Semi-Permanent Perth ticket giveaway
Our friends over at Semi-Permanent, which is the biggest annual design conference in Australia, have given us five double passes to give away to the Perth leg of the event on April 8. So if you’re a Lost At E Minor subscriber, and you want to attend, or if you’re not yet a subscriber but sign up now, leave a message under this post with why you want to go along and we’ll randomly select five lucky winners of the passes, which are valued at $300 each, on April 1st. [read an interview with Amy Sol, one of the guest speakers at Semi-Permanent Perth this year]
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YOU'RE SAYING (14)
dale Hutton said | 20 March, 2008
well basicall there will never be anything this cool in my country so i would love to go to this conference….please please pick me 
Natalie Blom said | 20 March, 2008
I want to get my artwank on.
Sam said | 20 March, 2008
why do i want to go along? simple. Ben Frost, Amy Sol and Debaser.
aneta said | 21 March, 2008
My creative juices are hanging out for a dose of inspiration … and no better place to get it …. I NEEEED to go!!
janice said | 22 March, 2008
i would love the tix.. which design person wouldnt! it seems there is more and more happening on design in perth, which is fantastic
jesse said | 22 March, 2008
I would like to go please
Pc said | 22 March, 2008
$300 I don’t have to go to the only good thing in Perth this April.
Andrew said | 23 March, 2008
PICK ME – I’M GOOD AT USING CAPITOL LETTERS TO EXPRESS MYSELF (and will write you a couple of blog rolls when I’m there if you like, to the value of $300 of course)
Tony said | 25 March, 2008
I need to go so the three eyed Mickey Mouse will take its hand out of my ass.
deuce said | 26 March, 2008
…ummm can’t think of anything to write, need to go for creative inspiration?
Fiona Everette said | 26 March, 2008
please pick me i’m a starving/ emerging artist who needs a break!
Jarrad said | 26 March, 2008
I wonder what randomly select really means…
Do you get a small child to choose? Or the whole ‘out of a hat’ thing…
Zolton said | 28 March, 2008
Hey guys, thanks for the great response to this giveaway. It’s good to see we have some enthusiastic readers in Perth. I’d love to be able to give everyone who entered a ticket, but we only have five, so thanks to the good folk at Semi-Permanent the five winners of the double passes for April 8 are: ally, Andrew, Fiona, aneta, and Janice. We’ll contact you all in regards to how to access your tickets. Enjoy the event!
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ally said | 20 March, 2008
please me! i’ve been every year, even before it was in perth i flew to syd for it, and i’d hate to miss out now!