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Meet The Designers Of Tomorrow: Central St Martin’s NOVA Award Finalist Grads
C&TH is sponsoring the NOVA Regeneration Award
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Country & Town House is proud to support Central St Martin’s graduating artists and designers by sponsoring the NOVA Regeneration Award. Like the look of any of these graduates’ work? The audience choice award – YourNOVA – is also now open and you can take your pick.
Since 2011, the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent have highlighted the brightest thinkers and best ideas among the graduating artists, designers and innovators from Central Saint Martins. As part of it, C&TH is proud to sponsor the Regeneration Award, which recognises a project that promotes circularity, and moves away from a linear economy to one that encourages people and planet to thrive. There’s also the YourNOVA Award, which is selected by the public, and is now open. Vote here.
‘Our collaboration with Central Saint Martins has given us a fantastic opportunity to view the world around us through the eyes of exceptionally talented creators,’ says Jose Miguel Sokoloff, president of the MullenLowe Global Creative Council. ‘It is a privilege to be able to recognise their creativity while supporting their future.’
Congratulations to all 14 finalists selected out of 53 nominations. Check back here from 13 July to discover the winners.
Discover the MullenLowe NOVA Award Finalists
Annette Levin
BA Textile Design
Annette’s textiles project aims to challenge the way its viewers perceive femininity. Her four-act ‘play’ documents the inner monologue of a protagonist reflecting on feminine absurdity, surrealism and joy.
Arianna Pezzano
MA Material Futures
‘BioProsthesis’ is an interdisciplinary project that proposes a way for human-hair waste to be used to produce customised prosthesis for people healing from breast cancer.
Ása Bríet Brattaberg
BA Fashion Design
For her collection, Tales Told in Tangles, Ása made every piece of textile by hand, with a zero-waste weaving technique that used old shirts from her grandfather. The wool is hand-spun and taken from her grandparents’ sheep in Iceland.
Bocen Zhou
BA Jewellery Design
The pieces in Bocen’s series are crocheted with silver thread – wearable jewellery inspired by hand-crocheted sweaters her grandma made for her, inspired by the love and suffocation of family life.
Duong Thuy Nguyen
MA Fine Art
Through abstract and biomorphic forms, Duong’s works allude to the historic circulation of products and people, and to cycles of life, death and rebirth.
Eden Brader-Tan
BA Fashion Design
The inspiration for this collection was the possibility of making clothes that could be as easily reprocessed into new garments, and maintaining the integrity of the original fabric roll.
George Harvey
MA Fine Art: Digital
Entities is an audiovisual exploration into our individual perception of reality. Examining the two fundamentals of life – energy and time – Entities investigates our unique understanding of the conscious mind and our interpretations of existence.
Lily Jenkins
MA Character Animation
Time Goes is an animation about the mundanity and beauty of everyday experience. It’s the culmination of Lily’s years of observational drawings of the people around her, in the neighbourhoods she’s lived in.
Liz Ebengo
MA Material Futures
CONTINUED examines the sociocultural cost of adapting to climate change and humanity’s complicity in cultural erosion, by harnessing the capabilities of DNA storage to encrypt a library of
sound and film all in one seed, so stories that would be forgotten will be remembered.
Luke Talbot
BA Product and Industrial Design
My Powerbank is a power bank designed for people experiencing homelessness in London that can be charged for free by attaching it to the frame of any stationary Santander bicycle.
Miles Robinson
BA Jewellery Design
This project focuses on the fragility of human ambition and perception: warped tools, a lightning conductor headpiece that references dunce hats, and badges that label the wearer as tertiary all work to remove our agency.
Soe-Myat Noe
BA Graphic Communication Design
Born from the artist’s recent encounter with cancer, We Are Not Ones Who Say Much is a documentary short film that explores the trauma and emotional effects caused by the illness.
Victor Healey
MA Character Animation
Song of the Tadpole is a film about the relationship between people and pets, the special bond that exists between humans and animals. It’s an animated film with themes of change, growth and love, combining2D and 3D animation.
Yibei Liu
BA Ceramic Design
The project shows a series of abstract figurative sculptures that visualise the feelings of being trapped in negative emotional loops, with the aim of conveying the message ‘you are not alone’ to the audience.
