It's been a few months since we started allowing readers to sign up for their own abduzeedo user account, and we are pleased to announce that almost 1,000 readers have signed up. We are very happy and want to continue improving the blog with good content and useful features for the design community.

I know we had just recently released a new design a few months ago, but the blog has since grown much more than we had expected. Now we have more contributors (which is fantastic!), more posts each day, and much more content in the whole site. And that’s why we had to update the site.

This morning I've received an email talking about a new sort of reality show created by MTV and HP, it's called Engine Room. What's cool about this new show is that it's for digital artists from all around the world. So if you are a digital artist you definitely have to check it out, it's a great opportunity to show the world how talented you are. Besides, you will have the chance to become famous and have lots of fans.

May is gone and we are in the middle of the year already. We’re very happy on how the blog is doing and we are working on some really nice features for the next months. Meanwhile, we have some announcements.

My friend Gino from youthedesigner.com told me that the round 2 of the UPrinting Contest has begun and the source images are available. It's a very nice contest, which by the way, I will be judging. So what are you waiting for?

April was a great month for Abduzeedo, we’ve got new sponsors, and we want to thank them for the support. Also we were featured in some best of moth roundups, and our subscribers reached the 5k number, what is really awesome.