Bombay Sapphire Designer Glass Competition 2007

Every year Bombay Sapphire promotes the Designer Glass Competition. Since 2004, all kinds of designer glasses, by some up-and-coming designers from around the world, have gained some recognition, through this competition.

The U.S. edition for 2007 has been won by Michael Kritzer, from Georgia, with his Palletini model. Portuguese designer Sandra Inês Mesquita da Conceição has been named the winner of this year's global final of the competition.

This is one more proof that portuguese design is full of people with lots of talent and creativity, making Portugal as a country in the cutting-edge of the design field.

Sandra, who is studying design at ESAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design in
Matosinhos, Porto, collected the US$15,000 prize from Bombay Sapphire
Foundation member, Karim Rashid, at an awards event held on the 19th of April as part of Milan Design Week.

Guests including international designers, media and the 21 global finalists gathered
for the final judging of the glasses which are displayed within the Bombay Sapphire
exhibition at Superstudio Piu in Milan.

The judging panel included high profile international designers: Tom Dixon, Jaime
Hayon and Marcel Wanders. Marcel described the winning glass as: “Truly
innovative. It!s so different, playful and is like a very cool piece of jewellery. I love it!”

Called Goobly, the design is in two parts - a glass bowl for the cocktail and a total
of 23 durable and shiny interconnected rings suspended from a main ring
supporting the glass. The metal elements allow for interaction, challenging the
person drinking a cocktail to play with the glass and explore its shape without
spilling the contents.



Two runner-up designers, Ronen Bauer from Canada and Stephan Gouraud from
France, won US$5,000 and US$2,500 respectively.

In the last year, thousands of up-and-coming designers from around the world have
designed martini cocktail glasses inspired by Bombay Sapphire and the 21 finalists
in Milan represent: Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, South Korea, Spain,
Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, the UK and USA.

Soon you can check all the finalists and the event where the winner was announced over at the BS Designer Glass competition site