College students win Packaging Design Awards
Posted on Friday 12 June 2009
Six students sweep board in national design competition.
Students sweep board in National Competition
Six students from Farnborough Sixth Form College swept the board in a national competition run by The Institute of Packaging. Challenged to design and make a collecting box for a charity of the student’s own choice, Evan MacKrill, 18 of Hook, Matthew Bullock, 17 of Farnborough, Catherine Leung, 17 of Frimley Green, Desislava Staytcheva, 17 of Sandhurst, Vlad Cochintoui, 16 of Farnborough, and Joseph Barlow, 16 of Aldershot, won two gold, two silver and two highly commended awards respectively.
The Starpack Awards are presented annually to professional designers and also to undergraduate and sixth form students. Bob Dunn, Head of Design at Farnborough Sixth Form College, said, “I was delighted by the enthusiasm and commitment of the students who produced charity boxes which challenged the best of the professional designs.”
Matthew Bullock, who achieved one of the Gold Awards said, “The awards ceremony in London was brilliant and it was particularly good to speak to the professional designers who gave me a real insight into graphic art and its applications in industry.”
Matthew is hoping to study to be an architect on leaving the College and the design detail required for packaging reflects the needs of the career to which he aspires.
Catherine Leung also hopes to be an architect and has been given a travel scholarship by the College to undertake some work experience with an architect in Singapore in the summer.
Catherine said, “The College has given me a fantastic opportunity to put my ideas in to practice and I am really looking forward to the summer with Broadway Malyan in Singapore.”
After the awards ceremony held at the Institute’s prestigious headquarters in Carlton House Terrace, London, the students were taken to Buckingham Palace for a photoshoot.
