A Winning Evening

New Designers 2016 | Part 2

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MDes Product Design graduand Chuko Cribb was presented with the Kingfisher Award during last night’s NewDesigners Awards Preview Evening at London’s Business Design Centre. The awards ceremony opened with a speech from Anthony Joseph of JosephJoseph, who reiterated the virtues of hard work and lifelong learning.

Kingfisher’s retail brands include B&Q, Screwfix, Castorama and Brico Depot, and the company has more than 1,100 stores in 10 countries across Europe. Chuko receives £1000 and a 6 week professional placement opportunity. We wish him all the best.

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Plans are currently underway for summer exhibitions in London. Automotive, Transport and Product Design will be exhibiting their best graduates at NewDesigners and Interior Design will show for the second time at Free Range.

Dates for your diary:

NewDesigners: Part 2
06-09 July 2016
Business Design Centre / London (nr. Angel Underground)
www.newdesigners.com

Free Range: Interior Design & Architecture Week
14-18 July 2016
Truman Brewery / London (nr. Liverpool Street/Old Street Underground)
www.free-range.org.uk

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Degree Show 2016

27th May – 2nd June

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The following images represent a small proportion of the outstanding work at our degree show, which opened last Thursday with a private view for guests from industry. This year’s exhibition features the best work from students graduating in Automotive, Transport, Product and Interior Design.

If you’re intrigued to visit the show, then do hurry, as it closes this Thursday. Details here: covdegreeshow.coventry.ac.uk

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Making A Stand

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Students from Interior Design and Architecture have been working on the Build the Bandstand competition since September in collaboration with the Friends of the War Memorial Park. Six designs were shortlisted in November for a new park bandstand. The artwork and models for these six, are currently on a roving exhibition across Coventry:

War Memorial Park Coventry, Visitor Centre – 4 to 9 January
Coventry Central Library – 11 to 17 January
West Orchards Shopping Centre – 18 to 24 January

CDW 2015

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Staff accompanied 72 Product and Interior Design students to Clerkenwell Design Week on Wednesday 20th May.

“Celebrating it’s 6th year in May (19-21) the award-winning CDW has firmly established itself as the UK’s leading independent design festival and annually attracts the international design community to this small area of London for three days of exciting events. In 2014, the design community flocked to Clerkenwell with 32,300 attendees and over 300 exhibiting brands.”

The visit was part of an ongoing programme of events planned to take students out of the studio to look at design and understand its place within the global market. The cohort were left suitably impressed and inspired by Clerkenwell’s mix of showrooms, exhibitions, installations and talks… buzzing with ideas and laden with brochures and catalogues.

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Summer Shows

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With the degree show still on show, plans are already underway for summer exhibitions in London. Automotive, Transport and Product Design will be exhibiting their best graduates at NewDesigners and Interior Design will show for the first time at Free Range.

Dates for your diary:

NewDesigners: Part 2
01-04 July 2015
Business Design Centre / London (nr. Angel Underground)
www.newdesigners.com

Free Range: Interior Design & Architecture Week
09-13 July 2015
Truman Brewery / London (nr. Liverpool Street/Old Street Underground)
www.free-range.org.uk

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Degree Show 2015 in Pictures

Industrial Design Degree Show 2015
28th May – 4th June

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Interior Design: Show One

The following images represent a small proportion of the outstanding work at our degree show, which opened last Thursday with a private view for guests from industry. This year’s exhibition features the best work from students graduating in Automotive, Transport, Product and (for the first time) Interior Design. The show has attracted many important visitors including representatives from Jaguar Land Rover, Sprue Aegis, Dyson and Bentley (to name but a few). Many of the students have received awards and offers of employment already…

Our continued affiliation with the Coventry Motofest drew further visitors in over the weekend. Cesar Pieri’s exhibition of painted Jaguar Bonnets at Fargo Village (a joint venture with ID) was also a success.

If you’re intrigued to visit the show, then do hurry, as it closes this Thursday. Details here: covdegreeshow.coventry.ac.uk

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What is Luxury?

What is Luxury?
Victoria & Albert Museum
25 April – 27 September 2015

Work from 2012 ID graduate Gang Jian Cui will feature in the upcoming exhibition What is Luxury? at the V&A. The exhibition “interrogates general ideas about luxury, its production and future. The relationship of luxury to change, context and conventions is scrutinised through historic objects and contemporary art and design.”

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