This year’s prize for the Best Use of Non-Precious Metals was awarded by the Worshipful Company of Tin Plate Workers alias Wire Workers to 2014 graduate Vicky Lew. The prize, judged by metalsmith Alistair McCallum, Andrew and Francis Balcombe, Piers and Maria Baker, Diana Hughes and Erica Stary, recognised Vicky’s use of anodised aluminium and pave-set gemstones to express the fleeting image of a bird in flight.
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Congratulations to Tiffany Baehler for winning the Swarovski Award 2014, and special mentions to Ioanna Souflia and Nadya Fedatova for their commendations from the judges.
Winning Camo bracelet, silver with pavé set Swarovski Gemstones by Tiffany Baehler
Nadya Fedatova’s wood and Swarovski Crystals bracelets were commended
Ioanna Souflia’s specially commended marble and Swarovski Crystals jewellery
This year’s Swarovski Award was judged by the team from Swarovski, jewellery designers Fernando Jorge and Beanie Major and was presented by Burak Cakmak, head of Corporate Responsibility at Swarovski.
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Congratulations to Hoonik Chang, the recipient of this year’s Avakian Scholarship awarded for outstanding achievement and to support his final year of study.
The J&J Bursary was awarded to 1st year student, Chloe Valorso, and this year a special bursary went to Ami Matsumitsu, also a 1st year student – tremendous congratulations to both.
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Three Theo Fennell Awards 2014 were given to Ruiyin Lin for Best Overall Collection, Vicky Lew for Best Design and Joo Hye Kim for Best Technical Achievement. Congratulations to all three winners for their success.
The award was judged by the team from Theo Fennell and presented by designer Rachel Hopkins.
Vicky Lew, RuiYin Lin and Joo Hye Kim (Image courtesy of Mindy Coe)
RuiYin Lin – Theo Fennell Awards: Winner of Best Overall Collection
Joo Hye Kim – Theo Fennell Awards: Winner of Best Technical Achievement
Vicky Lew – Theo Fennell Awards: Winner of Best Design
Congratulations to Hoonik Chang for receiving the Cartier Portfolio Award at the BA Jewellery Design Awards Evening. Hoonik will now undertake an internship at Cartier in Paris.
Well done also to runners up Wizal Wang and Kota Okuda for being commended by the Cartier team for their outstanding work in the competition.
(From left to right) Kota Okuda, Wizal Wang, Cartier representative and Hoonik Chang: Winner of the Cartier Portfolio Award 2014 (Image courtesy of Mindy Coe)
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Congratulations to Edie Charles, who won the Boodles Award for best collection, judged by Carol Woolton at this year’s BA Jewellery Design Awards Evening.
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Congratulations to Zuleika Penniman, who was awarded the Brian Wood Memorial Medal at the BA Jewellery Design Awards Evening 2014. Zulieka’s graduate collection “simultaneously conceals and reveals… a series of conversations between the object and the wearer, between the public and private, between the old and the new and between the here and now and thereafter” which engaged the interest of judge Margarita Wood.
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Congratulations to 2014 graduate, Felicia Swartling for being awarded the Winterson Best Use of Pearls 2014 Prize. The brief for the prize, which was judged by Andrew Fraser of Winterson, Maia Adams – founder of Adorn Insight, and British jewellery designer and MA graduate of Central Saint Martins, Alice Cicolini, was to ‘use a free approach or ideas that consider commercial appeal’.
First year students responded to a live project with leading optical and eyewear store Auerbach and Steele. Three awards were presented by Royce Zand of Auerbach and Steele.
Kay Guo received Best Overall, Ambrin Howell Best Spectacles and Ying Ping Shen Best Sunglasses. Congratulatiosn to all three winners for a successful end to their first year on the course!
Ambrin Howell (Image courtesy of Mindy Coe)
Kay Guo (Image courtesy of Mindy Coe)
Ying Ping Shen (Image courtesy of Mindy Coe)
CSM BA Jewellery Design 