January 22, 2010
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):
Maxim Cyr, Canada
Aftab Arab, England
Finalists (3rd to 5th 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
November 6, 2009
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, Marocco
- Paula Arquiola Lis, Spain
- Sebastien Bourgeois, France
- Stephane Le Brethon, France
- Tania Duffault, France
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!
November 3, 2009
Announcing... the competition finalists!
The competition is now closed and again this year we are very excited by the great number of participants.
We will announce the finalists on November 6th, at which time all of the finalists’ designs will be available for purchase on ooprint.com.
You can keep up to date with all of the competition news on our blog.
Hey designers,
Get ready, it's time for the
3rd annual ooprint Holiday Card design competition!
The company
ooprint is a new generation online printing service. On our websites our customers have access to thousands of different graphic models for products such as business cards, greeting cards, birth announcements, wedding invitations, etc. which they can personalize online with their own text, logo, photos, and images.
The competition
Create the best-selling 2010 Holiday Card!
Use the theme Happy New Year 2010 or Happy Holidays (Christmas, Hanukah, Kwanzaa etc.) to design an original holiday card.
The ooprint creative team will choose the finalist designs to be sold on the ooprint websites.
The winners and finalists will be awarded some fantastic prizes from ooprint and our sponsors Spreadshirt, TypePad and la Fraise!
This competition is open to everyone! There is no age limit or geographic restriction.
You may submit as many designs as you would like in order to have a greater chance at winning!
Prizes
First Prize: Grand Prize (top-selling card)
- $1000 CASH
- Premium Boutique from Spreadshirt
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A T-shirt from la Fraise
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
Second Prize: Jury Prize (based on design merit)
- $500 CASH
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A T-shirt from la Fraise
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
From the 3rd to the 5th prize
- A Wacom Bamboo Fun Medium pen tablet
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A T-shirt from la Fraise
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
From the 6th to the 8th prize
- A Wacom Bamboo Fun Small pen tablet
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A T-shirt from la Fraise
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
9th and 10th prize
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A T-shirt from la Fraise
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
From the 11th to the 20th prize
- Lifetime account for your own blog from TypePad
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
For all other finalists
- A $50 ooprint gift coupon
- Your holiday card will be featured on the ooprint websites, signed with your name
Designs
Theme
You can create a card with the theme Happy Holidays, or Happy New Year 2010. The style is yours to decide, so be creative! However, remember that our customers range from individuals to international businesses... so design a card that can appeal to many people and professions. After all, our customers will decide the winner!
Internationalisation
ooprint has customers all over the world, who speak different languages. So, it’s important to design your card so that the text can be easily adapted into other countries and cultures. For example, create a multilingual card with “Happy New Year” written in many different languages.
Format
16cm x 16cm folded / 4 sides
File specifications
- File format: high resolution PDF, in CMYK color mode (no pantone tones)
- Your design must be created to fit the final card size: 16 cm x 16 cm. There is no need to specify trim size or bleed size
- Your PDF file must include 4 separate pages, each measuring 16 cm x 16 cm :
- Page 1 : Front of the card
- Page 2 : Inside left of the card
- Page 3 : Inside right of the card
- Page 4 : Back of the card
Rights
You must own the user rights to any images, illustrations, photos, or any other component of your design.
Texts
Our Holiday Card models feature two types of text:
• Fixed text/ text in image form
• Variable text / text that can be modified by customers when ordering their products (ex: personal message, address, company name etc.)
Your Holiday Card may include text in image form as part of the design (ex: Happy Holidays, Season’s Greetings). However, you do not need to include variable text. If your design is selected as a finalist, the ooprint creative team will add variable text fields on pages 2, 3 and 4 of your design so that our customers can then personalize their texts and order your card.
Deadlines
Your designs must be submitted by midnight on November 2, 2009 to 
. Please be sure to include your contact information in your submission email: full name, telephone number, email address etc.
The finalists will be announced and their designs put online for sale on November 6, 2009. There can be as many finalists featured as there are good design submissions!
The finalists’ designs will be available for sale online from November 6, 2009 until January 20, 2010. After this date, the finalists’ designs will be removed from sale from the ooprint websites.
The names of the Grand Prize & Jury Prize winners and the top 20 finalists will be announced on January 22, 2010.
Questions?
Please don’t hesitate to send us your questions at . You may also send us your designs in progress before submitting a final design so that we may respond with our comments and respond to any questions you may have.
Also, become a fan on facebook and check out our blog entries from the Holiday Design Competition 2009 to see last year’s finalists’ and winners’ designs.
Best of luck, designers! Please don’t hesitate to contact us with your questions.
See you soon on ooprint.com!
- Grand Prize: $1000
- Jury Prize: $500
- Finalist prizes: $50 ooprint gift coupons, lifetime accounts for your own blog from TypePad, t-shirts from la Fraise and Wacom pen tablets!
