Hear from past winners

It starts with a simple brief: design something that solves a problem. The James Dyson Award is on the hunt for problem-solving ideas that have been designed by design engineering students and recent graduates.

The international winner of the Award will receive £30,000 in prize money. Past winners have used the money to conduct additional research, further test their designs, and to continue to develop their prototypes.

Chen Xingcan from the China national winning team said. Their award-winning design, Push&Push, is a power outlet strip that allows the elderly and differently-abled persons to easily unplug cords.

 “Winning is a fantastic achievement and we are eager to invest in our prize in further prototyping.”

The team of Canadian students behind 2017 international winning project  the sKan. The device is a cost-effective, easy to use skin cancer diagnostic system.

“Winning the James Dyson Award means the world to us. The prize money will help us to continue developing a medical device that can save people’s lives”

 In addition to the prize money, winners could also gain international exposure, which can help to secure funding to test and launch their design solutions.

Solveiga Pakstaite has continued to develop her design BumpMark  since being named the UK national winner in 2014. BumpMark is a bio-reactive food expiration label.

“When I won the James Dyson Award, companies like Coca-Cola were approaching me”

The exposure from winning the Award has helped her to continue with research and development. BumpMark, now called Mimica Touch, is scheduled to be on the market in UK grocery stores later this year.

Winner of the 2017 Indian national Award, Asish Mohandas, also cites the James Dyson Award for helping him to further develop his design,  Maattam, a retrofitting system for transferring hospital patients between beds and operating tables.

“The James Dyson Award was a wonderful space to project my ideas to an audience who helped me to take the idea to the end users.”

If you have a problem-solving design, we want to hear about it. Enter the James Dyson Award  to kick start your career. Entries are open until July 20.