Shoham Campagnano, Roni Arbel and Maayan Goldberg are the winners of the prestigious Global Footwear Awards Competition

Shoham Campagnano, Roni Arbel and Maayan Goldberg, graduates of the Department of Jewelry and Fashion, are the winners of four design awards at the prestigious Global Footwear Awards competition. This award is a notable achievement in the field of shoe design, as this competition is among the leading international competitions in the fashion industry.

Shoham Campagnano won the High Heels category with the item Ephemeral—a hand-embroidered, bespoke shoe. The shoe recalls a time when embellishments were considered a valued asset. Campagnano seeks to stop, observe, marvel, and to return to slow fashion, personalization and preservation of crafts, beauty for beauty’s sake, and to the appreciation of the wonders of life.

Roni Arbel won the award in the Kids Fashion Artistic Footwear category with the Footplay collection—a series of shoes that offer a surprising play experience by creating a contrast between childishness, playfulness, and massiveness. The footprint they leave is large, strange, and unexpected, but, in fact, is a game in itself. The design process included building using Fusion software, 3D printing in flexible TPU material and hand painting with acrylic colors. The project combines separate yet complementary worlds to convey a unique visual and tactile experience. The shoe highlights the department’s leading role in the field of digital craft in the country.

Mayan Goldberg won the 3D Print Footwear award for her designs of two models for the project Echoes of Humanity in the Artistic Footwear category. The shoes Goldberg designed using 3D printing technology, are made from anatomical links that translate the movement of the human body into a feeling of instability. The inspiration for the design stemmed from her in-depth look at the blurring boundaries between the human and the artificial in an era of accelerating use of artificial intelligence. Goldberg explores the disturbing connection between the two worlds, emphasizing the sense of alienation that surfaces with the meeting of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The project presents the fine line between human and artificial, where the experience of footwear undermines the sense of stability and provokes thinking about the impact of the artificial on the human.

Shelly Satat-Kombor, Head of the Department of Jewelry and Fashion, congratulated the winners: “I congratulate Shoham, Roni and Maayan on their win. The department’s graduates continue to represent us in national and international awards. The Department of Jewelry and Fashion at Bezalel continues to lead in providing students with the tools and knowledge to follow developments in the jewelry and fashion industry and create significant work shaping the face of the field now and in the years to come.”

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