Winner
On Friday 18th April at the Boat International Media World Superyacht Awards, the winner of the Young Designer of the Year Award was announced. The winner was Fadi Pataq, a student at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit USA for his designs for a 70.26m steel and aluminium motor yacht called Pelagia. The judges felt his design clearly brought together art and engineering to achieve the essential balance of form and function.
Finalists
Forty entries from twelve countries were received for the inaugural 2008 World Superyacht Young Designer Award competition. The very high standard of entries and the wide range of designs, including both motor and sail, demonstrating quite different and often radical approaches to the challenge gave the judges no easy task in selecting the shortlist and eventual winner.
The judges were particularly impressed by the innovative thinking, the development of designs, the respect and understanding of materials and the obvious enthusiasm and effort which had gone into the designs.
In selecting the shortlist, the judges looked for designs which met the specification, were technically feasible, had style and innovation, but most of all, demonstrated the talent and creativity that the superyacht industry needs of its future designers.
You can find a pictorial overview of the finalists submission’s in the May issue of Boat International.
The shortlisted entries were:
Berkeley John March Project H115
Fadi Pataq Pelagia
Johannes Schlieben and David Michau Adamas Noir
Peter Wells 70m Superyacht
Vincent Le Page The Beach
Camper & Nicholsons International, the Royal Institution of Naval Architects (RINA) and the Boat International Group are proud to announce the introduction of a new prestigious award for the world’s most promising Young Superyacht Designer.
This award recognises the achievement of an outstanding young designer and the potential impact of their work on current or future designs for the superyacht industry.
The competition for the award is open to anyone who is studying for a degree or vocational qualification in a subject related to yacht or small craft design, or anyone who has already graduated within three years of the closing date for entries (from 2005).
Young naval architects and yacht designers from all over the world have been called upon to enter the competition via the extensive RINA global network. RINA has already had an impressive response from universities from as far a field as New Zealand and China to the UK and Italy.
The winner of the World Superyacht Award’s Young Designer of the Year will receive a prize of €5,000 and will be invited to receive the Award at the 2008 World Superyacht Awards ceremony on 18th April in Venice.
“Following the joint Camper & Nicholsons International – Boat International initiative three years ago to reward the work of yacht designers and naval architects, we thought it was only natural to continue to collaborate with Boat International Group and RINA in order to identify the designers of the future,” says Camper & Nicholsons International’s CEO Jillian Montgomery.
“Taking an active part in this competition prepares the grounds for the future in many ways: by giving upcoming designers exposure and the opportunity to get in touch with potential clients; and by offering our existing and future clients a glimpse of designs that could soon be on the drawing boards,” explains Laurent Perignon, Director of Marketing for CNI
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Trevor Blakely CEO of RINA says that RINA is proud to be supporting this new competition and award which recognises the importance of this sector within the global maritime industry,
“The superyacht industry is one of the most successful sectors of the maritime industry, and owes much of that success to the work of its designers who provide that unique combination of form and function which is the modern superyacht.”
The World Superyacht Award’s Young Designer of the Year prize 2008, will be presented to the young designer who produces the best concept design for a Superyacht. The entries will be judged by a group of leading world-class designers selected by Boat International and RINA.
“The World Superyacht Young Designer of the Year competition will both challenge and provide an opportunity for the superyacht designers of the future to demonstrate their ability and talents. I do not envy the judges in their task of selecting the best.” added Trevor Blakely.
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