Finalists Announced in Gift for Life/NYIGF Design Competition
GDA Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 7/26/2010 10:56:54 AM
White Plains, NY — The finalists for the first Gift for Life/New York International Gift Fair Product Design 
Competition have been announced. Nine finalists will vie for a People's Choice Award, based on voting by market-goers, and a Designer Distinction Award, determined by a panel of professional designers. Judges include Mark Blackwell, Sandy Chilewich and Evette Rios.
The finalists are:
Coffee Joe Banks series by Japanese product designer Akira Yoshimura; Le Cochon Tote from the Bradley Stephens design firm in New York; Red Ribbon for Aids sock bank, handmade by Brenda Elvey, a craftsperson in Missoula, MT; cast brass Glyptodon Community Bank by Graham Parker, Albuquerque, NM; Jenny Island Canada Bank, also by Graham Parker Ansell; Multi-functional Money Box by May Luk of Brooklyn, NY; Rags to Riches by designers Susan Firestone and Karen Bluestein; Bunny Bank by New York-based French artist Eric Bonnin; and Bank in the Form of a Pig, part of the "Reality" series by interior and industrial designer Harry Allen.
The competition, titled "Make Change," required established and emerging designers to reinvent the piggy bank. The finalists' designs will be on display in the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center's Crystal Palace lobby during the summer 2010 NYIGF. The winners will receive one complimentary exhibition space, valued at $3,700, at the winter 2011 NYIGF.
Proceeds from the competition will benefit Gift for Life and its sole beneficiary, DIFFA: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS.
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