Creative Design Awards 2025

On 29th October 2025, we gathered to celebrate the incredible talents of budding designers at OVOL Creative Design Awards 2025. With close to 150 submissions from art students across Singapore, the competition highlighted the creativity and imagination of young minds, all inspired by this year’s theme: Sustainability by design: Shaping a Better Tomorrow.

This theme challenged participants to explore the power of creativity in shaping a sustainable future through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals — and the results were nothing short of inspiring and thought-provoking. The selected winning designs will be showcased in OVOL’s 2026 calendar, allowing these inspiring ideas to reach and inspire audiences throughout the year.

We extend our thanks to our partners for supporting this initiative:

• LinkedIn – for generously sponsoring the venue and hosting their session “Amplifying Your Voice with LinkedIn”

• Allianz Trade – for sponsoring the Allianz Trade Aspire Award

• PixelTech – for supporting the printing of the calendar and promoting sustainability in design.

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Our heartfelt appreciation goes to the lecturers & participating schools for nurturing these talented designers:

• Aaron KOK Lam Wai & James E L Quah – Institute of Technical Education College West (ITE College West)
• Ajin Joseph – Republic Polytechnic (RP)
• Chevady Chang Yun Chen – School of Design and Media, Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP)
• Desmond Pang – School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
• Kelvin Ho & Ellya Hafsah Abdullah – Institute of Technical Education College Central (ITE College Central)
• Natalie Seisser – Visual Communication, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, SIM)
• Rachel Lim Shi Ean – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (NAFA UAS)
• Shawn Lim – Temasek Polytechnic, DES CMD
• Timothy Wee – LASALLE College of the Arts

A Special Thanks to Our Judges:

• Benson Chong, Co-Founder of SWELL Studio
• Chan Wai Lim, Founder and Director of Trigger Design
• Yulia Saksen, Founder and Director of Creativeans

We are proud to showcase the 12 winning artworks and details on this page—each piece representing the incredible talent and imagination of Singapore’s next generation of designers.

Gold Winner

Genevieve Eio – ITE College Central

Grow to Give: Cultivating a Hunger-Free Future

This design imagines a future where urban farming and sustainable systems end hunger. Communities grow and share food through eco-friendly methods and local distribution. “Grow to Give” highlights a world where we cultivate not just to eat, but to support one another.

Silver Winner

Lau Hui Yuan – ITE College Central

Omakase’d

Inspired by the contrast between indulgence and ignorance, this work explores how beauty and luxury often mask deeper harm. Through a familiar form, it asks: what are we really consuming—and at what cost?

Bronze Winner

Cheah Yu Jet – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

What If We Lived Underwater?

Inspired by the 14th SDG Life Below Water, this illustration envisions underwater flats around Singapore, powered by water currents and designed to protect marine life. Drawing on projects like artificial reefs, it imagines a future where people live beneath the sea through innovation and technology.

Merit Winner

Gabriel Fetalvero – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

Bee All and End All

Inspired by SDG 15 Life on Land, the artwork highlights the importance of bees in agriculture. Without bees, many of the everyday fruits and plants we take for granted would not exist. They could be seen as the be-all and end-all of most life on land.

Merit Winner

Ho Xin Yi – School of Design and Media, Nanyang Polytechnic

Save The Turtles

I created this artwork to highlight the endangerment of sea turtles, especially Hawksbills. The fading paint effect shows their gradual disappearance. My goal is to inspire action for marine conservation and sustainable practices before it’s too late.

Merit Winner

Kieron Neo – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

One Goal, Many Hands

As we inch closer towards the goal of achieving sustainability, I believe that collaboration will be a key factor. Each of the 17 SDGs plays an important role. However, a sustainable future is not something that can be achieved through a solo effort, but instead should be done by working together.

Merit Winner

Koh Hui Ting – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (NAFA UAS)

Trace of Travel

“Trace of Travel” envisions a future where tourism is rooted in care, not consumption. It encourages travellers to become stewards, preserving biodiversity, heritage, and culture by making conscious choices like supporting locals and respecting traditions, leaving behind a meaningful, positive impact.

Merit Winner

Kok Lexin Cherie – ITE College Central

Your Actions Spark A Sea of Change

This artwork illustrates how even simple actions can ignite powerful ripples that lead to sustainable ocean change. A hand picking up trash sparks waves of conservation—rescuing marine life, restoring reefs, and inspiring hope. Through dynamic ripples and playful typography, it connects human actions to environmental change towards a sustainable future!

Merit Winner

Phuan Jieyi – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

Beyond the Written: Carving a Better Sustainability

Humans are craftsmen of better possibilities. Each of us is an influencer of culture to the masses. We thus should overwrite the current definition of sustainability that only serves empty words, and envision one that sustainability signifies action towards harmony between society and nature.

Merit Winner

Shahma Abdulla – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

Serving Tomorrow

Serving Tomorrow presents the future as a dish we craft today. A miniature green city under a cloche embodies SDG 7, 11, and 13; clean energy, sustainable cities, and climate action. Each element is an ingredient of hope, reminding us that today’s choices shape the feast of tomorrow.

Merit Winner

Wong Kai Wen – School of Art, Design and Media, NTU

Plastic of Tomorrow

What if plastic waste were biodegradable? Plastic waste has been a huge concern, destroying marine life and impacting our health through microplastics. The question inspired this design, where mushrooms, organically biodegradable, are being researched as an alternative to plastic, creating a much more sustainable environment for all in the future.

Allianz Trade Aspire Award & Merit Winner

Yvonne Ng – Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore (NAFA UAS)

The Future is In Our Hands

The artwork depicts two core SDG values, life on land and below water, symbolised by a paper airplane. It reflects how both realms depend on human actions: whether they soar or crash lies in our hands, reminding us of the responsibility to ensure their sustainability.