This month we are taking a break from pattern design and asking you to focus on Photographic Blanks. We've already had lots of great entries but you have until Monday 3rd June to get snapping away and enter. Check out the full brief and the latest entries over here.
By Vicjdesign
This month your brief was to design a contemporary surface pattern for a female recipient that could be used across a range of products including;
Gift bags
Wrapping paper
Stationery products
Greeting cards
Because quite a number of our successful products for female customers feature flowers within the design we challenged you to try something different and consider a variety of icons and styles to give us something fresh to present in our ranges for M&S.
It was great to see you push forward with new floral styles but also consider how you could use icons inspired by fashion, make up, accessories, food and drink to name but a few.
However when we are judging we have to look at what's commercial and what would work well in our range and florals are still a very strong area.
With over 700 designs to choose from this month our judges had a hard task before them but armed with cake they enjoyed every moment of it.
So I am delighted to announce that this month our winner is Vicjdesign with the quite stunning botanical entry above. Our judges believe that this design was the strongest and could easily translate across a variety of products. In addition because of the nature of the design the elements could be put to work to work as a repeat in many different ways. Congratulations to Vicjdesign.
The judges also selected the following four designers as this month's runners up.
By Kaori Onishi
Every girl loves their make up so this design is perfect and so very commercial. It is also bang up to date with the styling - how many shots do you see lately where the objects or tools are laid out in this way. Well done!
This is a stunning design and very commercial and stood out to all of judges from the beginning.The colour way is beautiful and the layering technique makes this a very sophisticated and contemporary design. Well done Claudia!
By Zesti
Tea seems to of made a big comeback in the last couple of years and we loved how this design brought a fun element to the competition. Beautiful colours and style but for us it wouldn't go across as many products as perhaps some of the other entries as it's perhaps a little niche but we loved it all the same. Well done.
By Helen Witt
Tea cups and teapots are still very popular and we had a few entries that explored this popular theme. This was our favourite as it does something different and has a quirky style to it which is perhaps the use of coloured blocks behind the illustration. Well done Helen.
Our runner up prize this month is the very fab "The Printed Square" which will be landing on the door mats of all our talented runners up.
A very big thank you to everyone who entered the competition this month and as always we hope you enjoyed the brief. This month we are taking a break from pattern design and asking you to focus on Photographic Blanks. Right up your street?
1. Helen
2. Kaori Onishi
6. Demi-Goutte
8. Kimsa
9. Zesti
10. Zesti
11. Angie
12. Wolffpetra
13. Heather
14. ChloeRutherford
15. Vicjdesign
16. Kimsa
17. Vicjdesign
A big well done to all the designers featured above and we will bring you the final results first thing Tuesday morning!
Here are the Top 100 designs selected for the first round of judging in the recent Female Surface Pattern Competition. Well done to everyone it was a very tough choice!
These 100 designs are now with our panel of judges who are selecting their favourite five designs. Following which we will look through this final selection at the beginning of next week and pick out the overall winner and runners up before announcing the results.
A very big thank you to everyone who has entered and the very best of luck to you all!
In the meantime don't forget to check out our latest competition Photographic Blanks.
Thanks and have a great weekend!
Vic
Our recent Female Surface Pattern Competition saw us receive a staggering amount of entries, in-fact over the 700 mark!
We have now begun the arduous task of judging which first means cutting down the number of entries to just 100 designs.
These 100 designs are now with our panel of judges who are selecting their favourite five designs. Following which we will look through this final selection at the beginning of next week and pick out the overall winner and runners up before announcing the results.
It is a very tough but fun process and we constantly have to refer back to the original brief as well as taking into consideration what design would work in a future range.
A very big thank you to everyone who has entered and the very best of luck to you all!
In the meantime don't forget to check out our latest competition Photographic Blanks.
Thanks
Vic
Our latest competition is Female Surface Pattern and we will be accepting entries until Monday 6th May 2013.
We hope you enjoy this brief and we look forward to judging all the wonderful entries.
Have a great weekend!
By Elizabeth
The Male Pattern Competition attracted over 500 designs this month which was exceptional!
A huge thank you to everyone who put in the time and effort to enter - we really do appreciate and it’s always great fun to judge.
So with over 500 designs we initially had to cut these down to just 100 designs to make it a little easier on our judges. Following which we had a shortlist of 15 designs and finally we came to a decision on our winner and runners up!
When selecting a winner we have to consider carefully how this will sit within our range and how it follows the brief and brings something new into the Tigerprint studio.
Our winning entry this month does just that and was a firm favourite amongst all our judges so well done to Elizabeth with the entry above.
In addition we have selected four runners up who will each receive a special runners up prize.
We really loved all the elements to this design and it could work well across a number of products. Well done Victoria!
By Vikki
Fabulous colours and this design was an immediate favourite with our judges and wonderfully on trend. Great work Vikki!
This is a really nice take on popular male icons and symbols and the subtle highlighting of a few of the icons works really well - fabulous!
This pattern is great and we could see it working well on a wrap - great texture and colour.
Well done Ellen!
Once again we’d like to thank you all for entering and we do hope you enjoyed the brief.
In the meantime please do check out the latest brief now which is Female Surface Pattern.
Have a great weekend!
PS I will be in touch with our winner and runners up next week with all the details of their prize.
Here it is the Male Pattern shortlist.
A big congratulations to everyone and good luck with the final judging which will be revealed Friday 12th April!
Victoria Johnson
Vikki
Kate
Jane Farnham
La Graphisterie
Ellen James
Louise Harrison
Floriographic
Mendoza-V
La Graphisterie
Floriographic
Lauren Bailes
Kirsty mj wright
Kdavis
Elizabethrachael
Our latest competition is Female Surface Pattern and we will be accepting entries until Sunday 5th May 2013.
A big thank you and good luck to everyone who entered the Male Pattern Competition which closed last night and we are very much looking forward to judging tomorrow.
Keep you posted!
Our latest competition is Male Pattern and it's all about creating contemporary print pattern for the male recipient.
We have had some great entries so far but you still have time to enter! We will be accepting submissions via the website until midnight (GMT) Sunday 7th April.
A big thank you to everyone who has entered so far and good luck!
