Valentine's Challenge winners..!

We are really pleased to annouce the winners of the Skillshare Valentine's Challenge. Majo and I each chose a winner and those lucky two are Melissa Iwai and Emma Hawman! Whilst we felt most of the designs answered the brief, we were both really impressed by the way the greeting card and gift wrap design worked so well together with Melissa's and Emma's entries.
You are both the happy 1st-place winners of some fabulous books. You can check out the prizes here.

E - I LOVE Valentine Candy by Melissa Iwai

C- LOVE confetti by Emma Hawman

To find our 2nd and 3rd places we opened it up to the public and we are pleased to announce that 2nd place goes to Sarah Price and 3rd place to Sarah H. You guys will also get a fab book each.

H - You're just my type by Sarah Price

We loved the contemporary feel to Sarah's design!

G - Love by Sarah H

Valentine's Day is usually all about pink and red, we love Sarah's use of bold bright colours in her design.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by, voted and/or commented! We closed the contest this morning at 6am (Colombian time) and had 279 votes altogether! Thank you again to all of the amazing designers that entered the challenge. You all created beautiful work and it was really hard to choose.

Melissa, Emma, Sarah and Sarah - please email us your full name, postal address and phone number. Sarah and Sarah please let us know which book you would like from these two...

Watch out for some more exciting challenges soon. And if you are interested in our Skillshare classes please check out The Art of Typography and Reign Repeats by clicking on the links.

Exciting skillshare challenge!

I'm really pleased to announce an exciting challenge in collaboration with my good friend, fellow designer and skillshare teacher Majo Bautista V. We are hosting a Valentine's Challenge. 

So what's the project about?

Design your perfect Valentine's card and matching gift wrap paper. Enrolling in both courses will give you all the skills you need to do the challenge!

Guidelines // to participate you must:

1. Submit your final project to both classrooms (or just one), but remember you have to be signed up to both courses to win! - use code LOVE40 to get 40% off when you enroll Reign Repeats and The Art of Typography. 

2. Create a coordinated greeting card and a patterned gift wrap design

3. Deadline: Saturday, February 8th, 2014

Majo and I will take the weekend to choose 10 of our favourite projects each. On Tuesday, February 11th we will post our top 20 on this blog and Majo's. We will award 2 first places that will be chosen by Majo and I based on design quality and overall coherence between both the card and the gift wrap. The 2nd and 3rd place will be chosen by public vote on our blogs from Feb 11th until the 17th. On February 18th we will announce the 4 winners.

Prizes:

Two 1st places will win:

2nd and 3rd place will choose their choice of these 2 books:

Each of the winners will also win a set of 4 of my typographic celebration cards:

And a free digital download from Majo's Etsy shop

Have lots of fun with this one guys!! We want to see you utilise all the skills you learn from both classes.