Australia's Patrick Hegarty is a Double Monthly Winner in Corel's World Design Contest; Corel Introduces Series of World Design Contest Winner Profiles.

OTTAWA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 8, 1999--Corel Corporation (Nasdaq:COSFF) (TSE:COS.) is launching a series of profiles of its World Design Contest winners, beginning with Australia's Patrick Hegarty, two-time winner in the Technical Drawings category.

Mr. Hegarty entered two designs in Corel's ninth World Design Contest, which was open to participants around the world from April 1998 to January 1999. Monthly winners, chosen in seven graphics categories, will be flown to Ottawa for Corel's Gala event, An Evening of Art & Inspiration, on April 7th. At the Gala, a Grand Prize winner from each category and a Best of Show winner will be announced. The series of profiles will run until April.

"We would like to take this opportunity to honour all of our contest participants who use our software to create leading-edge, dynamic designs," said Dr. Michael Cowpland, president and chief executive officer of Corel. "Users of our products span the globe and have interesting stories about how they got into design and how they use the software. We would like to give them a chance to tell some of those stories."

Mr. Hegarty was born in Sydney, Australia, and now lives in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and two children. Over the years, he's been a mechanic, a mechanical engineer and then a corporate manager. Recently, Mr. Hegarty fulfilled one of his dreams and opened his own graphic design business, called Paradigm Solutions, where he creates technical illustrations and Web designs.

"I was always interested in art but I was thrown out of art class at age 13 due to lack of talent," said Mr. Hegarty, who started selling drawings of race cars to collectors a year later to defy the offending teacher. "I started working with graphics when I realized that computers could now do what I couldn't with paints. Many times I found myself thinking, 'God bless the Corel code writers!'"

In early 1998, Mr. Hegarty came across an old CorelDRAW(tm) user manual, and saw a design from a previous World Design Contest winner. When he realized that it was possible to create a graphic design with the quality and detail he desired, he taught himself to draw on the computer.

Mr. Hegarty's two winning designs are of a paradigm gearbox and a V6 cutaway. Each illustration took about 70 hours to complete, and required the separate drawing and filling of thousands of individual parts and lenses. The V6 cutaway alone contains 3,821 separately drawn parts.

"I need to say that CorelDRAW is quite an incredible product, when you consider that an engineer with absolutely no graphics experience or training can, within a month, produce the images that I drew," said Mr. Hegarty. "I think it is more a testament to Corel than it is to me. I take my hat off to the team there."

Participants in Corel's ninth World Design Contest were required to create entries in any version of CorelDRAW, Corel PHOTO-PAINT(tm), Corel DREAM 3D, CorelXARA(tm), Corel(r) WordPerfect(r), Corel(r) Office Professional, Corel VENTURA(tm) or any Corel Web publishing software. The 35 monthly graphics winners received a prize package worth an estimated US$5,000. At Corel's Gala, eight Grand Prize winners will receive a prize package worth an estimated US$20,000 and the Best of Show winner will receive a prize package estimated at US$100,000.

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