Over the Summer holidays we asked visitors to invent a new weird and wonderful track pack for our marble run wall.  Hundreds of people entered and the Judges (MAD’s 4 Managers) had the challenging task of selecting 3 winners.

 

It was very tricky to pick only 3 winners; the calibre was so high and we had so many clever creations to ponder over! Many of the designs really made us smile, it’s wonderful to see there are definitely some future engineers and artists out there!

Mike Greenfield

Front of House Manager, The MAD Museum

The design competition ran from Saturday 20th July until Monday 2nd September 2019. We contacted the 3 worthy winners last week and we would now like to announce who they are:

1ST COMPETITION WINNER: Oliver Peake, age 10 from Nuneaton.

Oliver’s creation was so brilliant we are currently in the process of making his design into a real-life track part. This will be engraved with his name on and will be added to our museum’s marble wall for Oliver and everyone else to enjoy. Here’s his winning design –

2ND COMPETITION WINNER: Charlotte Paine – aged 12 from Nottingham.

3RD COMPETITION WINNER: Kate Sharp -aged 36 from Gloucester.

All 3 winners have been given MAD gift vouchers to be spent in our museum’s shop and free museum tickets for their efforts and creative genius!

If you would like to enter one of our design competitions, please keep an eye on our website’s blog page or MAD’s Facebook page for all the latest details.

Contact us if you have any design competition ideas. Contact Us Here.

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Saturday 20th July – Monday 2nd September 2019

If you have been to The MAD (Mechanical Art & Design) Museum recently, you will know there is an interactive wall for visitors to build their own marble runs on.

Using inspiration from around the museum, the wall encourages creative thinking and systematic design but it is a lot of fun!

The aim of the game is to use the various track parts to make the marble travel from the top of the wall to the bottom without whizzing off.

This Summer The MAD Museum invites you to invent a new weird and wonderful track part for MAD Marbles.

What do you want on the wall? Loops and hoops, elevators, slopes, staircases, tubes, spiral tracking, chimes and jumps – the possibilities are endless.

Release your inner inventor! This design competition is open to all age groups, draw your craziest creation and post it to The MAD Museum.

The three winners will receive goodie bags full of MAD treats and their winning track part will be made into a real piece to go on the museum’s MAD Marbles wall. Not only that but the winner’s name will also be printed on the new track piece.

Everyone that uses the triumphant track piece will know it’s yours!

The MAD Museum exhibits mind-blowing artwork from some of the world’s most pioneering inventors, join the illustrious list this Summer!

Design Brief

Draw your design on a (landscape or portrait) white A4 piece of paper. If needed, please include how the track part would work with instructions.
If you win, we will need to be able to make it so please make your drawing and any notes really understandable.

Submission Dates

This competition is open from Saturday 20th July. All entries need to be received by 5pm on Monday 2nd September 2019.
The Winner will be announced and contacted via email on Wednesday 11th September 2019.

Get Inspired

We exhibit around 10 different rolling ball machines at our MAD Museum so you can gather loads of ideas just by visiting. You can also Click Here to go straight to MAD’s YouTube page, here you can watch some of the world’s most incredible rolling ball sculptures.

Design Sheet

You can submit your design a normal piece of A4 paper or you can download and print this design sheet.

If you use your own sheet of paper, please don’t forget to include your name, age, address and email adress so that we can contact you if you win.

Competition Design Sheet

How to Apply

POST:
Design it at home and then drop it in or post it to: The MAD Museum, 4/5 Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. CV37 6PT.

EMAIL:
Attach your design to an email and send it to MAD at info@themadmuseum.co.uk. Please include your name, age, email address and address with your design.

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The MAD Museum is giving away 4 family passes worth £22 each plus the 4 lucky winners each receive a Marble Machine #2, worth £39.99.

See this week’s Stratford Herald and Midweek for more information about this competition. Answer the competition question and post it to Stratford Herald, Stratford, CV37 6NB for your chance to win this special one-off prize!

Good luck!

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During the summer holiday (Saturday 23rd July – Monday 5th September 2016), we ran a marble run- inspired design competition. We wanted you to look at how the rolling ball machines in the museum worked and be inspired to draw your own creation.

Participates could enter by picking up a form from the museum or downloading it from our website. We received hundreds and hundreds of designs from a wide range of different nationalities, ages and genders.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone that entered.
There were some truly amazing efforts but we had to pick 3 winners and these are the ones we felt most fit the brief.

WINNER

Hazel Cooper
13 years old from Birmingham

RUNNER-UP

Katie Thomas
13 years old from Shropshire

RUNNER-UP

Cian Shea
10 years old from Northampton

The winners have now all been contacted and their goodie bags are on the way to them.

Stay tuned for our next design competition!

 

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There are 12 mechanical eggs to locate in total. Find them all to be entered into the prize draw to win MAD goodies and tickets to The MAD Museum.

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The Winner of MAD’S Automata Design Competition : Alex Williams, from Leeds.

“Myself and the other judges particularly liked the whimsical, humours aspects of this design. From a construction perspective, the fact that this design involves several different mechanisms which could be portrayed by different materials and colours, made it really stand out. “
Judge/ The MAD Museum’s resident automata artist.

Here are some of our other favourites….

Our MAD Technicians are now in the process of bringing Alex Williams’ drawing to life. Once the made, motorised model has been constructed, it will be displayed at the museum. Alex also won a gift bag full of MAD treats.

Keep an eye out for our next design competition…

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Saturday 13th – Monday 22nd February 2016

The Brief

Using inspiration from around The MAD Museum, we want you to design your very own piece of automata.
For those who aren’t sure, automata is a (typically wooden) sculpture which moves in a clever or funny way. Here are some examples:

As long as it has an element of movement, you can design whatever you like. Whether it be a quirky character, animated creature, interesting scene or geometric pattern- the possibilities are endless.

What You Win

Picked by one of our resident automata artists and MAD’s Technical Manager, the winning design will be brought to life and made into a fully-functioning sculpture by our technicians.

It will then be exhibited at the museum for everyone to see and interact with. Not only that but the winner will also get a goodie bag full of MAD treats.

After being exhibited at The MAD Museum, the winning piece will be returned to its designer to be taken home.

How to Enter

During your MAD visit: Draw your design on a competition entry form at the museum, then hand it in at the reception desk.

Or

At home: print the competition entry form off at home, get designing then either drop your completed form in at The MAD Museum, post it or email it in to us.

Download your design form here

Post: The MAD Museum, 4/5 Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. CV37 6PT.
Email: info@themadmuseum.co.uk

*** Don’t forget to include your name and contact details.
We will only get in touch if you are the winner

Closing Date

Monday 22nd February at 5pm
The winner will be contacted the following week, w/c 29/02/2016

Good luck!

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The Winners of MAD’s 2015 Summer Design Competition are:

Chris Hansford, aged 45yrs from Doncaster
Felix Burman, aged 10yrs from Temple Grafton
Max Hansford, aged 12yrs from Doncaster

The judges were incredibly impressed by the creativity and imagination of the winner’s designs. Each of the 3 entries (as you’ll see below) show imaginative ingenuity and demonstrate a practical understanding of design.
All 3 winning pieces will be made, then featured on the museum’s MAD Marbles wall for all our visitors to enjoy. The winning pieces will be engraved with each designer’s name so that everyone will know it’s theirs. Not only that but Chris, Max and Felix all won goodie bags full of MAD prizes.

Winner: Chris Hansford – ‘Trampoline- track part

Winner: Felix Burman – ‘Steps, Curves & Hoops’ track part

Winner: Max Hansford: ‘Fallen Floors’ track part

There were only three winners but we want to show our appreciation for the judge’s other favourites. All of the following participants created amazing track pieces, all of which stood out from the crowd and amazed our judges in different ways.

Harry Corden, aged 18yrs
Clare Childs, aged 35yrs from Belfast
Joseph Dineen, aged 9yrs from Ashurst

From the team at MAD we would like to say a big thank you to everyone who entered!

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Early this year The MAD Museum installed MAD Marbles which is essentially a giant interactive wall for visitors to build their own rolling ball creations on. Using inspiration from around the museum, the wall encourages creative thinking and systematic design but it is a lot of fun! The aim of the game is to use the various track parts to make the marble travel from the top of the wall to the bottom without whizzing off.

This Summer The MAD Museum invites you to invent a new weird and wonderful track part for MAD Marbles.

What do you want on the wall?

Loops and hoops, elevators, slopes, staircases, tubes, spiral tracking, chimes and jumps – the possibilities are endless.
Release your inner inventor! This design competition is open to all age groups, draw your craziest creation and post it to The MAD Museum.

Download the Design Sheet HERE…

What could you win?

The winner will receive a goodie bag full of MAD treats and their winning track part will be made into a real piece and go on the museum’s MAD Marbles wall. Not only that but the winner’s name will also be printed on the new track piece.
Everyone that uses the triumphant track piece will know it’s yours!

The MAD Museum exhibits mind-blowing artwork from some of the world’s most pioneering inventors, join the illustrious list this Summer!

Closing Date

All entries need to be received by 5pm on Monday 7th September 2015. The Winner will be announced before Friday 11th September 2015.

Sending Your Entries
Design it at home and then drop it in or post it to:
The MAD Museum, 4/5 Henley Street, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire. CV37 6PT.

Please include your name, age, email address and address with your design.
Any questions please email info@themadmuseum.co.uk

W: www.themadmuseum.co.uk E: info@themadmuseum.co.uk T: 01789 269 356

Opening Times

Weekdays: 10am – 5pm
Weekends and Holidays*: 10am –5.30pm
(Warwickshire School Holidays & National Bank Holidays) Last entry 45mins before closing time.

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The brief was simple, think outside the box to create a crazy gift card, the winning card maker would receive ultimate glory! (oh and a goodie bag full of MAD treats) There were 2 rules:

• Make it 3D and pop out
• Include an element of MADness

We were completely amazed by the sheer number and amazingly creative talents of the people who entered.
No card was alike, everyone had put their own spin on the brief and the Team at MAD took a lot of pleasure in seeing (and playing with) the latest 3D entries.

We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone that entered!

*enter loud clapping and whooping sounds here

As with these things, there always has to be one champion and the winner of The MAD Museum’s Easter 2015 design competition is………

drum roll please….

Matthew Carlisle, aged 11 from Bicester.

Well done Matthew!

All of the judges were very impressed by Matthew’s originality, artistic skills and  inventiveness.  He must have spent hours creating this 6-sided pop-up masterpiece and I think you will agree this card is pretty special..

– Here is Matthew with our Issy picking up his goodie bag at MAD.

We will hold our next design competition this summer to keep an eye out for details soon……

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