Designed by gomi, the very first Design Truth student award is a special one-of-one trophy made from waste plastic bags.

Our brief was to create something beautiful, memorable and that would fit on the desk without getting in the way.

They started by melting down the waste plastic, and marbled it together to form the signature gomi marble pattern. It then goes from the ovens into a brick mould, where it’s compressed and any air bubbles are squashed out of it.

Any shavings from the milling process were collected and put aside. The offcuts have been melted down, and pressed into a custom range of power banks will be given to those on our final shortlist of 5.

A complete one-off trophy followed by a completely unique collection of special power banks.

The plastic was marbled and pressed by Studio Manager James Cann, the milling was done by co-founder Kyle Brackenfield, and video made by in-house content creator Mariana Pittnerova.