The Industrial Design Studio scored points in the Prof. Jindřich Halabala Award 2023
18. December 2023International competition Prize of prof. Jindřich Halabala is intended for university and secondary school students and it evaluates semester, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral projects in the field of furniture and interior design. The main prize in the Furniture Design category went to Industrial Design Studio graduate Jakub Krmela for his diploma project dedicated to the design of the Anilla exterior sofa set. Honorable Mention in the Doctoral Thesis category was awarded to graduate Sabina Stržínková for the design of the Sabi folding dining table.
The winning Anilla sofa set by MgA. Jakub Krmela, realized in cooperation with the leading Czech furniture manufacturer POLSTRIN DESIGN, s.r.o., is characterized by the use of an oval shape applied to the removable backrests, seats, but also the wooden grid, which visually unifies it overall and makes it distinctive and clearly interpretable. The designer proposal of the Anilla sofa set is undoubtedly functional, it is comprehensively technically thought out and basically ready for serial production.
Award-winning folding dining table Sabi by MgA. Sabina Stržínková Ph.D. from the point of view of the designed morphology, it looks clean and refined, its visual parameters fit well with the current product portfolio of the company JELÍNEK – výroba bútku s.r.o., but at the same time they bring new stylistic elements and, thanks to a number of sensitively elaborated details, a distinctive and original expression.
“Furniture design is one of the most frequent and popular product areas in studio teaching,” says the head of the Industrial Design studio doc. MgA. Martin Surman, ArtD., who personally supervised both awarded graduate theses. “Thanks to the active cooperation of our studio with leading furniture manufacturers, we are able to realize student designs at a professional level, which subsequently enables us to present these works at international design shows, where we regularly receive a number of important awards.”
This year’s 19th year of the competition, which was created on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of the important Czech furniture designer and pedagogue prof. Jindřich Halabaly, organized by the Technical University of Zvolen.
text author: doc. MgA. Martin Surman, ArtD.