The BBC publishes a weekly gallery of readers’ pictures on a set theme. For week starting Thu 28t July the theme was wind, and I submitted the three photos below. One was selected and you can see it here (it’s at the end)). Stay tuned for more!
Archive for Competitions
Hand-dryer competition (CWS)
CWS-boco manufactures hygiene solutions and work clothing. This year they launched a new line of towel and soap dispensers, Paradise Line, with interchangeable front covers, so customers could “…display images or text…, corporate logos, and communications of various kinds…”
To promote the launch, they ran an international competition to design a front cover for the cotton towel dispenser, on the themes of:
- Emotions – Lifestyle: nature elements, freshness, cleanliness, ecology, health.
- Technique – hygiene: The towels rolls are made of 100% cotton.
- Abstract: Visionary, controversial or critical approaches are welcome.
(translated from the Italian)
CWS products are everywhere – hotels, bars, airports, public building, etc, in many cultures and languages. So I decided, to base my design, on an internationally recognised format, that we’re already used to seeing in multiple languages – the washing instruction label!
This idea also fits well with the emphasis CWS put on cotton towels rather than paper.
Unfortunately I didn’t win this time – you can see the winners here.
Red Bull Art of Can 2003
This was lots of fun! It was back in 2003 and I knew the ‘Art of Can’ contest run by Red Bull was calling for entries. I had to do it, I thought!
At the time I was living in London, and Ian and I used to go to Primrose Hill with our 5m power-kite and I thought it could be cool to do a sculpture of a can flying a kite – then it was no longer just flying a kite but became snow boarding as well.
After explaining what my concept was, I got my entry into the contest and called it ‘Another Kind of Wings’, referencing the Red Bull slogan, “Red Bull gives you wings”.
Development
Here some development ideas:
Making it
2003, the hottest summer this decade across Europe (36°C), and it was so hot in our tiny flat in Camden Town. Working sanding wood and cutting mesh wires was tough and sweaty. I had only the kitchen table to work on; there was no more room at all. We decided the snowboarder was going to be a girl and we named her Leeloo-Lola (Leeloo from ‘The Fifth Element’ and Lola from ‘Lola Rennt’ – because I like orange)
Here some ‘in the making’ pictures:
And the finished work:
The Dublin Show
We packed and delivered Leeloo-Lola with her kite and board to Dublin. This was really hard, the package was more than a meter tall, and I was afraid she was not going to get there in 1 piece!
One day in October I got a letter from Red Bull saying that not all of the entries had been shortlisted but mine had and they were inviting me and a friend to the ‘Art of Can’ exhibition in Dublin. There were 300 entries and only 50 shortlisted and I was one of them, I couldn’t believe it!
The show was very good. Lots of photographers and press, performing dancers, all those awesome ‘can’ pieces and lots of champagne and mini fish and chips in wonderful paper cones! After the show, we all headed to a party hosted by Red Bull.
No, I didn’t win any of the prizes, but the satisfaction of creating Leeloo-Lola, the kite-boarder and seeing the people admiring her – believe me – was enough!
Here some pics from the show:
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