Students win big at Creative Conscience Awards 2025
07 October 2025
Eight students have been awarded the top prizes at this year’s Creative Conscience Awards, with three taking home gold, one leaving with silver and a further four winning the bronze.
Creative Conscience is a charity that helps to build a more sustainable and regenerative world. Each year they host a global student awards platform, and several courses at Falmouth support students to enter the awards as part of the curriculum. The annual awards ceremony encourages creative thinking and innovation in its entrants, celebrating purpose-driven projects that are focused on social and environmental change.
Students from across our Graphic Design BA(Hons), Creative Advertising BA(Hons), Illustration: Authorial Practice MA and Marketing Communications BA(Hons), Communication Design MA courses landed top awards, with a number of others receiving highly commended awards, showcasing Falmouth University as a place that fosters creative excellence across a range of disciplines.
Joel Ferguson, Course Leader of Creative Advertising & Marketing Communications said: “These awards are an amazing chance for creatives to showcase their ability to make positive impact in an industry that needs it so badly. It's an absolute joy to support the Creative Conscience Awards as part of our curriculum on our communications courses. Congratulations to our winners this year. You're awesome!”
Read on to learn more about the winning projects.
Pia Hoie Holgersen
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Award: Gold
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Project: 'Other:Wise'
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Theme: The Natural World
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Course: Graphic Design BA
Pia’s project 'Other:Wise' is a proposal for a new design mindset which acknowledges that we need to design for all species on the planet. Through an interactive and informative exhibition, Pia has curated research and scientific fact into an experience of beauty that consists of a series of illustrations screen printed onto plywood.
Megan Fry
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Award: Gold
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Project: 'The Hugging Booth'
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Theme: Experience
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Course: Communication Design MA
"The Hugging Booth is a participatory installation inspired by Virginia Satir's '4-8-12 hug rule'. While Satir emphasised the number of hugs we need each day, my neuroscience research suggested that quality can matter more than quantity in our fast-paced, disconnected and consumptive society. In the Booth, participants share a 20-second hug, captured at 5-second intervals."
Hossam Hamdy
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Award: Gold
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Project: 'Colour Blind'
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Theme: War and Crisis
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Course: Marketing Communications BA
Hossam’s project 'Colour Blind' is a powerful short film that explores the dilemma of whether loyalty is a virtue or a burden. Through the story of a fallen soldier’s letter to his son, the film reflects on how the instinct of loyalty has been exploited by elites and instead urges us to remain loyal only to what is right, beyond tribe, race, or colour.
Aleisha Braich
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Award: Bronze
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Project: ‘Culture Collective’
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Theme: Racial Justice
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Course: Graphic Design BA
Created for her degree show, Aleisha’s project is one that reflects on the lack of physical spaces that celebrate Black, Indigenous, and People of Colours’ creativity. ‘Culture Collective’ aims to bridge the gap in the creative industry. It is a space where creatives come together to celebrate themselves, their work and their culture.
Caroline Oakey
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Award: Silver
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Project: ‘Concrete Umbrella’
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Theme: Health and Wellbeing
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Course: MA Illustration (PT)
‘Concrete Umbrella’ is a concertina book containing ten poems and illustrations which explore the process of accepting a child’s special educational needs diagnosis. Each poem was created using the re-purposed words of an educational health and care plan, a legal document granted to support children with additional needs in education. Parents often wait years for these documents, which promise to provide much-needed support for their children.
‘Concrete Umbrella’ is an example of taking a painful situation, making it more beautiful, and turning a problem into a poem.
Rianna Storoszczuk, Gwendolen Franklin
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Award: Bronze
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Project: ‘Before You Disappear’
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Theme: Mental Health
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Course: Creative Advertising BA
‘Before You Disappear’ is a public intervention campaign aiming to prevent disappearances by reaching people before they go missing. While most focus on what happens afterwards, this campaign highlights the silent mental health struggles many face before such events take place. Through powerful messages in everyday spaces such as bus stops and public convenience mirrors, it encourages people to seek help, reminding them they are seen, heard and not alone.
Charlotte Dixon
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Award: Bronze
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Project: ‘BRB’
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Theme: Community
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Course: Graphic Design BA
‘BRB’ is a brand identity, inspired by the statistic predicting that by 2100, there will be more dead people on social media than living*. Aiming to tackle the issue of everlasting online presences and mourning in a digital world, the project is an app-based brand that acts as a digital funeral director. It provides a safe place to lay your digital life to rest, celebrating your memories in a personalised way and giving your loved ones a space to mourn together- before saying goodbye to your digital life, removing it from the online space.
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