Have you heard of FITC (this is their 8th year)? Do you want to get a free ticket to attend this upcoming event in Toronto between April 25 – 28, 2009? For those who don’t know what is FITC, it is a design conference filled with presentations (read details). This year WDW is one of their media supporters. As usually, I have free tickets to give out (6 in total). From now to April, I will give out 2 tickets per month. Enter your comment in this post for your chance to win a free ticket.
If you would like to purchase the tickets, enter coupon code "webdesignerwall" to get a 20% discount.
Update: Round 1 is closed and the winners are: 79 and 125.
To female readers only, there is another way to get a free ticket via FITC: simply post a video why you want to attend the event and submit it to FITC. Hurry, only the first 100 entries will get a free ticket and the deadline is March 27, 2009.
Don’t forget to enter the coupon code: webdesignerwall to save 20% discount when purchasing tickets.
Comment entries will be accepted until March 4, 2009 for round 1. Then two winning numbers will be generated randomly from the comment list. Two winners will receive a free ticket to FITC Toronto 2009.
Note: After round 1, don’t forget to come back for another chance to win free tickets for round 2 and 3.
Comments are closed.
Alex Penny
That would be wonderful to go.
Bedrich
A break from college work would be nice :)
DKumar M.
I also love to have…. as now days I’m traveling a lot ;)
Anna
What a cool giveaway. Thanks for the opportunity! :)
KiT
That would be great! :D
Scott Christopherson
I’d like to win because I never win anything!
mk
This is the kind of event I never have the money to go to but I always want to see. I’d love to check it out!
Ricks
wow! design + toronto… woohooooo 2 awesomes collide :D
Matteo
Hi there, here’s Matteo from Italy.
Thank you for this awesome opportunity.
John Wang
Nick,
That looks interesting. It’s great to see Web Designer Wall supporting the event. I was hoping that it also meant that you would be presenting. Unfortunately, that doesn’t look to be the case. Though, the sessions that are going to be happening do look very interesting. Personally, the most interesting to me is “Getting Started with jQuery By: John Resig.” It really is a to-die-for opportunity for any fellow Web Designer to learn about jQuery from the master himself. That’s why I want to go to FITC.
– John
Business Card Design
Oh I would love to go….don’t suppose you want to through in free plane fares as well?? Oh pretty please!
Serious though congratulations to whoever wins, will be amazing to attend!
Alexander Radsby
I’m from Sweden. (Is that enough?)
The thing is that there are never any events like this in Sweden so I would love to go to my first event in Toronto. It would give me a reason to travel there.
Two Socks
Oh I would love to go….don’t suppose you want to through in free plane fares as well?? Oh pretty please!
Serious though congratulations to whoever wins, will be amazing to attend!!!
Fabio Demarchi
Cool! Let’s try it ^^
Thomas
I wanna go because… i just do ?
Nice giveaway
Niticu
I’d be so pleased to go that I can’t even begin to describe it! It’s such an excellent opportunity to broaden out, expand your knowledge and so on. (Plus I’ve never been to Toronto before!)
Josef
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dave
yay i like to join fitc!! giv ticket ;)
nice move-
flo
Give me ticket!
Corey Dutson
Wow, I’d love to go to this. As a Graphic Design student, this would be a great way to supplement my education with additional learning. On top of that it would be a great way to meet some people in the industry that are in my area.
I shall keep my fingers crossed, and thank you for this chance!
Renee Rist
I want to go because I’ve never been to a design conference before. Now that I am a full-time freelancer, I can go where ever I please, and this would be a great start to my journey as a self-employed designer.
Thanks! :)
jeffstyle
hook me up with FITC tickets! :)
Anthony
Would love a free ticket, since I can never afford to buy one!
Tara
Great giveaway, just another reason why I love this place sooo much.
I would love to go because it would give me a reason to get out of the house for a couple of days.
Cheers.
Stuart Thursby
Events like this are incredible sources of knowledge and inspiration, and to be able to attend one (when it’s blatantly too expensive to attend anyway) would mean a ton for personal advancement. Not to mention, I’m born, raised and living in Toronto, so it’s only a hop, skip & jump away anyway!
I’m not sure if you’re planning on doing this either, but a “best of show” write-up detailing all the best speakers, pieces and points for all those who couldn’t attend would certainly be ideal as well!
officialsidekick
I’d love to go to FITC. I have been working as a web designer for a few years now and always great to learn up coming trends, learn new skills, and apply them to my work.
Derek
I would very much like the chance to go to FITC this year. Mostly to see David Carson, Carole Guevin, and John Resig. :D
chris
very nice of you to give away tickets. I would like to go, as it would be a great experience. :)
Mark
I would count my lucky stars, chicken and blessings if you would be so good as to offer me a golden ticket. If you don’t, I’ll be counting sheep again, waiting for some excitement to come into my life.
I have yet to make it to the FITC and would relish the opportunity to be inspired by great thinkers and captains of industry. I would simply love to spend time engaging with like minded people in my home town of Toronto.
Federico
I would love to go there. I’m not technically a graphic designer but I’ve been designing websites for a couple of years and I’m very passionate about what I do. And no, I cannot afford buying a ticket.
Charles Loflin
Ooooo, oooo, pick me…. pick me! ;)
Nancy Peterman
our company’s budget to the FITC got cut this year due to the economy melt down. You bring my hope back. Thank you very much.
P.S. This site is awesome.
Mary Henesey
Thanks for this opportunity to win tickets. Sounds like a great experience!
Marjorie
I’d love to attend FITC 2009. I am a junior web designer and I think a little Flash inspiration would be great!
Mike W
I’d love to attend FITC. I am a junior web designer just starting out and would really like the chance to meet others in my field and hear from seasoned professionals.
Lethality
Does this seem off-base to anyone else?
“Female Special!
To female readers only, there is another way to get a free ticket via FITC: simply post a video why you want to attend the event and submit it to FITC. Hurry, only the first 100 entries will get a free ticket and the deadline is March 27, 2009.”
tim
sign me up! would be interesting to check it out.
Fumin
Very nice of you to give out free tickets to the community.
Lee McKusick
Very cool of you to do this.
I’d love to be able to go. I’m breaking into the world of web design/development and would be thrilled to receive a ticket.
Elizabeth K. Barone
I’d love to go, but unfortunately don’t live in Canada. Good luck to everyone else, though! This is a great opportunity! Thanks, Nick, for the always awesome giveaways!
Kyle
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Lee Kernke
Never been to a fancy conference before but I’d like to!
Clara
I would love to go because I’m going to get married this fall and didn’t have any vacation days (except National holidays) since last year to save them for the wedding! I’m in serious need of inspiration and refreshment. Help this distressed designer in the office! :D
Emyr Tabrizi
Yes please I would like to go. :)
Mike
Looks interesting
Mike H
Sounds Interesting. I’d like to go.
Katie
“Pick me! Pick me!” – no really, pick me. I’d love to go!
Morten Lassen (DK)
I would love to go if you could pay my ticket for Denmark too :-)
Morten Lassen (DK)
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Chase Campbell
I would really value this opportunity Nick. These conferences are such a great learning and networking experience, they are worth every penny. Unfortunately, being a freelance Graphic & Web Designer who has only been on his own for a few months, $ is tight. I’ve also never left the USA, and this would really help me break out of that shell. I got to go to an AIGA conference as a student a few years back, and it was one of the best experiences I ever had. I hope you select me, as I would maximize my time at FITC, and it would really make a difference for me in my early professional career. – Thanks, Chase
Tylor
Wow! That would be awesome. Here’s my entry :)
Matt Ward
sounds like a great opportunity! I’d love to win these tickets.
Ashley E Carter
What an amazing opportunity! Holy moly! I’ve always been a little bit of a closet feminist is you get my drift and I always get the short end of the stick in the office (I work as an ad designer for a newspaper.) These tickets would be great to win, especially since it’s females only. Thank you for this awesome opportunity… hope I get a ticket!
ps… love that guys are still trying to enter this. hehe. ;)
phiyo
This is will an amazing opportunity since I live in Canada.
Mike T
I would love it! Been wanting to go for a few years now. Even being in Toronto $ is still tight. Would be a great opportunity to see fresh design ideas & inspiration.
John McSwain
I would like to go to get exposed to the bleeding edge of Flash platform development!
Marie Poulin
I would love to go to FITC!
As a freelancer its pretty tough to afford going to some of these conferences, but I know that its totally worth it. I could use some help making it to FITC! ;)
Thanks!
josiah wiebe
oh, i’d rather love to go to fitc as well!
Vanessa
I would LOVE to go. I am female :)
I don’t have a video cam to post the video :(
Alan Rawkins
Free tickets yes please!
Chad
I would love to go, I went when I was in my first year of college in Humber, I would love to go back.
Thanks
Jey Balachandran
As I am starting to get into freelance this would be a great opportunity to check out the latest and greatest while getting some contacts. I’d definitely love the opportunity to go. If only the prices were a bit more affordable. Hopefully I get a free ticket :)
Kyle
Free ticket, free ticket, no whammies! C’mon!!! This would be so amazing to attend.
Andy Morris
I stumbled on this site while Googling for help with a CSS overlay menu. I just started my New Media company, so I can’t afford to buy tickets for FITC. I’d LOVE to attend, and this is my only chance, so here I am submitting my entry!
Keeping my fingers crossed.
Andy – Hotcakes New Media
Josh Rapp
I believe it would be so awesome to go and exchange ideas and information with other designers and developers. It would definitely be nice just to be picked to go. With everything that has happened the past week, I could use the pseudo vacation.
Zach
I just graduated from college last year and this is the start of my long journey of design, and I’m constantly learning more everyday. I love what I’m doing and try to take every opportunity to learn more. Just for the experience and all the knowledge I’d gain from this, it would be amazing.
Erik Olson
I heard great things about FITC Toronto last year and was kicking myself when I missed the deadline. I check out FlashBelt which was well organized with some great speakers. I probably won’t go back. I’d really like to go to FITC.
Javier
Thanks for the offering. I would like to have the option to attend.
mauricio quiroga
Hello,
I hope this time I am the lucky one!
Mauricio
ed
would love to attend this….have missed the past couple
Wouter
I Would love to attend!
Nicole
I’m new to the Toronto area, and just learned about FITC via this post, but I’d love to attend and get to know the local web development community & other attendees.
Kasra
Hey! I’d love a free ticket. I’m trying to involve myself more with the Toronto design community, so this would be an awesome opportunity for me to meet new people! Thanks.
Josh Stadlan
who wouldn’t want it?
Blake Stevenson
I have been a designer for awhile and about a year ago the idea of designing and developing for the internet really interested me. So, since then i have been going crazy everything I do revolves around it. I subscribe to WDW, TWIT, REV 3, BOAGWORLD, CHRIS COYIER, and a million others. I can’t seem to get enough and then i saw the the opportunity to check out FITC but saw the price tag and became extremely let down. I just want to be more involved, I must learn more. I feel that this would be a great way to it. Think about it, and thank you so much for the chance at these tickets.
Steven
I’m finishing my bachelor degree in interactive media and I think that FITC would be a great opportunity to learn even more and make some contacts.
Jeff Crisamore
I am a multimedia developer and during my 8 years of work in this industry, have never gotten to go to FITC… or Toronto.
I would love to go!
Please consider me, thanks :)
Chris Becker
I am a Graduate Student at the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design and think that conference would be really educational and a great place to experience
Ronnie
Have always heard about FITC but never had the chance to go to one. Would love to win a free ticket to it!
Rudy
I’d love to have an excuse to visit Toronto in the Spring and take in some great presentations.
Dorothy
Oh, please! Presentations and details…. I need this conference!!!!
eM
Pick me! :)
Foto München
I’d like to have a free ticket!!!!
Joel Acevedo
I’ve never been in Toronto. It’s been a while since my last seminar/festival. Plus it will be nice to get out of my daily routine and do something different. Thanks for the opportunity. :)
Josh Beaton
My Dad is from Toronto and I’ve never been there. It would be great to go back to the Motherland.
think!!
Would like it too.
Matt Ashwood
A recent graduate from Fanshawe and working at my first job in the industry. This would be an excellent event to attend.
Tim Chen
I am an engineering student at the University of Toronto. I’m currently designing and maintaining several mid-size websites and would benefit immensely from this event. I’m also an strong advocate of xhtml and css validated sites.
Simon
I would love to attend FITC this year
Roc
It’s my brother’s birthday, this would be a great present.
Kevin May
It would be awesome to be able to go to FITC this year, I’ve only been to a few conferences, but they are always really helpful.
Raz
I went last year as a volunteer. Would love tickets to go again this year!
Inspired12
Would love to be at FITC this year, never been to canadia either!
Ryan Graves
I’ve never had a chance to attend FITC, I’ve always wanted to but have been unable to because of other commitments such as business and family issues. I am getting interested in the field and have went back to school to study design, this would make my day. The opportunity would be much appreciated.
Quan Duong
I missed the last year event, heard FITC is one of the biggest event, would like to take a chance to be there as well :)!
Matthew Richmond
We’re facebook friends… does that give me an edge?
Tai Dang
I am new. I love to check it out.
Michael Farmer
I have always wanted to check it out, please place me into this drawing! Love this site!
Patrick Orr
I’ve never been, sounds like it would be a great time!
pat doran
I hear Toronto is beautiful this time of year.
roger daoud
//never been//wanna go//new designer// :-)
Jason
It’d be great to both attend the conference and see some family members!
Rudy
I would love to go to FITC! I’d love a ticket, please.
Andy
I’m newly entering the industry and would love to go to FITC. I’ve heard excellent things about the event but unfortunately am not in a financial position to be able to purchase a ticket.
Andrew Johnson
Sounds like an awesome opportunity! I’m entering my third year of doing web design and relish the idea of learning new things. After spending 6 years in university getting other degrees, I find that I can’t let a day go by without wanting to learn something new. I don’t want to ever have to do the same-old same-old, so I think this conference is for me!
Rich Bailey
I think it would be heavily beneficial to attend this conference seeing How I’m a designer who just got my business incorporated. As I’m currently building my website I feel it would be an excellent opportunity to market as well as network with potential clients and artists alike.
Josh
It would be real swell to go.
Darlene
If I’m so lucky I’ll learn French. Oh, wait….that’s the province of Quebec, not Ontario. Let’s see–I could promise to climb to the top of the CN Tower? All kidding aside I’m a previous tourism major who is going back to school for graphic arts. Along with gaining valuable design tips I would love to breath in the culture–which I’ve heard is of a very cosmopolitan nature. And lastly—Pretty please!!!
Kitty
I wanna go, that must be a great chance to network and to know more about the field and the trends!
Thomas Viaud
Great !!
Paco Melo
I’ll give my third eye to go!
Soheil Alavi
Hey Nick,
I’m an internatiopnal student, studying in Digital Media Arts in Seneca@york, I heard a lot about FITC as it is directly related to our program in school. I need to make contacts with right people in the industry in order to gain experience on how to make such project alive.
Thanks.
Bim
Oooh I’d love to go to the FITC. I live in the UK… I’d love a few tickets! Thanks :)
Wellington Almeida
I’d really like to win one ticket to the FITC in Toronto, it would be an incentive to take a long this long journey from Brazil to Canada. Well maybe I’m lucky, just let me know in advance so I can provide my travel! ;)
thank you, talk soon.
snx
love webdesignerwall!!! I wanna attend fitc too
set me up!!!
James Turpin
Wow, I honestly had no idea this event even existed. I checked out the website, watched the vid and all I have to say is Wow, what a great opportunity. I’d love to go, great chance to meet people in my field and absorb all the information I can to relate it to what I do everyday. For something this big in our field, the results could be “life changing”.
Thanks for the consideration,
JT
Tim Wright
Sounds like a great conference, I’d love to go :o)
Frank Velazquez
Wow Toronto? Sounds like a nice place to go and road trip! Also good way to network. I so want to go! \(n_n)/
Lindsey
I would LOVE to go :-)
Jamie Klenetsky
I would LOVE to go to this conference. I’m a web designer for a local government who doesn’t quite have the money to send me to a conference right now ;^^ I’m also a female without a web cam to submit a video!
Timothy Dempsey
I have always wanted to attend an FITC!
Jesse Korzan
Would really enjoy seeing David Carson.
Chris inch
I only live 4 hours from Toronto. Hopefully I win.
Dave Logan
As a student and young entrepreneur graduating into this unstable economy in just a few short months, I’d love to receive a ticket to FITC to be able to create connections and network with fellow Flash developers and sit in on some of the amazing talks I’ve heard about. As an added bonus, being in Buffalo, NY, Toronto is just a skip down the road from me, making me the obvious green choice :)
Verne
Creative inspiration isn’t always easy to come by, so when you have the chance to submerge yourself amongst the industry’s gurus, it’s hard to say no. I know the event always brings about great inspiration and I’ve love to have a chance to be a part of all of it!
Apticknor
This is not an essay on why I deserve to go…. I just want to win by good old fashioned luck!
tk
I live and work in Toronto but have largely ignored FITC as it was Flash focused but seeing as how it covers much more than Flash and how Flex has come along, I’m gamed for a few days of learning and seeing.
(BTW, the video submission for females thing is downright creept, as good intention as it may be.)
Justen
Count me IN!!!! I would love to go!
Peter
I have no money and live in Toronto, let me go!
Tyler
i would love to go! please count me in
E S
I would love that FITC ticket bad…
Niamh Redmond
Hi,
I like your website & blog, thanks!
I would like to be in with a chance of getting a free ticket to FITC. I’d be coming all the way from Ireland but it really would be worth it, great events! :)
Spin
I would love an opportunity to check this event out!
Cory Marazzo
I am starting up a new studio and would appreciate the opportunity to experience a conference like the FITC. Thank you Web Designer Wall for your generosity in giving small studios a chance to attend such a great event.
Darcy Clarke
This is amazing. Please let me win :( The tickets for FiTC are pretty expensive as is. If I don’t see you at FiTC come on over to Mesh Conference :)
Gabriela Gutierrez
I was planning to drink a Magic Tequila to make myself invisible
and then enter for Free to FITC.
But Now if I win this tickets. I can invite you guys to come to Mexico and drink this magical beverage together and dance with donkeys & rainbows !!…Ajuaaa
FayeC
Yes!! I would love to go :)
Nick is always posting great tutorials and offering great giveaways!
Awesome!
Steve
Would love to get a chance to go to FITC this year. I’ve heard amazing things about it, but have never had the chance to go.
Thanks!
Jason Sorrenti
Are you presenting at FITC?
joyce
I would love to go! great site!
Joyce
kamalakar
hi, since i discovered this website things have been different. i have always looked for a website which showed whats going on in the design world. and i am happy that i discovered this website. its been a source of a lot of information, trends, tips and whole lot of information which no other website could possibly offer. just wanted u to know i appreciate this effort and would like to see more in the future.
Kalynn Friesen
I would love love love to go to FITC! I’m an Illustrator/Graphic Designer who just moved to Toronto. It would be amazing to be able to go to check out this huge design conference and be surrounded by all that creativity in one place! Thank you so much for putting up this site!xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox
Julio Cesar
i never comment here, but I would like to go to the event :D
Chris
Would love free some tickets! Trying to get my office to pay for the trip, and free tickets would certainly help that cause. :)
Marc Kelsey
Please include me in the draw. Thanks for the opportunity to win, and I love your site.
Stephanie L
LET IT BE ME.
Iftekharul Islam
I am a web designer from Dhaka Bangladesh. The web designing here it still in developing state. If I get this chance to be there in the conference, I would be able to experience world class designing ides and implement it here in this continent, Please consider my application.
Thank you
marsha
Its my Birthday.
Could this be my present?
Ingrid McMahon
I’m a freelance web and graphic designer / tech girl from Vancouver and I’d absolutely love to attend this event – the presentations look very interesting and I’d love to see David Carson speak – not only does he rock but he’s totally inspiring. Please please please keep me in mind for a ticket. :) Thank you!
Y.R
I’d love to attend FITC in April. Thank you.
Allison
FEMALE TROUBLE!
I am lucky enough to work with a whole slew of amazing female designers. There are 5 of us in our small department. more than 50% female. Nice, right?
Please hook a sister up. We would gladly make the trip from NYC (those of us who can, anyway)
thanks!
-a
Dan
I am just getting into web design and would love to attend this event. There are so many presentations I know I could gain so much information and inspiration from.
I live in Ottawa and drive to Toronto all the time to see friends (This would be a great excuse to pop in for a visit!). This ticket would NOT go to waste!
Thanks for your consideration!
Dan
Jasmine W
I think it would be a great opportunity to be surrounded by a multitude of creative individuals and be able to experience all that creativity under one roof. It is also a great opportunity to see the latest trends all over the world as well as the different mediums and new technologies that others are using to advance in this ever changing industry. I hope you consider me for the ticket!!!! Thank you so much for the opportunity. :)
Max Titov
I would love to go to the conference. The opportunity to share the knowledge and meet people in the industry would be unreal.
Mark
Would love a couple of tickets!
I’m a fresh fulltime freelancer (just having left my old job) to give it a go on my own. I’d fly in from Newfoundland.
Nataliya
I wanna go, I wanna go!!! I really want to see all the fresh ideas and get inspired to make something outstanding this year.
Pankaj Giram
I am a budding young designer in the domain of Flash and Web Designing with endless new ideas constantly buzzing in my head. New technologies excite me. But I don’t always know how to put all the new technologies in use. Coming to FITC this year will enable me to put some of those creative ideas in their life form. I could learn to use the new technologies that FITC will surely be able to introduce me to as well as get to meet some peers from across the world
Kevon
I would love to go to this event, I’m a front end developer from Trinidad. I think that where i’m from would add some cultural diversity to the event. I have never been to a design conference before! really the experience would be breathtaking for sure!
Emilio
Id love to attend this conference, and now that I’ve heard of it I might try and find other ways to attend as well. I’m a young webdesigner and would love to attend.
Dave S.
After years of chronic back pain and recurring injuries I needed to make a career change, so…. I went back to college, got a degree in Web Design, and really jumped into photography – an area I’d always enjoyed but only as an amateur. My goals are to combine graphics, photography, art, and design with a 20+ year background in Information Technology into an exciting new career. Problem is I am now 54 years old, partially disabled, with no experience and I really need an edge. FITC could go a long way in giving me that edge and I’d appreciate the consideration – Thank You!
Nichole
I reeeeally and truly want, need, have to go to FITC 09! I currently, work in Saint Louis as an Interactive Art Director at a mid-size advertising agency. I bring lots of ambition in everything I do and have a constant desire to learn all that I possibly can about the industry that I love. Being from the good ol’ Midwest, I have not visited Canada…. yet. Please give me the opportunity to do so!
Blake Stevenson
I sent a requested for these tickets awhile back (when you first posted). Iam still extremely interested. I didn’t see a minimum of requests so here is another.!!! PLEASE LET ME COME! I love you web designers wall!
Dallas
I would love to go to FITC Toronto!
Moataz Elwesimy
i am a user interface developer and i am kicking off for mobile applications as you can see in my portfolio, and i am very intersted to attend such an event!
i live in egypt and it will be very costy for me to pay for the plane tickets so i would love to win a free ticket!
Thanks a million!
Adella
I want to go!! Pick me Pick me By the way, I downloaded your site to view offline when I’m not in a hotspot!!! :)
Megh Suthar
I’m 14. I live in Toronto. I want to go. pls, pick me, pls pick me.
Adam Gray
Pick me because I will wing man for you at the bars before/after :).