For the first time a UID student has been awarded in New Zealand’s Best Awards for Product Design
Alastair Warren, a student at the Masters programme of Advanced Product Design at UID, won Silver in the student category of the national Best Design Awards annual, arranged by The Designers Institute of New Zealand. The competition aims to promote and award the best graphic, interactive, product and spatial design by New Zealanders.
The concept UMV - an urban vehicle for mail delivery, was the result of Alastair's first term project at the Advanced Product Design program, which was carried out in collaboration with the local Postal Service.
The results of the project were first presented in Umeå and later the class was invited to come and present the Swedish Post’s R&D department in Stockholm.
Alastair also submitted and was awarded Bronze for another project, a cyclic ergonomic bicycle pump, a project he did during his BA studies at Massey University in New Zealand.
Alastair is presently doing an internship at Bosch/Siemens in-house design department in Munich, Germany.
