Morpholio announces the Inside2015 Design Competition winners

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The Morpholio Project has announced today the Inside2015 Design Competition winners. The Inside2015 competition was assembled by designers, professors and students as a means to publicly promote the research, exploration and investigation currently happening in academia and amongst today’s emerging talent.

Jury Winner – Emerging talents – SOFTlab – CHROMAtex

The competition was open to all design disciplines including architects, interior designers furniture designers, digital fabricators, graphic designers, lighting designers, product designers or any other creative field that creates for the inside. The competition did not have any shortage of talent, with projects that stretched the boundaries of creativity, as well as addressed some serious problems and challenges the design world is facing today.

Jury Winner – Emerging talents – AE Superlab – The Diwani Chair

Inside2015 posed the following questions: What are the aspirations by which we evaluate design today? In an increasingly networked culture, what makes a project capable of cutting through the virtual noise, and starting a new conversation? How do evolving forms of media affect the way in which your message reaches its destination? What is your message?

Jury Winner – Emerging talents – vishwaraj nikumbh – ORGANIC POD

We tend to think of great design as either being captured in history in the past or so brilliantly futuristic that we can’t imagine what it will be. The truth is that the most compelling design work right now merges these ideas. Our shared global history should inform how we design for our future.

– Elizabeth Giorgi, Tech Writer at Apartment Therapy

Jury Winner – Emerging talents – vishwaraj nikumbh – ORGANIC POD

The entries were ambitious, exploratory, insightful, and full of promise. Seeing the world through their eyes is a good reminder as to why we got into the design world.

– Caroline Williamson, Managing Editor at Design Milk

Jury Winner – Future Voices – Jon Manoles – Lappis Lounge Chair Furniture design

Student designers are often the craziest designers–in a good way. While not every idea they come up with is immediately produceable, they question the status quo and remind us all to think more creatively.

– Mark Wilson of Fast Company Design

Jury Winner – Future Voices Simin Qiu – Swirl

Overall, the submissions represent a mix of scales — urban to object — but across scales, the best projects address complex problems through a direct approach to design. The most compelling balance technical virtuosity, imagination and practical application.

– David Bright of Knoll, Inc.

Jury Winner – Emerging talents – SOFTlab – CHROMAtex

Being a Juror for this show, reminds me how important it is to return to some of the basics of creation and brainstorming. Just as it is important for educators to touch base with the prolific designers in the field. Morpholio is a great invention to connect both disciplines.

– Barrie Benson, Founder Barrie Benson Interior Design

Morpholio Special Recognition – Emerging talents – Grzegorz Zmarz EVE lamp

It’s difficult being a design student or young designer these days and it’s especially hard to get noticed. With platforms like Morpholio, which not only lets designers display their work, but they offer opportunities like Inside2015 to give them a taste of real world experience and helps to validate all of their hard work.

– Caroline Williamson, Managing Editor at Design Milk

Morpholio Special Recognition – Emerging talents – Grzegorz Zmarz EVE lamp

Morpholio Recognition – Emerging talents – BraniDesi – Life in Expressionism

Morpholio Special Recognition – Future Voices – Fiona Sindjelic Stefanovic – Morpho/Invader/Slant

Morpholio Special Recognition – Future Voices – Rebecca Roberts – TED Global HQ

Public Winner – Emerging talents – Keren Shiker – Sink in adjustable seating

Public Winner – Future Voices – Katie Dane – Musicians In Residence

Public Winner – Emerging talents – Cuong Le – Bamboo lamp

This year’s honourable jury included Arlene Hirst of T Magazine, Elizabeth Giorgi of Apartment Therapy, Mark Wilson of Fast Company Design, Caroline Williamson of Design Milk, David Bright of Knoll, Inc., Barrie Benson of Barrie Benson Interior Design, Lucy Wang of Inhabitat, Richard Elder of Herman Miller, Inc., Meghan Edwards of Interior Design Magazine at SANDOW, Grace Ehlers of Metropolis Magazine, Brandon Quattrone of Consort Design, Cheryl Durst of International Interior Design Association and Paul Petrunia of ARCHINECT.