Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award 2005: Lots of imagination, little practical relevance
On November 23, the Raymond Loewy Foundation Switzerland will present its Young Designer Award, worth 30,000 Swiss francs, for the fifth time.
The Raymond Loewy Foundation Switzerland
will be awarding the CHF 30,000 prize for the 5th time on November 23.
Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award. The jury has selected from 104
submitted theses at Swiss universities, nine projects
nominated for the promotion award. The Lausanne design school ECAL is the
5th time in a row the most successful university, as stated in a
Press release is called. The majority of the nominees are women. Only
just one designer made it among the best young talents. According to
the jury, this year's submissions are conceptually better.
documented. The diversity of content and intelligence of many works
is refreshing, it continues. Practical,
commercializable projects among the diploma theses there were only
sporadically.
Nominated are Nadine Andrey (ECAL Lausanne, "The Room"), Fabienne
Burri (HGK Lucerne, "Multifunctional Graphics"), Yann Gross (ECAL
Lausanne, "Horizonville"), Noémie Gygax (ECAL Lausanne, "Individuelle
Versus Pluriel"), Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann (Hochschule der
Künste Bern, "Von B und C"), Francisca Hüsser (HGK Basel, "Suit Case"),
Andréa Knecht (ECAL Lausanne, "Tactile - Une ample utilisation de
matériaux"), Pascale Osterwalder (HGK Zurich, "Wolfspur -
Visualization of an Invisible") and Andrea Sommer (HGK Basel,
"Are you cool, Helen?"). The award ceremony and the vernissage of all the
nominated works will take place on November 23, 2005 at the Ecole des arts
décoratifs, 2 rue Necker, in Geneva.
will be awarding the CHF 30,000 prize for the 5th time on November 23.
Lucky Strike Junior Designer Award. The jury has selected from 104
submitted theses at Swiss universities, nine projects
nominated for the promotion award. The Lausanne design school ECAL is the
5th time in a row the most successful university, as stated in a
Press release is called. The majority of the nominees are women. Only
just one designer made it among the best young talents. According to
the jury, this year's submissions are conceptually better.
documented. The diversity of content and intelligence of many works
is refreshing, it continues. Practical,
commercializable projects among the diploma theses there were only
sporadically.
Nominated are Nadine Andrey (ECAL Lausanne, "The Room"), Fabienne
Burri (HGK Lucerne, "Multifunctional Graphics"), Yann Gross (ECAL
Lausanne, "Horizonville"), Noémie Gygax (ECAL Lausanne, "Individuelle
Versus Pluriel"), Barbara Hahn and Christine Zimmermann (Hochschule der
Künste Bern, "Von B und C"), Francisca Hüsser (HGK Basel, "Suit Case"),
Andréa Knecht (ECAL Lausanne, "Tactile - Une ample utilisation de
matériaux"), Pascale Osterwalder (HGK Zurich, "Wolfspur -
Visualization of an Invisible") and Andrea Sommer (HGK Basel,
"Are you cool, Helen?"). The award ceremony and the vernissage of all the
nominated works will take place on November 23, 2005 at the Ecole des arts
décoratifs, 2 rue Necker, in Geneva.
