Award for Swedish designer

An ICEM product story

Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team Oct 6, 2004

The winner of the ICEM-sponsored category of Best Conceptual Exterior Design in the 2004 Interior Motives Design Awards was Mauricio Bedolla Gasca from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden.

The winner of the ICEM-sponsored category of Best Conceptual Exterior Design in the 2004 Interior Motives Design Awards was Mauricio Bedolla Gasca from the Umea Institute of Design in Sweden.

Runner-up in the same category was Jacobo Dominguez-Ojea from Spain's Royal College of Art, and third place was awarded to Adrian Sellers from Coventry University in the UK.

Jacobo Dominguez-Ojea was also selected by the judges as the overall winner of the 2004 Interior Motives Design Awards.

Winners of the other categories in the Awards were: Jocobo Dominguez-Ojea, for Best Innovation; Oriol Mogas Bartomeu from Spain's Royal College of Art, for Best Use of Technology; David Rojas from the College for Creative Studies in the USA, for Best Production Interior; Heung-Soo Kim from the UK's Royal College of Art, for Best Conceptual Interior; Raquel Aparicio from Elisava University in Spain, for Best Lifestyle Interior; Reginald Olush Hingston from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle in the UK, for Best Eco Design Concept; and Fengyou Gong from Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences in Germany, for Best Production Exterior.

Designed to appeal to and encourage young designers and automotive stylists, this year's awards attracted over 200 entries from some 31 countries and 47 different design colleges, establishing itself as a truly global competition.

The 24 finalists in this year's competition represented colleges and universities in the UK, Spain, Sweden, France, Germany, Canada, the USA and South Korea.

Chaired by Ryan Borroff, Editor of Interior Motives and Exterior Motives magazines, the judging panel comprised chief designers and design managers from the worldwide automotive design and manufacturing industry, including Mercedes Benz Advanced Design, Volvo Cars, GM Advanced Design, Johnson Controls, Volkswagen, Seat Cars, Aston Martin Lagonda, I.DE.A Institute, Stile Bertone, Ford Motor Company, Intier Automotive and Faurecia.

The awards ceremony took place during Le Mondial de l'Automobile (Paris Motor Show) on the evening of Friday 24th September at the famous Parisian restaurant and club, Le Cab and was attended by some 300 invited guests, along with members of the press, the awards sponsors, the competition finalists and judges.

"We were delighted to have the opportunity to be involved with these increasingly prestigious awards", said Kate Mills, Global Marketing Director, ICEM.

"With their emphasis on and encouragement of young designers, the Interior Motives Design Awards reflect ICEM's view of the importance of the front-end conceptual design and styling process and our own efforts to marry that process more closely to downstream design development processes through the recent launch of our new styling software product, ICEM Style".