Pre-Loved to Treasure Jewellery Design and Fabrication Competition WINNERS 2020
2020 Pre-Loved to Treasure Jewellery competition judges have completed the judging and you have voted for the most popular Treasure!
Congratulations to all winners, lucky draw winners and contestants!
Special thank you for the final judges:Nora Tan - Strategic development & sustainability reporting manager at Singapore Environment Council (SEC).
And a heart felt thank you for the competition supporters
See you soon with more exciting competitions!
PHYSICAL CATEGORY
This is where the designers and artisans took something pre-loved and converted it into new and exiting jewellery to wear. The competition was tight among the top five contestants and after all the criteria judged the top two were in tie! Special thank you for our prize sponsor JDMIS who decided to award two winners!
GOLD WINNERS in Physical Category are:
Sujata's "Renaissance, a rebirth" uses plastic folders to raise the awareness how the world is engulfed in plastics. Read the full story.
Kevin's "Fauna" is a tribute to the Animal Kingdom and a commentary on Mankind’s troubled relationship with its subjects. Read the full story.
* Creative Jewellery Studio 6-month Gold Membership
Congratulations both to Sujata and Kevin for their win!
Congratulations also to top five contestants:
DESIGN CATEGORY
This is where the designers took something pre-loved and converted it into an exciting new design.
Kajal's "Flight of Fantasy" introduces a modern look on client's pre-loved traditional agate hulu of high sentimental value. Read the full story.
* Creative Jewellery Studio 6-month Gold Membership
Design Category SILVER WINNER is:
Neelam's "Coeixtence" revolves around the idea of Balance [50:50], depicting the importance of co existence with mother nature in harmony. Read the full story.
* Creative Jewellery Studio 6-month Silver Membership
Congratulations both to Kajal and Neelam!
ORGANIZER'S CHOICE
This is a new award to celebrate the creative use of non-jewellery materials. Six submissions used materials like wooden pegs, bone from a meal, plastic folders, cushion covers, toothpaste, shampoo and toilet cleaner containers as well as coins! Find out more!
The Organizer's Choice Winner was made using toothpaste tube, shampoo and toilet cleaner containers:
* Creative Jewellery Studio 6-month Gold Membership
Congratulations to Robert!
POPULAR CHOICE
945 people from 32 countries voted on-line for their favorite.
The Winner is:
Kajal Naina - "Flight of Fantasy"
Congratulations to Kajal!
What is the Significance of this Competition?
An annual event "Earth Day" is celebrated around the world to demonstrate support for environmental protection. This year was the 50th anniversary. Celebrating Earth Day serves as a conscious reminder of how fragile our planet is and how important it is to protect it.
CJS wants to play a part in Environmental protection
A year ago CJS was invited to Takashimaya department store in a “Sparkle New Joy” Upcycled jewellery themed pop-up and what fun we had creating new pieces from pre-loved items! This year we wished to take this concept to the next level as a competition!
JDMIS students were invited to take part in this fun, but meaningful ‘Pre-Loved to Treasure’ Up-cycled Jewellery Competition.
The key objective was to encourage designers to go green and to think ‘out-of-the-box’ by using more sustainable materials through re-use and repurpose, instead of using new materials from mother earth in their creation.
10% of the sales proceeds from submitted up-cycled and repurposed jewellery pieces are donated to environmental charity - Singapore Environment Council. The council has long history in environmental programs which helped us create demand for sustainable jewellery through publicity. Collaboration with SEC can bring long term benefits on developing a more environmentally friendly jewellery market.
The inaugural 2020 competition was open from Mar 3rd to Jul 13th, judging was completed in Aug and on-line popular voting was open for 2.5 weeks in Aug. The winners were announced on Sep 3rd.
Theme of 2020 competition was "Mother Earth".
- Physical category (upcycled jewellery)
- Design category
- Organizer's Choice (category 1 & 2 combined)
- On-line popular vote (category 1 & 2 combined)
- min 70% use of upcycled / recycled materials
- Adherence to the theme
- Comfort of wearing
- Durability and workmanship
- Creative use of up-cycled materials
- Beauty and aesthetic appeal
Thank you to all contestants for participating in this meaningful competition!
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