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Goldene Prägung des XMAS Card Design Award auf einem weißen Hintergrund, symbolisiert die Auszeichnung für kreatives Weihnachtskartendesign.

XMAS Card Design Award

Every year again ...

... we thank our customers for their cooperation with a personal letter accompanied by a small gift, which is often not so small - a lot of time, effort and money are invested in it. And every year anew and that's when we came up with an idea ...

With the XMAS CARD DESIGN AWARD, we invest in young, ambitious designers who demonstrate their skills and are rewarded by us - the agency INTOUCH and the store system Smarda - shop system.

The idea is that you present us with your best design concepts. We will award prizes to the best three and the best work will actually be produced by us and sent to our customers. So if you are passionate about design and have a fetish for voluminous paper and tactile letterpress effects, then join in and show us what you've got!

It's as simple as this:

1. create an XMAS Card and take the following guidelines into account --> Download layout guidelines.

2. upload your documents as JPG or Pdf by October 05, 2025.

3. our jury will evaluate all submissions.

4. the award ceremony will take place on October 16, 2025 at the FH Joanneum Graz.

5. if you win, your design will be produced and sent out.

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The prizes

1st prize: € 500

2nd prize: € 300

3rd prize: € 200

The jury

Catherina Rollier

Swiss artist
and graphic designer

Professionelles Porträt eines Mannes mit kurzem, welligem Haar und Bart, der ein lächelndes Gesicht zeigt. Er trägt einen schwarzen Anzug und ein helles, blumiges Hemd. Der Hintergrund ist unscharf und vermittelt eine moderne Atmosphäre.

Christian Ursnik

Infinitive Factory Managing Director

Catherina Rollier

Swiss artist
and graphic designer

Porträt eines lächelnden Mannes mit kurzen Haaren, der ein schwarzes T-Shirt trägt, vor einem neutralen Hintergrund.

Dietmar Mosbacher

Course Director FH Joanneum
"Visual Communication and Image Management"

Horst Schalk

INTOUCH Managing Director

Schwarz-weiß Porträt eines Mannes mit einem Bart, der ein lässiges T-Shirt trägt. Der Mann hat lange Haare, die zu einem Zopf gebunden sind, und lächelt freundlich. Im Hintergrund sind unscharfe Gebäude sichtbar.

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Conditions of participation

The award is organized by Smarda GmbH. The data protection regulations apply.

To participate in the award, participants must upload their designs to xcda.at by October 5, 2025. The winner(s) will be determined anonymously after the submission deadline as part of an evaluation by a jury consisting of Christian Ursnik, Horst Schalk, Dietmar Mosbacher and Catherina Rollier. In October 2025, the winner will be announced at an award ceremony at FH Joanneum (Alte Poststraße 149, 8020 Graz) and the prizes will be presented. Further details will be sent to you by e-mail after registration.

Participation in the award requires acceptance of the conditions of participation. By participating in the award, the participant accepts these conditions of participation. Participation is only possible within the participation period (May 20 - October 5, 2025) and is free of charge. Interactions after the closing date will not be considered in the draw. The information required for participation must be truthful. Multiple submissions by the same participant are also possible.

Persons under the age of 18 and employees of the agency INTOUCH, Smarda GmbH and The IF e.U. are not eligible to participate. In the event of a breach of these conditions of participation, the organizer reserves the right to exclude persons from the award. Persons who use unauthorized aids or otherwise gain advantages through manipulation will also be excluded. In such cases, prizes may also be subsequently withdrawn and reclaimed.

The organizer reserves the right to cancel or terminate the award at any time without prior notice and without giving reasons. The organizer will make use of this option if the proper execution of the award cannot be guaranteed for technical or legal reasons.

In the event of a win, the winners agree to the implementation, production and publication of the submitted work, including the possibility of subsequent changes, and agree to the publication of their name and their submitted work in the advertising media used by the organizer. This includes publication on the operator's website and its social media platforms. The participant may revoke his/her declared consent in writing at any time. Once consent has been withdrawn, the participant's personal data that has been collected and stored will be deleted immediately (with the exception of social media posts and print media). Each participant has the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability and objection as well as the right of appeal to the data protection authority, subject to the statutory deletion periods.

Legal recourse is excluded. The award is subject exclusively to Austrian law.