There are just five days left to vote in the YourNOVA People’s Choice Award section of MullenLowe Group’s 2021 MullenLowe NOVA Awards. The voting deadline in Friday August 6.
From 1,300 graduating students, 14 were shortlisted. Six MullenLowe NOVA Awards will presented to students whose work represents truly creative thinking and execution.
Shortlisted students are (in alphabetical order):
Alice Turner, BA Product Design, Carnerie
Cheuk Laam Wong, BA Product Design, Looop Can
Claudia Gusella, BA Fashion Design, everything is great *
Francesca Dalosio, MA Industrial Design, Ulïètu
Gwen Siôn, BA Fine Art XD, HS2 Ghostlands
Jaan Choy, BA Graphic Communication Design, Liǎn
Jessie Zhang, BA Graphic Communication Design, Song Light
Kaius Mowbray, BA Fine Art XD, Speculative Mind Mulch
Lydia Hardcastle, BA Performance: Design and Practice, FEN (Growing Garments)
Molly Macleod, MA Art and Science, We Are All Carbon
Nikoleta Crysikou, MA Material Futures, BacTerra
Paula Camina, MA Biodesign, Co-Obradorio Galego
Yijia Wu, BA Fine Art 4D, Homes on the Move
Yuhan Huang, MA Fine Art, Planet Series
The People’s Choice’ Award invites the public to cast their vote for their favourite piece of shortlisted work. The student who receives the most votes will be crowned the YourNOVA winner for 2021. Shortlisted work can be viewed on mullenlowenova.com/yournova/ and voting is open until Friday August 6.
Jose Miguel Sokoloff, global president, MullenLowe Group Creative Council and MullenLowe NOVA Awards judge, stated, “Encompassing everything from art that highlights the climate emergency to designing products that will quite literally change the future, these stand-out projects are a prime example of how these brilliant minds are pushing the boundaries of creativity in response to the world around us.
“Now it’s over to the public to vote for their favourite piece of work from this incredibly talented shortlist, as we launch the YourNOVA People’s Choice Award for the 6th consecutive year. I encourage each and every one of you to engage with the work and champion the project you think shows surprising lateral thinking, takes risks, provokes debate, experiments, and innovates using challenger thinking to solve a problem in a way that has never been done before.”
Winners will be announced in an online ceremony on Wednesday August 18. The six awards include one overall winner, two runners up, the Unilever #Unstereotype Award, the YourNOVA ‘People’s Choice’ Award and new for 2021, the Creative Boom Conscious Award.
