Gunnar Karl's design adorns a wheelchair carriage Everyone with

The carriage with this design will go on a wedge trip around the country after the end of the year and attract a lot of attention. He will make the children who will use the wheelchairs happy, but at the same time show that we need to do better in this issue, says Valdimar Gunnarsson, project manager of Allir med, a project whose aim is to increase the number of participants with disabilities in the work of sports clubs.

Valdimar today presented three students in the 2nd year of graphic design at the Iceland University of the Arts with an award for illustrating a covered carriage that will transport sports wheelchairs between places. The wheelchairs significantly increase the number of opportunities for children with disabilities to play sports. The design competition was a unique joint project of Everyone with and the Iceland University of the Arts.

The carriage is now with Marel, who has designed and is building its interior, so that twelve special wheelchairs can be fitted in it reasonably after that it will be marked with the new design.

Gunnar Karl Thoroddsen, a graphic design student, and his design will adorn Allir med-vagninn, will win first prize. He will receive a prize of 150,000.

Then Kolfinna Frigg Sigurðardóttir's proposal, except in graphic design, was chosen by the jury as second place and it will receive 100,000 ISK.

John Berniel Gavilo Quirona's proposal except in graphic design was chosen for third place and he receives 50,000 ISK for it.

Detailed about the works

The jury said this about Gunnar Karl's design: A gripping drawing in which both perspective and flow in the background highlight movement and play Typography and signs sit well in the frame, well balanced with the visual description The background offers an opportunity to work a continuous surface over the entire trailer To get more diversity on the carriage, we would suggest adding other characters in the same drawing style and also more diverse connections to sports where this group that will benefit from the carriage will practice a wider variety of sports.

The jury said this about Kolfinna's design: Colours and simple shapes are worked in a fairly convincing way Colours are engaging and simple shapes form clear figures playing together on the surface A holistic look has been thought of on all sides of the cart.

A jury said this about John Berniel's design: Work is done with memory from the world of sports and the club's color palette is cleverly referenced The human forms give a sense of power and competition.

A number of proposals were received and it turned out to be difficult for the jury to choose the winning proposal. The jury consisted of them: Hrefna Sigurðardóttir, assistant professor at the department of design of the Iceland University of the Arts, Frosti Gnarr, publicity director of the Iceland University of the Arts, and Valdimar Smári Gunnarsson, project manager of Allir med.

Kolfinna says it's fun to participate in a design project like this:

„It's always incredibly fun to be involved in a project like this It's very important and inspiring for both young designers and everyone to be included because there's a lack of a platform like this It's also so good to encourage creative young people to use their talents and participate in design competitions I did it myself at primary school age and it was a lot of fun“.“

About Everyone with the project.

„All with“ is a project that aims to increase the number of opportunities for disabled children in sports.

The project is supported by the sports movement (Youth Association of Iceland, Sports and Olympic Association of Iceland and Sports Association of the Disabled.

In Iceland, there are over three thousand disabled children aged seventeen and under Only four percent of them are in organized sports activitiesWe as a nation have to change this, and we are going to do that with the „All with the“ project.

As mentioned, the project is multifaceted and the disabilities can also be of many kinds, both physical disabilities and mental disabilities. Nothing has been available, for example, for children who are in wheelchairs. There can be many reasons for that, but the biggest obstacle is how expensive sports wheelchairs are. In order to be able to offer exercises in ball sports such as wheelchair basketball, wheelchair handball, there must be 10 -12 chairs in each place. The cost of the chairs is so great that people have not put out those costs and therefore there is nothing available for this group.

In order to solve this, the „Project“ has invested in ten sports wheelchair with which the idea is that it will be possible to navigate between gymnasiums in an over-built trailer Marel has helped us design the trailer so that all the chairs can be driven into the trailer without dismantling them.