Name: Alanna Cochrane
Nationality: Scottish/British
Age: 23yrs
Degree: 1st Class BDes(Hons)
Interior & Environmental Design
Education:
(2002-2004) International Baccalaureate Diploma, Cambridge
(Art, Physics, French, Maths, Geography, English,Theory of Knowledge, World Literature)
(2004-2008) BDes(Hons) Interior & Environmental Design Degree
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
University of Dundee, Scotland
(2006-2007) Erasmus Exchange Year in Utrecht, The Netherlands
Hogeschool Voor De Kunsten Utrecht
Relevant Work Experience:
(2007) Internship with the Dutch Interior Architecture Company Merkx + Girod - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Where I worked on the following projects:
Presentation of the public exhibition of The Hermitage Amsterdam design
The design of Rotterdam'stownhall lift facade
Chandelier maintanence in the Concertgebouw (Amsterdam's royal concert hall)
(2008) Currently working for the Chandelier Designer
Sharon Marston - London, UK
Current Commissions:
(2008) Commissioned as the Artist / Designer for Energy Saving Day 2009
(2008) Commissioned as an Interior Designer to work on the interior design for RIBA (Royal Institute for British Architects) Award ceremony
(2008) Commissioned to create graphic designs for a Portuguese Musician
Awards:
(2006) Awarded the Guardbridge Paper Co Prize
(2006) Awarded student membership with The Chartered Society of Designers from a prize winning competition entry
(2006) Competition entry highly commended by Feilden Clegg
Bradley Architects LLP and their partner Design Against
Crime Research Centre
(2008) Nominated for the Richard Demarco Travel Bursary
(2008) Nominated for the Scottish International Education
Trust Award
(2008) Endorsement from Dr. Matt Prescott, Director of E-Day /
Ban the Bulb Campaign
(2008) Endorsement from the EEAC Manager Tayside
(2008) Sponsored by B&Q (providing the electronics of graduation show)
Publications:
(2004) Oil pastel Portraits published in "Shadows and Light Magazine"
a product of The Comenius Project - Young Europeans
for an Equal Future
(2006) Project discussed and exhibited at 2006 Scottish Word
and Image International Conference
(2006) Project featured in "Interiors Forum Scotland: "Thinking Inside The Box - What Is InteriorDesign?"
http://www.e-architect.co.uk/scotland/thinking_inside_box.htm
(2008) Graduation project is featured on the University of Dundee's Degree Show press release: http://www.dundee.ac.uk/pressoffice/degreeshow08/design/
(2008) Featured in Brigid Collins submitted paper for "Interiors Forum Scotland 2008" called Word, Image, and the Space Between
(2008) "Lighten Up" Book published by [Re]Design Pages 126 & 130 >>
(2008) Online Publications: FRAME Magazine online directory
Glasstorm | Unique contemporary glass
Exhibitions:
(2006) Exhibition of an installation and interior design in the Lamb Gallery, Dundee, Scotland
(2006) Product selected in a competition to be exhibited in the
Finnish Design Company Iittala's Winter Collection in their store in Utrecht, The Netherlands
(2008) Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Degree show
(2008) Selected for a unique exhibition "Scotlands' Design Talent"
as part of the CraftScotland exhibition at the SECC Glasgow
- Scottish Homes & Interiors Exhibition
(2008) Exhibited on behalf of Sharon Marston Ltd at "Salon Maison & Objet" to promote French communication and relations and to translate the business into French
(2008) 100%Design in Earls Court as part of the "Re-Design" exhibition called "Lighten Up"
(2008) Currently touring Exhibition: "Lighten Up" Design Event Festival North Tower of the Tyne Bridge on Newcastle's Quayside