Lovely article about one of the Gifted 2011 competition winner

AN INDUSTRIAL design student from Dinas Powys has won a competition to design a Christmas cracker for Marks & Spencer.

Chloe Tuck, who is in her third year at Loughborough University, designed the cracker around the classic Christmas novel from Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and the main character Ebenezer Scrooge.

The 21-year-old received a cash prize for her winning 'Humbug' design and was invited to finalise the design with a professional company.

"It was a good fun and good experience," said Chloe, who is travel to Shanghai to further her design experience in the new year.

Her dad, Greg Tuck, said he was extremely proud of her achievement.

The crackers contain a 'name that tune' style game where players must try to communicate the title of a song without actually saying anything or singing the lyrics.

The competition was organised in conjunction with New Designers annual exhibition.

Source: Penarthtimes

Gifted 2011 Competition Products

Its been quite a while since the 2011 Gifted Competition winners were announced & we are very happy to finally showcase the final products!

Well done to everyone who got involved with the 2011 Competition and a huge thank you to the winners & runner up who worked with the Tigerprint Christmas team to produce some fantastic products.

We'd love to hear what you think about them.

...and the WINNER is?

We are delighted  to announce the winner of Tigerprint's Gifted Competition 2012 is...

Mercedes Leon from Camberwell College of Arts, studying MA Illustration.

Mercedes bowled us over with her clever interpretation of the themes, witty icons and simple execution of illustration.

She offered a great collection of concepts and very professionally presented.

Mercedes has won the £500 cash prize and 3 months paid placement across our 2 studios – Yorkshire initially then London.

Well done Mercedes!

We are also happy to announce there were two very close runners up,

Anneline Fagerne from University of Hertfordshire, School of Creative Arts, studying Graphic design and Illustration BA(hons),

&

Jenny Prior from University College Falmouth, studying BA (Hons) Illustration.

Both graduated this year and they showed excellent design flair, skill and again great interpretation of the themes.

We hope to develop their ideas further too!

We also wanted to take this opportunity again to thank all those who took part, without you there would be no competition, you made it happen! Although we have selected our winner and runners up we may be contacting more people for specific projects, so you never know it could be you that we contact next!

As the ranges develop we will update the site so keep watching….

Thanks again

The Gifted? Team.

Announcing the winner - Tomorrow

Hi everyone,

We possibly thought you might like to know that the 2012 Gifted? Competition WINNER will be announce tomorrow!!

Keep an eye on the homepage and here to see the results.

Thanks

JUDGING DAY!

Good news everyone, we are pleased to announce the judging for the Design a Day Competition will be on Thursday 13th September.

More details to follow next week......

Update on Friday, September 14, 2012 at 10:55AM by G

The Judging Process

Here are the Gifted team, judging the some 2391 fantastic entries received from 220 great designers. After several hours, they managed to shortlist this list down to 347 entries, 98 designers!

By the end of the day, they finally managed to decide on this years winner!! We can't wait to announce her to you, and will gladly do so next week.

Until then, we would like to thank everyone who entered this years Gifted?, we simply wouldn't have such a fantastic competition without all your excellent work and involvement.

Once again, many thanks.

The Gifted? Team :)

Here are the results from the Gifted? team...

As promised, here are the numbers...

are you sitting down...

2391 entries!!!

It's going to take a little longer to go through all these than we had originally planned :)

And there we have it!

Tha tha, tha tha, tha that's all folks.

Gifted 2012 is now finished and closed for business.

We hope that you have enjoyed this years epic competition. We certainly have!

I'll be glad not to hear my phone buzzing so much with all the activity from this last month or so.

Thank you all to those who have entered. We are so very grateful!

For those who missed this years Gifted, there will be more next year, but in the mean time, we run a monthly competition over on our competition blog you may like to get your teeth stuck into.

Best of luck to everyone.

The Gifted? Team.

5 minutes only...

What a ride! We have had a good surge for the last 30 minutes. Only 5 left, then we can all relax and go to bed.

Good luck everyone! it's nearly time.

30 Mins...

half an hour left! Quick Quick! and remember one last time, to fill in that registration form!

Just one last push!

One hour left everyone!

Hope you're all having fun.

Remember, we'll post the total entries we have received in the morning, so hold on tight! I think you may be surprised, we are so far! :)