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AWARD WINNERS
The Good Design Team of the Year recognises a design team that has made a positive and tangible impact in establishing and maintaining a design-led culture within their organisation. The Award is selected by Good Design Australia and is aimed at inspiring corporations to build and maintain a design-led culture throughout the organisation.
GOOD DESIGN TEAM OF THE YEAR
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
CAROMA DESIGN TEAM
The Caroma Design Team, led by Dr. Steve Cummings is the recipient of numerous Good Design Awards over the years, including the coveted Good Design Award of the Year received in 2014 for their Caroma Marc Newson Bathroom Collection. The Caroma Design Team has embedded a design culture into the business, evident by the number of high quality and groundbreaking products designed and developed over the years.
Presented annually by the Patron of Good Design Australia, the Award recognises and celebrates the best Australian designed product, service or project in the annual Good Design Awards and is awarded to an entry that has the potential to shape the future economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of our planet.
PATRON’S AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
SANS FORGETICA
Sans Forgetica is a new typeface designed using principles of psychology to improve retention of written information. It is believed to be the world’s first typeface created using psychological and design theories in order to help memory retention, breaking enough conventions and engaging the reader into remembering the textual content.
The Women in Design Award was established in response to the significant gender imbalance within leadership roles in the design industry. This award seeks to recognise and celebrate women who have made significant contributions to the industry and hopes to encourage a more diverse and equal representation within leadership roles and in the design and creative industries in general.
WOMEN IN DESIGN AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
SHARON GAUCI
Appointed Executive Director of Industrial Design in January 2018 at General Motors, one of the biggest automotive manufacturers in the world, Sharon Gauci is pioneering a way for other women to take up leadership roles in a typically male dominated industry. She has spent her career working to influence and encourage young females to enter the automotive design industry and is currently responsible for leading a creative team of over 180 people in many of GM’s studios across the globe including North America, Australia, Korea, Brazil and China.
WOMEN IN DESIGN AWARD FINALISTS
Liane Rossler An artist, designer, curator and creative advisor who has worked in creative industries for over thirty years, Liane Rossler has spent the last decade focused on projects that intersect art, design and the environment. Alongside her solo creative practice, she is founder of Superlocalstudio which inspires collaborative, socially engaged cultural and creative projects for diverse audiences. Other recent work includes Here and Now, Supercyclers and Happy Talk; projects focused on clever and beautiful sustainable design practice. Liane was co-founder, former designer and director of Dinosaur Designs for 25 years.
Judith Glover Judith Glover is a lecturer in Industrial Design at RMIT and leads its Design and Sexual Health Innovation (DaSHI) program, which is at the forefront of research and teaching projects in the new field of Sexual Health, Wellbeing and Design. In design for sexuality, Judith is a world leader, founding Goldfrau, a design consultancy that develops products within the area of female sexual health. Her PhD on Industrial Design and the sex toy industry was the first design PhD to place Industrial Design within the field of Sexual Health and advocate for the safe and reliable production of sex toys facilitating healthy sexual practice for women and men.
Vanessa Bird A keen advocate for the betterment of the built environment, Vanessa Bird is an architect and co-founder of the multi-awarding winning architectural practice Bird de la Coeur Architects. She has a strong interest in experimental housing models with Bird de la Coeur Architects specialising in housing, including multi-residential, Aged Care and social housing for government and community housing providers, where innovative solutions are much needed. A successful practice owner, Vanessa combines the responsibilities of running a prominent architecture firm with an impressive number of additional responsibilities including her appointment as only the third woman Victorian Chapter president in more than 150 years of the Australian Institute of Architects, paving the way for other women by example.
Ros Moriarty As Creative and Managing Director of Balarinji for over 35 years, business owner, social investor and author Ros Moriarty has worked to create opportunities for partners and clients to give voice to Australia’s rich indigenous narrative and deepen understanding of Aboriginal Australia for public art and curatorial, urban regeneration and infrastructure, branding and digital. From illuminating the work of a globally significant Aboriginal artist on the latest Qantas 787 Dreamliner to designing Aboriginal-themed uniforms for Australia’s Rio 2016 Paralympians and lighting up the sails of the Sydney Opera House, Ros has lead the way in indigenous engagement for major projects and given a voice to local Aboriginal community representatives through design.
WOMEN IN DESIGN AWARD SELECTION COMMITTEE The inaugural selection committee was made up of Australian and international leaders in the design and creative industries.
SARAH WEIR CEO Design Council (UK)
COUNCILLOR JESS SCULLY City of Sydney (NSW, Aus)
CLAIRE BEALE Executive Director of Design Tasmania (TAS, Aus)
EUNJOO MAING Director of Design Education & Training, Korea Institute of Design Promotion (KIDP) (Korea)
MARGARET PETTY Executive Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship UTS (NSW, Aus)
LIZA CHONG CEO INDEX:Design to Improve Life (Denmark)
TRISH HANSEN Founding Principal Urban Mind (SA, Aus)
MICHELLE BERRYMAN FIDSA Senior Director, Innovation & Strategy, Capgemini Invent (USA)
CHERYL FRASER General Manager at Sprocket (VIC, Aus)
NATALIE MAHER Founder Kerning the Gap (UK)
The Australian Design Prize was established to recognise individual designers who are making or have made, a significant impact in Australian design over the course of their career.
AUSTRALIAN DESIGN PRIZE
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
PROF. MARK ARMSTRONG
Mark Armstrong was the founder of one of Australia’s leading design consultancies - BlueSky Design in 1984. Today, BlueSky operates internationally with some of the biggest clients in the world. Mark’s unwavering commitment to design has resulted in a raft of Australian Good Design Awards and numerous other prestigious international design awards. Key commissions included: the design of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games Torch; the design of new trains for EDI Rail; the design of a new check in system for Qantas Airways; and design work for leading medical technology firms such as Cochlear and ResMed. More recently, Mark has accepted a role with Monash University the Eva and Marc Besen International Research Chair in Design.
The Indigenous Designer Award recognises and celebrates the important contribution that Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander designers make to Australian Design across the spectrum of design disciplines and practice.
INDIGENOUS DESIGNER AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY RMIT
In a public sector first, the Queensland Government has designed a just-in time, human-centred service that is built with and around the strengths of First Nations people's leadership and networks. The service tackles the under-representation of First Nations public servants in leadership positions using human-centred design and systems thinking.
Good Design Australia’s Automotive Design Award is a special accolade within the Automotive and Transport Category to recognise excellence in automotive design and styling.
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
ALPINE 110
The Alpine A110 is a lightweight, elegant sports coupé that signals the rebirth of the Alpine name, while showcasing the classic heritage of the brand. True to Alpine’s DNA, the A110 places absolute agility and driving pleasure front and centre, without compromising on everyday comfort. It's a magnificent sports car.
Good Design Australia’s Automotive Design Award is a special accolade within the Automotive and Transport Category to recognise excellence in automotive design and styling.
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY GOOD DESIGN AUSTRALIA
TESLA MODEL 3
Designed and built as the world’s first mass market electric vehicle, Model 3 is Tesla’s most affordable vehicle yet. Model 3 combines performance, safety and technology. With up to 560 km of range, the high-efficiency powertrain provides zero to 100 km/h acceleration in as little as 3.4 seconds.
The Design Institute of Australia Award recognises an Australian professional designer, design team or design company who has made a significant impact in the Australian Good Design Awards over the year.
DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY THE DESIGN INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA
DESIGNWORKS
Designworks is an Industrial Design and manufacturing consultancy based in Brisbane. Recipients of numerous Good Design Awards spanning multiple industry sectors, including the Good Design Award for Sustainability and MAAS Design Award for the design and development of the Rangerbot, a vision based underwater robotic system designed to help monitor coral reef environments.
The MAAS Design Award is given to a project that has potential to make a significant improvement to the quality of health, wellbeing or the environment. This Award recognises the important role of design in harnessing the challenges of science and technology to make a positive impact on our lives.
MAAS DESIGN AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY THE MUSEUM OF APPLIED ARTS AND SCIENCES
RANGERBOT
RangerBot is the world’s first vision-based underwater robotic system designed specifically for coral reef environments. Its unique design and intuitive user interface provides end-users (coral reef mangers, researchers, and community groups) with a targeted, affordable and reconfigurable solution for upscaling monitoring and management of reef ecosystems worldwide.
The CSIRO Design Innovation Award recognises and celebrates the important role of designled innovation in harnessing the challenges of science and technology to create better products and services that make a positive impact on our lives.
CSIRO DESIGN INNOVATION AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY CSIRO
SUNDROP FARMS
Sundrop is a world leading horticultural operation integrating solar, desalination and controlled greenhouse growing at a commercial scale for the first time. Sundrop produces high-value fruits and vegetables utilising a unique combination of renewable technologies.
The 202020 Vision Green Design Award recognises and celebrates the important role of green and living infrastructure design to our built environment and to our overall health and wellbeing.
202020 VISION GREEN DESIGN AWARD
PROUDLY PRESENTED BY 202020 VISION
BENDIGO HOSPITAL PROJECT
The new Bendigo Hospital is the largest regional hospital development in Victoria. The $AUD 630 million Victorian Government project delivers world-class healthcare facilities and a 13-hectare precinct development, with a strong sense of place, and a positive, inviting environment that promotes wellbeing for patients, staff, visitors and the community.
