Victoria designers scoop Best Awards
Innovative entries from Victoria University of Wellington architects and designers have won top prizes in the 2013 Best Design Awards.
An initiative of the Designers Institute of New Zealand, the Best Design Awards recognise outstanding New Zealand graphic, interactive, product and spatial design
A cross-disciplinary team of Media and Industrial Design students from Victoria won gold in the Interactive category for their project, Pinokio Lamp.
Created by Adam Ben-Dror, Shanshan Zhou and Joss Doggett, the lamp interacts with its users by tracing their movements and responding to sounds, bringing to life an everyday, mundane object.
Design student Earl Stewart won silver in the Product Design category for his XYZ Shoe, designed from 3D scans of the foot. In collaboration with a podiatrist, the biomechanical performance is tailor made for the individual.
Margaret Petty, Head of the School of Design is delighted by the results of this year’s awards and says it’s fantastic to see Victoria University so well represented.
“We are particularly proud of the great showing by our Design students. Receiving national recognition for their projects is wonderful boost and a good reward for many long hours and sleepless nights,” she says.
Architecture students, Liam McRoberts and Samuel Skogstad scooped two awards in the Spatial Design category. Liam was awarded silver for his design The New Villa, and Samuel bronze for his design titled A Domestic Architecture of 'Solas'.
Victoria University staff members are also amongst the award winners. Sam Kebbell, a lecturer in the School of Architecture, received a silver award in the Spatial Design category for his design titled Resn's Office.
Bronze in the Spatial Design category was awarded to Simon Twose, Director of Postgraduate Programmes at the School of Architecture alongside Professor Andrew Barrie from the University of Auckland, for their design titled Familial Clouds: An exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012.
Pinokio Lamp http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/interactive/pinokio-lamp/
XYZ Shoe http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/product/xyz-shoe/
The New Villahttp://bestawards.co.nz/entries/spatial/the-new-villa/
A Domestic Architecture of ‘Solas’ http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/spatial/a-domestic-architecture-of-solas/
Resns Office http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/spatial/resns-office/
Familial Clouds: An exhibit at the Venice Architecture Biennale, 2012 http://bestawards.co.nz/entries/spatial/familial-clouds-an-exhibit-at-the-venice-architecture-biennale-2012/