Awards 2020
Apple Design Award for best game
Master's graduate Philipp Stollenmayer won the “Apple Design Award 2020” in the games category for his game “Song of Bloom”. The master's graduate from the Information Design degree programme was one of just eight app and game developers selected from around the world to be honoured for their app design, innovation, imagination and technical implementation.
“Song of Bloom” is a unique game with a non-linear story full of clever puzzles, according to the jury for the Apple Design Award. Here, players explore an interactive, modern tale which is recounted in many changing art styles. All prize-winners get a cube with the Apple logo as a symbol of the prize. This logo lights up at a touch.
More than 250 developers have received the award in the past 20 years. The award has had a positive effect on the prize-winners’ careers, so much that they have been able to do pioneering work even within individual apps.
We would like to congratulate Philipp Stollenmayer on this outstanding award!
More information can be found in the press release for the Apple Design Award.
Photos: Philipp Stollenmayer
Cleaned up twice at the IIID Award
Two FHWS students from the Faculty of Visual Design were able to beat the competition two times over at the 2020 IIID Award (International Institute for Information Design). Michaela Lautenschlager received a gold award for her project “Lucky Island” from the international jury, Annika Kreikenbohm was honoured in bronze with “Virtual Data Cosmos”. Lautenschlager dealt with the invisible light spectrum in her project. In other words, the dangerous part of gamma radiation and the consequences of nuclear accidents. By her own description, she wanted not to downplay the effects of such explosions, but rather to help understand them better. “I therefore used the principle of sonication to make live measurements from monitoring stations in Japan audible,” Lautenschlager explains her project. “Virtual Data Cosmos” by Kreikenbohm, on the other hand, is an interactive data visualisation tool in virtual reality (VR) with which scientists can examine multi-dimensional datasets in the setting of astrophysics. With its help, datasets and processes which would otherwise be beyond the scope of human processing power can be analysed, according to Annika Kreikenbohm. The International Institute for Information Design, with its headquarters in Vienna, has given itself the task of contributing to a better understanding of the human community by means of visual communication. We would like to offer the two winners our warm congratulations on their success!
More information can be found in the press release for the IIID Award.
Excellent design made in Würzburg
The Art Directors Club (ADC) honoured FHWS as the fourth best training institution for young talent in the creative industry. Every year, the ADC establishes an overview of the most creative higher education institutions in the German-speaking world on the basis of the most successful work from students, juniors and graduates which was submitted during the course of the young talent competitions for the past three years. As a result, the ranking results are based on the total number of prize-winning works and the number of points thus achieved. FHWS achieved around 60 points.
The ADC is a professional association of leading art directors from the advertising industry. The ADC was founded in New York in 1920 with the aim of improving quality in advertising and providing guidance for young talent. More information on the pages of ADC.
Kulturpreis Bayern 2020 (Bavarian Culture Award 2020) goes to an FHWS graduate
The graduate Marcel Krenz, Brand and Media Management degree programme, was honoured with the Kulturpreis Bayern 2020 in the science category. In his master's thesis, he examined how brands are integrated into the sales strategy for products through virtual assistants, such as Alexa or Siri, in households for marketing purposes. Here, he listed six areas of application through which branded products can differentiate themselves from the competition through speakers.
The prize is awarded by Bayernwerk and, since 2005, in collaboration with the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art. Bayernwerk has been committed to cultural and scientific engagement since 1959 and recognises this with the Kulturpreis Bayern.
All prize winners receive a bronze statue which was designed by the Schwandorf-based sculptor Peter Mayer. The winners also receive a cash prize which, in the field of art, is 5,000 euros each. In the field of science, this is 2,000 euros each. While an expert jury selects the five art prize winners, the Bavarian State higher education institutions nominate their best graduates and doctoral candidates. The Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art also honours one artist with a special award.
We would like to congratulate Marcel Krenz on this outstanding award!
More information can be found in the press release for the cultural award.
Prize for outstanding teaching
Prof. Dr. Achim Förster, professor in the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences, received an award from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art for outstanding teaching. The FHWS professor was one of two lecturers from among more than 3,000 professors to be honoured with an individual prize in 2020.
The nomination was submitted at the suggestion of the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences. In his nomination, the students praised the close link between fundamental legal knowledge and practical application. Courses are characterised by a dialogue between the lecturer and students and reference was always made to practice and to the non-legal course content.
The Bavarian State Ministry for Science and Art has awarded the prize for outstanding teaching to Bavarian universities of applied sciences since 2008. The prize is awarded every two years in the form of individual and project prizes and of a comprehensive evaluation by an eight-person jury.
We would like to express our warm congratulations on this award!
More information can be found in the press release for the Prize for Outstanding Teaching.
Bachelor's thesis honoured with the Faculty of Plastics Engineering and Surveying / IB-Freisinger Prize
FHWS student Oliver Reuß, Surveying and Geoinformatics degree programme, has received the 2020 IB-Freisinger Prize for his bachelor's thesis. The thesis with the title “Realisation of an interactive augmented reality application for visitors to the Röntgen Memorial Site” was thus recognised as particularly outstanding.
Reuß explains the content of the thesis as follows: first, two exhibits at the Conrad Röntgen Memorial Site, Conrad Röntgen's bust and hands, were photogrammetrically reconstructed. The intermeshed, coloured and thinned out 3D model was then integrated into a mobile app with additional information about the items with the help of a game engine.
The IB-Freisinger Prize has been awarded at a user forum for a particularly good bachelor's thesis on the topic of point cloud processing in recent years. The 12th Geo user forum thus took place this year.
We would like to express our warm congratulations to Oliver Reuß on this award!
Best final thesis honoured with the ALLOD Werkstoff Prize
The graduate Michael Beck (Product Development and Systems Design master’s programme) received the 2020 ALLOD Werkstoff Prize for his master's thesis. The graduate constructed and engineered an “entropy rocker” which visualises the entropy/elasticity of elastomer materials. Entropy is one of the fundamental thermodynamic state variables which play a key role in many technical applications. The rocker therefore shows in a striking manner how stretched rubber samples can contract during heating. The entropy rocker can be seen at the following link.
The award, with a one-thousand-euro prize, is presented every year by ALLOD Werkstoff GmbH in Burgbernheim to the students who produce the best final theses in the field of plastics and rubber engineering. The award ceremony has now taken place for the eleventh time.
We would like to congratulate Michael Beck on this award!
You can read the detailed press release for the ALLOD Werkstoff Prize here.
Group photo (from the right:) Kurt Gebert (Managing Director of ALLOD Werkstoff GmbH), Michael Beck (prize winner) and Professor Dr. V. Herrmann (supervisor) (© FHWS / S. Frosch)
VDMA honours a young mechanical engineer with the 2019 young talent award for digitalisation
Dominik Weppert, Mechanical Engineering degree programme was one of 4 young prize-winners to be honoured with first prize for the best bachelor's thesis in 2019. In his final thesis, the mechanical engineer dealt with the development of augmented reality assembly instructions for the assembly of a model pick-up truck. An animated demonstration mode was derived for this as a useful assembly aid. The application offers the assembler the possibility of always keeping their hands and eyes on the assembly workplace without having to turn their attention away from it, according to the VDMA.
This is precisely what the jury for the VDMA young talent award considered to be excellence. Dr. Jörg Friedrich, Head of the Development Department at VDMA emphasises: “When higher education institutions and industrial companies work together intensively on digitalisation, it’s a win-win situation for both sides. That’s why we as VDMA Development support the young talent award with our powerhouse initiative”. Students from the fields of engineering and computer science were honoured for the third time. A total of 31 graduates from 20 higher education institution locations throughout Germany were contenders with their bachelor's and master's theses. We are delighted for Dominik Weppert!
More information can be found in the press release for the young talent award for digitalisation.
Prize won for best building design
A house as adaptable as a chameleon: that’s exactly what three master’s students, Theresa Huber, Katharina Burkart and Alisa Knüttel, developed. The three won a total of 1,000 euros for their design from the client St. Bruno-Werk eG Würzburg.
Students on the Integrated Design and Construction master’s programme were given the task, in the form of a collaborative project with FHWS, of designing an administration building on the Würzburg island property at Rotkreuzstraße 2 / Bismarckstraße / Veitshöchheimer Straße. Project development and a feasibility study for a sustainable building using neutral structures was to be carried out using the concept of “Chameleon. Neutral structures for a sustainable building on the Ringpark”. The “Working and living on the park” concept by Huber, Burkart and Knüttel impressed the jury and was thus declared the winning design.
But this collaboration was not the first with St. Bruno Werk. There had previously been a successful collaborative project on Spiegelstraße in which the dimensions and aesthetic of the designs likewise impressed, says Dr. Adolf Bauer, Chairman of the Supervisory Board at St. Bruno-Werkes eG Würzburg. Owing to the pandemic, the project was predominantly conducted in a virtual environment.
We would like to offer the three winners our warm congratulations!
More information can be found in the press release for the building design award.
