Current and former Pallas’ students apply for the BRUNO product design award 

Pallas University of Applied Sciences’ current student and several graduates are applying for the 2024 BRUNO product design award given by the Estonian Association of Designers. The award is given in three categories – the best environmental product design, the best lifestyle product design, and the best engineering product design.

In the lifestyle product category, the candidates are: the department of leather design student Regita Lepla (with the purse Crooked, supervisor Kerli Jõgi), the graduate and lecturer of the department of leather design Tiina Andron (with the bag CENTRO) and the graduates of the department of leather design Stella Runnel (with the backpack Go To Helsinki), Birgit Peerna and Moolen Veering (with the minority-oriented accessory collection “BRAH”, Pallas’ 2024 graduate thesis, supervisor Kerli Jõgi), Helen-Mary Vartšun (with the collection “Flower Child*ish”, Pallas’ 2024 graduate thesis, supervisor Gerda Retter) and the department of textile graduate and lecturer Kairi Lentsius (with the Tent vest). 

In the environmental product category, the candidates are: the department of furniture graduates Andre Maisväli (with the furniture series Hourglass), Maria Rästa (with the nightstand THEO), and Markus Pärnamets and Mirjam Pärnamets (with the seating series SAHIN).

The jury, consisting of Estonian and foreign experts, chose the bag CENTRO by Tiina Andron, the minority-oriented accessory collection “BRAH” by Birgit Peerna and Moolen Veering, the Tent vest by Kairi Lentsius, and the seating series SAHIN by Markus Pärnamets and Mirjam Pärnamets as the advanced applicants to the next stage.

Everyone can, however, have a say in the people’s favourite on the Eesti disaini auhind BRUNO / Estonian design award BRUNO Facebook page. To cast your vote, press the LIKE button for your favourite design/designer. 

The Bruno product design award is awarded to an exceptional product or product series, manufactured either at the designer’s own initiative, as a collaboration, or as a commission by a manufacturer/entrepreneur. Production-ready prototypes created during the past two years, or industrial products or product series already in production qualify to enter.

The award ceremony will take place at the Estonian Design Awards Gala on September 20 in Fotografiska. The exhibition of BRUNO nominees is open as part of the XIX Tallin Design Festival 16.09–22.09 in the Krulli Quarter. The exhibition “Multifaceted Space” by Pallas UAS is also open during the period in the Estonian Design and Architecture Schools Showcase in the Krulli Quarter.

Source of photographs: Estonian design award BRUNO