Find the stars in the next generation of creatives. The 2020 MullenLowe NOVA Awards shortlist has been announced and voting has opened for the YourNOVA People’s Choice Award.
From 1,300 graduating students, 14 have been shortlisted. Just 5 MullenLowe NOVA Awards will be presented to students whose work represents truly creative thinking and execution.
Shortlisted students are (in alphabetical order):
- Aziza Kadyri (Kadyrova), MA Performance: Design & Practice, ‘Fitting Fragments’
- Femi Adeleye, BA Fine Art 3D, ‘Just Being Myself’
- Ines Duplessis, MA Industrial Design, ‘ANEO’
- Jahnavi Inniss, BA Graphic Communication Design, ‘Representation’
- Jo Harrison-Hall, BA Jewellery Design, ‘Rinse and Repeat’
- Joseph Bates, BA Fashion Communication: Fashion Communication and Promotion, ‘Lokko’
- Joseph Standing, MA Industrial Design, ‘Aqua No More’
- Katy Fabian, MA Character Animation, ‘Wolfskin’
- Kleanthis Kyriakou, MA Architecture, ‘HOUSE OF EXTRAVAGANZA’
- Liang Xiao, MA Art and Science, ‘Narrative COVID-19 from Wuhan to London’
- Lois Elizabeth Innes, MA Architecture, ‘Closer to Home’
- Mathilde Rougier, BA Fashion Design Womenswear, ‘Modular Augmented Capsule’
- Sandra Poulson, BA Fashion Print, An Angolan Archive’
- Yi Yin, MA Design (Ceramics) – ‘Reinventing’
The student who receives the most public votes will be crowned the YourNOVA winner for 2020. Shortlisted work can be viewed here. Voting is open until Friday September 4.
Jose Miguel Sokoloff, president of MullenLowe Group Global Creative Council and chief creative officer MullenLowe Group UK, stated, “In the face of some very real challenges this year, the students have created work that is a tribute to themselves and humanity. The shortlist is representative of this, and is testament to how these brilliant young minds will shape how we live in this ever-changing world.
Now, with YourNOVA, it’s over to the public to vote for their favourite piece of work. I encourage each and every one of you to engage with the work for a vision of the future.”
For the first time, winners will be announced in an online ceremony on Thursday, September 10. The five awards include one overall winner, two runners up, the Unilever #Unstereotype Award and the YourNOVA Award.
MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2020 Judging Panel:
- Sara Gulamali – Central Saint Martins alumni, Winner of the Unilever #Unstereotype Award at the 2019 MullenLowe NOVA Awards
- Hannah Hayes-Westall – founder of FAD magazine & The Art of Conversation
- Suhair Khan – Strategic Projects at Google
- Kelly Mullen – Head of Entertainment, Unilever
- Jose Miguel Sokoloff – Global President, MullenLowe Group Creative Council, Chief Creative Officer, MullenLowe Group
- Ana Sokoloff – founding partner of sokoloff + associates, art advisory company based in New York
