Forty-five AUT student projects have reached the final stage of the prestigious Best Awards 2022.
The students’ work is shortlisted across Graphic, Moving Image, Product, Public Good, Spatial and Toitanga design categories.
Two projects garnered nominations across two categories each:
- Nicolle van Heerden’s ASU50 Sterilisation Unit, which is designed to address the harm to native biodiversity caused by stoats
- Eva Min’s Where we belong, which provides a platform for people with multicultural identities
Judging of this year’s awards took place at AUT’s City Campus over seven days in early August.
The judging panel, convened by Nadia Aftimos of the agency Satellite, comprised Frances Cooke (Clemenger BBDO,) Liz Cretney (Springload,) Ryan Campbell (DNA Design,) Jodie Kennedy (Edition) and Brett King DINZ (Kallan & Co.)
Established in the 1970s, the Best Awards are the Design Institute of New Zealand’s annual showcase of excellence and are open to all.
In 2021, AUT School of Art and Design students won 40 Best Awards, including 14 Gold, 12 Silver and 14 Bronze pins.
The 2022 winners will be announced at a ceremony in Auckland on 7 October.
See below for a full list of AUT student finalists, by category:
Graphic
Arlena Hosking, Otherworld
Ruby Grace Brown, Queer Astrology
Hunter Lennan, A Place called Home
Hannah Coates, Sojourn
Megan France, Irregular
Ashleigh Sun, Brucke Display
Roylin Bailey, Ten Years Apart
Abbey Barlow, D.O.S.D
Zaffa Gayoom, Stories from Paradise
Nick Zeff, Wonder Activity Cards
Georgia Billman, Second Chances
Oliver Wooster, Konini
Alisha Prasad, Yaad Karo
Sammy Good, Tracing Threads
Eva Min, Where we belong
Moving Image
Francesco Antonio Montero, What Draws Me In
Tamir Reznik, Rent is Overdue
Thomas Rangihuna, Charging
Tim Griffiths, The Snowman
Ahoo Shafi, David
Jaeyong Heo, Criminal Carrots
Yeon Bin Kim, Take Out Night
Sarah Johnston, Jaimee Burk, Mellow
Product
Kate Weatherly, OPIVA Refined
Nicolle van Heerden, ASU50
Molly Whitehead, Sustainable In-Tent
Jordan Williams, Compass
Public Good Awards
Kendra Smith, Blu’s Backpack
Michelle Sheng, Bubble Openers – Placemaking concepts for public transport
Stella Wilson, Versatile
Jenna Billman, Big Deal! So What?
Alyssa Tai, Supporting you through a difficult time: Interrupting a pregnancy for medical reasons
Amy Leong, Campers Kai
Nicolle van Heerden, ASU50
Annie Yu, Loop
Eden Doull, Disposable Rapid Antigen Test
Jordan Williams, Compass
Eva Min, Where we belong
Gabriella Woodman Jordan Timoti Dylan Birnie Alexandra Paton, Super Savvy
Qianying Li, Yiran Liu, Zhanlong Deng, PetPal
Spatial
Chris Bentley, Vacancies and Attenuated Presences: A counter-memorial swimming pool for Waitara
Alice Wang, Shift: Kinetic Intervention in the Domain Wintergardens
Gemma Jiyeon Kwon, HAUMI: Join all together
Toitanga
Jordan Tane, Kyani Utia, Sisi Panikoula, Gloria Falaniko, What Makes Me Plastic
Bella Martin, Nga Mau Rakau o Atua Wahine
