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MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2023 shortlist

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**Miles Robinson, BA Jewellery Design. Photo: Paul Cochrane**

Written by
Cat Cooper Published date
28 June 2023

Congratulations to our students shortlisted for this year's MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent, recognising hopeful and insightful interventions into our world - from DNA storage for preserving cultural heritage, to customised bioprosthesis made from human hair waste.

Out of 52 nominations, 14 projects on the shortlist represent the breadth and depth of work of this year's graduating students, as selected by the 2023 jury:

Jose Miguel Sokoloff, Global President, MullenLowe Group Creative Council, Tia Graham, Chief Commercial Officer, Country & Townhouse, Francesca Schuster, Global Director of Retail Experience and Design, Dyson, Lisa Foreman, Head of Design, Everyman Cinema Group, Nicky Bullard, Chief Creative Officer, MullenLowe UK, Elissa Brunato, Material Designer & 2019 NOVA Award Runner Up, Fredrik Tjærandsen, Designer & 2019 NOVA Award Winner, Kristen Cavallo, Global CEO, MullenLowe Group, Annabel Barratt, Strategy Director, Channel 4, Robert Taylor, Photographer, Arts Professional & Trustee, QueerBritain and Claudia Cruz, Global Media Tech Director, Consumer Experience, Unilever.

The first prize, runners up and the Unilever Unstereotype Award and Country & Townhouse Award are decided by the jury.

YourNOVA voting is open!

The YourNOVA People's Choice Award is voted for by the public. Find out about each project and vote for your choice now.

Voting is open until 7 July and winners will be announced on 14 July.

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Arianna Pezzano, MA Material Futures
Liz Ebengo, MA Material Futures. Photo: Tom Mannion
Yibei Lu, BA Ceramic Design, … …

Congratulations to this year's shortlisted graduating students

Asa Briet Brattaberg, BA Fashion Design: Womenswear, Tales Told in Tangles
Eden Brader-Tan, BA Fashion Design: Menswear, On Borrowed Fabric
Liz Ebengo, MA Material Futures, Continued
George Harvey, MA Fine Art Digital, Entities
Victor Healey, MA Character Animation, Song of the Tadpole
Lily Jenkins, MA Character Animation, Time Goes
Annette Levin, BA Textile Design, I’m a Victim of this Song
Yibei Lu, BA Ceramic Design, … …
Duong Thuy Nguyen, MA Fine Art, The Noma
Soe-Myat Noe, BA Graphic Design, Cut It, Burn It and Poison It
Arianna Pezzano, MA Material Futures, BioProsthesis
Miles Robinson, BA Jewellery Design, Take a Chance with Electricity
Luke Talbot, BA Product and Industrial Design, My Powerbank
Bocen Zhou, BA Jewellery Design, Tight Knit