It all started
with the supposed Airport Express
invitation that showed up on Flickr, announcing an Apple press event for February 22nd. It was soon deemed to be a
fake, and then two more
popped up, with different designs (also fake). They weren't the best: in the Airport invite the perspective of the
Apple was off, and the blue one actually misspelled the word "February." We know you can do better.So, with that in mind, we're announcing the "Create a Feb. 22 Apple Invite" contest. Submit your best looking, most convincing, most plausible and clever invite to us by (when else) February 22nd by leaving a link to your creation in the comments to this post. A winner will be chosen by the TUAW staffers deep in our secret offices (a broom closet in the back of Penn Station) on February 22nd, and the winner will be announced on the 23rd. To the creator of our favorite invitation will go an Apple logo stainless travel mug that Scott bought at the Apple Campus Store (here is a pic of the prize) while in California for this past January's Macworld.
Good luck, and get cracking! Mac rumor sites are counting on you!











Reader Comments (Page 1 of 9)
2-07-2006 @ 3:11PM
Brett Edwards said...
FANTASTIC idea, now you're talking.
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2-07-2006 @ 3:17PM
adam Jackson said...
well i already have 2 of those mugs and a crap load of other things but I'll play along.
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2-07-2006 @ 3:22PM
Brennan Tallack said...
Taking after the fake ads, eh?
You mispelled "Airport" in the line "They weren't the best: in the Airpot invite..."
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2-07-2006 @ 3:28PM
teletran2 said...
the perspective was off in the airport? i thought that image was taken straight from here?
http://img.clubic.com/photo/00092027.jpg
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2-07-2006 @ 3:29PM
CB said...
Stop it! Seeing poorly made ads annoyed me a lot. I don't say no rumor shoud be allowed, but rumor blog entiries should be mininal.
I firmly believe that *utilizing* that kind of poor rumors will make the overall quailty and fame of the entire TUAW lower.
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2-07-2006 @ 3:33PM
Tim Morris said...
I posted this earlier. I can't get flickr to work for some reason, so I used deviantART, anyway here is the invite that was given to me by Steve, the guy who does the Super Secret Apple Rumors podcast, the event isn't on Feb 22nd, its on Febuary 31st!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/28757327/
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2-07-2006 @ 3:47PM
lee said...
How about this one: http://img234.imageshack.us/my.php?image=appleinvitation20064eg.jpg
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2-07-2006 @ 3:48PM
rosswf said...
I still cant believe my blue one got on.
I feel like such an idiot about the misspeling.
And no-one seen my watermark!
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2-07-2006 @ 4:16PM
Brad said...
I submit! (Anytime for TUAW bebe.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35624567@N00/96885635/
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2-07-2006 @ 4:21PM
Frank Tinsley said...
I could use more Apple branded things.
http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/7591/tuawcontest5dz.jpg
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2-07-2006 @ 4:31PM
Appleologist said...
Here's my Apple Invite to the February 22 Special Event:
http://appleology.com/?p=214
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2-07-2006 @ 4:32PM
John Hopper said...
My entry:
http://homepage.mac.com/jbhopper/applevent.jpg
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2-07-2006 @ 4:33PM
phil said...
how about now?
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2-07-2006 @ 4:36PM
phil said...
When will now be then...
just then:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdi/96891643/
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2-07-2006 @ 4:41PM
phil said...
holy crap!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pdi/96891643/
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2-07-2006 @ 4:41PM
Chris Murphy said...
Are Apple invites meant to be secret?
Is there a reason we never see a photo of actual (real) invitations?
Just curious...
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2-07-2006 @ 4:43PM
djones said...
http://homepage.mac.com/jonesbot/Sites/apple_2_22.jpg
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2-07-2006 @ 4:43PM
MacDigger said...
http://s14.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=039TU0ACNA2MF34ZPN9ER9T51Z
100% NO FAKE
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2-07-2006 @ 4:46PM
djones said...
Oh, and have fun guessing what that is on the bottom, as well as why 2 is significant, and whether or not the lowercase i's have greater significance than just being roman numerals.
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2-07-2006 @ 4:54PM
IMeowbot said...
Oh cool, a use for this!
http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4852/musiceventi1gd.jpg
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