Student Design Awards winners: In your skin

Brief 3: How might we increase the skin confidence of every young person to enable their unique identity to flourish?

Winner: XPOSURE

Building confidence and decreasing skin cancer rates, XPOSURE is a sun-care brand that targets young men beginning their career in construction.

Person in blue spray paints "XPOSURE" on a bright yellow wall. A hand in the foreground holds a yellow spray bottle labeled "50+.

A display of "Xposure" skincare products, including sunscreen spray, patches, and refill pouches. The packaging is yellow and black with bold text. Descriptions highlight features like protection, sustainability, and materials used.

A visual user journey of a worker named Tommy. He receives protective gear, uses them at work, subscribes for refills, reads safety instructions, scans a bottle for info, and uses the products throughout his workday.

XPOSURE is a brand that empowers and protects young men with jobs that expose them to the outdoors, and highlights the importance of suncare and skin protection. XPOSURE products addresses key points of avoidance for skincare in men such as a solution for greasy hands, an on-the-go solution, as well as building an engaging brand identity and offering education.

Ailsa Smith

Arts University Bournemouth, England

Winner of £2,000 In your skin Award

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Commended entries

Highly commended

Emily Willis and Julia Barbagallo, Loughborough University, England

Oasen: A skincare brand designed to cater to those with sensory differences, offering sensory-safe products and an accommodating in-store experience that creates an environment to foster confidence and skin health.

Commended

Two sculptures of hands with different skin conditions are displayed on white pedestals. The exhibit titled "skin Deep: Celebrating Diversity, One Hand at a Time" features portraits of women on the pedestal sides. People stand in the background.

Oliwia Ostaszewska, University of Lincoln, England

SKin deep: A collection of ceramic pieces that highlight the challenges faced by people of colour suffering from skin conditions.

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