We’ve been asked a few times over the last week if there will be an extended deadline to our D&AD tombola competition. Well, we know it’s coming up to the end of term and you (students) are all busy finishing off your projects to get them in before Xmas, so it wouldn’t be very Thoughtful to refuse.

The new deadline, to coincide with D&AD’s own awards, is now Wednesday 16 January 2008, and there will be no extensions on top of that.

Here are three examples of what others have sent.

Graeme from Derby University designed a new recycling logo for Liverpool College so they could have a more ownable recycling policy.

Rob Butcher and Caroline Paris from Loughborough University did this fantastic light projection for the Samaritans, a thoughtful organisation.

Jon Cherry from Falmouth University sent a shot of himself getting his hair cut. His act of Thoughtfulness was simply giving his hairdresser an extra fiver for doing a good job.

And for anyone new to the competition who doesn’t know what we’re talking about, here are the rules again.

As fully paid up members of club D&AD, we at Thoughtful each get an Annual – we think that’s a bit greedy, so the Thoughtful thing to do is to let someone have a chance to own one of them.

But we don’t want your money, you pay with Thoughtfulness.

It could be anything from rescuing a spider out of the bath, helping an old lady across the road, or helping an old lady out of the bath.

Simply take a picture of your random act of Thoughtfulness, and email it to us.

And, to show you there’s no funny business going on, we’ll make the TOMBOLA DRAW live on the Thoughtful website, as well as posting the draw on YouTube. The announcement will be on our site on Wednesday 21 January 2008 at 1pm.

Two runners-up will each win a 12 month D&AD Student Membership, and a third runner up will win a pair of D&AD Lectures tickets, courtesy of D&AD.

So, to re-cap:
1. Only students studying for a career in the creative industry can enter, anywhere in the world.

2. Send us a shot (no bigger than 2MB and 72dpi please) of your random act of Thoughtfulness, with your contact details and which course you’re currently studying on, to: YOUARETHOUGHTFUL@WEARETHOUGHTFUL.COM

3. Enter as many different random acts of Thoughtfulness as you like.

4. Closing date is Wednesday 16th January 2008.

5. We may like to use the images for non commercial purposes (such as on our website) so make sure you’re happy for us to do that.

Thoughtful’s prize draw is supported by D&AD. Registered charity No. 305992. www.dandad.org

Together, we can make the world a more Thoughtful place™