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Meet The Judges: Design A Welly Competition

Calling all budding doodlers, designers and wellington boot lovers, Joules ‘Design Your Own Welly’ competition has arrived! Get your creative head on, click through to our user friendly design studio, and see your print on a welly in minutes. It really is that simple, and if your design is one of our judge’s favourites, you’ll be rewarded with a luxury break worth £5,000, as well as seeing your wellington boot on sale in Joules stores. Read on to meet our judges…

The Panel

Tom Joule

From 1989, Joules founder Tom Joule learnt his trade selling clothing at British country shows, fast becoming the go-to shop for time-off clothing. His first ever Joules branded product was a pink welly so he’s suitably excited for this competition!

Describe your job?
I’m the founder of Joules, keeping the company on message and helping in creative direction.

What are you looking for?
I’m looking for originality, something with humour yet cool.

What would make a good design?
A design that when it rains you think, “Great I can wear my wellies”!

Louise Roe

Our fashion forward judge Louise Roe, has written for Elle UK, Glamour, Men’s Health UK and Conde Naste Traveler and has appeared on MTV, Grammy, Golden Globes and Oscar coverage and The Clothes Show.

Describe your job?
As a TV host and fashion writer I’m lucky to travel the world finding inspiration for my work everywhere I go.

What are you looking for?
I want to be wowed! I’m looking for some real creative flair to shine through.

What would make a good design?
The design should capture the imagination and truly stand out from the competition.

Photo Credit: Mackenzie Hunkin
Chloe Ward

Joules Brand Director Chloe Ward has been at the heart of our creative design for over 10 years. She has been integral in creating our unique and inspiring prints, so will be on the look out for original designs to adorn our winning wellies.

Describe your job?
My role is to steer the creative and product vision for Joules.

What are you looking for?
I’m looking for a design that will sit naturally within our product range but is eye-catching and forward thinking too.

What would make a good design?  
Something that uses colour well, is identifiably Joules while fresh and new.

The prize

win a luxury break worth £5,000

3 nights in a golden oak treehouse cabin plus lots more. 10 runners-up will each receive a £250 Joules gift card. The winning welly design will go on sale at joules.com.

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22 Comments

  • Joan Kinghorn

    31.10.2015 at 20:28 Reply

    Would really love to submit my design but have no access to suitable PC or tablet or phone. How can I send a paper copy of my design?
    Thank you,
    Joan

    • Joules Journal

      02.11.2015 at 16:54 Reply

      Hi Joan,
      Unfortunately this is an online only competition. Could you submit your design in a local library or internet cafe?
      Thanks!

  • Jessica G

    09.11.2015 at 10:27 Reply

    Can the wellie be for any age or gender? I.e can it be a childs welly?
    Thank you

    • Joules Journal

      13.11.2015 at 11:12 Reply

      Hi Jessica,

      The winning welly design will go on a womens size wellington boot. Please include you child in the creation of the design, we’d love to see designs from a child’s perspective as well as adults, and you are allowed 5 entries per person!

      Thanks

  • Printmaker

    09.11.2015 at 20:31 Reply

    Do you have to use your design software or can we use our own and upload a digital design?

  • sophie sharp

    10.11.2015 at 07:41 Reply

    Hi,I have been trying to enter your competition but I don’t seem to be able to!
    Each time I try a message comes up saying ‘image could not be saved’. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
    Thanks, Sophie

    • Joules Journal

      11.11.2015 at 16:23 Reply

      Hi Sophie,

      We had a few technical issues with the app, all fixed now, give it a go and good luck!

      Thanks

  • Craig Brown

    10.11.2015 at 19:37 Reply

    Would like to enter the competition and have tried three times but each time when I click to submit the entry I get a ‘could not save the design’ message.

    • Joules Journal

      11.11.2015 at 16:29 Reply

      Hi Craig,

      We had some down time with the design studio, all fixed now, have a go and good luck!

      Thanks

  • Sandy Duffield

    12.11.2015 at 15:37 Reply

    I have two designs that I did on paper and I see that this is a “online only” but if my images are scanned in and emailed in why could they not be entered?
    I feel that the colours and patterns are wonderful that are on offer in the app but not much original flavor,
    Thanks.
    Sandy Duffield.

    • Joules Journal

      13.11.2015 at 11:10 Reply

      Hi Sandy,

      We’d love to see your entry but to make it fair to all entrants we do need everybody to use our design studio. The colours are all of our brand colours for the coming season!

      Thanks and good luck

  • Ellen-Mary Bromley

    26.11.2015 at 09:43 Reply

    Hi, I’d love to enter this competition as I have a few ideas that, with discussion with friends think are amazing for your up coming season- however, it seems when you click onto ‘click to design’ the page will not load at all. I’ve tried to do so on my ipad, iphone, college computers, college mac’s and laptop at home- but to no avail the page still wont load 🙁

    • Phylli Vostanis

      30.11.2015 at 16:32 Reply

      Hi Ellen-Mary, we have alerted this issue to our IT team and it should all be up and running now! You are allowed up to 5 submissions so do have another try! Thanks,

  • Sean Nolan

    02.12.2015 at 14:15 Reply

    Hi Joules. Just to let you know your T&C are wrong. In the ‘Contacting the Winners’ section, it says…

    Joules will make reasonable efforts to notify the winner(s) of the Prize and the Runners-Up Prizes using the phone number provided on the completed entry no later than 15 January 2015.

    That should be January 2016.

    Sean x

    • Phylli Vostanis

      04.12.2015 at 15:26 Reply

      Hi Sean, this has now been updated! Thank you for letting us know.

  • claire

    04.12.2015 at 08:13 Reply

    Hi, I’d love to enter this today. In the Terms and Conditions section it says we have until 23.59pm on the 4th of Dec to enter. However when I look online this morning it says the competition is closed?

    Please advise if we can enter submit entries via email today?

    Thanks

    Claire

    • Phylli Vostanis

      04.12.2015 at 15:36 Reply

      Hi Claire, the competition is still up and running! It closes at 23:59 so there is still chance to enter, perhaps try another device? Thanks!

  • Jenna

    28.01.2016 at 16:54 Reply

    Hello,
    Have the winners been announced for this?

    Thank you

    • Phylli Vostanis

      29.01.2016 at 09:21 Reply

      Hi Jenna,

      Yes the winners for both the US and UK Design A Welly Competition have been announced.

      Thanks

      • Jenna

        12.02.2016 at 11:13 Reply

        Exciting! Is there a list of all the winners?

  • Carole Constable

    13.02.2016 at 09:21 Reply

    Hi – I entered the design a wellie competition (twice). I presume I haven’t won a prize but I would like to see the results and the winning design – can’t seem to find any information on the net. Have the winner and runners-up been chosen? Where can I find the results, please?

    • Phylli Vostanis

      17.02.2016 at 11:18 Reply

      Hi Carole,

      The results of the Design a Welly Competition have been annouced – this can be found on the Joules social media pages (https://www.facebook.com/Joules).

      Thank you

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