Fashion Design Crowned Best in Region
May 27, 2010 | Levent OZLER
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 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 - online sustainability assessment software and a "Young Designer" news feature in Artichoke Magazine.
"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," said Geoff Fitzpatrick, DIA Director and ASDA Program Convenor.
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."
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