Staff and students designs BeST for 2009
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Mon Oct 19 2009 13:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)
Staff and students designs BeST for 2009
Monday, 19 October 2009, 10:24 am
Press Release: Massey University
An image from student Michael Fischer’s gold winning graphic design work.
Friday, October 16, 2009
Staff and students designs BeST for 2009
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Fifteen current and former students from Massey, and two staff members, are celebrating after wins at this year's BeST Design Awards.
The awards, announced in Auckland tonight, are run by the Designers' Institute of New Zealand, recognising New Zealand’s best graphic, product and spatial design.
Tim Cox with the ultrasound tool set.
Students from the College of Creative Arts registered five gold wins, three silver and seven bronze at the awards at a function at the Auckland Museum.
The gold winners include Tim Cox, who earlier this year won a top design industry prize, the James Dyson Award, for his design of an ultrasound tool set designed to quickly measure the commercial worth of forests. This same design won the gold award for student product design at BeST.
Professor Tony Parker and the Hulme CanAm supercar.
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Fellow student Michael Fischer was a gold winner in the graphic student design category.
Other award winners were Amy Brodie, Scott Burrows Josh Barr, Emily Macrae, Hannah Dollery, Michael Pester, Jamaine Raniera Fraser, Nicola Trudgen, Joel Cocks, Laura Forlong, Su Chin Chow, Lesley Gilliam and Baly Gaudin.
Professor Tony Parker, head of Massey’s Institute of Design for Industry and Environment, was an award winner in the concept/ experimental category for his design of the Hulme CanAm supercar.
Performance design tutor Sam Trubridge also won in the spatial design category of exhibition/installation/temporary structures for his work in the staging the collaborative theatre piece Sleep/Wake.
ENDS
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