Accepting the Best of the Best Red Dot award on behalf of their year group Will Duffy, Piper Sercombe and Tom Cresswell.
Red Dot rankings track and measure the success of an organisation in producing exciting new design concepts. They take into account all awards for design concepts over the past five years based on participant categories.
Since 2008, Massey staff and students have received 99 Red Dot Awards including 11 Best of the Best Awards. This year, a total of 40 students from Toi Rauwharangi鈥疌ollege of Creative Arts won Red Dot awards across visual communication design, industrial design, textile design and fashion design.
The number of Massey winners is much higher than in previous years because it includes an entire year group of 25 industrial design students which was named 'Best of the Best' in the lighting design category.
The students created their winning product Lune collectively as a group project during 2023, their final year at Massey. Two of the former classmates, Piper Sercombe and Will Duffy, met up in Singapore to receive the group鈥檚 award at the prizegiving ceremony.
Designed to play upon the forms and movements of a new moon waxing and waning, with the intrinsic brightness of a celestial object, the Lune lamp captivated judges with its elegant form, intuitive functionality, and emotional resonance.
Industrial design Associate Professor Rodney Adank, who was the group鈥檚 supervisor, says winning Best of the Best is an extraordinary achievement and demonstrates the power of thoughtful design to transform everyday experiences.
"Lune is not just a lamp鈥攊t鈥檚 a poetic exploration of light and emotion."
The Lune lamp has already been awarded gold in the 2024 Designers Institute of New Zealand Best awards. The judges聽 described the group鈥檚 design as 鈥渄etailed and resolved to a level you鈥檇 expect of a mass-produced commercial piece.鈥
Pro Vice-Chancellor College of Creative Arts Margaret Maile says Lune聽 shows how thoughtful design can turn something as ordinary as lighting into something extraordinary.
鈥淎t Massey, we equip our students to imagine differently, to turn ideas into experiences that enrich the world around us. The Lune project is an example of this, creating objects and interactions that are as meaningful as they are functional.鈥
2025 Massey Red Dot Winners
Industrial Design
2023 Product Development Class - Lune Lamp
Nero Asher, Cosmo Conway, Tom Creswell, Finn de Hamel, Nick Douglas, Will Duffy, Cass Everard, Mack Hobbs, Jordan Iremonger, Francis Le Mesurier, Joep Lenior, Kate Mills, Danny O'sullivan, Toka Poa, Lynn Resksawade, Grayson Scadden, Piper Sercombe, August Short, Zoe Smith, Kelepi Tapealava, Cam Thompson, Le Phan Viet Vu, Miriama Wheeler, Riley Winiata, Peter Zlatkov
Nero Asher 鈥 K膩k膩 Pod K膩k膩p艒 egg incubator
Ben Saunders, Abby Carver, Abby Brownsword 鈥 Sprout wall mounted coat/hat/bag hanger
Jacob Reiher 鈥 Tiaki rat bait station
Textile Design
Lisa Martell 鈥 Threatened Species pattern design
Emily Wood 鈥 Formed in Knit
Fashion Design
Charlotte Lowe 鈥 Beyond The Flesh wearable art collection
Nancy Ruck - BRAND NEW ME a satirical look at fashion
Quinn Kueppers - Dauerhaft fashion collection
Ruohan Zhao - MISERY MONDAY fashion collection
Visual Communication Design
Emma Stein聽 -
Poppie Thorpe聽 -
Mack Egger -
Angus McKinnon -
Madeline Mangos -
Charlotte Rempala -
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