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MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2023 shortlist

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Miles Robinson, BA Jewellery Design. Photo: Paul Cochrane
Written by
Cat Cooper
Published date
28 June 2023

Congratulations to our students shortlisted for this year's MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent, recognising hopeful and insightful interventions into our world - from DNA storage for preserving cultural heritage, to customised bioprosthesis made from human hair waste.

Out of 52 nominations, 14 projects on the shortlist represent the breadth and depth of work of this year's graduating students, as selected by the 2023 jury:

Jose Miguel Sokoloff, Global President, MullenLowe Group Creative Council, Tia Graham, Chief Commercial Officer, Country & Townhouse, Francesca Schuster, Global Director of Retail Experience and Design, Dyson, Lisa Foreman, Head of Design, Everyman Cinema Group, Nicky Bullard, Chief Creative Officer, MullenLowe UK, Elissa Brunato, Material Designer & 2019 NOVA Award Runner Up, Fredrik Tjærandsen, Designer & 2019 NOVA Award Winner, Kristen Cavallo, Global CEO, MullenLowe Group, Annabel Barratt, Strategy Director, Channel 4, Robert Taylor, Photographer, Arts Professional & Trustee, QueerBritain and Claudia Cruz, Global Media Tech Director, Consumer Experience, Unilever.

The first prize, runners up and the Unilever Unstereotype Award and Country & Townhouse Award are decided by the jury.

YourNOVA voting is open!

The YourNOVA People's Choice Award is voted for by the public. Find out about each project and vote for your choice now.

Voting is open until 7 July and winners will be announced on 14 July.

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    Victor Healey
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    Arianna Pezzano, MA Material Futures
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    Liz Ebengo, MA Material Futures. Photo: Tom Mannion
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    Yibei Lu, BA Ceramic Design, … …
Congratulations to this year's shortlisted graduating students
  • Asa Briet Brattaberg, BA Fashion Design: Womenswear, Tales Told in Tangles
  • Eden Brader-Tan, BA Fashion Design: Menswear, On Borrowed Fabric
  • Liz Ebengo, MA Material Futures, Continued
  • George Harvey, MA Fine Art Digital, Entities
  • Victor Healey, MA Character Animation, Song of the Tadpole
  • Lily Jenkins, MA Character Animation, Time Goes
  • Annette Levin, BA Textile Design, I’m a Victim of this Song
  • Yibei Lu, BA Ceramic Design, … …
  • Duong Thuy Nguyen, MA Fine Art, The Noma
  • Soe-Myat Noe, BA Graphic Design, Cut It, Burn It and Poison It
  • Arianna Pezzano, MA Material Futures, BioProsthesis
  • Miles Robinson, BA Jewellery Design, Take a Chance with Electricity
  • Luke Talbot, BA Product and Industrial Design, My Powerbank
  • Bocen Zhou, BA Jewellery Design, Tight Knit
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    Miles Robinson, BA Jewellery Design
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    Luke Talbot, BA Product and Industrial Design, My Powerbank
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    Lily Jenkins, MA Character Animation

Explore the work across the shortlist for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards.

Vote for the YourNOVA Award.