A PAIR of students have impressed a creative agency from London as part of their further education course in 3D design.

Both18-year-old Catherine Beckett and Louisa Heywood, 17, wowed exhibition designer Tom Doumasiou, owner of leading exhibition design agency - Neos Creative - when he came to visit the students at Cleveland College of Art and Design (CCAD) in Middlesbrough to select a winner of a joint competition set up by the agency and the college.

Miss Beckett, from Skinningrove in east Cleveland, and Miss Heywood, from Ingleby Barwick, Stockton, took part in a ‘live brief’ alongside 24 students on the BTEC Extended Diploma in Art & Design (3D), which challenged them to produce designs for an exhibition, based on a real client brief.

The students were tasked with creating a dynamic, striking yet practical exhibition system for an international deep sea exploration company, which was to meet certain specifications and include storage areas, floor plan and layout, branding, colouring and aesthetics.

Mr Doumasiou, creative director at Neos Creative, said: “It has been a pleasure to work with the students at CCAD and me and my team of 18 colleagues at Neos Creative thought the standard of creativity was very high.

"The students have taken the brief wholeheartedly on board and delivered designs with passion and detail."