(L-R) Tom Cavalco, managing director Europe, students Olena Onyshchuk and Lydia Haussmann, and CEO Kevin Wilken
The winners of Mark Andy’s competition for students have been announced. The competition was launched for students earlier this year, as part of the company’s strategic programme to educate the printers and converters of tomorrow.
The aim was to encourage young people from all over Europe who are studying any subject related to art, design or printing to submit designs for labels to be printed at the Hybrid Forum Open House at Mark Andy’s European HQ in Warsaw.
The students could choose to design a label that would be printed flexo or digital, and the standard of entries was said to be very encouraging. After careful scrutiny of all the entries, the judges decided there should be two winners: Olena Onyshchuk from Kiev, Ukraine, and Lydia Haussmann from Stuttgart, Germany. The winning labels, one for a coffee bag and the other for a muesli bag, were printed and displayed at the three-day open house, as well as being displayed on the Mark Andy stand at Labelexpo Americas in Chicago.
Head of marketing for Europe, Lena Chmielewska, said, ‘We were very pleased with the first-year entries and I add my congratulations to the two winners. We clearly have some promising talent coming through the student ranks in Europe, and these will be the people to take our industry forward. We are intending to develop the competition concept next year and encourage as many students as possible to take part.’
