We recently entered Stereohype’s 4th badge competition with an idea we thought of a while back.

We just missed out on making the shortlist, but we did get a little mention for our effort.

We didn’t think about entering our Sett of Badgers which was silly, so we’ll see how they do next time.

Click here to see all the finalists and winners.

Adam Morris from Manchester Met was the first out of the tombola, winning one of our D&AD Annuals. His act of Thoughtfulness was designing a set of motivational badges that take you back to the good old days of being rewarded for doing a good job with a gold, silver or smiley face sticker.

Here’s Adam collecting his Annual, today.

www.adammorrisdesign.com

Maithili Kabre won a D&AD Student Membership, and her act of Thoughtfulness was to collect scrap pieces of A4 paper to make into sketch pads. Maithili studies at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

Maithili with her sketch pads.

Rob Butcher and Caroline Paris from Loughborough University also won a Student Membership with their cool projections for the Samaritans.

www.streetlights.org.uk/

And James and Joe from the University of Leeds, won a pair of D&AD Lecture tickets. Their act of Thoughtfulness was to make a stranger merry for Christmas.

www.jamesandjoe.co.uk

We’ve just drawn out the winners for Thoughtful’s Tombola Competition. Click the link below to see the outcome. It may take a moment to load in, so bear with it.

http://www.wearethoughtful.com/movies/tombolaresults2008.mov

We‘d like to thank everyone that entered, and to D&AD for supporting our competition.

If you won, congratulations, we’ll be in touch soon to get your prize to you. If you didn’t win, better luck next time, and hey, it’s not all bad. Through all the acts of thoughtfulness you did, you probably made someone’s day.

We’ll put up the winner’s work after we’ve contacted them.

We’ll continue to be D&AD Members next year, which means we’ll again be left with some spare Annuals to give away.

Thoughtfully
Chris/James/Stu

Last December Thoughtful took part in the YCN Pinata Challenge, you can see our entry here.

Well, they’ve just announced the results of the competition, and we’ve........lost.

But we’re not bitter, we had a good laugh trying to open the pinata, and by the look of it, so did everyone else who took part. Who would have thought there would be so many ways to open a little box?

Well done to Kate Moross and Tom Merrell.

You can see all the pinata entries here.

Photo by Sarah Fotheringham and Charlie Duck.

Photo by Jeffrey Bowman.

Photo by James Jones.

Thoughtful were recently invited to take part in the YCN’s Pinata Challenge. YCN sent out 50 pinatas designed by Anna and Lauren from Jiggery Pokery, to various studios and individuals, and the challenge was to open the pinata in the most interesting way.

For those who don’t know what a pinata is, according to Anna and Lauren, a pinata is a brightly coloured paper container filled with sweets and/or toys. It is generally suspended on a rope from a tree branch or ceiling. Typically a succession of blindfolded, stick-weilding participants try to break the pinata in order to collect its contents.

Here’s what we came up with. It was actually quite a scary experience!

You have to watch the video to fully appreciate it, and look out for time 1:40...

We didn’t manage to break the pinata, so if anyone else wants a crack, email chris@wearethoughtful.com and we’ll send it out.

Thanks to the ever thoughtful Mat Wright for letting us use his studio, cheers Mat.

We’ve been asked a few times over the last week if there will be an extended deadline to our D&AD tombola competition. Well, we know it’s coming up to the end of term and you (students) are all busy finishing off your projects to get them in before Xmas, so it wouldn’t be very Thoughtful to refuse.

The new deadline, to coincide with D&AD’s own awards, is now Wednesday 16 January 2008, and there will be no extensions on top of that.

Here are three examples of what others have sent.

Graeme from Derby University designed a new recycling logo for Liverpool College so they could have a more ownable recycling policy.

Rob Butcher and Caroline Paris from Loughborough University did this fantastic light projection for the Samaritans, a thoughtful organisation.

Jon Cherry from Falmouth University sent a shot of himself getting his hair cut. His act of Thoughtfulness was simply giving his hairdresser an extra fiver for doing a good job.

And for anyone new to the competition who doesn’t know what we’re talking about, here are the rules again.

As fully paid up members of club D&AD, we at Thoughtful each get an Annual – we think that’s a bit greedy, so the Thoughtful thing to do is to let someone have a chance to own one of them.

But we don't want your money, you pay with Thoughtfulness.

It could be anything from rescuing a spider out of the bath, helping an old lady across the road, or helping an old lady out of the bath.

Simply take a picture of your random act of Thoughtfulness, and email it to us.

And, to show you there’s no funny business going on, we’ll make the tombola draw live on the Thoughtful website, as well as posting the draw on YouTube. The announcement will be on our site on Wednesday 21 January 2008 at 1pm.

Two runners-up will each win a 12 month D&AD Student Membership, and a third runner up will win a pair of D&AD Lectures tickets, courtesy of D&AD.

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So, to re-cap:
1. Only students studying for a career in the creative industry can enter, anywhere in the world.

2. Send us a shot (no bigger than 2MB and 72dpi please) of your random act of Thoughtfulness, with your contact details and which course you're currently studying on, to:
youarethoughtful@wearethoughtful.com

3. Enter as many different random acts of Thoughtfulness as you like.

4. Closing date is Wednesday 16th January 2008.

5. We may like to use the images for non commercial purposes (such as on our website) so make sure you’re happy for us to do that.
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Thoughtful’s prize draw is supported by D&AD. Registered charity No. 305992. www.dandad.org

Together, we can make the world a more Thoughtful place™

There are 10 days left for you to get your entries in to our student Tombola competition. First prize is this year’s D&AD Annual, with two runners up prizes of a Student D&AD Membership each for one year, and a third runner up prize will be a pair of D&AD lecture tickets.

We’ve had lots of great entries in so far, but there’s still time for more. You’re allowed to enter as many entries as you want, and as the winners will be pulled out of a tombola, the more you enter, the more chance you have of winning a prize.

All the competition details are here.

Good luck!

As students, we would have cut our right arms off just to hold a new copy of the D&AD Annual in both hands, and we're guessing this is still the case.

Well, if you’re a student currently studying for a career in the creative industries and you believe in creative excellence, this could be your lucky day.

As fully paid up members of club D&AD, we at Thoughtful each get an Annual – we think that’s a bit greedy, so the Thoughtful thing to do is to let someone have a chance to own one of them.

But we don't want your money, you pay with Thoughtfulness.

It could be anything from rescuing a spider out of the bath, helping an old lady across the road, or helping an old lady out of the bath.

Simply take a picture of your random act of Thoughtfulness, and email it to us.

And, to show you there’s no funny business going on, we’ll make the tombola draw live on the Thoughtful website, as well as posting the draw on YouTube. The announcement will be on our site on Monday 10 December 2007 at 1pm.

Two runners-up will each win a 12 month D&AD Student Membership, and a third runner up will win a pair of D&AD Lectures tickets, courtesy of D&AD.

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So, to re-cap:
1. Only students studying for a career in the creative industry can enter, anywhere in the world.

2. Send us a shot (no bigger than 2MB and 72dpi please) of your random act of Thoughtfulness, with your contact details and which course you're currently studying on, to:
youarethoughtful@wearethoughtful.com

3. Enter as many different random acts of Thoughtfulness as you like.

4. Closing date is Monday 3rd December 2007.

5. We may like to use the images for non commercial purposes (such as on our website) so make sure you’re happy for us to do that.
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Thoughtful’s prize draw is supported by D&AD. Registered charity No. 305992. www.dandad.org

Together, we can make the world a more Thoughtful place™