Massey retains top two ranking at Red Dot Design Awards

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 College 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’s 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’s 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—it’s 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  described the group’s design as “detailed and resolved to a level you’d expect of a mass-produced commercial piece.”

Pro Vice-Chancellor College of Creative Arts Margaret Maile says Lune  shows how thoughtful design can turn something as ordinary as lighting into something extraordinary.

“At 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.”

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 – Kākā Pod Kākāpō egg incubator

Ben Saunders, Abby Carver, Abby Brownsword – Sprout wall mounted coat/hat/bag hanger

Jacob Reiher – Tiaki rat bait station

Textile Design

Lisa Martell – Threatened Species pattern design

Emily Wood – Formed in Knit

Fashion Design

Charlotte Lowe – 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  - She’s Mad!

Poppie Thorpe  - Seeds of Wonder

Mack Egger - Flatmate

Angus McKinnon - Where to Next?

Madeline Mangos - Alphabet Soup

Charlotte Rempala - Rhea