Fumi placed a competition in April this year with two renowned design schools, the Royal College of Art in London, UK and the ECAL/Haute école d’art et de design in Lausanne, Switzerland, for their students to produce an original design for a mirror, defined in the brief as ‘an object which enables reflection’.

Freddie Yauner, End Of Progress
Anurag Etchepareborda, The Chaos Screen
Hwang Kim, CCTV Chandelier, Virtual Doppelganger Simulator
Marcus Tremonto, Loop
Philipp Christ, 1503 C
Pieke Bergmans, Tripod
Vanessa Hordies, Narcisse With a broad definition to give the students freedom in their creativity and their choice of materials. Of the entries, six winners were selected by a judging panel and one selected by the Gallery. All prototypes were commissioned by FUMI and are exhibited in this space during London Design Festival and Frieze Art Fair.

The judging panel included Humberto and Fernando Campana - designers, Giles Deacon – fashion designer, Marcus Fairs – editor of Deezeen, Michelle Ogundehin – editor in chief of Elle Decoration magazine and Caroline Roux – writer and consultant.

The winning contestants are:
Yuya Kurata – RCA Design Products MA
Nicola Zocca – RCA Design Products MA
Hwang Kim – RCA Design Products MA - (Special nomination by FUMI)
Tien-Shen Huang – RCA Post Experience Programme
Philipp Christ – ECAL product design MA
Anurag Etchepareborda – ECAL product design MA
Vanessa Hordies – ECAL Product design MA

New work by Pieke Bergmans, Marcus Tremonto, Freddie Yauner and Pierric Verger, are presented alongside the two main exhibitions during the festival.

images from above:
Freddie Yauner, End Of Progress
Anurag Etchepareborda, The Chaos Screen
Hwang Kim, CCTV Chandelier, Virtual Doppelganger Simulator
Marcus Tremonto, Loop
Philipp Christ, 1503 C
Pieke Bergmans, Tripod
Vanessa Hordies, Narcisse