of me talking, I’ll let Julien speak for himself…

Hi everyone!

So I’m Julien, and I’m working at MOO as an intern since the beginning of April. And I’m French! I study management in a French Business School which is also based in London. I’ve been living here since September, and will move to Paris next September. I don’t come from Paris but from Nantes, a wonderful city close to the Atlantic Ocean. And I really miss it sometimes.

My role at MOO is to help the marketing team and to breathe life into the French MOOers’ community. If you speak French (even just a few words, we don’t mind!), just have a look at my blog, or at our Facebook group. Feel free to participate, leave a message or post pictures, to show the French all what you do with your cards and stickers!

Bonjour tout le monde!

Bienvenue à tous ! Je m’appelle donc Julien, et je suis stagiaire chez MOO depuis le début du mois d’avril. J’étudie dans une école de commerce française qui a aussi un campus à Londres, et j’habite donc à Londres depuis septembre dernier. Mais je viens de la belle ville de Nantes, qui d’ailleurs me manque beaucoup.

Mon rôle ici chez MOO est non seulement d’aider l’équipe marketing dans ses tâches quotidiennes, mais aussi de promouvoir MOO en France et de bâtir, avec vous, une communauté francophone autour de votre utilisation des MiniCards, StickerBooks et autres articles MOO. Vous pouvez donc me retrouver sur mon blog (pour en savoir plus sur MOO et moi, et vous!), ainsi que sur le groupe Facebook qui vous est dédié. N’hésitez pas à nous y rejoindre, et à laisser des messages, images, photos… Ce groupe est fait pour vous ! Vous pourrez également y retrouver les dernières actualités, en français, sur MOO.

We’re trying to learn your language…

As some of you might’ve already spotted, we’ve ‘localised’! What does that mean? Well, it means MOO is now available in more than one language. Since launch, MOO has shipped to countries all over the world, and little-by-little we’ve been learning, so we can speak to you in your own language too.

So far, MOO has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and German. If your browser is already set for one of these languages, it should automatically appear in the language of your choice. If it’s not, you can switch languages by clicking the links at the bottom of every page.

As I’ve already mentioned, we are still learning, so if you spot something a bit odd please do let us know. We might be a bit embarrassed, but we’ll do what we can to fix it!

In the mean time - welcome everyone! Pull up a chair, and make yourself feel at home.

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Eh oui, certains d’entre vous l’ont probablement déjà remarqué : nous avons procédé à la ‘localisation’ de notre site ! Qu’est-ce que ça veut dire ? Eh bien, maintenant MOO est disponible dans plusieurs langues. Depuis son lancement, MOO a expédié ses produits dans le monde entier et petit à petit, nous avons commencé à apprendre et désormais nous parlons votre langue.

A l’heure actuelle, MOO a été traduit en Français, Italien, Espagnol et Allemand. Si votre navigateur est déjà paramétré pour l’une de ces langues, le site devrait automatiquement s’afficher dans la langue de votre choix. Sinon, vous pouvez la sélectionner en cliquant sur l’un des liens en bas de chaque page.

Comme je l’ai déjà indiqué, nous continuons notre apprentissage alors si vous remarquez des trucs bizzares, n’hésitez pas à nous les signaler. Nous serons peut-être un peu gênés mais nous nous efforcerons de corriger cela !

D’ici là – bienvenue à tous ! Asseyez-vous et faites comme chez vous.

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Wie einige vielleicht schon bemerkt haben, ist unsere Seite jetzt übersetzt! Was das heißt? Naja, das heißt, dass es MOO jetzt in mehreren Sprachen gibt. Seit unserem Launch hat MOO seine Produkte in alle Welt verschickt, und wir haben immer ein bisschen dazu gelernt. Also können wir jetzt auch in deiner Sprache kommunizieren.

Bisher wurde MOO.com ins Französische, Italienische, Spanische und Deutsche übersetzt. Wenn du deinen Browser bereits für eine dieser Sprachen eingestellt hast, solltest du die Seite automatisch in der Sprache deiner Wahl lesen können. Wenn nicht, kannst du mittels der Links am Ende jeder Seite die Sprache ändern.

Wie schon erwähnt lernen wir noch. Wenn dir also irgendetwas merkwürdig erscheinen sollte, lass es uns bitte wissen. Das wäre uns zwar ein bisschen peinlich, aber wir tun natürlich was wir können, um den Fehler zu beheben!

Derweil heißen wir alle herzlich willkommen! Schnapp’ dir einen Stuhl und fühl’ dich wie zu Hause.

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Come alcuni avranno già notato, il nostro sito è stato “localizzato”! Ciò significa che MOO è ora disponibile in diverse lingue. A partire dall’inaugurazione del sito, MOO ha effettuato consegne in tutto il mondo e, poco a poco, ha imparato a parlare anche la tua lingua.

Finora, MOO è stato tradotto in Francese, Italiano, Spagnolo e Tedesco. Se il tuo browser è già impostato su una di queste lingue, il sito verrà automaticamente visualizzato nella lingua selezionata. In caso contrario, puoi cambiare la lingua facendo clic sui collegamenti visualizzati in fondo a ogni pagina.

Come abbiamo già detto, stiamo ancora perfezionando l’aspetto linguistico, quindi se trovi qualcosa di strano, ti preghiamo di segnalarcelo. Faremo tutto il possibile per risolvere il problema!

Nel frattempo, ti diamo un caloroso benvenuto! Qui ti sentirai come a casa tua.

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Como algunos de vosotros ya habréis notado, ¡hemos “localizado” nuestro sitio web! ¿Qué significa esto? Pues significa que MOO ahora está disponible en varios idiomas. Desde que empezamos, MOO ha realizado envíos a países de todo el mundo y, poco a poco, hemos ido aprendiendo, por lo que ahora también podemos ofrecerte nuestro servicio en tu idioma.

Hasta ahora, MOO se ha traducido a los siguientes idiomas: Francés, Italiano, Español y Alemán. Si tu explorador ya está establecido para alguno de estos idiomas, debería mostrarte automáticamente el sitio web en el idioma de tu elección. Si no es así, puedes cambiar de idioma haciendo clic en los enlaces al final de cada página.

Como ya hemos mencionado, todavía estamos aprendiendo, por lo que si detectas algo raro, te agradeceríamos que nos lo comunicaras. Nos sacarás los colores, pero haremos lo posible por arreglarlo.

Entretanto, ¡bienvenidos a todos! Poneos cómodos en vuestras sillas y sentios como en casa.

You did it!

Thanks so much to everyone who voted for MOO in the People’s Voice Webby Awards! We’re very pleased to announce that with your help, we won the People’s Voice vote in the ‘Services’ category. It means a lot to us, because - panels aside - it’s actually you (the people) we’re doing this for.

So, champagne all round! Or in our case, at 10 in the morning in London, a cup of tea. We might even go crazy and grab ourselves a biscuit too! Cheers!

The Winners of MOO’s Sticker Design Competition

A few weeks ago we invited you all to take part in our Sticker Design Competition. And you did, and how! We had over 600 designs submitted to the competition over at Pixish, including designs, illustration, photographs and mixed media images.

From the funny to the beautiful to the downright odd, we were delighted with the entries and had a tough time whittling down the list to our top 90 images. But we did, and we’ll soon be selling a limited edition StickerBook with the winning designs. (Check back next week for an ‘on sale now’ announcement on the blog.)

The Grand Prize winner is Ines Maldonado with her ‘moustache’ design. Ines has won £100 of Magma vouchers. All the winners who have had one or more image selected to be in the StickerBook will get a Flickr Pro account, and will be e-mailed with their prize soon, so well done to everyone who won and thank you to everyone who took part.

The list of the winners are below*, and if you want to see which images have made it into the pack, pop over to Pixish and scroll through all the submitted images to find the ones flagged as winners.

*What a clever, creative bunch you all are.

Happy days and holidays

Thanks to everyone who responded to our slightly desperate plea to vote for MOO in the Webbys! The official winners will be announced on Tuesday, so we shall wait the results with bated breath.

While we wait for that, you have the winners of our ‘design a laptop sticker’ competition to look forward to! There’s been over 600 entries and trying to narrow that down to the best 90 has been really hard. Some entries made us laugh, others got a slight look of confusion, and many more got an ‘awww!’ All will be revealed on Tuesday - thank you very much to everyone who took part.

This week has been really busy in the office - but not so busy we couldn’t celebrate a birthday - or in fact, two. Richard Pope, our awesome Information Architect *finally* hit 30, and the lovely Kim, an amazing Product Manager (and creator of handmade bunnies) had a birthday too. It’s not nice to discuss a ladies age though, so you can look at Kim’s cake instead.

In other news, this great little use for Stickers was spotted in the Flickr pool, thought up by -DjD-

And a mysterious project has been started by Flickr member diceliving . He’s using Minicards to promote a voicemail experiment, and he’s asking UK residents to get in touch and help spread the word!

Finally, it’s a bank holiday here in the UK this weekend, which traditionally means we’ll be sloshing about in the rain. Hope its sunny where you are!

Help!

No, don’t panic, everything is fine, but we just wanted to ask you a favour. I know we’ve already asked, but that was a polite and very British ‘if you wouldn’t mind, awfully’ kind of request. This time… Well, yes, this time you could class it as a bit of last minute begging.

Please would you vote for us in The Webby Awards!

We’d like to win - we’re only little and it would make absolutely everyone in the company feel really great. Our closest rival is furniture giant, IKEA, who do also rock (often from left to right, if you get me to assemble anything) but, you know. Any help you could give would be gratefully appreciated.

Here’s how you do it:
• Sign up to vote
• Go to the Retail category and vote for us
• Then go to the Services category and… vote for us.

Simple as that. Then of course, relax and know that you’ve made a bunch of people in East London very happy indeed.

Thank you very much.

Feeling touchy?

One of the nice things about MOO products, is the chance to get your stuff OFF the computer and into people’s hands. As more and more people take digital photos, more and more people have virtual folders full of stuff they never do anything with. You can’t stick a digital file on the fridge, and you can’t prop it up on your desk. You can’t send it in the post, and you can’t frame it and put it on your wall.

And you know what? It’s a bit of a shame, that.

Today we’re going to celebrate people who take ‘getting-stuff-off-your-computer’ one step further. Scrapbookers! MOO cards and stickers are all acid and lignin free (took us a while to research that one, but people asked, so we thought we should check.) This means they’re perfect for adding a unique and personal touch to your scrapbook designs… Something you can’t buy in a shop.

It also means you can make a scrapbook full of images about your life, loves and friends and get everything lurking on your hard drive *off* and turned into something beautiful.

Here’s a lovely example by Relly, who used MOO MiniCards for this design:

And another example using MiniCards - this time in a journal, by Heather:

Taking a different tack, Jamie Bloom made this beautiful calendar:

and Gina created this mix of painting and collage.

Relly has also taken advantage of MOO Stickers - to great effect. Look at this! Its a page full of a whole StickerBook’s worth of images, detailing an entire year:

(If you fancy making Stickers, now’s a good time - we’ve got a special offer!)

But some people do scrapbooking a little differently. These beautiful cards have been made by Renske. She creates collages and then photographs them. The resulting pictures make great MiniCards themselves:

and I’ve just spotted this - a scrapbook style design, made of the MiniCards which feature photos of Renske’s scrapbook style designs!

Scottish scrapbooker, Emma has done something similar, and used photos of her beautiful collages, for MOO Postcards. Her designs are fantastic - check out the more detailed photo.

So, the moral of the story? Get out the glue, get your photos off the computer, and get creative!
Happy weekend, everyone!

MOO Egg Hunt Ultimate Egg Basket Winner

This is the moment we’ve all been waiting for - the announcement of the Grand Prize Winner of the Ultimate Egg Basket.

After a busy two weeks of hunting online and in the ‘Great outdoors’ at the beginning of March, and discovering eggs hidden in products throughout March and April, it’s time to say a final goodbye to the Egg Hunt 2008 and a big hurrah! for the Grand Prize winner.

Our lucky winner is…

Alex Yirrell

Alex is the lucky winner of;

A Canon DSLR;

A silver video ipod nano;

Kim’s handmade bunny;

as well as a selection of prizes from all our Egg Hunt partners;

A Flickr Pro Account
A Picnik Premium Account
A $200 Timbuk2 Gift Certificate
A Blurb book
An Etsy Spending Spree
A Styleshake dress

Alex, those lovely prizes will be winging their way over to you shortly, so well done and lucky you!

We have had a cracking few weeks so thank you to everyone who took part.

If you’re still mourning the end of the Egg Hunt, why not take part in our Sticker Design competition? With more great prizes to be won and fun to be had, have a look here.

MOO Stickers for sellers

Hopefully, you’ll’ve already spotted that MOO is having a Sticker promotion. Buy 3 books of StickerBooks for the price of 2. All you need to do is make up any 3 books, using your own photos, or some of MOO’s designs, and at the check out stage, enter the promo code: moostickersfree. Voilà! An instant 33% off.

If you’re an Etsy seller, you might also know that MOO also has tools to help you make Stickers straight from your Etsy photos. If you’re wondering how you could use the Stickers, we thought that now might be a good time to show you some of the cool things we’ve seen. Sure you can make Stickers for yourself, but while there’s an offer on, why not make really good use of the Books, and start promoting yourself!

Tanis Alexis sells Stationery sets on Etsy, featuring her own artwork. A cute addition to the pack are these MOO Stickers, perfect for sealing envelopes or personalising cards.

Rather than stationery sets, Annette Mangseth sells Sticker sets like these, featuring her beautiful illustrations.

We’ve also seen stickers used in a variety of different ways, to create professional looking packaging. These really smart gift certificates are from photographer, Robyn

Kristin Williams, also has a range of fantatsic looking packaging, which she enhances further with MOO Stickers. Check out the original photo, for urls of other packaging suppliers.

If your budget is a little lower, then use MOO to enhance the packaging options you have already. These smart little boxes by Alison Brookbanks, have been simply embellished with Stickers, to create something crisp, and stylish.

While ladyfort uses a Sticker from MOO Designer Lara Cameron, as a much more attractive alternative to sticky tape.

Lemon Cadet gave her business cards a little make-over with MOO Stickers…

… While we’ve put Stickers to good use at MOO. Our sticky tape machine is covered!

And finally, if you are an illustrator, designer or photographer, and you’re feeling creative, why not enter our Sticker Competition! It’s the weekend afterall - what else is there to do? Go on…