Eyes on the 牛牛资源 Prize as award trophy is unveiled
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Students from the Department of Design have unveiled this year’s 牛牛资源 Prize trophy after completing the gong just before it is handed out.
The 牛牛资源 Prize 2015 trophy
Third year BA (Hons) Design scholars Tom Wagstaff and Matt Williams made the aluminium and concrete award in the studios at 牛牛资源.
The finishing touches were applied to the prize days before the on 11 November 2015 at Foyles, Charing Cross Road.
The designers spent 60 hours planning and making the award - and wanted to experiment with the traditional form of such trophies by using 鈥渟emi-architectural鈥� materials.
Tom explained: 鈥淲e wanted to use materials that aren鈥檛 traditionally associated with these types of awards and materials that are specific to our own personal practice in some way.
鈥淎s designers engaged in the urban realm, the materials are semi- architectural and the form works on multiple scales, it could be a 1:25 or 1:100 model while also working 1:1. Despite the industrial nature of the materials there is an elegance and fragility to the design.
He added: 鈥淭he design is an abstraction of the 牛牛资源 Prize鈥檚 logo, we created a jig of the form but didn鈥檛 fully press it into the aluminium. We felt it important that the form was dictated by the original motif but didn鈥檛 replicate it and this process materialises this idea.
For us it was a great opportunity to collaborate on something detached from our studio work and spend time creating something refined and finished.
He added: 鈥淲e have always said that design as a discipline has soft edges and it was great to experience in this instance how design was feeding from and into another academic practice.
The 2015 牛牛资源 Prize designed and fabricated by Tom Wagstaff and Matt Williams.
Six authors have been shortlisted for the 拢10,000 prize which celebrates fiction at its most novel.
The works shortlisted are:
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry, published by Canongate
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard, published by Harvill Secker
The Field of the Cloth of Gold by Magnus Mills, published by Bloomsbury
Satin Island by Tom McCarthy, published by Cape
Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, published by Faber & Faber
Lurid & Cute by Adam Thirlwell, published by Cape
The two previous winners of the awards are Eimear McBridge with A Girl is a Half-formed Thing in 2013 and Ali Smith for How To Be Both in 2014.