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MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025 shortlist

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Three hands against a black background wearing 3 rings each.
Three hands against a black background wearing 3 rings each.
Micromentum. Andrea Gonzalez, MA Biodesign
Written by
Tanya Campbell Published date
25 June 2025

Presenting the 2025 shortlist for the MullenLowe NOVA Awards for Fresh Creative Talent. Fifteen works have been selected by the judges across art, design, performance, fashion, materials and culture.

From 1,300 graduating students, just six MullenLowe NOVA Awards will be presented to students whose work pushes the boundaries of creativity, imagination, innovation and technology.

The YourNOVA People's Choice Award is voted for by the public and voting is now open!

Find out more about each project and vote for your choice before 5pm on 4 July. Winners will be announced 10 July. #MLGNOVA

  • Sewing machine with an attached typewriter.
    Prompting Nowhere. Max Park, MA Industrial Design
  • Animated woman in a pink dress and with pink hair holding a blue figure in her palms
    Doll Searching. Felix Cheng, MA Character Animation
  • Three snowboards in purple and beige with an image attached against a white background
    Snow Seeds. Tanay Wadodkar, MA Material Futures
  • Digital model of a red brick building with people inside and green trees around.
    The Palatial Commons. Beth Gavine, BA Architecture
  • Design object placed on a brown wooden table in an office space.
    re:SOURCE - Redefining our Place in the Nutrient Cycle by Re-valorising Urine. Mark Hester, MA Regenerative Design
  • Plastic boxes and glass trays with bacteria placed on dark green ground
    GROWinK. Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet, MA Material Futures
  • Graphic with blue and red colour splashes behind a grid of green numbers.
    Weatherless. Kay Altamira Bustamante Altamirano, MA Narrative Environments

Congratulations to the shortlisted students.

Discover their work via the MullenLowe NOVA Awards 2025 Showcase Collection

  • Franklin Collins, BA Fine Art
  • Quinnely Rose, BA Fine Art
  • Ayham Mashleh, BA Fashion
  • Alex Clark, BA Textile Design
  • Mark Hester, MA Regenerative Design
  • Andrea Gonzalez, MA Biodesign
  • Peerasin Punxh Hutaphaet, MA Material Futures
  • Tanay Wadodkar, MA Material Futures
  • Felix Cheng, MA Character Animation
  • Izzy Milenkovic, MA Character Animation
  • En Chua, BA Product and Industrial Design
  • Max Park, MA Industrial Design
  • Akhil Krishnan, MA Industrial Design
  • Beth Gavine, BA Architecture
  • Kay Altamira, MA Narrative Environments
  • Collage of red, white, green papers and black and white images.
    IM-MORTAL MAGENTA: the colour that doesn't exist. Shyam Masleh, BA Fashion
  • Woman wearing a green jacket holding a yellow figure
    HOY! En Chua, BA Product and Industrial Design
  • Three hands against a black background wearing 3 rings each.
    Micromentum. Andrea Gonzalez, MA Biodesign
  • Brown wooden object with a whole against a grey background and a rope in the back.
    Living Receipts. Franklin Collins, BA Fine Art.
  • Plastic figure of a baby placed in an aquarium with tubes and bubbles around it.
    The Home Body. Quinnely Rose Ziaebrahimi, BA Fine Art
  • Purple, black and white quilt with crosses hung up against a colourful background.
    Plaidly Absurd. Alex Clark, BA Textile Design
  • White, green and blue pieces of fabric placed on a black background with a hand holding a piece of fabric next to an embroidery of a rabbit.
    Warp and Weft. Izzy Milenkovic, MA Character Animation
  • White plate dug into ground in a bowl made out of cork placed on a red wooden table with a brush next to it.
    Bindu - 'each drop a memory, each object a pause'. Awhile Krishnan, MA Industrial Design

Out of 51 nominations, they represent the breadth and depth of work of this year's graduating students, selected by the 2025 Jury:

Jose Miguel Sokoloff (MullenLowe Global Creative Council),

Robert Taylor (Queer Britain),

Bimini (Drag Queen, Author, Recording Artist & Model),

Nuria Hernández (Unilever),

Eitan Senerman (Spatial Innovation),

Edeline Lee (Fashion Designer),

Carmen Mariscal (Artist, Researcher & Theatre Set Designer),

Jai Clarke-Binns (Google DeepMind),

Emma Marsh (Country & Town House),

Kemi Anthony (IKEA).

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