
The Digital Design projects have surfaced in four different categories.

Browser Based Design
Arcelia Ocana, Salim Hassan, and JL Lum – Square One
Kim Oxlund, Kristina Lyne, Charla Zapanta, Pedro Magalhaes – Hope Air
Live Action
Tamish Aswani, Luis Francisco Baroni Coutinho, Paul Belen, Felipe Dos Santos – Cyber Aware
Motion Design
Juan Behrens – Helios
Ezra Istiroti- Project J
Luis Barros and Bruno Marchand – Cyclus
Irving Diaz and Luis Barros – Earthquake Preparedness
Ameen Roayan – Vistas
Kim Oxlund – Paper War
Mobile Design
The Music of Erich Zahn – Kelsey Armour
Any day now Adobe will be announcing just a few finalists (usually three) in each category. It’s tough to say if the best part of being selected as a finalist is the bragging rights that come with or the free flight to Taipei including accommodations during the 2011 IDA Congress. Past VFS finalists have told us how invaluable this experience was as they also got to work collaboratively on creative project with the other finalists from around the world.
The winner in each category will receive a prize that includes cash, software and portfolio development mentorship for a year.
Fingers crossed for all of our semi-finalists. We’ll let you know more when the finalists are announced.