Hallmark Connection Award: Week 2

WINNER

Winner: Reuben Loftus

Title of work: Grit and grief

University: Kingston University

JUDGES COMMENTS

Reuben’s work resonated with an intense personal connection. The judges loved the poetic combination of place and time and the therapeutic process of making all communicated with engaging storytelling from world to film to object.

AWARD PRIZE

The prize is a £1,000 paid internship in our Hallmark creative studio (in studio or virtual).

You will work as part of our future-thinking ideation squad on a research and development project and will be mentored by our in-house design team.

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Image: Reuben Loftus, Winner of the Hallmark Connection Award 2022.

GALLERY

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AWARD CRITERIA

Hallmark Brand Vision: We will be the company that creates a more emotionally connected world by making a genuine difference in every life, every day.

Our award winner will be a graduate from 2022 who can bring innovative, future-thinking, and sustainable ideas to our greetings category.

They will be highly creative in their concept development, demonstrating inventive and clever ways to explore emotional connection through their work.

We are looking for ideas and concepts within and beyond the perceived expectations of greetings-associated design disciplines.