Dezeen School Shows: homeware objects crafted from glass and wood, designed to assist people with ADHD, are among the projects featured in this year's New Designers showcase.

Also included is an interactive light installation informed by a forest and a textiles project utilising flax fibres.

New Designers

Institution: New Designers Class of 2026

School statement:

"The UK's most established graduate design showcase returns in 2026, spotlighting the next generation of design talent.

"Taking place from 1 to 4 July, New Designers reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of design today, bringing together emerging talent in a more dynamic, connected and immersive experience for both exhibitors and visitors.

"For over 40 years, New Designers has championed emerging creative talent, providing a vital platform for more than 2,500 graduates annually to present their visionary ideas to industry professionals and the public.

"The 2026 edition marks an exciting new chapter, uniting graduates from across the UK in a single, cohesive showcase taking place over one week."

Embedding Craft into the Curriculum: A Case for Craft Education (in the Climate Emergency) by Anna-Maria Stavreva

"What does a chair made from discarded Christmas trees, a chair made from coppiced hazel, and a bench that celebrates maths and plastic bags have in common?

"Craft turning waste material into valuable objects! This project attempts to create objects that embody what a craft education could look like through an ecological lens.

"Envisioning various technical, time and material limitations, 'Embedding Craft into the Curriculum' looks at ways craft can be used to position technical skill, material literacy and resourcefulness as useful knowledge for the future generations."

Student: Anna-Maria Stavreva
Course: BA (Hons) 3D Design and Craft
School: University of Brighton

Bath, Spread 5 by Irka Blosser

"I love how illustration can do it all. Explain tricky concepts, spark curiosity, or just be a silly little doodle that brightens someone's day."

Student: Irka Blosser
Course: BA(Hons) Illustration (Online)
School: Falmouth University

Living Participants by Oscar Nicol-Schwarz

"An interactive lighting installation consisting of 10 kinetic pendulum lights, which undulate when audience members are near them, mimicking the rhythms of nature and the forest.

"These pieces are designed to be hung from trees where they live, breathe and move.

"When in the man-made world the lights challenge how we might see inanimate objects as background, suggesting that all the things we surround ourselves with, animate or inanimate, are acting and living members of our lives.

"When among the lights, they respond and perform just as the world responds and performs with humans."

Student: Oscar Nicol-Schwarz
Course: BA Product, Ceramics and Jewellery
School: Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University

Nomadic After Climate by Xinyuan Zhang

"My project draws on nomadic landscapes as primary visual inspiration to create a collection of printed textiles for women's fashion.

"Exploring transient movement, space and memory through storytelling. Utilising traditional hand printed techniques, embroidery, hanging threads, fragmented surfaces, and unfinished edges to reveal material changes shaped by time and gravity."

Student: Xinyuan Zhang
Course: BA(Hons) Textile Design
School: Winchester School of Art

Enduring Landscapes by Florence Male

"Enduring Landscapes captures the Sussex landscape from different perspectives, with the aim of creating durable print designs for a workwear-inspired streetwear market.

"This print collection encourages emotional attachment and longevity through the timelessness of natural beauty.

"Valuing the handcrafted during an age of digital advancement, the designs are approached with artistic processes inspired by organic forms, biomimicry, land contours and long grasses as well as ways to incorporate full landscapes into prints."

Student: Florence Male
Course: BA (Hons) Textiles Design
School: University of Brighton

The Linen Map of Belonging by Honey Hughes

"This interior collection sees flax fibre processed into linen textiles and wallpapers starting from seed and taken through to printed and woven textiles and interior products.

"The collect demonstrates tradition, heritage, traceability, regenerative materials and a steady striving for authenticity of origins and making."

Student: Honey Hughes
Course: BA(Hons) Textiles
School: Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh

Interlude by Harry Demetriou

"Interlude is a simple, low-tech product designed to break the cycle of automatic smartphone use. Through a small magnetic sliding action, it creates a brief pause before the phone can be picked up – encouraging users to take a moment and think before instinctively reaching for their device.

"Instead of restricting access or using digital limits, Interlude works in a subtle and physical way, helping shift behaviour from unconscious habit to more intentional use over time.

"The project explores how small design interventions can positively influence everyday routines and encourage a healthier relationship with technology.

"Minimal, intuitive and unobtrusive, Interlude shows how thoughtful product design can create meaningful changes through simple interaction."

Student: Harry Demetriou
Course: BA Product Design
School: Sheffield Hallam University

Apotheosi by Anna Malekou

"My work is an intimate exploration of Greek mythology. It delves into specific myths and the natural phenomena they are meant to explain.

"Each piece tells the story of its myth, the visible wonders of nature and its deep dark secrets.

"This brooch is an exploration of Charybdis, an underwater sea-monster that sucks water in and spits it back out, creating massive whirlpools.

"Capturing the movement of the whirlpool, the brooch showcases both the beauty of the sea, and the darkness in its depths."

Student: Anna Malekou
Course: BDes (Hons) Jewellery and Metal Design
School: University of Dundee

There's No Way I Could Be Autistic by Hatty Wassell

"Hatty is a comics artist with an interest in nature and storytelling. These comics explore and explain the autistic experience.

"Her work spans both digital and traditional tools and she is also working on a forthcoming zine about spending time in nature."

Student: Hatty Wassell
Course: BA Illustration
School: University of Gloucestershire

Sōma by Jamie Scott

"Sōma is a collection of three handheld objects designed to support emotional regulation in adults with ADHD.

"Each object — rest, rhythm, and release — offers a distinct physical interaction: warmth, bilateral movement, or resistance.

"Turned from solid oak and elevated on a glass base, they are designed to live in the home, ready to be reached for instinctively. Sōma explores how considered, analogue interaction can ground us in a digital world."

Student: Jamie Scott
Course: BA (Hons) Design for Industry
School: Northumbria University

Partnership content

This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and New Designers. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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