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Olympus PEN Cameras Get “Dressed To Thrill”
- “Dress Up Your PEN” competition by Olympus and Temasek Design School provides students with a great opportunity to ‘commercialise’ their creations into actual retail products
- Top skin designs for Olympus E-PL1 cameras to go on exhibition at Raffles City Shopping Centre; public to vote for their top three favourite designs and stand a chance to win an Olympus ì TOUGH 3000 (worth S$358)
- Top three winning skin designs will be produced in Singapore and sold exclusively at Olympus Online Accessories Store
Event: Olympus "Dress Up Your PEN" Competition
Venue: L1 Vogue, Raffles City Shopping Centre
Date: 1 to 26 December 2010
Time: 10am to 10pm
Venue: L1 Vogue, Raffles City Shopping Centre
Date: 1 to 26 December 2010
Time: 10am to 10pm
In an exclusive design competition specially organised by Olympus Imaging Singapore and Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Design from 25 October 2010 to 8 November 2010, the design school’s students have unleashed their wildest imagination and displayed their creativity to the fullest by creating unique skin designs for Olympus’ latest PEN-series new generation system camera model - Olympus E-PL1.
By the time the design competition closed on 8 November 2010, judges saw a strong response from the students with over 50 paper entries submitted. Temasek Polytechnic has shortlisted 36 of the best entries which will be reproduced as actual camera skins and applied onto 36 prototype E-PL1 units specially flown in from Japan.
Olympus “Dress Up Your PEN” Exhibition & Voting Contest
Now, with the aim of showcasing the design talent available in Singapore, Olympus Imaging Singapore will exhibit selected pieces amongst the 36 dressed-up E-PL1 units at Raffles City Shopping Centre from 1 - 26 December 2010, where the public will be invited to vote online for their top three favourite skins designs.
To take part in the voting contest, members of the public only have to visit Olympus’ PEN website (www.myolympuspen.com.sg) and vote for their top three favourite designs. One lucky voter of the top winning design will stand to win a brand new Olympus ì TOUGH-3000 waterproof, shockproof and freezeproof camera (worth S$358)!
Voting begins from 1 December 2010 and will end on 31 December 2010. The results of the top three favourite skin designs and the lucky voter will be announced by Olympus Imaging Singapore during the week of 7 January 2011. For more information and/or contest details, please log onto www.myolympuspen.com.sg.
Winning Students See Their Ideas To Full Fruition
The student designers of the top three favourite designs voted by the public will also be rewarded with fantastic prizes sponsored by Olympus Imaging Singapore. The prizes include:-
- Top Prize: Olympus PEN E-PL1 ( worth S$998)
- First runner up: Olympus ì 9010 (worth S$598)
- Second runner up: Olympus ì TOUGH 6020 (worth S$498)
Olympus Online Accessories Store
With the growing trend for PEN-series users worldwide to accessorise their E-P1, E-P2 and E-PL1 new generation system cameras, customers can now easily log on to the Olympus Online Accessories Store and be spoilt by the wide array of accessories available – all imported from Japan. Whether it is mock croc skins, leather jackets, straps etc, the online store has something to please even the most fashion-conscious customer! Customers who purchase the skins for their PEN-series cameras can view a step-by-step visual instructional manual online on how easy it is to dress up their PEN-series cameras. For more information, please visit www.shopatolympus.com.sg
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