Finalists Announced for the Interior Motives: Student Design Awards 2003

LONDON, Sept. 5 -- The finalists for the Interior Motives: Student Design Awards 2003 have been selected. The entries -- received from students of transportation and product design courses from around the globe -- were evaluated by the prestigious Interior Motives: Student Design Awards 2003 judging panel, which compromises senior chief designers and executives from Jaguar Cars, Johnson Controls Inc., Nissan Motor DaimlerChrysler AG, Stile Bertone and Intier Automotive.

  Best Innovation Award
   -- Maurits Lopes Cardozo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Gonzalo Javier Flank, Escuela Superior de Diseno Elisava, Barcelona
   -- Eric Daru, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Jonas Sandstrom, Umea Institute of Design, Umea University,
      Umea, Sweden

  Best Use of Technology Award
   -- Elliott Schneider, Academy of Art, San Francisco, USA
   -- Paul Howse, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
   -- Sara Lundqvist, Umea Institute of Design, Umea, Sweden
   -- Viktor Holmqvist, Royal College of Art, London, UK
   -- Phil Woolhead, Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK

  Best Cultural Innovation Award
   -- Eric Daru, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Junia Martins, Escola de Design - UEMG, Brazil
   -- Louis-Philippe, Pratte Universite de Montreal,Montreal, Canada
   -- Indiana Pouilly, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Christophe Lalo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

  Best Production Interior Award
   -- Jonas Sandstrom, Umea Institute of Design, Umea University, Umea,
      Sweden
   -- Frank Carsten, Fachhochschule Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
   -- Peter Blades-Nixon, Royal College of Art, London, UK

  Best Conceptual Interior Award
   -- Gonzalo Javier Flank, Escuela Superior de Diseno Elisava, Barcelona
   -- Phil Woolhead, Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK
   -- Eric Daru, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Mark Lee Robinson, Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK

  Best Lifestyle Interior Award
   -- Gonzalo Javier Flank, Escuela Superior de Diseno Elisava, Barcelona
   -- Christophe Lalo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Eric Daru, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

  Honorable Mention
   -- Christophe Lalo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France
   -- Wei Chang, Umea Institute of Design, Umea University, Umea, Sweden
   -- Maurits Lopes Cardozo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

The finalists' designs will be shown and the winners announced at the Awards ceremony in the King Kamehameha Club in Frankfurt on the 10th September 2003. Top automotive personnel -- including automaker and supplier designers, senior management, and independent industrial designers and academics -- will be in attendance to meet the next generation of interior designers and congratulate the winners of the most outstanding interior design projects. Timed to coincide with IAA Frankfurt, the awards night will be a great chance to talk about the latest concept and production cars, and design trends in the automotive interior business. Awards evening tickets are available online or via the telephone hotline on + 44 (0) 1244 393410.

The Interior Motives: Student Design Awards are sponsored by Intier Automotive, Alcantara, Alias, DuPont, Hewlett Packard, Huntsman Polyurethanes, JSP International and Seton Company.

For further information please visit www.interiormotivesawards.com or contact Alexandra Campos on acampos@advanstar.com