The first ever Ooprint Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition was more popular than we could have imagined!

We received over 150 entries, and our designers cam from 16 countries: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, England, Finland, France, Hungary, India, Madagascar, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, United States, and Wales.

Without further ado . . .

Congratulations to our finalists!!

Ana Aceves, UK

Aftab Arab, UK

Maegan Birri, USA

Tania Duffault, France

Eric Gainer, USA

Laetitia Gavini, France

Jennifer Gordon, USA

Nathan Hoffman, USA

Vladislava Hristova, Bulgaria

Samia Labib, Canada

Julia Laguarda, USA

Jocelyne Loaec, France

George Ovlachi, Hungary

Edith Pojum, Romania

Gaël Rabarijaona, Madagascar

Sanja Salih, Serbia

Maud Talêque, France

Ka Long To, USA

Joël Van Hoef, Belgium

Alice Wang, USA

Their designs are shown below and will also be added for sale on the ooprint websites from December 10th to January 15th.

Ana Aceves      Sanja Salih         Aftab Arab        Maegan Birri    

  Tania Duffault      Eric Gainer        Laetitia Gavini   Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon   Jennifer Gordon

Jennifer Gordon  Nathan Hoffman Vladislava Hrisotva   Samia Labib

  Julia Laguarda    Julia Laguarda   Jocelyne Loaec   Jocelyne Loaec

George Ovlachi   George Ovlachi     Edith Pojum         Edith Pojum

Gaël Rabarijaona Gaël Rabarijaona   Maud Talêque       Ka Long To

Joel Van Hoef      Joel Van Hoef     Joel Van Hoef      Joel Van Hoef

  Joel Van Hoef     Joel Van Hoef     Joel Van Hoef       Alice Wang

                                    

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 15, 2008.

Ooprint would like to thank all of the Design Competition participants:

Annie Chen, USA

Isabelle Choi, Canada

Hannah Christopher, India

Sarah Chubb, UK

Benoît Collange, France

Anne Collaud, France

Katie Conrad, USA

Sudipta Dasgupta, India

VinhToan Duong, USA

Anne-Sophie Dupire, France

Elizabeth Ellenwood, USA

Anthea Elliot, UK

Michéle Guérineau, France

Sybil Harris, UK

Doreen Kang, USA

Shekhar Kumar, India

James Levannais, Wales

Milva Ljutova, Bulgaria

Daria Malyushina, Russia

Omar Marcos, USA

Eric Matveeff, France

Yael Miller, USA

Magali Parise, France

Silky Patel, India

Lori Pearson, USA

Nina Penewa, Bulgaria

Ashley Penja, Australia

Katrina Poor, USA

Kalina Popova, Bulgaria

Juha Roisko, Finland

Ilaria Rosso, UK

Sébastien Saouter, France

Annabel Seaton, UK

Shirley Shao, USA

Rebecca Sherfey, USA

Marie-Ange Solas, France

Robyn Virtue, USA

Derek Xiao, USA

Shannon Yu, USA

Grace Zhang, USA

Unfortunately, we couldn't pick everyone to be a finalist.  But, we hope that you will all participate in our competition again next year!

Again, congratulations to all on your excellent designs!!

Stay updated on the competition outcome by visiting our blog.