Tomorrow's automotive interior designers honoured at the inaugural Interior Motives Student Design Awards

Frankfurt, September 10 -- - The winners of the Interior Motives: Student Design Awards 2003 were announced last night, amongst much celebration and excitement.

Over 300 people attended the awards ceremony at the King Kamehemeha Club, Frankfurt's best-known jazz club, to view work exhibited from the 18 talented finalists. "We are delighted with the support that we have received from the car design industry, it has really rallied behind this competition which has been created specifically to celebrate student excellence in automotive interior design," said Ryan Borroff, editor of Interior Motives magazine. "There was a true global spread of entries from students at colleges as diverse as Seoul University of Technology, Korea; The Academy of Art College, San Francisco; College of Creative Studies, Detroit; and Universitè de Montreal, Canada - as well as colleges from Europe - all figuring on the shortlist. Some colleges have even absorbed the competition into their syllabus. The standard of work was impressive and the judging panel had their work cut out for them."

The Interior Motives: Student Design Awards 2003 winners were awarded in eight categories:

- Best Innovation Award; Jonas Sandström, Institute of Design, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

- Best Use of Technology Award; Paul Howse, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

- Best Cultural Interpretation Award; Indiana Pouilly, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

- Best Production Interior Award; Peter Blades-Nixon, Royal College of Art, London, UK

- Best Conceptual Interior Award; Phil Woolhead, Coventry School of Art & Design, Coventry, UK

- Best Lifestyle Interior Award; Eric Daru, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

- Honourable Mention Award (joint winners); Maurits Lopes Cardozo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France; and Christophe Lalo, Strate College Designers, Paris, France

- Student Designer of the Year 2003 Award (overall winner); Peter Blades-Nixon, Royal College of Art, London, UK

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

Interior Motives magazine will publish a dedicated Awards supplement, with details of the finalists and winners in December. For a free subscription to Interior Motives, please visit http://www.interiormotivesmagazine.com/

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