Design a USB flash drive for Solid Alliance and win... a USB flash drive!

The fine folks at Solid Alliance have never seemed to be lacking for inventive designs, but they're now turning to you for some help sprucing up this otherwise ordinary-looking USB flash drive, soliciting designs in four different categories: foolish, proverb, creative,and "kiyara." You have until November 10th to get your design in (a template's provided on the page linked below), with the winning design chosen shortly thereafter on November 21st. So what exactly do you get for all your hard-fought Photoshopping, apart from the adoration of flash drive users across Japan? Why a USB drive of your own with your design on it, of course, with all the design rights given to Solid Alliance for them to do with what they please. Ah, the price of fame.

[Via Akihabara News]

[neurofuzzy @ Oct 27th 2006 11:18PM]

"The mineral we would like to throw the stir to the USB memory industry where design prevails.

From such thinking as for solid alliance USB memory production team, worldwide beginning! USB memory design is collected."

YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO DESIGN, MAKE YOUR TIME.

[tekdroid @ Oct 27th 2006 11:38PM]

first thing I'd do is change the case to have rounded corners and a cap that can't be lost.

[Chris Silvestro @ Oct 28th 2006 12:06AM]

Just a note for people, it seems to be you only design an image to go on the flat surface... it isn't a whole product redesign.


Pretty lame actually.

[David @ Oct 28th 2006 12:44AM]

Bleh, I think I'll buy a drive and put my design on it. It guarantees me a drive with my design on it, and I don't have to give away said design.

[Jay @ Oct 28th 2006 4:10AM]

What the? I was all set to come up with a kick-ass design in 3D. 2D is boring. I may enter anyway :-P

[slyecho @ Oct 28th 2006 4:46AM]

BTW, it's not "kiyara" but "kyara" which means character. And you have to mail them the design on a CD-R

[Graham @ Oct 28th 2006 10:43AM]

howbout skins? like for the ipod. man, they cant even come up with a color to put on it -.-

[Top @ Oct 28th 2006 12:03PM]

The winning prize is only a USB drive? Way too little, don't u think?

[D @ Oct 28th 2006 12:19PM]

Not physical design, an applique print. Stupid. Even with the inability to give a useful idea, its time they made them as big and bulky as a pager just to store enough for it to be worthwhile. Gotta be tons of cheap casings sitting around somewhere as well...

[Harry S @ Oct 28th 2006 9:00PM]

Oh buoy! that is a nasty looking shell for a flash drive I'd say ... whatever happened to the the Gen-X appeal factor? The thing looks like the size of an iPod nano ... all that mass just to put a custom print on ... bleh!

[James @ Oct 31st 2006 8:02AM]

You could just leave it as it is and put a C=64 logo on it and that should suit how contemporary it looks!