UTS Design Cleans Up This Years' Iken Workstation of the Future Competition

Interior Design Student Ferry Tantono has won the Student Innovation category of the Iken Workstation of the Future, 2008 Competition, with his 'Shift' workstation design.



Ferry impressed the judges with his integration of technology, smart materials, sustainable considerations and impressive animation of the workstation in use.

Ferry, his final year of the Interior Design Course, worked on the competition as part of his 4th year studio, Professional Project, co-ordinated by Susan Sherringham, with sessional tutors Michael O'Brien and Rachel Luchetti.

Dominating this category, UTS's Industrial Design student Paul Conley also took out second place with his 'Ambit' WiFi seating solutions.



Paul designed this chair as an urban task chair with outdoor Wi-Fi Internet for laptop users in the public domaingiving the public bench a bit of a technological workover.

Paul who completed his final year in 2007, designed this piece for Industrial Design Major Project, supervised by Rod Waldren under the subject co-ordination of Cathy Lockhart.

The wins of both students was no small feat with 140 accepted submission from all over the world entering the competition. As if claiming first and second was not enough for UTS, of the works showcased on the night, seven were UTS Interior Design Students from Professional Project and one Industrial Design Graduate.

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