cover image: Concept by Young Jin Lee

Concept by Chia Yo Cho

The degree show will start on 4 June 2008 (open to the public on 9-16 June 2008) and will include degree projects by 35 graduating designers at the Umeå Institute of Design from the following courses:

• Bachelor of industrial design
• Master of Advanced product design
• Master of Interaction design
• Master of Transportation design

Annual degree show

The students have examined how environmental friendliness and practicality can be combined in a luxurious sports car; how citizens, politicians and developers together could create a green city; and what happens when information technology of the future is applied to street hotdog and sausage vendors.

Concept by Johan Bergquist	Concept by Jung Hyun Lee	Concept by Martin Ruszkowski

The degree projects are carried out by students from the three-year bachelor’s programme in industrial design and the three English based 2-year master’s programmes in transportation design, advanced product design and interaction design.

Concept by Zhao Xi	Concept by Yuri Baskakov

There are twelve nationalities represented among the 35 graduates and several students have already been awarded for their design work.

Ten international companies, including Toyota, CARAN and Philips have visited the university in the spring to recruit employees.

A pdf presentation of all degree projects can be found at: www.teknat.umu.se.

Momentum Design Event - Guest Speakers

In conjunction with the vernissage, a day of seminars has been arranged on Thursday 5 June. Lectures by three innovative profiles in industrial design will be featured.

The theme for this year’s annual degree show event - Momentum – is about new ways of exploring the unknown, to stretch boundaries and constantly ask oneself “what if…?”

Among the special guest speakers will be industrial designer Branko Lukic, master of the unexpected, who is one of the entrepreneurs behind the celebrated design firm Non-Object in California.

Additionally, some selected students will present their degree projects during the afternoon.

The day of seminars is expected to be visited by about 150 design managers, consultants, students and university representatives.

The complete programme of speakers and titles can be found at: www.dh.umu.se/momentum.

Guest Speakers

nUCLEUS - Zero Emission Speed Machine (Source: Non-Object)

Branco Lukic

Branko Lukic is Cofounder and partner of Non-Object. Entrepreneur and master of the unexpected, Branko is Non-Object's design experience visionary and author of the soon to be released non-object Design Fiction book.

Janne Kyttänen - Freedom of Creation

Janne Kyttänen is the Creative Director of Freedom of Creation (FOC), a pioneering design and research company in the field of Rapid Manufacturing.

Geoff Wardle

Geoffrey P Wardle is Director of Advanced Mobility Research and a Professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and part of the core team planning and delivering Art Center's "Designing Sustainable Mobility" series.

Degree Show information

The exhibition is open to the public during 9-16 June from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. every day.

• Address: Umeå Institute of Design, Östra Strandgatan 30, Umeå, Sweden
  
  

About Umeå Institute of Design

Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University (Sweden) provides four academic programmes focusing exclusively on industrial design and related specializations. Programmes range from bachelor to masters and doctoral levels and include Industrial Design and Transport Design.

Umeå Institute of Design was ranked for the second consecutive year as one of the worlds leading design schools by the magazine BusinessWeek this past autumn, the only Swedish school making the prestigious list.

(Source: Umeå Institute of Design)