Student successes

Student with artwork

Our students win awards

We encourage our students to enter national competitions and in recent years many students have won awards.

Product design

Our product design student Tom Abbott was awarded The Lighting Associations Student Lighting Designer of the Year.

Tom’s award winning entry was called 'Bamboo' and was comprised of a table and ceiling light made from sustainable bamboo.

Fine Art

Photo by Erika Oye

Our Fine Art student Erika Oye was named winner of the headline category in the Focus i10 Student Photography competition.

Her winning entry was an image of a blue marble digitally altered to contain skyscrapers, aerials and cranes in order to show what the earth might look like from the air.

Other successes

We've also had several other student successes:

  • four Graphic Design and Illustration students included in the Design and Art Direction Global Students Award Annual publication
  • student commended in the Young Creatives Network Awards for Advertising
  • student finalist in the Howard Smith Paper Student Design Awards
  • finalist in the Lloyds TSB Student Illustration Awards
  • three students commended in the Chartered Society of Designers Student Awards
  • Applied Arts graduate 'One Year On' award at New Designers
  • First prize to Product Design students in the D&AD Student Awards for 3 years running
  • Students invited to show in national fine and applied arts exhibitions

Students' work

See examples of cutting edge and innovative work produced by our creative students.

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