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SUNDAY, 5 FEBRUARY 2012
Hands off our design
Back in sunnier times, in June of last year to be precise, Class 99 brought its readers news of the HandsOffMyDesign competition which the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) has been running in order to promote the message that copying and counterfeiting is bad and should be avoided. We now know the results of this competition. As OHIM explains:
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Hands off our design
Back in sunnier times, in June of last year to be precise, Class 99 brought its readers news of the HandsOffMyDesign competition which the Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market (OHIM) has been running in order to promote the message that copying and counterfeiting is bad and should be avoided. We now know the results of this competition. As OHIM explains:
"Winners named in "HandsOffMyDesign" CompetitionThanks go to Sally Cooper for drawing our attention to this news.
The winning entries in the "HandsOffMyDesign" competition received awards in a special ceremony in the European Parliament today. Almost 60 student and professional designers took part in the contest, which was designed to generate high-impact “guerrilla or viral” marketing tools with the potential to capture the imagination of users of social networking tools on the Internet.
The event ... was organised by the European Observatory on Counterfeiting and Piracy and DG Internal Market and Services with the support of OHIM and endorsed by the Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. The winners were selected by an international panel including independent figures from the design industry and academia as well the stakeholders of the Observatory.
OHIM President António Campinos said that one of the major challenges ahead for the EU was to determine how to protect the rights of creative people while maintaining the free exchange of information on the Internet:
“In the digital era, we need to find a fair way to remunerate artists, musicians, authors and film-makers. This competition represents the personal perspectives from designers working in every part of Europe. Whether or not everyone agrees with the messages, I am confident they will play a valuable role in helping to stimulate the kind of constructive debate on this issue that we need in the EU".... The winning participants, divided into two categories – one for design students and one for professional designers, were awarded prizes of €8,000 (1st prize), €2,500 (2nd prize) and €1,500 (3rd prize).
Design students:
1st Prize: Julien Moreau, from the ECV Atlantique school in France.
2nd Prize: Nejc Levstik, from the Academy of theatre, radio, film and television in Slovenia.
3rd Prize: Lauri Särak, Daniel Levi Viinalass and Elmo Soomets, from the Tartu Art College in Estonia.
Professional designers:
1st Prize: Gergely Szonyi and Tamás Helényi from Green Lake Pictures in Hungary.
2nd Prize: Christoph Brehme of German nationality from Piopictures in Italy.
3rd Prize: Dimitris Haidas from dhaidas in Greece.
For more information and to view the videos click here".
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