Anuj K Dhawan was one of the finalists for the last Cormack Innovation Awards. The third year student in Industrial Design at University of New South Wales has now also won the 2015 AIP Scholarship.
National president of the AIP, Ralph Moyle, commented, “Anuj Dhawan was selected because he has a keenness to expand his education in the packaging realm.”
“Packaging is so ubiquitous within product design that he believes it is important for all designers to genuinely consider how it enhances or detracts from a product experience,” Dhawan added.
“Winning the AIP scholarship will allow me to expose myself to new technologies, methods, and considerations within packaging."
The AIP asked Dhawan about his goals: “I want to absorb information! A designer's education is never complete; the industry changes so rapidly and so often that setting your sights on one specific detail can result in you missing some incredible opportunities for growth.”
He will graduate from UNSW at the end of 2015, and hopes then to find a packaging role that will enable him to balance his interest in customer experience with that of successful functionality - being able to make a package seduce a customer while retain its inherent protective qualities.
The AIP congratulates Dhawan for being such an exceptional candidate and thanks Cormack Packaging for its ongoing support in recognising talented and skilled young designers and encouraging them to further their careers in the packaging industry.
The Cormack Innovation Awards have been running for thirteen years and each year a new design brief is presented to Industrial Design Students to engage, teach and consider various packaging options and obstacles.
For most students, it is the first time they have worked with plastics. For many, it is the first time they have considered that packaging may create career opportunities. The Cormack Innovation Award scholarship complements other programs initiated by the AIP including, the APPMA scholarship for the Diploma in Packaging Technology.
