ooprint 2009 Design Competition Prize Ceremony

 

We very recently had the pleasure of meeting the Grand Prize winner of our 2^nd annual Holiday Card Design Competition, Caroline Bugnet!  

 

To congratulate Caroline on her artistic talents and her beautiful holiday card creation, we joined together and toasted to her success.  Ooprint president Rafik Smati also presented Caroline with her prize, a (rather large) check for 1000 euros.

 

Caroline, originally a costume and fashion designer, was kind enough to share her creative approach (and design secrets) with us and explain how she achieved her final design.  To embrace the spirit of the holiday season and the New Year, Caroline chose the theme of passing time for her card.  She then elaborated on this idea, using the image of an old timepiece from which numbers fall symbolizing years passing, and fireworks to bring a festive note to the arrival of the New Year.  Caroline admits that she “didn’t believe in online competitions” but decided to participate all the same, and is now delighted to have won!  Bravo, Caroline, you successfully created a magical and celebratory atmosphere with which we can all identify.

 

For more information about Caroline, you can visit her website.

 

Anxious to show off your design skills and compete for the Grand Prize?  The next ooprint Holiday Card Competition will be announced soon!

 

In the meantime, keep an eye on our blog for the latest news about upcoming projects for designers!

Meet the designers!

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

http://tinmal.over-blog.com/

 

Aftab Arab, UK

http://www.aularegis.co.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

http://www.e-solve.net

 

Philippe Rey, France

http://www.naturellement-photo.com

 

Vladislava Vidinova, Bulgaria

http://vladividal.typepad.com

 

Dasha Wagner, USA

http://www.dm-design-collection.com

The Winners!

First, a big thank you to all the finalists of the 2nd annual ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition.  Our clients were very impressed by your designs!

And now, congratulations to our winners!!

Grand Prize . . . Caroline Bugnet, France

Jury Prize . . . Jennifer Da Silva Pimenta, Switzerland

The Grand Prize was selected by the ooprint customers based on sales, and the Jury Prize was selected by the ooprint artistic team based on design merit.

Thank you to all the participants of the 2009 Holiday Card Design Competition, it was a great success!  See you next year!

Two days left!

The 2nd annual ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition comes to an end on January 15th.  That means you only have 2 days left to buy your favorite designer's holiday card.  After the 15th, the competition designs will no longer be available on the ooprint websites. 

The winners will be announced on the ooprint blog on January 20, 2009.

Remember, great prizes are at stake!  The winner of the Grand Prize (the best-selling card) will receive $1000!

The winner of the Jury Prize (selected by the ooprint artistic team) will receive $500!

All the finalists will receive a $50 gift coupon from ooprint, and the top 20 finalists will receive a tee-shirt from Spreadshirt and a lifetime blog account from Typepad!

See the competition designs here.

Best of luck finalists!

Holiday Cards for sale!

The Holiday Cards designed by the finalists of the ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition are now available for purchase on ooprint.com!

Choose your favorite card from among the finalists' 39 designs, and order now!  You can take advantage of our promotion of 20% off Holiday Cards (valid until November 30th), and you will be helping the designer to win the Competition!

The best-selling card will be awarded the Grand Prize of $1000!

You can order the finalists' Holiday Cards until January 15, 2009.  The winners will be announced on January 20th.

Good luck, finalists!

Congratulations Finalists!

With over 200 entries, the selection of the ooprint Holiday Card Design Competition finalists was extremely difficult this year!  We were truly impressed by the many creative and wonderful designs. 

Congratulations to our finalists!

Noura Ait Issa, Morocco

Aftab Arab, UK

Caroline Bugnet, France

Vina Curcija, Croatia

Jennifer Da Silva Pimenta, Switzerland

Patricia Elizondo, Mexico

 

Mandy Gordon, USA

Doriane Greuzat, France

Darena Iliev, Italy

Emir Kanakane, Tunisia

Sunghwan Kim, South Korea

Eva Koltai, Hungary

Karem Laguna, Canada

Julie Lannes, France

Cindy Lecat, France

Lucy McCririck, UK

Ludovic Meunier, France

Hee Jun Park, South Korea

Gaël Rabarijaona

, Madagascar

Philippe Rey, France

Saloomeh Sayah Mofazali, Iran

Vladislava Vidinova, Bulgaria

Dasha Wagner, USA

Pak-Yeung Wong, Hong Kong

Eon Tae Yoon, South Korea

The finalists' Holiday Card designs will be available for purchase on ooprint.com starting Tuesday November 4th.   

Thank you to all of our participants!  We appreciate the hard work you put into your designs, and we really loved seeing all your original holiday cards.

Yohanes Anggriawan, Indonesia

Sophie Bouzat, France

Josephine Cho, South Korea

Myoung Chung, South Korea

Sudipta Dasgupta, India

Philippe de la Coussaye, France

Marine Denis, France

Coline Duchenne, France

Marianne Faure, France

Théa Furstenbert, France

Laetitia Gavini, France

Elodie Gloaguen, France

Michèle Guerineau, France

Mark Hamilton, USA

Rodolphe Houarno, France

Hayan Kim, USA

Li Ra Kim, South Korea

Samia Labib, Canada

Jasmin Lochard, France

Trinh Loi, USA

Jerri Mannion, USA

Gina Miller, USA

Nathanael Nehlig, France

Ka Yan Ng, Hong Kong

Claudia Niessen, Germany

Edith Nweke, UK

Nsongo Nyimi, Belgium

Isabelle Pezzoli, France

Edith Pojum, Romania

Kalina Popova, Bulgaria

Justine Reverdiau, France

Satvinder Rooprai, UK

Nathalie Ruhl, France

Amy Sabourin, USA

Mehdi Sbai-Idrissi, France

Son Seokmin, USA

Anna Shuttlewood, UK

Prédrag Stavun, France

Pete Stipech, USA

Florine Sueur, France

Stephanie Tanner, USA

Dorothée Taverne, France

Jean-Marc Tirolien, France

Lauren Von Dehsen, USA

Wayne Vun, Malaysia

Jungtae Yoo, USA

Tak Young Shin, USA

We hope you will participate again next year!