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UEL students win design work at London 2012 Aquatics Centre

Monday 27 April 2009

Three students from the University of East London’s (UEL) School of Architecture and Visual Arts have won a design competition for the construction offices of the iconic Aquatics Centre for the Olympic Games currently being built at the Olympic Park site in Stratford.

The winning students Dale Samuels, Kirby Rosales and Christian Escobar who study Graphic Design at UEL’s Docklands campus, were delighted to discover that they had been selected from a host of other candidates.

Working from an initial presentation given at the Aquatics Centre in February, the students will see the winning posters displayed on site in May.

As well a series of designs for the multi-faith room on the site, they will also be producing a series of innovative posters that will highlight the Aquatic Centre’s five core values. These values are: to maintain an exemplary health and safety performance, to protect the environment, to focus on stakeholders, to support a culture of integrity and to promote the local environment and the legacy aspects.

The designs for the multi-faith room are collages and prints and the students had to choose carefully, due to the sensitivity of faith symbols and traditions.

David Mann, Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design at the AVA said:
“This is a very challenging project that even a professional design company would find difficult. If anyone can crack this, as the students did, they can then go on to do just about anything in graphic design, so I’m very pleased for them.”

Dale Samuels said: “We’re really proud of our work on this project. It’s given us a great opportunity to further our careers and get a great job. We really had to do a lot of brain storming on the core values and also thinking outside of the box, it’s made us really creative."

UEL’s School of Architecture and the Visual Arts (AVA) brings together architecture, art and design and students take part in many professional projects and exhibitions.

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