Thank you to all the designers who participated in the ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition! The ooprint team and our customers were extremely impressed by your creations, and want to see more! So, here is some information about the winners and finalists . . .
Grand Prize
Caroline Bugnet
France
Caroline studied fashion design and modelling at ESMOD in France, where she received the Grand Jury Award and received 3rd place in the ESMOD school-wide competition. Today, she applies her design skills as a Textile and Graphic Designer for Kenzo and various other brands. In addition to her passion for fashion and costume design, she has developped an interest in cinematography and film special effects. She recently fused these interests in her first short film project, Russian Nightmare, which has been selected to participate in several film festivals.
Jury Prize
Jennifer Da Silva Pimenta
Switzerland
Passionate about the web and multimedia since her adolescence, Jennifer received her diploma as a Multimedia Designer from the School of Applied Arts in Geneva. She works principally as a freeland designer, mastering numerous design softwares and programming languages. Her latest plans are the launch of her own wedding & personal stationery company, http://www.pimentas-collection.com, which will be open in February 2009.
You can see more examples of Jennifer's work on her website, http://piment-a.com.
Finalists
Noura Ait Issa, Morocco
Aftab Arab, UK
Cindy Lecat, France
http://cindylecat.ultra-book.com
Eva Koltai, Hungary
http://8003713474976809073.slide.com/?public_pr=true
Karem Laguna, Canada
http://www.flickr.com/photos/karem_laguna/
Lucy McCririck, UK
http://www.illustrating-lucy.com
Gaël Rabarijaona, Madagascar
Philippe Rey, France
http://www.naturellement-photo.com
Vladislava Vidinova, Bulgaria
Dasha Wagner, USA