LARS LAJ® | Our semester at the Academy of Art

This Academic year we took patronage over competition for third-year students of Interior Design Faculty.

This academic year, we teamed with the Visual Arts Department of the Art Academy and took patronage over a semester - long contest for the third-year students of the Interior Design Faculty.

THE TASK

The objective was to create modern and innovative outdoor furniture elements intended for open space usage in accordance with our product line falling under the same category. The students worked on this challenge over the entire semester in the course of their Furniture Design Workshop. Participants were able to present sketches, visualizations and models originated during the semester of this workshops at the post-competition exhibition.

THE RESULTS

We were delighted with the designs! The Students delivered ideas that were unbelievably creative, functional, innovative and easy to adapt for production.

It was very hard to announce a winner, but finally a jury consisting of the representatives of Lars Laj and the Art Academy of Szczecin had chosen “BANK! BANK!” by Mateusz Warzecha. We fell in love with his design that incorporates functions of a bench and a bike parking in a beautiful, modern and minimalistic form. We will be delighted to prepare a full size prototype of the winning design and to welcome Mateusz to the internship at our Design Department.

This collaboration is a part of our long term plan to get involved with the local higher education institutions to give the students of design, construction and other connected fields a chance to acquire the practical knowledge of the industry. After all, who knows the future better than the young. When we learn from each other - everybody wins!