Results of the 2003 Design for Life Christmas Cards Competition

Autumn 2003 saw the World Land Trust announce its Christmas Card competition - "Design for Life" which attracted many entries, and after deliberations the Judges were able to announce the winners.

Winning Designs - Exclusive Christmas Cards

Winners: Ingrid Nilsson lives in Edinburgh. Her design was inspired by a visit last year to Thailand.
Nicole Saint-John is a German born artist now living in California. Each won £500.

Indian Elephants, by Ingrid Nilsson (210 x 150mm)	Christmas Alligator, by Nicole Saint-John (210 x 150mm) Order this Christmas card online

Young Winners: Jointly awarded to 10 pupils at Birla Vidya Niketan Junior School, New Delhi - Prateek Chawla, age 8; Ria Kulkarni, 9; Mahima Jaju, 8; Bhavya Jain, 9; Anirudh S Negi, 9; Rohan Kamra, 9; Vaibhav Sharma, 10; Palak Anand, 10; Dhwani Sahdev, 10; and Japneet Wadhera, 10 - for their Rainforest and Wildlife designs the School won £100. You can see the rest of the school winners, and send them as 'paperless Christmas cards' online. See the Junior winners ecards here.

One of the Birla Vidya Niketan School Winners (see more pictures)

As well as the three winners, the judges were also extremely impressed by three further designs which they chose as runners-up: Dubravka Kolanovic from Croatia for her Polar Bear & Fox design; Russell Vernalls from Birmingham, UK for his Otters Collage; and John N Stevenson from Edinburgh for Starring Endangered Wildlife from Around the World. You can view and send the Runners up eCards online.

The Competition Judges Were:

John Norris Wood, wildlife artist; Jan Pienkowski, children's illustrator and two-times winner of the Kate Greenaway medal for Illustration; Bruce Pearson, wildlife artist and president of the Society of Wildlife Artists; Rosamund Kidman Cox, editor of BBC Wildlife Magazine and Vivien Burton, publications manager of the World Land Trust.