Massey design students top craft design awards

Excellence in student design was celebrated at the ECC NZ Student Craft/Design Awards at the Dowse Museum on Tuesday evening, which saw College of Creative Arts students awarded for their work in fashion, textile, furniture, lighting and product design.

Bachelor of Design industrial design graduate Sian Hosking Berge won the ECC Furniture and Product Design Award with BOU, a clever kitset balance bike and scooter for 2-5-year olds, that enables children to experience creating their own ride-on toy.

It’s topped a successful year for Ms Hosking Berge, who was also awarded a Red Dot “Best of the Best” award, a gold Best Award and was named a national runner-up in the James Dyson awards for BOU.

Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts student Tessa William’s Te Whare Wananga design was awarded Highly Commended in the Lighting category. The whare wānanga is designed to raise confidence to speak Te Reo Māori, live by Māori values and discuss Māori issues.

Industrial design students Caprece Trail, Brianna Conelly, Anna-Maria Nilsson and Austin Martin were named Highly Commended in the ECC Furniture and Product Design Award for their chair 5th degree, a dynamic geometric design with angles that make the chair more comfortable for the person sitting on it.

Design students Solomon Meredith and Hamish Maunsell were also awarded Highly Commended in the ECC Furniture and Product Design Award, for Tulum Riser, a sustainable dining chair with a flat pack design combining raw nature with geometric forms.

Fashion student Johani Louw was named Highly Commended in the Friends of The Dowse Fashion and Textiles Award for her Salient collection, a fashion collection subverting patriarchal ideals of the feminine.

And textile students Guinevere Cherrill and Tallulah Farrar were both awarded Highly Commended in the Friends of The Dowse Fashion and Textiles Award for their designs Contrast of Saturation and GLOW respectively. Contrast of Saturation showcases weaving, dyeing and embroidery, and GLOW is a knitted safety apparel solution, using light reflecting, generating and enhancing materials to increase visibility of cyclist commuters.

The ECC NZ Student Craft/Design Awards is in its 30^th year, and was judged by Anita Dykes (design consultant at ECC), Federico Monsalve, (editor of Urbis magazine) Ian Douglas (The Village Goldsmith), Karl Chitham (director of The Dowse Art Museum) and guest judge Marilou Dadat (head designer for Kowtow).

The winning entries are currently on display at the Dowse Art Museum until Saturday 16 November.

Full list of Massey University winners and finalists:

ECC Furniture and Product Design Award - Winner

Sian Hosking Berge 
BOU bike
Bachelor of Design with Honours in Industrial Design graduate 2019

ECC Furniture and Product Design Award - Highly Commended

Caprece Trail, Brianna Conelly, Anna-Maria Nilsson, Austin Martin
5^th degree chair
Bachelor of Design with Honours in Industrial Design

ECC Furniture and Product Design Award - Highly Commended

Solomon Meredith, Hamish Maunsell
Tulum Riser chair
Graduate Diploma in Design
Bachelor of Design with Honours

ECC Lighting Award - Highly Commended

Tessa Williams
Te Whare Wānanga
Bachelor of Māori Visual Arts

Friends of The Dowse Fashion and Textiles Award – Highly Commended

Johani Louw
Salient Collection
Bachelor of Design with Honours in Fashion Design Graduate 2019

Friends of The Dowse Fashion and Textiles Award – Highly Commended

Guinevere Cherrill
Contrast of Saturation
Bachelor of Design with Honours in Textile Design

Friends of The Dowse Fashion and Textiles Award – Highly Commended

Tallulah Farrar
GLOW
Bachelor of Design with Honours in Textile Design