Design Ventura Awards List 2017

DESIGN VENTURA AWARDS LIST  2017

WINNER

Weatherhead High School

The Flower Pot

SECOND PLACE

Fairmead School

Spinning Thumb Plate

THIRD PLACE

Hans Price Academy

Plate Mate

COMMENDATION FOR GOOD DESIGN

The King John School

Lightning Bolt

COMMENDATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY 

Beechen Cliff School

Card Hero

COMMENDATION FOR GOOD COMMUNICATION

Chadwell Heath Academy

Animittens

COMMENDATION FOR THE MOST MARKET READY PRODUCT

South Dartmoor Academy

Emooji

OUTSTANDING FINALISTS

Graveney School

Multi-Purpose Tidy

Simon Balle All-through School

Drop Charge

Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys

STIX

Design Ventura Masterclass and Celebration Event 2017

Last week the Design Ventura team welcomed the top ten schools back in the Design Museum for a special day celebrating design.

The day started with a fun ice-breaker lead by Catherine Ritman-Smith, Director of Learning at the Design Museum, which was followed by two incredible presentations by the guest designers Heather Corcoran from Kickstarter and Herny James from Inventid.

The afternoon started with a career insight speed dating activity which allowed students, teachers, family and friends to have the opportunity to ask experts from the industry about how their creative and enterprise skills have supported their successful transition into the workplace.

After tea and cake and while family and friends were visiting the galleries, the students activities continued. Students had a chance to participate in a fantastic drawing workshop lead by Peter Ayres from Beep Studio; and an exciting Little Bits workshop lead by Carlos Izsak from Makercart.

In the evening, the Design Museum opened its doors to the shortlisted school teams, their teachers, family and friends, Deutsche Bank employees, Design Industry Experts, the Design Museum team and special VIP guests to celebrate the success of Design Ventura 2017.

The event gave the students a chance to explain their innovative products to guests, network with people from the industry and be an advocates for their schools. Guest were really impressed with the confidence and communication skills that the students demonstrated.

Last year’s winners Harrogate Grammar School presented a cheque of £1080 from the proceeds of their product (Hook2O) to a representative of their chosen charity, The Sir Robert Ogden Macmillan Centre.

The anticipated announcement of the Design Ventura 2017 awards was presented by the judges: Alice Black, Naomi Cleaver, Sebastian Conran, Christoph Woermann and Anna Bullus. The prizes were awarded as follows: Graveney School, Simon Balle All-through School and Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys were awarded as Outstanding Finalists; The King John School was awarded Commendation for Good Design; Beechen Cliff School was awarded Commendation for Sustainable Design; Chadwell Heath School was awarded Commendation for Good Communication; and South Dartmoor Academy was awarded Commendation for the Most Market Ready Product. The third place was awarded to Hans Price Academy; second place was awarded to Fairmead School and finally the Design Ventura Winner 2017 was Weatherhead High School.

The Design Ventura display with prototypes from all the ten shortlisted schools on the first floor of the Design Museum was also unveiled. This year, the Design Ventura project had 328 schools and over 14,500 students participating. The display is going to be up until the end of March and it is free to visit.

The Celebration Event was really about celebrating design and congratulating all those involved in the Design Ventura. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Design Ventura project making it such a successful project!

All photos ©Richard Heald Photography/Design Museum

Design Ventura Judging Panel 2017

This year’s pitching event is going to take place this week. We will welcome the top 10 shortlisted schools to the Design Museum for a chance to pitch their design ideas in front of a panel of industry experts. Here are this year’s panel:

Alice Black

Alice is Director of the Design Museum. As well as developing audiences, exhibitions and programming over the last ten years, Alice has led the museum’s project to transform the former Commonwealth Institute into the new home for the Design Museum. Alice began her career in banking in New York and her experience in the UK spans work in the public and private sector, in large, multi-site national museums as well as independent museums.

Anna Bullus

Anna studied Three Dimensional Design at Camberwell College of Art and University of Brighton. During her degree Anna specialised in plastics and material experimentation, which led to her developing an interest in recycling. After gaining experience as a Product Designer with Hulger, and Case Furniture as a Junior Product Developer in London, Anna went on to launch her company Gum Drop Ltd which recycles gum waste into a range of products such as gum bins and wellington boots.

Christoph Woermann

Christoph is Managing Director, Global Head of Marketing, Global Transaction Banking at Deutsche Bank. Christoph has a passion for garden design and has been an ardent supporter of the Design Ventura project and a seasoned member of the judging panel.

Naomi Cleaver

Naomi is an interior designer specialising in homes. She is also a writer and broadcaster.

Sebastian Conran

Sebastian wanted to be an inventor whilst at school and got A levels in Maths Physics and Chemistry; then he studied Industrial Design Engineering at Central St. Martins, where he gave the Sex Pistols their first booking and designed record sleeves and posters for The Clash. After this he worked at corporate identity consultancy Wolff Olins followed by leading hard-goods development at Mothercare, after which he founded Sebastian Conran Associates design studio in 1986, which he continues to lead.

Sebastian is Visiting Professor of Design & Innovation at Bristol Robotics Lab, Designer in Residence at University of Sheffield engineering faculty, taught furniture design at the Royal College of Art, lectures frequently and advises government on design.

Design Ventura Shortlist 2017

We are pleased to announce the top 10 entries for Design Ventura 2017.

Thank you to all the teachers and students who have worked so hard on this year’s project. It is thanks to all of you that the Design Ventura is such a huge success!

We had over 14,500 students participating and our highest number of entries, so our panel of shortlisting judges  did not have an easy task. After much debate, the final top ten entries were selected – please see a full list of all selected schools in alphabetical order further down.

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT?

All schools that have submitted an entry in the Design Ventura project will receive participation certificates for their students by post -we will send the certificates soon.

This year top ten shortlisted schools will be contacted by us shortly with further details about the Pitching event which is going to take place at the Design Museum in December.

DESIGN VENTURA SHORTLIST 2017

(in alphabetical order)

Beechen Cliff School

Card Hero
A portable phone stand that is the size of a credit card so that it fits neatly into a wallet or purse.

Chadwell Heath Academy

Animittens
Mittens in the shape of animals that encourage children to get involved with household chores.

Fairmead School

Spinning Thumb Plate
A plate with thumb dent and sliding guard, helping those that find it hard to hold or carry a plate full of food.

Graveney School

Multi-Purpose Tidy
Handy suction clips for storing and keeping items to hand.

 
Hans Price Academy

Plate Mate
Fun attachment for holding your toast on the side of a plate to make more space and keep it from getting soggy.

Simon Balle All-through School

Drop Charge
A humorous bungee jumper inspired wrap for keeping charger cables tidy.

South Dartmoor Academy

Emooji
A fun ruler with stencils for creating your own emoji drawings.

The King John School

Lightning Bolt
A lightning bolt shaped reflector that contains a puncture repair kit.

Weatherhead High School

The Flower Pot
A polypropylene plant pot that expands as the plant grows, reducing the waste of replacing pots.

Woolwich Polytechnic School for Boys

STIX
Wooden construction game made up of rods and connectors.

INDEPENDENT AND OVERSEAS SCHOOLS

Schools in this category will be contacted separately and will be asked to submit a three minute video pitch.

(in alphabetical order)

Brighton College

Avogo
Avocado knife and stone remover with a curved blade which allows to cut avocados more easily and moulds around your hand for a comfortable grip.

Portland Place School

Astro Caps
Pencil lid featuring planets and fun facts of the solar system to boost children’s learning about the universe.

 
Rangitoto College, New Zealand

Coard
Everyday chair for children under the age of 10 which is biodegradable, environmentally friendly and easy to assemble and disassemble.

Online Teacher CPD session video available now!

If you missed the teacher CPD in August and September, you can watch the recording of the online session.

Design Ventura 2017 online teacher CPD from Design Museum on Vimeo.

Design Ventura video brief now available!

Anna Bullus, Gumdrop Ltd introduces the 2017 Design Ventura Brief.

Design Ventura Brief 2017 from Design Museum on Vimeo.