At a ceremony held today on the Opel/Vauxhall stand at the Paris motor show, Vladislav Domanin of Pforzheim University was declared the overall winner and was awarded a 6-month paid internship at Opel/Vauxhall.
Matic Vihtelic of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, was runner-up in the interior category, while Mateusz Wowk from the Academy of Art of Design in Wroclaw was runner-up in the exterior category.
Congratulations to Vladislav (pictured right), Matic (left) and Mateusz (centre) for being the top 3
contestants this year, out of the 263 who entered the competition across
Europe.
Read the full announcement story here on Car Design News.
Read more about the competition below.
Who we are
The Car Design News - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive
Design Competition is a collaboration between Car Design News and Opel/Vauxhall. We are
inviting design students from Europe to partake in an online, interactive
design competition, to be in with a chance of winning multiple internships on
offer.
Who could enter?
The competition was open to any student sudying at college/university level, enrolled in any
design course at any school/college/university in Europe.
Entering the competition
Opel/Vauxhall set one brief: 'Design the 2020 Ampera'. Students needed to sumit both an interior entry AND an exterior entry in order to be conisdered in the judging process. Both entries were sumitted separately but they could work on both at the same time.
The website was designed for students to upload thoughts, sketches, ideas and designs as they went along. Entrants could go back to their work at any stage to build on/ amend your entry.
Judges, mentors and other students and designers who registered for an account could comment and provide feedback throughout the
competition.
We encouraged students to upload entries as their thinking developed - the development process is one of the crucial
aspects in the judging process.
Reading the brief
We have found
in previous competitions, that those students who have studied and
produced work which directly answers the brief, or develops themes that
the brief outlines, have been most successful. We know it's tempting to
jump right in and just start up loading sketchwork, but remember, the
judges and mentors will be looking not just at what you produce in the
end, but how you develop your work.
What we wanted to see
The judges and mentors were looking for first class work, which develops
innovative, exciting and well-presented new ideas which answers the
specific requirements of the brief. In judging each entry, special
consideration will be made of how your work has developed and how you
took on board advice from judges, mentors and other commentators.
Social community
This was an open, online competition, which was held in the spirit of the web,
where data and information were shared and exchanged with ease, and
where people could come together to collaborate. In this spirit, the
judges were looking to see the contribution students made within the wider
online community and how they help their competition peers. We advised students
to engage in dialogue with those who commented upon their work, and where they made changes to their design based on feedback they received,
to illustrate how and why this is so.
Students were also free
to register a competition account and comment on the work that had been
submitted, without submitting a design entry themselves.
Judges and mentors
Opel/Vauxhall and our competition partners assigned judges and mentors to the competition.
You can find details of judges and mentors at the bottom of the page by
clicking on their photos. Look out for tips from the top blogs, and
comments, particularly from the mentors, whose focus was to guide students
and help develop their work.
Hear what Mark Adams, Vice President Opel/Vauxhall Design had to say about the first phase of the competition...
this is the interior of my concept for my vision of 2020 ampera
small interior 2 +1 seat with a trunk on the left side behind the passenger seat View Full Details 2
this my concept for the futur of Opel Ampera
A smaller car , for city use , an alliace between lightness
and compacity , for maximum dynamism and efficiancy View Full Details 9