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Design: Oskar Poll

 

We announced the Bird of the Year  - buzzard – theme T-shirt competition in the middle of winter. Naturally in order to get everyone something fashionable to wear in summer. The competition has finished and the best entries have been picked by the jury.

Over a hundred designs were entered in the competition. The up to 12 years designers offered many designs and the adult participants even more. The teenager group was scantier.

The T-shirt could have been produced from almost 20 of the offered designs. The efforts of quite a few authors would have been worthy of a collection. But we had to make some difficult choices. We also took in account how realistic using the submitted idea would be. A very good design might not be so good on fabric and this aspect was evaluated by professional T-shirt makers. The jury of ornithologists, designers and artists selected the authors of the following designs as the best:

Up to 12 years
Liis Liivsoo, Elsa-Mai Ludvi, Taavet Tagaküla

 

13-17 years
Kai-Riin Kaubi

 

over 17
Jane Vako, Ekaterina Zelenova, Pamela Peepson

The designs of these authors are on the buzzard web: LINK

 

Which of them will become actual T-shirts and brighten up our street picture?

You will probably be able to get most of the selected designs but the final shaping of the shirts will take a little time. It is not impossible that our partners from the FIFAA T-shirt factory will look for some more from the shelves of offered designs.

Prizes to the designers of the best buzzard T-shirts will be handed over at the end of the year, on the grand bird evening of the Estonian Ornithological Society (at the end of the Year of the Buzzards) on December 8th in Tallinn in the National Library.

But the most impressive prize will obviously be seeing one’s own designed T-shirt in the streets … plenty of opportunities for that.

The Estonian Ornithological Society selects a bird of the year since 1995. The aim is to present a bird species or a group of species to the public and enrol nature enthusiasts in the study and protection of birds.

 

Buzzards and the buzzard year are presented on the EOY website: LINK
 

More information:

Vallo Jürimets

vallo.jyrimets@fifaa.ee

56 45 8023

 

Urmas Sellis

urmas@kotkas.ee

5034799

NB! THE DESIGN ABOVE IS NOT THE PRIZEWINNING ENTRY. IT JUST SHOWS THE LEVEL OF THE ENTRIES IN RESERVE!