Scottish Interior Design Students’ Showcase

With limited funding available, Scotland’s next generation of interior designers had few opportunities to share their hard work and make contacts in our industry. So to help secure the future talent pipeline, MLA organised a showcase in Glasgow for final year interior design students from across Scotland.

 ‘Show-Off’ is a new showcase for interior design students which was supported by our generous sponsors Sedus, Solace Interiors, Solus Ceramics, Optima Systems, Kvadrat, Novograf, Milliken, Il Salotto and Umbrella Furniture.

The two-day event featured an inspirational exhibition of students’ work from The Glasgow School of Art, DJCAD, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh Napier University and Heriot-Watt University. 

And a programme of talks, seminars and a networking evening meant it was a busy event with lots of opportunities for learning and development.

Programme: –

11th June

• 9.30am: Doors open 

• 12pm: Industry Talk 1 – ‘Networking Training: Facing the fear, taking charge of the conversation and the all important follow up!’ Nicola Barclay, Athena Leadership and Coaching

• 2pm: Industry Talk 2 – ‘Linkedin: Optimising your profile and making the most of the platform to increase your network and find opportunities’. Kay Quillan, MLA Marketing Manager

• 3pm: Industry Talk 3 – Short talks from representatives across the industry presenting their value to interior design.

  BE-ST Information on BE-ST sponsored postgraduate scholarship

  BCO Next Generation Information on membership

  Royal Incorporation of Architects Scotland (RIAS) Website

  Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) Website

  Scottish Interiors Showcase Website

  Contagious Branding, Packaging and Visitor Experience Website

• 4pm-8pm Networking evening

• 5.30 pm Prize Giving presented by Anna Campbell Jones

12th June

• 9.30am: Doors open 

• 11am: Sedus Presentation – An introduction to Sedus followed by ‘The Limbic Office – Anthropologic Wellbeing in the Workplace’

• 12pm: Solace Interiors Presentation ‘Designing for Focus, Wellness and Inclusion’

• 1pm: Solus Ceramics Presentation ‘People Planet Product’

• 2pm:  Short talks on sustainability introduced by MLA

• 4pm: Close

Prize Winners

The standard of students’ work was exceptionally high and our judges – Hazel Pearson, MLA, Anna Campbell-Jones, Habitus and Sara Seravalli, Il Salotto – had the difficult task of picking the winners.

With the support of the industry we were able to offer a wide range of prizes for the hard-working students.

Best Exhibition Stand – sponsored by Architextures.org

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design

Prize for Originality – sponsored by Wagstaff Interiors

Arjun Gill (Edinburgh College of Art)

Prize for Storytelling – sponsored by Wagstaff Interiors

Emma Watson (Edinburgh Napier University)

Prize for Communication – sponsord by Oberlanders

Sophia Cavaluzzi (Glasgow School of Art)

Prize for Materiality – sponsored by Ten Design

Mira Lena Belkin-Sessler (Edinburgh College of Art)

Prize for Sustainability – sponsored by MLA

Olya Serdyokova (Glasgow School of Art)

In addition –

The Scottish Interior Showcase prize was an invitation for four outstanding students to exhibit at the trade event’s new ‘Future Talent’ space.

Elissa Lee (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design) 

Emma Watson (Edinburgh Napier University)

Jessie Orville (Glasgow School of Art)

Marta Stachelek (Edinburgh Napier University)

Well done to all the prize winners and thank you to all our industry friends who attended, our sponsors and those who supported us with some excellent talks and presentations.