Congratulations on winning the second prize. Tell me about yourself, your career and your education.
First of all I would like to say thanks to the CLU Foundation for awarding my project with the second prize, it is a great motivation to keep working as a designer and keep exploring different and new fields the way this project did. I am a 25-year-old product designer from Bogota Colombia. I studied product design for five years at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique, in France, so I lived in Nantes for three years.[...]

The CLU Foundation has unveiled the four winners of its International Idea contest, held this year under the following theme: Lightitude – Lighting Urban Areas above the Polar Circle during the 2012 Facteur D event, organized by Mission Design. Mr. Sergio Ramos, Spain, has won the first prize of $2,500 for this project Color Cloud; the second prize of $1,500 was awarded to Mr. Ivan Rodriguez, France, for Oasis lumineuse; and lastly, the third prize, of $1,000 was awarded ex æquo to Mr.Balazs Szilagyi, Hungary, for Sphère and Mr. Robert Trempe, United States, for Arctic Blossom. [...]