( Editor’s Note: The current Layers Back Page Design Contest is based on the following article from the Sept/Oct 2009 issue of Layers magazine. But if you want a chance to win a 1.5-TB Guardian MAXimus quad interface hard drive and $200 in credits from www.fotolia.com , you better hurry because the deadline is November 16, 2009. Click here for more information .) In a recent issue of Layers magazine, we asked readers to submit their favorite print, Web, and video designs currently in the marketplace. In turn, we promised to track down the original creators and force them to tell us their secrets (as it turns out, all we had to do was ask politely—everyone we spoke to was very nice and accommodating). Anyway, after going through all the submissions, there were two that really captured our attention: the GE Smart Grid Augmented Reality (AR) website and the Black Day to Freedom video by Rob Chiu. In fact, we asked so many interview questions about these two projects that we ran out of room for any of the print submissions. But don’t worry, we’ve sent all the print submissions to Corey and RC over at Layers TV and have asked them to cover “How’d They Do That?” in a future episode

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