Tabitha Purathur
Purathur proposes that humans will reside in clean aerial environments (pods) in the year 2049. They will commute from one pod to the other and over longer distances on the Gryphon. This sculptured flying vessel was inspired by the concept of ‘Duality', organic forms of spider webs and the rigid skeletal forms of vertebrates. The Gryphon also carries these dual qualities. The tensile gossamer skin wraps around the geometrical structural frame; the skin controls the light permeating into the vehicle creating a play of light and shade.

Thomas Smith
Another recipient of the Best Individual Prize, this project stood as a sculptural embodiment of Smith's aspirations both as a designer and as an individual. The form is inspired by accidental beauty. The piece is constructed from hanging bronze ‘shards' that each carry a date stamped into the surface. These dates represent milestones or aspirations both in the past or future. The bronze has also been treated with an oxidizing solution, which corrodes the material creating infinitely intricate patterns in an unpredictable, accidental display of beauty.

Urban Flow

Hong Yeo
The future city, according to Yeo, is full of tall, vertical shapes. He therefore created a vehicle for escaping the city, full of speed, reflected by the horizontal shape. Drawing inspiration from the shock he felt when leaving the dark grey world in Asia for Western world, the vehicle's design effectuates that ‘culture shock' value. Designed using a non-traditional computer modeling approach, the project would have been impossible to build without the aid of 3D modeling.

Carl Saunders
This project looks into Saunders' life journey leading to this point, and the inspirations he has drawn along the way.  From his earliest memories of journeys on camping holidays in Cornwall, sleeping in the car in a makeshift bed, to the many projects that he has worked on with his father, Saunders used the craft skills and attachment to materials that have been passed on from his father to create this project.

Jukka Rautiainen
The Kia MeHybrid is a concept of future individual mobility that is green and healthy but does not compromise the joy of journey. A new kind of human powered, electric engine-assisted vehicle which multiplies the human pedaling input, MeHybrid allows traveling a high speeds. The rider - wearing a protective suit that docks to the vehicle - is able to select from three multiplier presets, while riding "head first" in an engaging position. Vehicle information and lighting systems are embedded into the helmet and the riding suit.

Kim Doh
As cars are fundamentally about motion, Doh's main concept was to create movement of the car through music. One of the greatest advantages of music is its wide range of emotions. "Adapting music into cars was not an easy task," says Doh, "However, when I stepped back, I could see that the automobile was very similar to music. I wanted the car to move according to the tempo and communicate with the driver."

Elliot Hawkins
Hawkins drew from his very first memory of cars: sitting in his dad's Porsche and pretending to drive it. Trying to turn the wheel, making the noises and dreaming of the journey made Hawkins feel closer to his father, so he decided to design an object that would recreate the feelings he had as a child. Sketching the female form and the structure of the human body - in particular the muscles and skeleton - for inspiration, he broke the design into cross sections and wrote his favorite journeys along each cross section.

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