Not By Default, But By Design
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 International Osaka Design Competition, IF Concept Design 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 were also invited and offered 24m2 of free space by the organizers of Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan International Furniture Fair) to display the best of our Industrial Design (ID) student works at the SaloneSatellite 2006 exhibition. With co-sponsorships from DesignSingapore and Singapore Furniture Council, nine prototypes and posters featuring our students’ award winning schemes made their inaugural appearance in Milan from 5-10 April 06. This fair gave NUS the opportunity to showcase standards achieved by our young designers, raising the international profile of our Industrial Design programme.
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 gallery space.
More information can be found at www.nusindustrialdesign.com
List of NUS 5th graduating cohort -winning projects:
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
14. Glo Tracking Poles,Red Dot Design Concept Award 2006,Excellent Work
15. Blade of Grass,Furniture Design Award 2007,Merit Award
16. Briefly-Cased,Bordeaux Bliss Packaging Design 2005,First Prize
