Friday, May 24, 2019
Promising talents for the future of industrial design are showcasing their creativity at the interzum 2019 in Cologne from May 21 to 24. To honour talents and encourage creativity the presentation of the VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD 2019 is scheduled on 24 May as part of the VDID Industrial Design Day.
The VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD honours outstanding student achievements and offers aspiring industrial designers a platform and support for a successful start to their careers. The jury searches for outstanding creativity from the best students completed at German universities between 2017 and 2019. The participants freely selected their theme, and then worked to exhibit innovative designs. From 198 submissions by young designers from 30 universities, the jury selected four equally ranked recipients of the main prize, the PRIZE WINNERS VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD 2019, and awarded the accolade HONOURABLE MENTION VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD 2019 to four further projects.
JINGYUE CHEN, TOBIAS GEHRKE, SIMEON ORTMÜLLER, YIGANG SHEN and VINCENT STEINHART-BESSER for CAPTin_Kiel – Clean Autonomous Public Transport, a project developed during the second and third semesters of their Master’s in Medical Design at Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, under the supervision of Professor Detlef Rhein.
The special prize Light in Product Design, awarded by Mentor GmbH & Co. Präzisions-Bauteile KG, Erkrath, won by LARS HERZOG, LINA PFANNSTIEL and BENEDIKT SCHNEEBERG for their integrated lighting solution for a riot police helmet. The design was produced during their fifth semester at the University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt under the supervision of Professor Tom Philipps (Technical Design) and Professor Philipp Thesen (Human-System Interaction). The accolade HONORABLE MENTION VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD 2019 won by PAULINE ALT for her bachelor’s thesis Wavelet, a swimming aid for teaching optimal breathing for front crawl, produced at Munich University of Applied Sciences under the supervision of Professor Florian Petri. MICHAEL BEHA for KUODA, a gaming device that provides sensory perception via the skin on the neck, produced in his seventh semester at Coburg University of Applied Sciences under the supervision of Professor Peter Raab in cooperation with cherry GmbH, Auerbach/Upper Palatinate.
THE SPECIAL MENTION VDID NEWCOMERS’ AWARD 2019 / VDID CODEX goes to JOHANNA GIESELER for Yeppa, a speculative design project addressing the debate on bioethics in the form of a simulation of an epigenetic optimisation start-up. The project was produced as her master’s thesis at the Technical University of Munich under the supervision of Tobias Förtsch (Dipl. Des. (FH)).
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