Design Contest: Create awesome watch faces for the Samsung Gear S3 with Facer & aBlogtoWatch

Ariel Vardi
Facer
Published in
2 min readFeb 2, 2017

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In collaboration with Samsung Mobile and aBlogtoWatch, we are proud to announce a watch face design competition for the groundbreaking Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch.

From now until March 1st, 2017 aBlogtoWatch and Facer invite watch aficionados, designers, and developers to submit watch face designs for the Samsung Gear S3 on the Facer platform. A panel composed of high-end watch designers and industry expert will review and evaluate the submissions based on their quality, creativity, and innovative use of the smartwatch platform and select a total of 5 winners who will be publicly announced early March.

Jury

  • Yvan Arpa: Swiss watch creator, and designer of the Samsung Gear S3
  • Ariel Adams: Founder of aBlogtoWatch
  • Ariel Vardi: Co-Founder of Little Labs, makers of Facer

And that’s not all! Additional jury members will be announced throughout the month.

Prizes

The jury will select 1 winning design among 5 finalists who will receive the following prizes:

For the winning design

  • $500 cash for the best design selected in the 5 finalists

For all 5 finalists

  • A Samsung Gear S3 smartwatch
  • Designs featured in aBlogtoWatch.com, the Facer platform, and Samsung’s social channels
  • Designs turned into functional watch faces distributed to hundreds of thousands of smartwatch users on the Facer platform
  • Enrollement in the Premium Designer Program of Facer, including ongoing royalties on the revenue generated by their winning designs

Rules

  • The designs must be 100% original.
  • Designs infringing on any copyright/trademarks will be disqualified.
  • Unlimited entries per participant, but only 1 entry can be selected as finalist by the jury.
  • The designs must be submitted before March 1st at midnight Pacific Time.

Inspiration

Need some inspiration? Check out some of the most popular watch faces on Facer or some sample submissions below:

So what are you waiting for? We can’t wait to see your submissions! Enter the contest now!

Good luck!
The aBlogtoWatch & Facer teams

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