AWARDS:
3RD PRIZE WINNER. The CUMULUS 20th Anniversary Exhibition 2010. Shanghai
3RD PLACE WINNER. International kitchen and bathroom contest during Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano 2010. Milan
SHORTLISTED. Designboom/MACEF competition - The Intelligent Hand 2009
1ST PLACE WINNER. ‘SaloneSatellite WorldWide Moscow 2009’ / Designing Wellness. Moscow
EXHIBITIONS:
30/11/2012 'Friday Late' at V&A. London
01/2012 Royal College of Art. Work in Progress Show. London, UK
09/2010 The CUMULUS 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Shanghai, China
04/2010 Salone Internazionale del Mobile Milano/ SaloneSatellite. Milan, Italy
01/2010 Designboom/MACEF Competition - The Intelligent Hand
10/2009 SaloneSatellite WorldWide Moscow. Russia
TALKS:
04/2012 Gabriele Meldaikyte participartion at Milan's SaloneSatellite.“It Takes a Bric(k) to Build a House.”
A moderated conversation by Fabio Novembre, will include designers Sebastian Errazuriz (Chile),
Mann Singh (India), Gabriele Meldaikyte (Lithuania), Pedro Paulo Franco (Brazil), Zuo Yan (China)
and Shahira H. Fahmy (Egypt).
I am passionate about design and have a hands-on approach to developing a project. My design evolves and is realised through interaction and experimentation. After graduating from Vilnius Academy of Art in Lithuania with a BA (Hons) in Design, I developed an interest in designing products for people with disabilities. My Single Hand Cook project has won several worldwide exhibitions in Milan, Moscow and Shanghai.
Currently, I am studying an MA in Design Products at London’s Royal College of Art, under Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler (postlerferguson.com) where I continue working on projects in assistive technology field.
If you would like to know any more about the projects featured on my website, please feel free to contact me.
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EDUCATION
MA Design Products. Royal College of Art, London
October 2011 - June 2013 (expected)
Platform 17: Ian Ferguson and Martin Postler (postlerferguson.com)
www.rca.ac.uk
BA (Hons) in Design. Vilnius Academy of Art, Lithuania
October 2005 – June 2009
http://www.vda.lt/
Gabriele Meldaikyte
Design Products Department
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
UK
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Mob (UK): +44 (0)7564 244 073
Email: meldaikyte@gmail.com
Twitter: @gabriele_meld
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30 NOVEMBER 2012
Friday 30 November
6.30 -- 9.30pm
Sackler Centre, V&A
Please join us for our latest exhibition at the V&A!
We are part of a 'Friday Late' with many other exhibitors, music, film…
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/f/friday-late/
We have created interactive exhibits discussing the impact of the Smartphone.
// Calling The Future //
This project explores our relationship with Technology. What sort of dreams and fears emerge from it? Looking back, what have we lost in the wake of our latest ‘advancement’? Looking forward, what do we envision our future to be? Each designer of Platform 17 chose their own path to explore the impact of electronic devices on human culture.
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JULY 2012
The Dyson Building
20 Howie Street
London SW11 4AS
www.innovation.rca.ac.uk
On 16th of July, I am starting InnovationRCA Summer Launchpad Programme.
Entrepreneur's Launchpad provides master-classes and one-to-one coaching sessions with business start-up experts over a two-month period, and takes in the highly charged InnovationRCA Incubator full of entrepreneurs, investors, and business experts.
By the end of Entrepreneur's Launchpad candidates will have developed a full understanding of the market and environment for their proposition and the commercial challenges they will face. They will emerge with a stronger understanding of the product development challenges ahead and a set of valuable contacts to help progress their proposition.
Entrepreneur's Launchpad is generously funded by The Atkin Foundation and was set up to help graduating students of the Royal College of Art develop the skills and know-how they need to turn their great ideas into commercial successes.
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JUNE 2012
Come and see the Royal College of Art's annual graduate exhibition from the 20th of June to the 1st July. This year, the Design Products department will be showcasing their collection of designers work at the Battersea Testbed 1 site alongside Interaction Design.
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APRIL 2012
Come and see work by students from all departments at the RCA Paradise Milan exhibition in Lambrate on 17th-22nd April.
See you there!
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FEBRUARY 2012
The RCA's annual Work in Progress exhibition, showcasing work of the Design Products department as well as Architecture, Design Interactions, Innovation Design Engineering and Animation.
Henry Moore Gallery
Royal College of Art
Kensington Gore
London SW7 2EU
1st - 6th of February 2012
Come and see my work!

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OCTOBER 2011
I have been accepted into the Design Products masters course at Royal College of Art, learning under Tord Boontje.
I will begin my two-year journey at RCA in October 2011.