Digital designer Shay submitted 60 proposals before succeeding.

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Luminary bases all of its chips on a common blueprint from ARM Holdings, a Cambridge, England designer of digital architecture.

FORBES: Smarter, Cheaper

Through his latest endeavor, the Evite Postmark platform, Woolley hopes to bring greater refinement and elegance into the digital age, by partnering with designer Friedland.

FORBES: Evite Launches Designer Digital Invitations

For every thousand people who watch a Flash clip online or fill out an online Adobe Acrobat Reader tax form (without paying), there's a Web programmer or graphic designer who paid several hundred dollars for the right to create that digital content using Adobe's multimedia production and editing tools such as Flash, Acrobat, Illustrator and Photoshop.

FORBES: Ubiquitous Upside

Masterminded by watchmaker Felix Baumgartner and designer Martin Frei, Urwerk has built its reputation on watch designs featuring digital numerals that rotate like satellites and display the time in a relatively linear manner.

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Evangelical Christian and software designer Craig Patchett, from San Diego, California, started "Godcasting" for digital disciples about a year ago when he set up The GodCast Network (TGN).

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