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Bicycle design is a museum piece
Coventry University graduate Matt Tongue is on a fast track to the top all thanks to his innovative bicycle design.
Coventry University graduate Matt Tongue is on a fast track to the top all thanks to his innovative bicycle design Tongue's final-year project for the MDes industrial product design course was a bike designed for cycle couriers in the city
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The full-size model was displayed at the University's Degree Show in June 2002 and caught the eye of Museum of British Road Transport Exhibition Officer, Paul Maddocks.
The bicycle was snapped up by the museum and is now one of the features of its permanent display, which aims to show the continuing history of transport.
Tongue, from Tysoe in Warwick recently came second in the Birmingham Design Initiative (BDI) awards.
The goal of the BDI is to raise awareness of the importance and value of outstanding environmental/product design in the West Midlands.
Tongue said: "I entered my cycle in the transport category of the awards.
It was then shortlisted to the final three and I was invited to the awards ceremony at the Think Tank Centre at Millennium Point.
I was delighted to come second, particularly because I was up against tough competition from industry.
Many of the shortlisted candidates were established designers and professional organisations including Wedgewood".
Tongue was also awarded the Bugatti Trust prize for his bicycle design.
Bugatti has awarded prizes to Coventry University students over the past three years for their "elegant designs".
Coventry University first came into contact with Bugatti in 1997 through Barry Price, a cofounder of the trust.
Price was so impressed by the work of Coventry University students that the Bugatti Trust was keen to establish links with the university, by sponsoring two final year project prizes.
The design also received a national award from the Institute of Engineering Designers, which gives out ten awards each year to the best final-year design projects.
Mike Evatt, Principal Lecturer said: "With this list of accolades so early in his career I can see Matt becoming one of the UK's most promising young designers.
I think it is great that Matt's bicycle design is on show at the Museum of British Road Transport in Coventry.
It forms an excellent addition to the existing Coventry University work on display".
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