Entries open for 2024 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards (Australia)

Deadline: 19 July 2024

The Allan Labor Government is celebrating some of Victoria’s leading designers, creators and innovators, with entries for the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards now officially open.

Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks today invited entries for the awards which have honoured Victoria’s leading designers, architects and design-led businesses.

The awards are presented in eight categories – Architectural Design, Product Design, Digital Design, Fashion Design, Service Design, Design Strategy, Communication Design and a tertiary Student Design category to recognise the next generation of creative professionals.

Now in its 28th year, the awards recognise the broad impact design has on people’s lives – from the buildings they live in to how they access important services, do business, and experience the world.

Categories

Entries are accepted under the following categories.

Architectural Design
- The Architectural Design category includes Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design and Urban Design. The category focuses on the design and planning of buildings, interior and exterior spaces, with particular emphasis on space creation, space planning and other factors that affect our responses to working and public environments.
Communication Design
- Communications Design includes Corporate Branding, Commercial Art, Graphic Design, Wayfinding and Exhibition Design. The category focuses on the design, development, preparation and organisation of images and information for publication with particular emphasis on clarity of the message being conveyed and the matching of information styles to audience requirements.
Design Strategy
- Design Strategy includes Design Strategy and Design Thinking and Multidisciplinary Design. The category focuses on the integration of design as a strategic business capability across all areas of a business’ operations that allows the firm to be more innovative and to grow.
Digital Design
- Digital design includes Web Design, Computer Software, Game Design, Interface Design and Mobile Applications. This category focuses on the development, preparation and organisation of information for digital mediums with particular emphasis on the clarity of the message being communicated and the functionality of the information to match the user’s requirements.
Fashion Design
- Fashion Design includes all areas of Fashion and Apparel Design, Clothing, Sportswear and Textile Design, Footwear and Costume Design, Jewellery, Timepieces and Fashion Accessories. The category focuses on the process of creating fashion, textiles and accessories for commercial production.
Product Design
- Product Design includes Industrial Design, Consumer Product Design, Furniture Design, Software-Electronics Design, Engineering Design, Medical Device Design, Automotive and Aerospace Design. This category focuses on the process of creating or enhancing a concept and subsequently developing it into a commercial product for manufacture and sale.
Service Design
- Service Design includes Service and Systems Design and other multidisciplinary design approaches. This category focuses on the planning and organising of people, infrastructure, communication and material components of a service or system. The design should improve the user’s experience and enhance the interaction between the service provider and its customers to improve business outcomes.
Student Design
- The Student Design category recognises and celebrates the work of Victorian design students. Entry is open to students of design across all design disciplines represented in the Victorian Premier’s Design Awards. Students must be studying at a recognised Victorian university, TAFE institution or Registered Training Organisation to be eligible for entry during the entry period.