And the winner is…!

The 3rd annual ooprint holiday card design competition has ended. We know that you are on the edge of your seats to hear who were announced the winners!

But first, we want to thank all the designers for their participation.  Your designs were very well received by the ooprint team and our customers. 

When the ooprint team sat down to decide on the jury prize winner, we were extremely impressed by the creativity and originality of the work. 

The decision was very difficult, so much so that we decided to award two “honorable mentions” based on artistic merit.

 

Without further ado . . . the winners:

Grand Prize (the card the most ordered by ooprint customers): Noura Aït Issa, Morocco

 

Jury Prize (selected by the ooprint artistic team): Tania Duffault, France

Honorable mention (selected by the ooprint artistic team):

- Aftab Arab, England

 

- Maxim Cyr, Canada

 

Finalists (3^rd to 5^th place)

- Nor Azniza  Abdull Aziz, Malaysia

- Delfine Guevel, France

- Marie Durque, France

Finalists (6th to 8th place)

- Sébastien Bourgeois, France

- Anne Laborde, France

- Alex Chavot, France

Finalists (9th to 10th place)

- Mélanie Gautier, France

- Stéphane Le Brethon, France

Finalists (11th to 18th place)

- Aftab Arab, England

- Julien Kaltnecker, France

- Maxim Cyr, Canada

- Carolina Medberg Smith, United States   

- Paula Arquiola Lis, Spain

- Georges Bousquet, France

- Chien-Yu Kuo, Taïwan

- Darena Iliev, Italy

Thank you to all the designers for your participation and congratulations on your wonderful creations!

Didn’t participate this year?  You can still compete for the Grand Prize in the 4^th annual ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition!  Stay tuned in 2010 for more details.

See you soon on ooprint.com!

Ooprint introduces you the first prize's winner!

Ooprint wants to congratulate again the winners of the 2010 design cards competition!

We are very happy to introduce you Noura Aït Issa as the first prize’s winner.

Noura told us how she felt about winning the prize and how she created her card.

Noura, 35 years old, lives in Casablanca, Morocco, and works as a graphic designer. First, design was a hobby for her and then, she decided to work as a full-time designer .

When she sent her card, she thought she had a good chance to win the competition… and she was right actually!

When she heard about the competition results, she said she was “very touched and very, very happy about the news.”

 

To win this competition, she had in mind to do something special with “2010”, like emphasizing the date and create the all design of her card from it. 

For the New Year, she thought about a contrast with a “2010” very colorful and a black background.

As she explained, the background symbolizes the past year and the flashy colors symbolize hope and pride for the new year.

 

Find out about her design works on her blog.

 

Holiday card design competition : have a look at the finalists' designs

You were waiting for them since the names of the finalists have been announced, here they are : the artwork of the finalists' cards ! These cards will soon be available in our holiday cards catalog, on ooprint.com.

 

Competition finalists revealed !

Thank you to all the designers who participated in the Ooprint Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition.  We were very impressed by the quality and creativity of the cards that were submitted.

 

We received over 190 entries, and our designers came from  Belgium, Canada, China, England, Spain, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Scotland, Swiss, Tunisia, USA...

 

Congratulations to our finalists!!

 

Aftab Arab, England

Alex Chavot, France

Anne Laborde, France

Carolina Medberg Smith, USA

Chien-Yu Kuo, Taiwan

Darena Iliev, Italy

DelFine Guevel, France

Georges Bousquet, France

Julien Kaltnecker, France

Marie Durque, France

Maxim Cyr, Canada

Mélanie Gautier, France

Nor Azniza Bt Abdull Aziz, Malaysia

Noura Aït Issa, Morocco

Paula Arquiola Lis, Spain

Sebastien Bourgeois, France

Stephane Le Brethon, France

Tania Duffault, France

 

Their designs are shown below.  These Holiday Greeting Cards will be added for sale to the ooprint websites from November 14 – January 20. 

 

The best-selling card will be awarded the Grand Prize of $1000.  The Jury Prize of $500 will be awarded based on design merit and decided by the Ooprint team.  Both winners will be announced on January 22, 2010.   

 

We hope that you will all participate in our competition again next year!

IMPORTANT NOTICE

Due to many requests, we have decide to reschedule the competition's deadline. You have now until midnight on November 2nd to submit your designs.

The finalists will be announced and their designs put online on November 6th.

Wacom, newest sponsor of the ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition

We’re very excited to announce that Wacom, provider of tablets and displays for creative professionals, has joined the ranks of sponsors of the 3^rd annual Holiday Card Design Competition.

 

The best news?  Wacom is contributing three Bamboo Fun Medium tablets and three Bamboo Fun Small tablets to the competition winners!

Check out the competition page for more details about the amazing prizes:  http://www.ooprint.com/competition

3rd Annual ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition (First prize 1000€)

Designers, to your sketchbooks!

 

The 3^rd Annual ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition is officially open.  This annual design competition is a wonderfully exciting event, for you designers as well as for the ooprint team!  The number of submissions and design quality has increased from year to year, making the selection of finalists an even more difficult decision.  We’re up for the challenge, so send us as many creative, original, and exciting designs as you like. 

 

Feeling motivated?  Start sketching!  The competition is tight, and the stakes are high . . . we’re giving out tons of great prizes, from ooprint and our sponsors.  This year, we’re excited to announce that a new partner has joined the fun, the tee-shirt design company la Fraise. 

 

It’s up to you, designers, to set the bar of artistic excellence.  We’re counting on your creativity to make this year’s competition the best yet!  Good luck!