The latest edition of the design contest, now in its seventh year, challenged students from schools belonging to Torraspapel’s Partnership program in Spain to submit a design for a bookmark based on the theme of Paper as a means of sustainable communication.

The contest was launched last December. After two months, almost 400 designs were received, surpassing the previous years’ editions in the number of participants.

The panel, made up of Graphic Arts and design specialists as well as Torraspapel executives, assessed the creativity, technique and communicative impact of the different bookmarks.

The students handled the subject matter in original and creative ways, demonstrating, once again, the high level of the participants.

The winners of the 7th edition of the Torraspapel Design Contest are as follows:

1st Category: Students of Publishing Design and Production; Masters in Graphic Arts.

• First Prize: Mª Eugenia Fernández Ochando – Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
  

   

  
  
  
• Second Prize: Marisol Ordoñez Arias - Salesianos Urnieta (Guipúzcoa)
  

   

  

Finalists:

•   Gonzalo Trigueros Casado - I.E.S. Emilio Campuzano (Bilbao)
•   Miguel Rivillas Romero - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
•   Miguel Rivillas Romero - Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

2nd Category: Print and Pre-Print Students.

 

• First prize: Santiago Moledo Villanueva – I.E.S. Fogar Provincial Príncipe Felipe (Pontevedra)
  

   

  
  
  
• Second prize: Sebastian Díaz Cabral – I.E.S. Puerta Bonita (Madrid)
  

   

  

Finalists:

• Rocío Galvache García - I.E.S. Puerta Bonita (Madrid)
• Elías Barreiro Amado - I.E.S. Fogar Provincial Príncipe Felipe (Pontevedra)
• Raquel Pretel Albarrán - Centre F.P. La Safor (Valencia)

Prizes will be awarded to two students in each category. First prize winners will receive an Acer Aspire 531 netbook and second prize winners an iPod Touch 8 GB with accessories.

In addition, the first-prize winners’ schools will receive a commemorative plaque and a check for 1,000 €, to be used toward the purchase of teaching materials.

Torraspapel congratulates the winners and finalists, and thanks all the participants for helping us promote the use of sustainable paper.