Nominees Announced for Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents 2025
The Shenzhen Design Award for Young Talents (SDAY) is back for its 6th year, this time celebrating the theme of “Shaping The Future Together”. These awards are open to designers (aged 35 and under) from across the UNESCO Design Cities Network. Dundee is proud to nominate an exciting selection of young professionals and students for the awards; you can check out our nominations below:
Nominated Young Professionals:
Nominated Students:
- Ayla Ahmed
- Cathal Gibson
- Dylan Baliski
- Heidi Lee
- Paul Hinnrichs, Matthew Ellington, Kopanieva Alisa & Mattea Sacco
- Studio Reprieve (Franciszek Maj, Maya Barnes & Garbhan Donnelly)
- Yimou Huang
We wish all our nominees the best with their submissions!
In addition, we’re excited to announce that Dundee-based designer Linsey McIntosh has been asked to join the judging panel for this prize. Previous international judges invited to join the panel have included Russell Kennedy (Australia), Melike Taşcıoğlu Vaughan (Turkey), and Ian Lambert (USA) amongst others. You can view the full 2025 judging panel on sday.design
Linsey McIntosh is a designer, educator, facilitator and researcher with a passion for spaces, places, people and communities.
Originally from Glasgow, Linsey graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) at the University of Dundee with a BDes (Hons) in Interior & Environmental Design in 2005. Following this, she worked in industry as an interior designer an award-winning architecture and interior design practice. In 2011, she was awarded an MDes (Distinction) after undertaking the DJCAD Master of Design programme, where she focused on service design approaches.
Since 2011, she has held a position as Lecturer in Interior & Environmental Design within Design & Making at DJCAD (Top 10 in UK for Art & Design, Complete University Guide 2024).
Photography by Grant Anderson.
You can view a selection of the nominated projects below:
For press enquiries, please contact Project Coordinator Lizzie Day on elizabeth.day@leisureandculturedundee.com
Image credits:
- A Little World of Ants (2024) by Cara Rooney
- She Town (2025) by Jo-AMI & Ruadhan Scanlan, photography by Alex James
- EH9 Annfield (2024) by Camillo Atlas, photography by Cameron Todd
- nothing matters (2025) by Ayla Ahmed
- The Light Reading Collection by Cathal Gibson
- A Kaleidoscopic Symphony (Interior) by Dylan Baliski
- Echoes in Chaos (2025) by Heidi Lee
- REPRIEVE by Studio Reprieve (Franciszek Maj, Maya Barnes & Garbhan Donnelly)
- Tactile Resistance (2024) by Yimou Huang, photography by Grant Anderson (Dundee Design Festival 2024, curated by Stacey Hunter)
- Life reWritten by Paul Hinnrichs, Matthew Ellington, Kopanieva Alisa & Mattea Sacco
