Competitions & Awards
Students studying at BIAD are frequently successful in a range of national and international competitions. These include:
• Arthur Price of England Centenary Competition
• British Airways Fine Art Award
• British Interior Student Awards
• British Jewellers' Association - Craftsman of the Year
• Carlton TV Bursary and nine month placement in a regional Carlton Newsroom
• Central Pacific Ltd Satellite Loudspeaker Design Competition for X Box and
Game Cube.
• Design & Art Direction (D&AD) Student Awards
• Electric Cinema Design Competition
• Furniture Design Awards
• Young Designer of the Year
• Glorishears of Birmingham - costume re-design
• Goldsmiths Company, Jewellery Design Award
• Interior Design Magazine Catering Competition
• Linbury Prize for Stage Design
• Macmillan Prize for Illustration for Children's Books
• National Colour in Design Competition 2003. Industrial Design Catagory,
sponsored by the Society of Dyers and Colourists.
• Promax UK Student Awards
• Royal Society of Arts Student Awards
• Royal Television Society Student Award for Comedy, Student Award for non-
factual programme
• St Martins in the Bullring Commission
• Steady Stream Plc design competition for MP3 player.
• Debenhams' Award
• Domino Competition, Print'or, and Craftsmanship & Design Awards.
• Decorative Arts Society Award
• Golley Slater Award
• CwP Compliance Centre Fine Art Award
• Associated Architects Fine Art Award
• Royal Television Society Best Animation, Best Non-factual, Best Student Film
In addition, BIAD students are nominated for many internal awards that are supported by national and international sponsorship. Below is a list of Students who have recently won awards.
Student Successes
Daniel Taylor
Daniel Taylor is a BA (Hons) Visual Communication student whose illustrations scooped third place in the awards last year and will pick up a Highly Commended Prize this time around.
Gargi Shastri
A UCE student has been nominated for a prestigious national prize for young journalists.
Suzy's Screen Success
Former student Suzy Aiken is becoming a familiar face to TV viewers in New Zealand.
Jonathon MacDonald has been voted Young Motor sport Photographer of the Year 2003
Victoria Smith, a third year Textile Design student has scooped two prestigious national awards for her textile design collection.
Rebecca Kitchin, from Birmingham, won the Debenhams prize for Innovation at the UCE Birmingham Institute for Art and Design Innovation Awards held on the 22nd May 2003.
Victoria Mitchell & Daniel Gibbons
Two graduating BA (Hons) Fine Art students are celebrating their success in three of the Department of Art's annual competitions.
Andrew Priest
Andrew Priest, an industrial design student at the University of Central England (UCE), has won the 2003 Colour in Design competition sponsored by the Bradford-based Society of Dyers and Colourists (SDC), the world's only educational charity dedicated to colour.
AWARD FOR FINE ART GRADUATES
Graduates from UCE Birmingham Institute of Art and Design's (BIAD) School of Fine Art at its Margaret Street campus have spent a week celebrating the culmination of their studies and individual successes.
