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Highlights from the Umeå degree show

By 2025-06-17T08:44:00

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Earlier this month students and professionals alike gathered in the remote yet picturesque setting of Umeå on Sweden’s eastern coast. Each year a group of promising designers present their final projects, work that has been imagined and built over the course of several months.

The show is quite something, feeling more in line with a ticketed event than a university production. The theme for this year’s degree show was ‘Bloom’ in a nod to students’ “sprouting creativity” and a nice metaphor for the projects that are nurtured from seed.

As with previous years, students were ultimately given free rein and in effect set their own brief, often alongside an OEM partner and guided by course leaders. Indeed, Scania, Hyundai, Zeekr and boatmaker Candela were involved this year as a result of the students’ networking efforts. 

Credit: Jens Persson

Credit: Jens Persson

Credit: Jens Persson

Credit: Bennjamin Daniel Fodor

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