During a typical weekend, teenage boys aren’t necessarily focused on saving the environment, but for Akasha, aged 14, and Nile, aged 13, reducing waste, recycling where possible, and fighting for a more sustainable New Zealand with Letterboxer, are just part of the many ways in which the next generation are taking a stand against climate change.

Led by their father, Letterboxer NZ Manager Julian, Akasha and Nile have processed all the requests for no-junkmail stickers through the Letterboxer website. Since 2012, each and every sticker request has been processed, and the envelopes hand written, and posted by these incredible young men.

When Akasha is not saving the environment, he is a dedicated student. In 2017, the Shirley Boys’ High School student received an NCEA result of Academic Excellence for his first year of high school.

Helping to reduce unnecessary waste is just one of Nile’s passions, and rugby is another. In 2017, Nile won the Touch Canterbury Most Improved Player for the U14 Boys Black Team. Nile was also awarded with a Rotary Award for leadership, character, and scholarship in 2o17.

With passionate young men like Akasha and Nile who donate their time to environmental causes, one can’t help but feel like the world is in good hands with the next generation.

I know some of you have been waiting for your sticker to arrive, and I can now tell you that it won’t be much longer.

Thank you to Charlie Abrahamson from SMTP2Go for paying for these 🙂

SMTP2Go is a Christchurch based company that provides email services.

I recently started up Buy-It-Once.com – I’m searching the world for all kinds of products that last as long as possible. Please visit www.buy-it-once.com for ethically sustainable products that are built to last. If you support my vision, please share it with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

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The winners are: Pete Nicholls won 1st place, Chris Simpson won 2nd place and Henry Bennet won 3rd place.

They each received an iPod Nano. Pete has turned down the offer of an internship at DoubleDot Media because he’s the Chief Technical Officer at Gennaker Performance and is very happy there.

Thank you to the guest speakers, Rhyce Taylor from Sustainable Living and Dan Marrow from Greenpeace. Thank you to everyone who entered the competition, we received over 120 designs and were impressed with the high quality of the entries. Thank you to everyone who turned up, it was a great turn out.

The Winning Designs

1st place, Pete Nicholls

2nd place, Chris Simpson

3rd place, Henry Bennet

The old competition page follows:

Letterboxer is looking for the coolest ‘no junkmail’ sticker designers in NZ! We need a design for the new no-junkmail stickers we will be printing and posting nationwide for free. By entering you could help the environment, get famous, win an ipod and a score your dream job too 🙂

How To Enter

• Create a cool, funky or simple no-junkmail sticker for Letterboxer
• Enter as many times as you like
• Convert your design to a high resolution JPG, PNG, or PDF.
  If you’re submitting any non-vector art, make sure it’s at 300 DPI.
• Email the file to competition at letterboxer dot org dot nz
• Sit back and wait for the winners to be announced
• Entries close 15th October, extended until 31st October

The Rules

• Use the text, “No Junkmail” or “No Circulars”.
• Size: 90 x 40 mm in your choice of landscape or portrait orientation. We strongly recommend landscape because it fits better on letterboxes.
• Add 2mm bleed, so the size of your artwork is 94 x 44mm with the expectation that 2mm will be trimmed from each edge. This is important!
• Colours: This will be printed in 2 colours on a white sticker, they are black and lime green (Pantone PMS 376 or RGB 127,186,0). Just provide it in RGB, CMYK, whatever you’re comfortable with. We can convert it to spot colours later.
• Incorporate the new Letterboxer logo (available soon), the DoubleDot Media logo and the random logo in the logo pack (it will be replaced with something. Maybe your local dairy or your regional council, we don’t know yet).
• To win you must be a New Zealander (resident or citizen)

Don’t Like Rules? Go Free Style

Want to unleash your creativity? Do whatever you want, there are no rules. However please consider the printing cost.

Check back soon for changes to the requirements – this is just a draft 🙂

Terms & Conditions

All entrants work remains their own intellectual property but should Letterboxer show interest in using their work in any capacity then Letterboxer will contact the entrant to talk about contracts and renumeration. In order to win an iPod nano the winning entrants must agree to transfer the intellectual property of their entered design to Letterboxer for this specific project and no other, however should another use for the work other than outlined in this competition arise, we will revert back to you for any remuneration to you. We will never use your work without your knowledge and permission.

Prizes

Overall Winner

• The latest iPod nano
• The offer of a 3 month paid internship at Christchurch web development company, Doubledot Media (Winner of Best Workplace in Christchurch). If you’ve already got your dream job then no worries, this prize is optional
• Nationwide exposure

2nd and 3rd Places

• The latest iPod nano
• Nationwide exposure
• If the winner turns down the internship, maybe we’ll offer it to you

Downloads

Here are the logos you need. Have fun designing 🙂

Competition Flyer

When: 7pm until 9pm on Thursday, 12th November, 2009

• The Pimp My Letterbox design competition winners will be announced and awarded iPod Nanos.
• Winning and highly commended sticker design entries will be on display.
• There will be guest speakers.
• Drinks and biscuits will be provided.

Speakers

Guest speakers include Rhys Taylor from Sustainable Living and Dan Marrow from Greenpeace. There are more speakers yet to be confirmed.

Programme

6.45pm Doors Open
7.00pm Mingling
7.30pm Speeches & Prize Giving
9.00pm Finish

The event and prizes are generously sponsored by Simon Slade from DoubleDot Media. We hope to see you there. If you have any questions please phone Andrew Horton on 0272 646 959.

We hope to see you there.

Nov 9th, 2009. Andrew Horton

Nov 2nd, 2009. Andrew Horton