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(Sri Lanka, Age 7)
Children from Sri Lanka, Canada and Brazil won the Gold medals in the 11th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest Awards Ceremony held this Wednesday, August 23, 2017, at Mega Web, Toyota’s vehicle experience facility in Tokyo’s Koto Ward, Japan, where the award-winning entries were announced and awards were presented.
Approximately, 830,000 entries from 79 countries and regions were received for this year’s contest. The award-winning entries were selected among winners in national contests. The top winning entry for Age 7 and under―Gold was titled “Toyota Knowledge Paradise Car” and was submitted by seven-year-old Thushadi Indraratne from Sri Lanka.
“This car provides everyone with a clean environment, sensibilities and knowledge related to sharing, health and education for building a better future,” the seven-year-old wrote in a tag describing her winning entry.
(Canada, Age 10)
(Brazil, Age 15)
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Massiel Esther Salguero
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 Toyota President, Akio Toyoda, said: “The drawing’s warm theme of ‘My dad buys a car for my mom’ struck my heart. I could sense the caring feeling of giving the mother of a family freedom of mobility, of making her life easier and enabling the whole family to have a good time together with smiles on their faces. In Japanese, we have the term aisha, which means ‘beloved car’. Cars, which Toyota makes, are rare among manufactured goods, in that they are sometimes preceded by the word ‘beloved’. I felt both appreciation and joy in seeing cherished family love projected onto such a car, which was drawn in a very sweet way.”
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Fatahillah Faisal Rizqiawan
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 The Engineering Inspiration Award is given to the entry (chosen by Executive Vice President Didier Leroy) that most inspires those in charge of car-making at Toyota. Based on the original drawing, TMC’s Prototype Production Division reproduced the entry as a three-dimensional model, giving it a moving suspension, a propeller and a built-in music box.
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Ana Gabriela Agudo
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Last year, the contest instituted the “Makes Me Smile! Award”, which spreads the appeal of entered artworks by giving a wide cross section of the general public the chance to participate in the judging process. The award is selected by votes cast through the contest’s official website. This year, the winner was chosen as the result of numerous votes from 133 countries and regions.
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General Evaluation of 11th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest Artworks (by the judging committee)
The artworks of the 11th Toyota Dream Car Art Contest were highly regarded by the judges, who noted their exceptional quality, and helped the judges appreciate that each piece took much time to complete and was carefully drawn to give form to the artist’s ideas. The children’s artworks depict worlds that leap far beyond the imagination of the judges. For example, a piece with the theme of ocean floor resources features numerous undersea palaces of the “dragon god” (from a famous Japanese fable). In another piece (with a 3D theme), a tiger from one of the tales of Ikkyu-san (stories of the childhood of a famous Buddhist monk from centuries ago) is driven out through a partition screen. The vividness of the children’s imaginations made the judges feel that their thinking was overly conservative. Even if the composition of the pieces seemed fantastical to the judges, they felt that the canvas serves as a natural world for children. The judges also noted that many artworks are tied to social issues, enabling them to see various realities from the viewpoints of children from around the world. The pieces have the power to inject common sense into the minds of adults by making them aware of the realities in which children live and the issues they face, such as uncertainty of the future, war, air pollution and water scarcity.
Outline of Toyota Dream Car Art Contest
The Toyota Dream Car Art Contest, first held in 2004, gives children around the world the opportunity to feel the joy and importance of having dreams. It is also meant to provide children an occasion for developing an interest in cars. Thanks to the support and cooperation of the children around the world who draw/paint their works and send them in, and of the distributors and affiliates who organize local competitions in their respective countries or regions, the contest was able to mark its 11th year in 2017.
There were approximately 830,000 entries from 79 countries and regions in this year’s contest. National contests were held around the world from October 2016 to March 2017, with the winning artworks submitted to be judged in the world contest, which was held in April in Japan. Under the guidance of President Akio Toyoda, chair of the judging panel, art experts and automotive specialists from outside Toyota judged the entries and selected the award winners in the contest’s three age categories.
There are three special awards: The President Akio Toyoda Award (chosen by President Akio Toyoda), the Engineering Inspiration Award (chosen by Executive Vice President Didier Leroy) and the Makes Me Smile! Award (an online voting award).
Courtesy: Toyota Motor Corporation
