Fashion Design Crowned Best in Region - Australasian Student Design Awards 2010
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The Design Institute of Australia has announced the Overall Winner of the Australasian Student Design Awards 2010. NSW Design Centre Enmore student Carol Faulkner's Fashion Design.
NSW Design Centre Enmore student Carol Faulkner’s Fashion Design was selected from the 9 category winners and over 140 entries to take the top spot of Overall Winner. Carol will receive an Award of Excellence, one year’s access to WSP’s Product Ecology TM - online sustainability assessment software and a "Young Designer" news feature in Artichoke Magazine.
DIA Director and ASDA Program Convenor Geoff Fitzpatrick said “The consistently high standard of design work reflected in the majority of these entries spoke to the impressive standards being set in student work across the board and across multiple disciplines.”
Carol’s entry ‘Mrs K's Exotic Fruit’ impressed the judges as ‘showing highly creative and innovative design of a dress and bracelet constructed entirely from 10,000 hand dyed cable ties. This entry gives good thought to sustainable practices, recycling and bio degradability,’ the panel concluded.
‘Winning the inaugural Fashion category of the Australasian Student Design Awards was an unexpected and thrilling experience,’ exclaimed Carol. ‘To have my work acknowledged by my peers and recognised with the Award of Excellence is a huge honour. I am happy to have been able to communicate my concept with a wider audience and share a project that I thoroughly enjoyed from beginning to end.’
Now in its 15th year, ASDA is a multidisciplinary awards program that attracts an exceptional range, depth and quality of entries from some 40 tertiary educational institutions throughout Australia and New Zealand. The design disciplines include Interior Design, Interior Decoration, Exhibition/Display Design, Visual Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Textile Design, Jewellery Design and Fashion Design.
This year’s event continued a successful partnership with designEX, with over 140 ASDA entries on display at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre from Thursday 26 - Saturday 24 April. The stimulating design work of finalists and category winners is now available for view at the Design Institute of Australia’s DESIGN GALLERY, Level 1, 175 Collins Street, Melbourne until Friday 4 June. Alternatively, the prize winning entries can be viewed online at www.design.org.au/asda.
Posted on: May 28, 2010