The winner of the 2017 Rado Star Prize, aimed at students from the Interior Design, Industrial Design and Fashion Design areas of Istituto Marangoni, who were encouraged to focus their design research on the needs of the society of the future, was student Mijal Lebe.
Mijal Lebel, Israeli Master Surface & Textile student from the Interior Design Department
Design, won a black hi-tech ceramic Rado True Thinline watch and the opportunity
to collaborate with Giulio Cappellini on a new concept watch for Rado.
Mia won with her project 'The Bio Future': a 'cellular' tissue that can grow and reproduce to meet what Lebel imagined to be a primary need of the society of the future: environmental sustainability.
The Bio Future - The Cell Textile is one of the three projects selected by the jury and starring in the exhibition '2117 - The World of Fashion & Design in 100 years', hosted at Istituto Marangoni's Via Cerva headquarters during Milan Design Week. In addition to Mijal Lebel, the other international finalists are Mussakhanova Bibimariyam, for the Best Industrial Design category, who has created a piece of furniture capable of changing its form and function, and Giulia Zenucchi, for the Best Fashion Design category, who has imagined an outfit made of an innovative fibre capable of reacting to body temperature and changing its colouring. These three finalists will compete again for the preference of the popular jury, through an online vote on the website http://radostarprize.rado.com/italy open until 30 May: the student who wins the public prize will win a Rado watch.
