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The best designs by students in 2025

The best designs by students in 2025

By Grazia British

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The student category of Fast Company’s Innovation by Design Awards honors innovative design work created while attending either an undergraduate or a graduate program, or within a year of graduation. This year’s winner, Anup Sathya’s Attention Receipts, is a prototype machine that monitors your YouTube activity and dispenses a paper receipt that tracks the time you wasted. See all the honorees below.

Finalists

F1 Hand Controller
Institute of Design (ID) at Illinois Tech

Soli
Savannah College of Art and Design

Honorable Mentions

Aura
Savannah College of Art and Design

BioForm
Divya Srinivasan and Chia-Jung Kuo

Cheers
Savannah College of Art and Design

EchoEase
Savannah College of Art and Design

Kairos
Mingzhou Gu and Chia-Jung Kuo, UC Berkeley

Landline
California College of the Arts

Spaces Between
UC Berkeley

This story is part of Fast Company’s 2025 Innovation by Design Awards. Explore the full list of companies creating products, reimagining spaces, and working to design a better world. Read more about the methodology behind the selection process.

Originally published by fastcompany.com. Syndicated material does not necessarily reflect the views of Grazia British.

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