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Laptopskins.net is a nominee for the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany

2009-06-09T08:11:00.006+02:00

After receiving an internationally renowned iF design award in 2008, laptopskins.net is a nominee nominee for the design award of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2010!

The Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany is the country‘s highest distinction in the field of design. It is known as the »Prize of Prizes«. The reason: no other design award sets such strict criteria on entries. Thus, a company can only enter the competition for the Design Award if its product has already been awarded a national or international design prize.

Another precondition for entry is that companies must have been nominated by the Ministries and Senators of the Federal States or by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology.

Wish me luck!

thank you all for your gallery submissions!

2008-07-09T19:01:00.007+02:00

Thank you all for the many submissions of your laptop skins for our laptop skin gallery - they're all beautiful and we really appreciate the effort! Please keep them coming! We would like to show the world how our skins look in real life - if you bought a laptop skin on laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can add it to our gallery. thank you very much!

custom laptop skins for asus EEE PC 8G, 4G and 2G

2008-05-31T14:21:00.006+02:00

you can order any design from laptopskins.net as a custom notebook sticker for your Asus EEE PC 2G, 4G or 8G right now: simply order the skin as a custom size and enter the dimensions 21.5 cm x 15.4 cm (8.46 in x 6.06 in) - the skin will fit your EEEPC perfectly. Check out the selection and make your EEEPC stand out even more! there are more images on flickr.

New customer photo gallery

2008-05-27T23:14:00.007+02:00

check out the new laptop skin gallery for your pics - powered by tiltviewer, the images are displayed in a gorgeous 3D view and it's simply fun to browse through them. we would like to show the world how our skins look in real life - if you bought a laptop skin on laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can add it to our gallery. thank you very much!

laptopskins.net wins iF communcation design award

2008-05-21T18:07:00.006+02:00

i just received the mail that this year's jury considered laptopskins.net worth an iF communcation design award!

For over fifty years iF Industrie Forum Design e.V. has had its roots at the Hannover exhibition center. Launched in 1953 as the Special Show for Well-designed Industrial Goods, this registered association as indicated by the German abbreviation e.V. was expanded in 2001 to include a new operating arm: iF International Forum Design GmbH. This organization is now responsible for all iF business areas above all for staging the renowned iF award competitions.

As an independent institution iF exercises a decisive mediating role between design and industry, fulfilling this function for many years now in an objective and reputable manner. This special capacity allows iF to make a significant contribution to the success of design services in an economic context as well as enhancing public awareness of the importance of design.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

2008-04-26T13:21:00.017+02:00

at least, that's what they say. Stumbling across lapschticks manufacturer schtickers.com today, I found resemblances that are more than a coincidence: schitckers.com is using laptopskins.net's own laptop photo to promote their own stickers.

Checking the the dates via the wayback machine, it turns out schtickers.com had been presenting their stickers as frontal photographs since the launch of their site:

then, in december 2006 laptopskins.net launches, as far as we know as the first site displaying laptop skins in a 3D position:

sometime in january of 2007, schtickers.com suddenly begins using the same angle, the same laptop model, lighted in the same way, to promote their laptop skins:

Taking the detail image from their site, resizing it a little and comparing it with what we consider to be the original image it turns out that the laptop photos are identical.

Well, it's good to see we seem to have had the right idea to present the skins like that - that makes us proud. And obviously, the photography seems be good as well - good enough for schtickers.com to use, anyway. Would have been nice to be asked though - copyright is copyright.

laptopskins.net accepted into german advertising yearbook

2008-03-22T17:32:00.004+01:00

today i received the 2008 edition of the german advertising yearbook "Jahrbuch der Werbung" - and laptopskins.net made it into the book!

The jury judged many thousand entries, only a few of which made it into the book - I'm very proud of this achievement. Yay!

new designs: warning laptop skins

2008-01-29T18:23:00.000+01:00

make a clear statement with our new warning sign laptop skins: radioactive, electric, deadly, poisonous, explosive... whatever suits your mood or character.

new designs: typography laptop skins

2008-01-24T11:22:00.001+01:00

now that should be something for the graphic designers and book lovers out there: your favourite fonts as typographic laptop skin. we have nine skin designs with 9 all-time great fonts available: bodoni, frutiger, rotis, officina, helvetica, times, haettenschweiler, gil sans and cooper black. each of them a very characteristic font face that will make your notebook really stand out.

new designs: paisley laptop skins

2008-01-22T18:37:00.000+01:00

finally there are fashion-inspired laptop skins for all the notebook fashionistas available on laptopskins.net: our collection of paisley patterns (you might know them as persian pickles) give your laptops the certain "je ne sais quoi".

MacBook Air Laptop Skins

2008-01-15T19:57:00.000+01:00

So there it is - a revelation, if not even a revolution. The MacBook Air is just 0.76 inches thick and still it's a complete, full power ultra-portable laptop. Of course, you can already get amazing laptop skins for the MacBook Air at laptopskins.net - order any laptop skin in a custom size of 12.6 x 8.7 inches and it will fit your brandnew MacBook Air perfectly.

original laptop skins art on picasa

2008-01-15T17:18:00.000+01:00

all our more than 100 original laptopskin designs are now available for you to browse through on google's excellent picasaweb - enjoy!

Customer Photos and News Integration on laptopskins.net

2008-01-14T18:47:00.000+01:00

we just uploaded a major update to laptopskins.net.
we have integrated the newsfeed from our laptop skin blog to have you up-to-date anytime while on the site: new features, how-to's, new designs, updates - it'll be right there for you to see.

also, there is now a feed of customer photos from our laptop skin gallery on flickr. we know our laptop skins look great not only on the site, but also on your notebook - and now we're proving it.

select your laptop skin size

2008-01-07T19:23:00.001+01:00

we just uploaded a new and improved size selection update to laptopskins.net. you can now select a skin size from the 5 most common notebook sizes. apart from that, you have the option to choose a custom size for your laptop skin. this will make it much easier to find the appropriate sticker size for you and we hope you enjoy the new elegant way of ordering your notebook sticker.

how to apply a laptop skin sticker to your notebook

2008-01-06T22:22:00.000+01:00

a simple how-to instruction photo series on how to apply a laptop skin sticker to your notebook. these instructions generally apply to all kinds of notebook stickers, but they were photographed and written by and for www.laptopskins.net

step 1: make sure your notebook is clean. wipe it off with a soft cloth. the notebook should be free of dust, fat and grease - otherwise the laptopskin may not stick to your laptop as well as it's supposed to.

step 2: check if the laptop skin size is correct. you can always trim the size of the skin with a cutter knife. if your laptop has hinges like the one shown, you could cut out the hinges from the skin to have an even more perfect fit.

step 3: peel away a small part of the sticker.

step 4: align the laptop skin on your notebook. take care that you put it on straight and in the exact position that you want to place it. as long as you don't push down on the exposed part of the sticker, you're free to move the skin around as you wish.

step 5: stick down the first part of the skin once you're certain you have it in the right position.

step 6: peel off the remaining sticker backside slowly, while at the same time gently pushing down on the exposed skin. by sticking it on gently bit by bit, you can avoid air bubbles under the skin. if there are bubbles under the sticker, simply peel it back a little and stick it back on.

step 7: you're done! ta-daa! see, that was easy - and the result is stunning, don't you think?

please send us your pictures!

2007-12-20T09:31:00.000+01:00

we would like to show the world how our skins look in real life - if you bought a laptop skin on laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can add it to our gallery on flickr. thank you very much!

laptop skins on myspace

2007-12-20T09:21:00.000+01:00

laptopskins.net has its own myspace site! please drop by, check out how we designed around the myspace limitations and connect to us: add us to your favourites, add us to your group or add us to your friends! we'd love to have you in our network.

laptopskins on flickr

2007-12-18T16:42:00.000+01:00

we just made a new flickr account for laptopskins.net.

This Flickr page is meant to showcase the applied skins in real life - we know our skins look great not only on the site, but also on your machine. show it to us - show it to the world!

If you bought a laptop skin at www.laptopskins.net, please send a picture of the applied skin to info@laptopskins.net so we can post it here for everyone to see! thank you!

connect to us on flickr, drop us a line, or write a testimonial for us! thank you!

Polyvore.com users love laptop skins

2007-12-17T13:54:00.000+01:00

the users of social commerce platform polyvore.com seem to like the notebook designs we uploaded. on the site, you can use all kinds of images from all over the web to make your own collages - the results are simply stunning. the creativity is endless. you're free to use our laptop skins in your designs as you wish - we'll upload the rest of them as we get around to it : )

laptop skins on kaboodle

2007-12-17T13:02:00.001+01:00

i just stumbled across kaboodle.com, a great site for shopping, inspiration, product recommendations and commenting. no laptop skins there yet, so i added the current portfolio of laptop skins to the database - i hope you enjoy them and the shopping experience!

new designs: cream laptop skins

2007-11-12T12:48:00.000+01:00

i got the idea for these new laptop skin designs when we were relaxing and drinking tea during our holidays on juist, where they have a special kind of tea that you drink with cream in it. dropping the cream into the tea made some really beautiful, art-nouveau-esque pattern that i really, really liked. so the next time around, i took pictures and made these amazing designs into a laptop skin. let me know how you like it! : )

new designs: industrial rust / metal laptop skins

2007-10-10T14:28:00.000+02:00

the trip to henrichshütte really paid off - i got amazing pics of old rusty metal that turned out amazing for use on skin designs. the colour variations are unbelievable - metal obviously undergoes some very weird decaying process. the result is simply beautiful, especially because of the strange effect of seeing your high tech notebook dressed in rusted steel.

new designs: tree bark laptop skins

2007-08-12T13:12:00.000+02:00

walking around in the sunshine last week, i got interested in the great structures of tree bark - there's an amazing diversity and beauty hidden in the different trees. so naturally, i started taking pictures to make design skins for your notebook with them. and they turned out really beautiful! the contrast between technology and nature is what makes these tree bark laptop skins so amazing to look at.

new designs: blue sky laptop skins

2007-07-12T21:14:00.000+02:00

whoa, what a summer! great weather, the sun's out and the temperature is just great. i took some time out from einjoying the sun to take some pictures of the beautiful blue sky to make laptop skins out of 'em. and i think they turned out great - summer for your laptop to take away with you on the road. this will definitely improve your mood and go really well with your notebook.

new designs: sodastream laptop skins

2007-03-12T21:04:00.000+01:00

my sodastream designs have been a huge success with the public since the very first time i painted them as a graffiti some seven years ago - so what better thing to do than to make water bubble laptop skins out of them? i even made a few colour variations so you're not limited to water bubbles, but you can also get champagne laptop skins, or if you're more of a goth type, even a blood laptop skin.

new designs: camo laptop skins with a twist

2007-02-12T20:51:00.000+01:00

so camouflage design skins may not seem to be a big innovation, but i guess a few new colour variations freshen up the whole subject of camouflage on laptops a whole lot.

new designs: graffiti art laptop skins by neck.cnskillz

2007-01-14T18:36:00.000+01:00

laptopskins.net now offers you a selection of graffiti notebook stickers designed by famous german graffiti artist neck of the cnskillz crew.

He selected 9 of his very favourite graffiti pieces for reproduction on a laptop skin.

They look stunning when applied to your laptop case, and they are made to measure for your computer: no matter which make, model or size.

Neck started writing graffiti in 1989 and soon discovered the beauty of 3D-styles along with his contemporaries DAIM, LOOMIT, SEAK and many more. Together, they transformed graffiti to the next level.

hello world

2007-01-01T12:04:00.000+01:00

so... it was about time i get a blog for laptopskins.net - all the updates coming up, all the ideas floating around: this is the place to talk about them, and to keep you up to date about what's going to happen on the site. more to come.