Millennium Promise Competition Winners
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An image from Jisuk Jung’s winning campaign
Back in March we wrote about Design 21’s Millennium Promise competition. Now the winners have been selected. First prize went to the animated campaign “Eight Goals” by Jisuk Jung of South Korea. The jury found that Jung’s compelling animated version of each of Millennium Promise’s eight goals serves as a message of hope and clearly illustrates all of the Millennium Promise’s objectives. The upbeat animation will be featured prominently on the Millennium Promise website. Jung will be awarded $5000.
The latest in a series of thought-provoking on-line competitions, designers of all disciplines were invited to develop a new, web-based media campaign for this non-profit organization with the mission to achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (MGDs) in Africa by 2015. These eight globally endorsed objectives address the many aspects of extreme poverty, hunger and preventable disease. Close to 80 designers from 26 countries responded to this challenge with Jisuk Jung as the overall winner. In addition, a DESIGN 21 jury, consisting of four members of its advisory board, selected winners for a Judge’s Prize of $1125 each. In addition to winning the top prize, Jung’s well-thought-out campaign was also selected by DESIGN 21 judge, Dr. Peter Zec of Germany.The three other Judge’s Prizes included Dick Orlando Martínez Calderón’s “Happiness is Easy,” chosen by judge Marcella Echavarria; Sarah Spargo’s “U Develop,” chosen by Cynthia E. Smith; and Cemal Mutver’s “Millennium Promise Competition,” chosen by Susan Szenasy. There was also an awareness-raising popular vote for a prize of $500, which generated hundreds of responses from around the globe that went to “HELP!” by Lana Sef. To find out more about the competition and Design 21 click here
August 12th, 2008 at 12:21 am
Very creative work, it deserved it!