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From Press Release:
The Industrial Design Programme of the National University of Singapore celebrates eight years of progress since its founding in 1999. The 5th graduating cohort in 2007 shows bright hope for the future, bringing the University’s tally of international design awards and honours to unprecedented heights.
Despite being a relatively new programme, our Industrial Design faculty’s achievement over the recent years have been stunning – having won numerous prestigious international awards such as the Osaka Design Prize, IF Concept Awards, Red Dot Concept Awards, Electrolux Design Lab Awards, Intermot Design Preis, IDEA Award and Bombay Sapphire Asia Award to name a few. Our pedagogy of combining a strong research base with conceptual thinking has proven to be a winning formula and has propelled students to excel on the international platform.
We are pleased to present our student’s final year projects at the National University of Singapore’s Industrial Design graduation show, “Not By Default, But By Design†from 24 to 28 May 2007 at the VivoCity East Boulevard.
“Not By Default, But By Designâ€
To design is to plan, to intend, to conceive. Each component, material and technology, each proportion, curve and detail, is deliberately chosen to craft the way an object relates to us and our world – its functional purposes, its emotional message, its social value, and market viability – To this end there is no simple acceptance of the default but rather, a constant investigation of ‘why’, and ‘why not’.
Here a collection of the NUS 5 graduating cohort’s winning projects: Listed as Product Name/Competition/Award Name Award Type
1. Water Harvester/ Osaka International Design Prize 2007/ Excellent Work
2. Bambu/ Furniture Design Award 2007/ Gold Award
3. Come Fly With Me/ Furniture Design Award 2006/ Gold Award
4. Fruitree/ DesignBoom- Your Way to Coway/ Short listed
5. Organic Cook/ Electrolux Design Lab Award 2006/ Second Prize
6. T-Pad/ Red Dot Design Concept Award 2006/ Excellent Work
7. Square/ Young Asia Designers Award/ Finalist
8. Martini Slice/ Bombay Sapphire Asia Grand Prix/ First Prize
9. HangUpPhone/ Lite-On Awards 2007/ Special Award
10. Infusion/ Bombay Sapphire Singapore Grand Prix/ Finalist
11. Loop/ Furniture Design Award 2007/ Silver Award
12. Ring Faucet/ Red Dot Design Concept Award 2006/ Luminary Award
13. Airwash/ Electrolux Design Lab Award 2005/ First Prize
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