INTERNATIONAL JEWELRY DESIGN COMPETITION
The Next Episode Jewelry Design Competition has been completed.
Lapponia Jewelry, one of the leading jewelry design companies in Europe, introduced in February 2009 'The Next Episode" an international jewelry design competition to honour its forthcoming 50th anniversary in 2010.
The design competition was arranged to encourage young talents to design contemporary art as well as to improve their possibilities to present their work internationally. Nearly 140 designers from 26 different countries participated in the jewelry design competition. From nearly 140 participants the Jury has chosen 17 entries for the 2nd phase.
The Jury would like to comment following concerning the competition: “We are pleased with the versatility and impressiveness of the ideas. In many entries the participants took risks and interesting new ways of using jewelry were presented. We feel that new materials with new perspectives and directions were well used in a new and a fresh way."
The Jury chose 17 entries for the 2nd phase. The code names of the entrants for the 2nd phase were as follows | 157624
212405
040330114
Bunterng
Hedgehog
L.Luscinia
Licino5
Lumen
Machine
MC32HUS19JP
MC32KM06JP
Mimoli
Pisara
R1980T
Rubik
STF060883
TT In the meeting held in Helsinki 7.-8.12. the Jury found the winners among the sixteen entrants which participated in the second phase.
The high-class competition results will be announced at the Inhorgenta Jewelry Fair in Münich February 19th 2010. |