Beatriz Valente
I think this is one of the most important things when you are in the university. I think, especially when you are a designer, you need this to prove your value. Prove to people that you can do something that others will enjoy, and then you have more opportunities for...
Diogo Santos
All this experience started in 2018, when I participated in the Glassberries Design Awards 2018, while I was at the University studying Industrial Design, and I was one of the finalists of that Award edition. And at that moment I knew what I wanted for my professional...
MÒNICA CALVERA
The experience of being part of the Glassberries Design Awards has become the start of my professional career as a designer and an extraordinary opportunity to share my potential and ideas. As a student, I had the chance to share my design with other students and...
KARIM RASHID
These competitions, when done professionally, are excellent for students, because they get the students and the design schools to think on many levels. One is realism: they actually got to design something for industrial design production. The second part is that they...
KEVIN BLANCH / ADRIAN SOLDADO
We could not believe it! When all the prizes were already given we thought: well, there are two options: they forgot about us or…okay, we are the winners! Even in this situation, we could not believe that we were about to win the Golden Glassberry. We were...
SONIA KALANDYK / ANNA PIELESZ
Winning the Glassberriess Design Awards was a great surprise and a big and beautiful experience for us. Being appreciated by such a large company, that deals with production on such an enormous scale is crucial, especially for the young designers as we are. During our...
Paulo Castro
The Glassberries Design Awards was perhaps one of the best things that ever happened to me in life. I participated in the contest with the aim of challenging myself and doing something I had never done before; but never, in any circumstance, did I imagine that I could...
Luís Gomes
Who said that winning is not painful? Seeing 11 prizes being given out before ours is painful, extremely painful, but having our work being recognised by a company just as big and enhanced as BA Vidro is a great feeling of pride and self-accomplishment. Everything...
Rui Costa
Since the beginning that the course Degree in Design from Universidade de Aveiro has dedicated its last year to the relation between the social and economic fabric, observing the implicit constraints. The collaboration with Barbosa e Almeida, through the Glassberries...