2016 Victorian Premier's Design Awards Yearbook

The Victorian Premier’s Design Awards celebrates the very best of design and innovation and helps drive a greater awareness of the value and importance of design-led innovation. The awards provide a unique platform for Victorian designers and businesses to showcase their best work to national and international audiences.

Authorised by Creative Victoria, Level 31, 121 Exhibition Street, Melbourne, Victoria 3000 © Copyright State of Victoria 2016 www.premiersdesignawards.com.au The Premier’s Design Awards is organised by Good Design Australia on behalf of the Victorian Government.

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CONTENTS MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER

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DESIGN FOR A BETTER AUSTRALIA

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR

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ABOUT THE PREMIER’S DESIGN AWARDS

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JUDGING PANEL

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

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OVERALL WINNER

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

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COMMUNICATION DESIGN

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DESIGN STRATEGY

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DIGITAL DESIGN

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FASHION DESIGN

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PRODUCT DESIGN

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SERVICE DESIGN

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STUDENT DESIGN

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MESSAGE FROM THE PREMIER Design is a real force in Victoria.

Great design has the power to enhance our experiences, to improve our quality of life and reduce negative impacts on our environment.

Great design is also a collaboration and it is these collaborations, between incredible Victorian designers and businesses, that are recognised and celebrated through this annual Awards program.

Design plays a key – and growing – role in life in our state. The sector accounts for more than 85,000 jobs and generates revenues of an impressive $5 billion annually including some $400 million in exports.

These awards shine the light on the very best in design projects from across Victoria and seek to inspire the business sector and the broader community to better understand design and the role design does, or can, play in their lives.

It’s my honour to acknowledge the efforts of the state’s ambitious design community with the 2016 Premier’s Design Awards. I wish all finalists every success.

The Hon Daniel Andrews Premier of Victoria

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MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER Victoria is Australia’s creative state and our design community contributes significantly to this status.

Design and business intersect marvellously in Victoria, the result of an extraordinary pool of talent and an industry that is open and determined to innovate.

These awards are an opportunity to recognise Victoria’s extraordinary designers and design community, alongside the businesses that have incorporated design to solve problems, meet demand or enter new markets.

This year’s finalists include projects that are globally recognised and locally focused, that are time-saving, space-saving, even life-saving. They showcase the diversity of design and the many ways it can be applied.

This year’s awards have expanded and I am particularly proud to welcome the finalists in the new Fashion Design and Student Design Award categories.

These new categories ensure that the program is a survey of the design sector, while also recognising the designers and innovators of the future.

Well done to all of the creative minds and businesses involved and thank you for the role you all play in designing a new future for Victoria.

Martin Foley MP Minister for Creative Industries

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR The Premier’s Design Awards recognise the vital role good design plays in improving the quality of our everyday life.

These unique awards demonstrate the importance and far-reaching impact innovative design has in creating better experiences, improved products and superior environments for Victoria and beyond.

This year we received a record number of entries across the eight categories of Architecture, Service, Industrial & Product, Communication, Digital, Strategy, Fashion and Student Design. Our eminent judging panel, comprising both national and International experts, had the difficult task of narrowing the field and the very fact they chose 73 finalists reflects the scope and depth of our design skill in Victoria. These 73 projects celebrate Victoria’s design capability to create innovative products, services and systems. The 2 Litre Towel design

by MC Saatchi is just one example of how effective communication can have wide ranging impact on consumers, businesses and manufacturers.

Sharing these stories of success helps build our understanding of how crucial design is for growing stronger communities, businesses and environments and inspires others to lead with design.

I congratulate all of this year’s award winners. Best in Category winners this year focussed on the user experience and utilised design to solve problems by blending creative ideas with excellent execution to generate real business and community value. The Thankyou Track your Impact design by Yump and Thankyou is a great example of how design in Victoria can make a difference worldwide.

Congratulations to Catalyst Design Group awarded the Premier’s Design Award for 2016. This was a definitive choice from the judges as their brilliant design of Oi: The Knog Bike Bell excelled in each of the awards criteria.

I thank the Victorian Government and Creative Victoria for hosting such a valuable recognition and celebration of design and supporting this important showcase of innovation. Also thank you to Good Design Australia for seamlessly co-ordinating and compiling the entries and results together with the esteemed judges – all of whom generously donated their time to ensure the result was of the highest standard.

Celina Clarke Chair

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ABOUT THE PREMIER’S DESIGN AWARDS The Victorian Premier’s Design Awards celebrates the very best of design and innovation and helps drive a greater awareness of the value and importance of design-led innovation.

The awards provide a unique platform for Victorian designers and businesses to showcase their best work to national and international audiences.

An esteemed judging panel consisting of leading local and international design thinkers assess projects across eight design disciplines. Judges nominate Best in Category Awards and an overall Premier’s Design Award of the Year, presented to a project that exemplifies excellence in design-led thinking.

Winning projects address the key strengths of humancentred design delivering sustained economic and social benefits for designers, businesses and all Victorians.

The Premier’s Design Awards recognise and celebrate the quality of Victoria’s design capability to create innovative products and services that are attractive for users, and increase productivity and business outcomes for Victorian business and industry.

CATEGORIES ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Architecture, Interior Design, Landscape Design and Urban Design.

COMMUNICATION DESIGN Corporate Branding, Commercial Art, Graphic Design, Wayfinding and Exhibition Design.

DESIGN STRATEGY Design Strategy and Design Thinking and Multidisciplinary Design.

DIGITAL DESIGN Web Design, Computer Software, Game Design and Mobile Applications.

FASHION DESIGN Includes all areas of Fashion Design, Clothing and Textile Design, Costume Design, Accessories etc.

PRODUCT DESIGN Industrial Design, Consumer Product Design, Furniture Design, Software-Electronics Design, Engineering Design, Medical Device Design and Automotive Design.

SERVICE DESIGN Service and Systems Design and other multidisciplinary design approaches tailored to meet the needs of a project.

STUDENT DESIGN This category has been created to recognise the next generation of designers and entrepreneurs in Victoria.

Entry is open to students of design across all design disciplines represented in the Premier’s Design Awards.

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JUDGING PANEL | Premier’s Design Awards 2016 Celina Clarke

Chair, Premier’s Design Awards (AUS)

Andrew Giddings

Tania Aldous

Vice President, Design, World Kitchen LLC (USA)

Design Director, Here Design (UK)

Marie-Claire Grady

Chair of Communication Design, University of the Arts London (UK)

Managing Director, 3rdView Consulting (AUS)

Neil Hendy

Creative Director, Coast (UK)

Andrew Jones

Principal, Equip Design Integration (NZ)

Tim Kobe

Founder and President, Eight Inc. (USA)

Tara McKenty

Creative Director, Google Asia Pacific (AUS)

Ben Moir

Founder and Director, Snepo (AUS)

Louise Olsen

Creative Director, Dinosaur Designs (AUS)

Dean Poole

Co-Founder and Creative Director, Alt Group (NZ)

Paul Priestman

Chairman, PriestmanGoode (UK)

Suki Rai

Creative Director, AKQA (UK)

Alex Ritchie

CEO and Executive Creative Director, e2 Australia (AUS)

Judith Thompson

Director, Sticky Thinking (NZ)

Troy Uleman

Director, PTW Architects (AUS)

Liz Williamson

Textile Artist and Assoc.

Professor, UNSW (AUS)

Terri Winter

Founder and Curator, top3 by design (AUS)

Nick Bell Ludo Campbell-Reid

Global City Design Leader, Auckland Design Office, Auckland Council (NZ)

Kimberley Crofts

Senior Designer, Meld Studios (AUS)

Ben Crothers

Director of Innovation Projects, Second Road (AUS)

Dr. Steve Cummings

Head of Research and Development, GWA Caroma (AUS)

Shane Currey

Partner, Design for Business, Deloitte Australia (AUS)

Tina Engelen

Director, CO-AP Architecture (AUS)

Angela Ferguson

Managing Director, futurespace (AUS)

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EVALUATION CRITERIA DESIGN EXCELLENCE

• Effective use of professional design to solve a legitimate problem, need or create an opportunity.

• Degree of functional and aesthetic appeal to a broad range of users.

DESIGN TRANSFORMATION

• Degree of design-led transformation i.e. how has the

investment in professional design transformed the business.

• Extent to which design is now integrated in processes and activities.

DESIGN IMPACT

• Impact on business performance i.e. market share, financial sustainability, environmental and social outcomes.

• Impact on industry and end-user adoption of the design.

DESIGN INNOVATION

• Original design concepts and insights or ways of design thinking that enhance the user’s experience.

• Degree of cross-disciplinary design and its impact on enabling

innovation, productivity and sets new standards or benchmarks.

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WELCOME TO THE AWARDS

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OVERALL WINNER | Premier’s Design Awards 2016

Oi: The Knog Bike Bell Knog Catalyst Design Group The Oi Bike Bell is a transformational design approach to the traditional bicycle bell. This product exemplifies excellence in Industrial Design and brings together clever manufacturing, smart use of materials and a unique design language that sets it apart from other products in its class.

In many countries bikes are required by law to be sold with bells attached. To reduce costs, these bells are often cheap, ineffective and undesirable, causing many users to remove them reducing the safety of the riders. The Oi Bell offers bike owners a beautifully designed and highly desirable object that is a delight to use. The Oi Bell has already gained incredible market success with more than 37,000 bells sold in over 93 countries since being launched in March 2016.

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“ THE Oi BELL DEMONSTRATES WHAT GOOD DESIGN CAN BRING TO AN OTHERWISE FORGOTTEN PRODUCT.”

Celina Clarke Chair, Premier’s Design Awards 2016

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Architectural Design

Acute House OOF! Architecture OOF! in collaboration with JPILD Mitty and Price

Acute House is the transformation of a ‘renovator’s nightmare’ into a compact 21st century family home. The severe limitations of a tiny, triangular site and the demanding heritage context have resulted in a pointy ‘wedge house’ that is designed to exploit its ‘problem site’. This project demonstrates the possibility of achieving quality family housing in a compact but highly liveable form within extremely constrained sites.

Acute House highlights the role of good design in tackling a site conventionally dismissed as ‘too small’ or ‘too weird’ to be viable. The resulting house covers 100% of the site and provides a high quality and compact 3 storey, 3 bedroom family home distributed over 145sqm (inclusive of balcony and services areas as well as the walls of the house itself).

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FINALISTS | Architectural Design

ANZ Digital Design Retail Branch Rollout ANZ Blue Sky Design Group WMK Architecture Lend Lease Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) ANZ Banking Group commissioned a complete redesign of its retail model, bringing the customer experience to the forefront of its new digital banking concept. This included preparing a comprehensive design standards manual prompting an efficient construction program of sites delivered by Lend Lease and JLL, which continues across Victoria as part of a national rollout.

Get Sunflowered Copsley Ornamentals Gippsland Water Traralgon Neighbourhood Learning House Regional Development Victoria Latrobe City Council OUTR Lab Get Sunflowered is an innovative design approach developed to work with the community to clean-up, re-make, and re-brand the city through spatially designed golden fields of sunflowers.

The gorgeous fields of sunflowers are the happy by-product of the project which aspires to bring together a fragmented community and enable them to understand how they might be active agents contributing to a sustainable future.

Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility k20 Architecture Ballarat Regional Council Completed in 2015, Ballarat Regional Soccer Facility has been designed to provide leading sporting and social facilities for elite A-Level competitions as well as international games. Designed as a series of stages that form part of a Master Plan for the site, Stage 1 includes the BRSF Building, a 2 Star FIFA rated turf playing pitch and synthetic training ground. k20 Architecture also developed a Master Plan for the site which will allow the Council to continue to expand the facility in the future and achieve their vision of a 10,000 seat stadium.

Ivanhoe Grammar Senior Years and Science Centre McBride Charles Ryan Ivanhoe Grammar School The brief was for a new Science and Senior Years Centre at Ivanhoe Grammar’s Plenty Campus.

The angular internal geometry contrasts with the building’s circular shape, highlighting entry points and providing a distinction between outer and inner worlds. The circular form is classical, representing order and certainty of knowledge. The building’s inner world, with its expressive and complex spaces, represents the complexity of scientific understanding and qualities of wonderment and imagination.

Brimbank Community and Civic Centre Brimbank City Council Currie and Brown Bonacci Group AECOM Lyons This iconic building has been created in the heart of Sunshine. Brimbank City Council envisioned the building to be for the community, and the key challenge for the project was balancing the needs of the highly visible public areas with security and privacy needed for council working spaces. The final design delivers a landmark civic building that encourages public participation and provides a cohesive workplace for the City of Brimbank.

Junction Place, Wodonga ASPECT Studios City of Wodonga Places Victoria Andrew Lloyd As one of regional Australia’s largest urban renewal projects, the 10 hectare Junction Place is a collaboration between Places Victoria, the City of Wodonga and Regional Development Victoria.

Centred on the decommissioned historic Wodonga railway station, Junction Place will progressively transform the site into a vibrant mix of spaces and precincts to service its surrounding communities.

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FINALISTS | Architectural Design

LuxeTen

MicroLUXE

Mister+Miss Café

Maria Danos Architecture ProvanBuilt Level 5 Projects Sharyn Cairns

studio edwards microluxe

Maria Danos Architecture Mister + Miss Café Sharyn Cairns

Inspired by Japanese ‘fusuma’ screens, LuxeTen evolved from an exploration of possibilities for guest accommodation within a former graphic design studio. The lofty existing shell allows the staging of architectural insertions to delight, and ‘contain’ within the warm and textured interior. The outcome enables guests to adapt the spaces themselves by manipulating the architectural elements to suit their requirements.

A showroom, store and hotel in one. Micro in that it challenges what can be achieved within a small space through clever cutting edge design and Luxe in its attention to detail. The aim was to create a series of implied spaces and dynamic objects within the overall volume of the apartment-combining materiality and beautiful objects without hiding the existing rawness of the building. Bare materials are treated as precious items and preserved for their beauty and memory of the site.

Formerly Jatt Mechanics, Mister+Miss responds to the brief for an exciting suburban cafe by taking inspiration from shapes and patterns of the former autoshop and the artistry of vintage cars in racing green. Bathed in natural light through a sawtooth roof, the building’s original character is balanced with a measured dose of ‘luxe’ for patrons through careful consideration of sustainable materials and evocative details.

Moe Rail Revitalisation Project

Monash University Logan Hall

Ngarara Place at RMIT University

FJMT Taylor Culity Lethlean Taylor Thomson Whitting Murchie Consulting Oasis Latrobe City Council

McBride Charles Ryan Monash University

Greenaway Architects Harris HMC Charles Solomon Aroha Groves Ngarara Willim Centre, RMIT University

There was a real sense of expectation in the small regional town of Moe in Victoria’s Gippsland when the hoarding came down at the old car park site on the rail line as the new library and community building were unveiled. A gently curved and stepped platform of landscape and concrete follows the line of the railway, shielding the noise and impact of the trains while opening up to the town centre to create a new sunlit public square and community focus.

Logan Hall incorporates open plan individual living units with kitchen, bedroom, ensuite, and study areas. In addition there are communal areas for around 25 students which have been designed to increase communication and exchanges.

Logan Hall has common facilities in the corner where the two wings meet, on each level. These include double height common and games rooms which are places of increased activity where students meet, study and socialise while enjoying views to the Dandenongs and beyond. The building achieved a 5 Star Green Star rating.

Ngarara Place is a landscape / urban design intervention which builds upon the cultural and campus life of RMIT University. Situated between University Way, Chemistry Lane and the Old Melbourne Gaol, it recognises the oldest continuing culture in the world, by building a visible presence and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and histories as connected to the lands of the Kulin Nation where RMIT stands.

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FINALISTS | Architectural Design

Port Melbourne Football Club Sporting and Community Facility k20 Architecture City of Port Phillip Council Completed in 2015, Port Melbourne Football Club Sporting and Community Facility is a single storey building commissioned by the local City of Port Phillip Council to provide a multipurpose space accessible to all. Since the completion of the new facility, Victorian Football League (VFL) major games are now televised from the ground, with each match attracting larger crowds.

Reservoir Urban Nodes Bellemo and Cat Public Realm, City of Darebin Furphy Foundry Jack Hotakorzian This urban design project creates small nodes for personal interaction and repose within the busy traffic centred streets. This proposal incorporates seating, bollards, bike racks, paving and urban planning. Reservoir’s unique spirit is celebrated through references to its multicultural community via the patterned steelwork. The use of the circle as inspiration for both the paving and the seats pays homage to this as the site of Melbourne’s first reservoir and the importance of backyard farming as foundation for this suburb.

The Mandeville Centre, Loreto Loreto Toorak Architectus IrwinConsult Oculus Glowing Structures The new Mandeville Centre is an essential investment into the vitality of Loreto Mandeville Hall. The building houses School Administration, Staff Centre, Lecture Theatre, a Learning Resource Centre, Year 12 Centre and a basement level car park. The pinwheel concept is a diagrammatic response to the physical brief, animating and ordering the building program around a central atrium space, and radiating to all elements on and off site.

The Gipson Commons, St Michael’s Grammar School St Michael’s Grammar School Architectus Aspect Studio Acoustic Consulting Australia The Gipson Commons includes spaces for Knowledge, Science, Food Technology and a School Cafe within an urban context of adjacent apartments, townhouses and individual residences.

At ground level, the building works seamlessly with the ground plane of the school campus, revealing a cafeteria space that is almost part of the landscape.

The stairway to the upper levels marks the transition into more dedicated spaces for learning.

Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre STHDI+MCR Silver Thomas Hanley DesignInc McBride Charles Ryan Plenary Health The Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre is a new $1 billion purpose-built facility in Melbourne’s Parkville Biomedical Precinct. It is the first Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Australia and the new facilities will accommodate hundreds of researchers in an ESD benchmark building that will set new standards for health innovation.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Communication Design

The 2 Litre Towel MC Saatchi Australian Weaving Mills

Australian Weaving Mills make high quality towels and wanted a unique approach to help convey their message. With a limited advertising budget they decided to redesign their packaging as an alternative strategy. After testing and comparing the absorbency of the towels to other products on the market, the design team found that they could soak up almost twice as much water compared to market alternatives – an incredible 2 litres of water.

To reinforce this unique selling point, the towels were packaged in 2 litre plastic bottles and displayed in refrigerators. The new packaging provided a simple and effective way to reframe what shoppers should value most when purchasing a towel: absorption.

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FINALISTS | Communication Design

122 Roseneath Street

BlackBOX

Daydream Brand Identity

Local Peoples Assemble Assemble Papers

Monash Art Design and Architecture City of Melbourne Monash University Ian Wong

Google Inc. SouthSouthWest

By adapting the principles of human centred design, Local Peoples created a framework for marketing off-the-plan apartments that resulted in 80% of contracts (or $42 million in sales) signed on the first day of launch. The approach succeeded in changing the way people think about small footprint living by creating a campaign in which sustainability and the lived experience of inhabitants was the focus. Communication design deliverables varied from a brochure, online survey styling, event branding, curation and experience design.

Melbourne International Jazz Festival Liquorice Studio Melbourne International Jazz Festival The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is known to do jazz right. While it had a strong following from the jazz community, the fesitval was operating in an increasingly cluttered cultural landscape. Liquorice Studio developed a branding strategy that evolved each year by building on previous festival themes with a new focus each year centering on specific aspects of live jazz – the audience, the player, the language and sound.

BlackBOX– Design and Innovation was a feature event of Knowledge Week 2016 and was commissioned by the City of Melbourne. Inspired by the Black Box Flight Recorder invented in Victoria in 1957, the exhibition gave voice to an untold story of local design history. The exhibition featured a striking geometric grid of floating boxes set within a dramatically lit space. As visitors approached each box they unlocked the box’s digital archive through use of a handheld device.

SouthSouthWest worked with the Google VR team in California to develop a brand for Google’s virtual reality platform Daydream and headset ‘Daydream View’. The brief was to create a truly immersive brand that could represent the wonder of virtual reality. It was critical that the brand mark was playful and unique, but also that it functioned in different environments, and cultures across the world.

Over the coming years as millions of ‘Daydream Ready’ handsets from different manufacturers enter the market, consumers will rely on the ‘Daydream Ready’ brand as a mark of authenticity.

Ngarara Place at RMIT University

Occupied at RMIT Design Hub

Greenaway Architects Harris HMC Charles Solomon Aroha Groves Ngarara Willim Centre, RMIT University

Grace Mortlock, David Neustein, Fleur Watson Otherothers Sean Hogan, Trampoline Tobias Titz RMIT Design Hub Curatorial

Ngarara Place is a landscape / urban design intervention which builds upon the cultural and campus life of RMIT University. Situated between University Way, Chemistry Lane and the Old Melbourne Gaol, it recognises the oldest continuing culture in the world, by building a visible presence and recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, cultures and histories as connected to the lands of the Kulin Nation where RMIT stands.

Occupied presents propositions for the ‘era of the metropolis’ with a focus on our collective near future. By 2050, it is estimated that 70% of the world’s population will be urban with Australia’s major cities expected to nearly double in size. In response to this, Occupied brings together local and international practitioners with proposals for housing more with less, retrofitting and adapting existing structures and environments.

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FINALISTS | Communication Design

Storey Floors Branding

Terroir Explainer

The Company You Keep Storey Floors

vW Maps Pty Ltd Ten Minutes By Tractor Wine Co. Bonnie Savage

Storey Floors is a high-end Melbourne based oak floor manufacturer with a unique workflow, allowing for a collaborative approach to production and design. In naming and developing the brand, the designers explored the etymology of ‘stories’. A Storey floor becomes more than a ground cover, it becomes a stage for life to be played out on.

The idea of revealing stories was further explored through the website animation where, on scroll, a zoom out takes the viewer from an abstract image to a contextual scene played out on the floor.

Mornington Peninsula Winery, Ten Minutes by Tractor Wine Co. commissioned a 3D-printed terrain model of their region to illustrate the differences in soil, elevation and climate across its four vineyards.

Cellar door visitors can now easily grasp the factors that influence the grapes grown at each vineyard. Although digital in its origins, design and manufacture, the terrain model is tangible and accessible when placed on the tasting bench next to a glass of wine. The full-colour, three-dimensional map of intricate detail makes the geography of wine fun, engaging and easy to understand.

Australian Ballet 2015 Season Campaign – Year of Beauty Metrik The Australian Ballet Event Gallery Justin Ridler Kate Gaskin The creation of The Australian Ballet’s ‘Year of Beauty’ campaign involved development of the initial concept, photographic art direction and image post production.

Tasked with exploring the theme of beauty – elegant photography captured the grace and athleticism of the dancers. This was merged with studioshot native flora to create the final compositions creating an ensemble of sumptuous images, which together formed an elegant narrative of beauty.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Design Strategy

Indigenous Placemaking Strategy for Ngarara Place at RMIT University Greenaway Architects Harris HMC Charles Solomon Ngarara Willim Centre

Greenaway Architects is a multi-disciplinary design practice inspired by a design methodology called ‘Indigenous Placemaking’. This approach embeds a collaborative environment that seeks to break down the typical silos of design to infuse a holistic design strategy.

Ngarara Place united the specific skills, capacities and cultural connectedness of three key Aboriginal practitioners (an architect, landscape designer and artist) to deliver the project.

Ngarara Place was carefully conceived through an immersive process of dialogue with the client, consultation with the Wurundjeri Tribe Land and Compensation and Cultural Heritage Council and close connection with the core design team.

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FINALISTS | Design Strategy

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AITSL Online Strategic Redesign

Local Peoples Assemble Assemble Papers

Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership Websilk Meld Studios

By adapting the principles of human centred design, Local Peoples and Assemble created a framework for marketing off-the-plan apartments that resulted in 80% of contracts (or $42 million in sales) signed on the first day of launch within 12 hours. The strategy aimed to build trust through consultation, collaboration and curated events.

Habitech - Smarter Homes for a Changing Planet Habitech Systems Habitech Systems design and deliver high quality, sustainable, positive-emission housing, using innovative manufactured modular building components. Their design system and 3D software allows Habitech to offer architectural design to more Australians. With a vision to deliver modern housing with radically reduced environmental impacts, architectural design and a ‘cradle-to-cradle’ mindset have been placed at the centre of developing smarter building components. With many completed and current projects around Australia, Habitech recently commenced export of their Victorian-designed and manufactured system to New Zealand.

With an audience of over 300,000 teachers and principals, AITSL is the leading authority of the profession in Australia. Amid the worldwide disruption of the education sector, AITSL engaged Websilk to redesign their online presence.

Websilk engaged Meld Studios to develop a new understanding of AITSL’s value to users and stakeholders as a foundation for the site redesign and to enable them to build on their achievements and continue to support excellence in Australian teaching and school leadership.

DHHS Same Sex Adoption Research Thick Department of Health and Human Services In 2015 Victoria amended the Adoption Act, removing discriminatory barriers to the adoption of children by same-sex couples. The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) engaged Thick to investigate the adoption process and how it could be made more inclusive for LGBTI applicants.

Research mapped the adoption journey of same-sex and straight couples, providing insight where they can take action to address existing pain points.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Digital Design

ANZ Virtual Garden Deloitte Digital ANZ

The ANZ Virtual Garden is a fully interactive digital wall that spans three levels in ANZ’s flagship branch. The 11 metre LED wall responds to changes in the environment, including weather, time of day, seasons and customers’ Twitter feeds.

Through live data, the wall changes according to the sun’s position.

Weather data means that when it rains outside, virtual rain drops appear and four key seasons change the foliage appearance throughout the year. The wall is rendered dynamically in a 3D game engine, allowing customers to request a variety of creatures and objects to appear on the wall and adjust their colour and intensity – a celebration of ANZ’s brand philosophy of “Your World. Your Way.”

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Digital Design

Thankyou’s Track Your Impact Yump Thankyou

100% of Thankyou’s profits fund safe water, food and sanitation projects around the world. Their Track Your Impact (TYI) web app tracks every Thankyou product to a project it helps fund. To address low product tracks and customer sign-ups, Yump redesigned the TYI user journey from Thankyou’s homepage to each customer’s profile, revitalised Thankyou’s storytelling around each impacted community and developed a more usable mobile experience.

Consequently, TYI saw a 100% increase in new user sign-ups and a 200% increase in signed-in product tracks. Increased brand loyalty also generated more Thankyou product sales, contributing $4.1 million of funding for projects.

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FINALISTS | Digital Design

Arts Access Victoria

AusAppPathways App

Australian Galleries Website

Thick Arts Access Victoria

Industry Training Australia Get Started

Yoke Australian Galleries

The internet can be a fairly inhospitable place for people with a disability. This is particularly true when it comes to visual design and the arts - the notion that elegant design and accessibility are mutually exclusive has meant that too often, one of these things has been compromised in favour of the other. Arts Access Victoria believe people with a disability deserve better.

The Arts Access Victoria website sets a new standard for what online accessibility can be.

ITA (Industry Training Australia) operates the Australian Government funded Australian Apprenticeships and Traineeships Information Service. The service’s primary objective is to increase awareness of apprenticeship and traineeship options among prospective students and career advisers. ITA already had a website but it wanted to develop a mobile-friendly tool.

In response to this brief, Get Started created a solution that would deliver the content as a web app. AusAppPathways has been well received with over 2,500 downloads since February 2016.

Established in 1956, the highly regarded Australian Galleries is one of Melbourne’s most loved art spaces. The gallery is well-known at home and around the world for its professional exhibition and marketing of contemporary art in Australia.

Yoke was selected to plan, design and build a new website that would tell the story of the gallery’s rich past, showcase its large collection of local and international artists and promote its busy calendar of exhibitions and events to audiences old and new.

SlideBot SlideBot SlideBot is a web-based presentation design tool that creates bespoke, powerful presentations for the user in a matter of seconds. The entire design process has been codified utilising over 10,000 design rules and more than 25 million images, which means presentations are no longer reliant upon pre-existing templates. SlideBot is the first of its kind to completely automate this process without the need for any input from the user, which means beautiful presentations are now accessible to anyone irrespective of their previous design experience. The best way to think of the SlideBot tool is as your own personal slide designer.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Fashion Design

SZN SZN

SZN Spring Summer 2016/17 collection successfully merges environmental design, anthropomorphic considerations and style into each garment. Delivering a collection of garments each addressing minimal waste in production, reductive pattern making in the concept stage and universal sizing in the finished product, all cut from certified organic cotton and hard wearing hemp fabric.

Each garment utilises between 95% and 100% of the entire length of fabric so that there is little to no landfill as a result of production.

Universal sizing looks at catering for diverse bodies, which makes it easier for a garment to be worn over a long period of time as the wearer changes size. The collection uses organic and natural fibres reducing toxic polluting substances typically used in the growing, dyeing and wearing phase of a garment’s lifecycle.

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FINALISTS | Fashion Design

Atticus Watch

AW16/17 Collection

Image Project

Huckleberry & Co. Watches

Lui Hon Atelier

Blake Barns

The Atticus Watch celebrates the use of kinetic energy in powering a timepiece, removing the need for batteries, winding or electricity for charging. The design is a throw back to the traditional technology of mechanical watches with a 21st Century twist.

Lui Hon Atelier is a high-end fashion label based in Melbourne. Inspired by the contrast of female strength and fragility, the duality of which effortlessly enables artisan craftsmanship to co-exist with raw finishing and detailing. Each design within the AW16 Collection encourages emotional expression by embracing adaptability and is dedicated to special attention to details of fabrication, trims and construction. This cleverly toys with the juxtaposition of traditional tailoring techniques and deconstructed silhouettes.

The Image Project along its journey endeavours to embed a unique visual effect and to transfer deeper meaning. The speed of today’s world permits only a passing reference to original image and this design explores how the notion of ‘fast image’ has become a throwaway commodity aligned to contemporary fashion systems.

Inside Outside House in the Sky

Long-Stitch

Inside Outside Projects Inside Outside is a studio by Martha Poggioli, whose outcomes include garments, actions and objects of multiple function. ‘House in the Sky’ is a collection of timeless womenswear. It has been designed around concepts of utopia - clothing in harmony with its wearer. The approach has been that of a non-aesthetic, a utopian uniform for daily wear. Inside Outside supports ethical, local and high-quality manufacturing with an emphasis placed on finding new ways to approach making to inform design outcomes.

Stephanie Henly RMIT This project is a material exploration deriving forms from the application of the ‘long stitch’. This challenges the traditional notions of embroidery as a flat decorated surface, rather than a functional purpose. Forms are created through the performance of repetitive hand embroidery in conjunction with innovative methods of applications.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Product Design

Blackmagic Micro Camera Blackmagic Design

The Blackmagic Micro Camera is the world’s first cinematic quality, removable-lens action cam. Impossibly small and incredibly light, it captures stunningly immersive Ultra HD footage from previously unattainable viewpoints. Designed specifically for remote use on drones, documentaries and live sports, it offers new creative opportunities to filmmakers and live broadcasters.

Reduced to the smallest possible volume, the Micro Camera’s unique form is driven by the environmental, functional and ergonomic challenges of remote filmmaking. Front facing keys allow unimpeded control in small spaces and an interchangeable lens mount offers flexibility and image quality not found in existing fixed lens ‘action cams’.

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888 Collins Street Lighting

Blackmagic URSA Mini

Brightgreen’s D900 S Curve

Adherettes Ramus Lendlease Construction

Blackmagic Design

Brightgreen

URSA Mini is the world’s lightest Super 35 digital film camera, designed specifically for solo camera operators and small film crews.

Weighing under 2.5kgs, it offers high-end cinema camera performance in an agile package ideal for feature films, electronic news gathering and documentaries. At $2995 it is an affordable yet professional tool for independent filmmakers and grass-roots broadcasters.

The D900 S Curve surface-mounted LED is Brightgreen’s first ever carbon neutral downlight.

Offering a low-profile, easy-to-install design and Tru-Colour technology, the luminaire provides unmatched sustainability and versatile style to complement modern interiors. The D900 S Curve provides energy efficiency in a slimline design and is available in black and white with either 25 or 40-degree directional beam angles for general or focused illumination.

Caloray Disc

chit chat stroller by Larktale

Concave 2016 Range

Caloray Pty Ltd

Larktale Bayly Group

Cobalt Design Concave International

Chit chat, from Larktale, is Australia’s newest stroller that redefines the product category. At the heart of the innovative design is SpaceFrame® technology, a world-first injection process application that presents a genuine alternative to established stroller brands. The result is a stroller that ticks all the boxes – lightweight, compact, manoeuvrable, strong, safe and stylish.

Concave is a revolutionary football boot which increases kicking performance. Concave’s 2016 Range completely re-conceives their world-first and patented technology into a dynamic, lightweight ‘element’ moulding. The new design has an enlarged striking sweet spot and cupping convex for both round and oval footballs. This design innovation tangibly improves accuracy, distance and velocity compared to standard boots on the market.

Adherettes pioneered a revolutionary LED lighting product that sits at the heart of one of Melbourne’s most transformative architectural landmarks to date: 888 Collins Street. Effectively an interactive public art installation, this illuminated facade responds to prevailing weather and defines Docklands’ unique identity. This installation is an Australian first and the largest of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.

Caloray Disc is the world’s first circular heater which brings function and form together in an architectural and stylish manner. The fashionable heater enhances entertaining opportunities for aspirational lifestyles all year round. The innovative and transformational disc design enables designers and architects to resolve heating solutions whatever the circumstances or situations in residential or commercial applications.

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FINALISTS | Product Design

Decibel Dome Pendant

Etihad Medallion Club Smart Seat

kkdu Plum Trailer

Satelight Design

Sprocket Pty Ltd Melbourne Stadiums Limited, Daniel Pote

KKDU Plum Charlwood Design

The Medallion Club Smart Seat system is a confluence of good design, innovative technology and engineering excellence. The project requirement was to develop an in-seat entertainment system incorporating state-ofthe-art Samsung high definition tablets that would not only survive in a super charged and emotive football stadium environment but would visually engage users of all ages and sizes.

The brief to the design team was to develop a trailer that could haul all your ‘stuff’ and also double up as a shopping trolley. The end result consists of an innovative trailer and a rack system. The design is made up of two tubs, a tubular frame, adjustable handle and hitch point, and a fold-away third wheel to convert it from trailer to trolley in a matter of seconds. The rack incorporates a quick release hitch that allows the trailer to be removed from the bike effortlessly.

Leafy Sea Dragon

LIGHTSPEE3D

Little Bishop Pendant Light Hook

Marc Pascal Pty Ltd

SPEE3D

Hunter and Richards Design

The Leafy Sea Dragon is a suspended luminaire that is dynamic and sensual in its form. It uses 14 x LED, G9 dim-able globes, which are diffused via translucent and optically clear urethane nodes which connect to the main body seamlessly making a weatherproof seal. The light can be mounted vertically or horizontally, creating a variety of subtle and dramatic lighting compositions.

SPEE3D designed and developed a revolutionary metal based 3D printer targeting speeds 100 to 1,000 times faster than traditional 3D printing.

LIGHTSPEE3D was designed, developed, built and tested in Victoria. The result is a technology which shortens lead times, reduces costs and enables rapid product iterations.

LIGHTSPEE3D prints at production speeds and is designed for installing directly in production facilities. End markets include automotive, commercial, industrial and mining applications.

The Little Bishop uses negative space to create a form with positive results. An asymmetrical groove is wrapped around a cylinder, overlapping itself. The depth of the groove at the junction means that the cable applies pressure on itself, locking it into position. In addition, friction as well as a tight turn, makes for a hold that will support pendant lights up to three kilograms.

The hook section joins seamlessly to the post section which mounts flush to the ceiling.

Constructed from sound absorbing material and plantation timber, the Decibel Dome Pendant is cut in-house on Satelight’s CNC machine and assembled by hand. The innovative pendant eases the effects of noise pollution within busy communal environments as well as providing efficient light through a high output dim-able LED disk.

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FINALISTS | Product Design

Modular Height Safety System

Palm Caffe Cup

Stealth Bucket

Branach Downer

Palm Products

Troy Backhouse John Pigitsaki

The Modular Height Safety System offers a degree of functionality not seen before. Technicians are now able to carry a small extension ladder with modular sections that clip in, allowing the unit to extend to a 7.6 meter ladder. A number of additional safety features have been built into the product to provide a cutting edge functional design.

Table Tennis Table City of Melbourne City of Melbourne Melbourne’s first permanent outdoor table-tennis table is the latest addition to a suite of outdoor furniture designed by the City of Melbourne.

The philosophy behind the in-house design is to ensure all the details within the municipality have a similar style and resemblance.

The Palm Caffe Cup is at one with your coffee and has been designed to appeal to all the senses. The design language is beautiful and tactile and a novel cap and lid allows the full aroma of the contents to escape. The ceramic mouth-feel cap retains the pleasure of sipping from an open cup and a novel window allows the contents to be seen.

Talon Pocket Multitool TacticaGear Chijoff+Co The Talon Pocket Multitool packs 17 tools and features to match. Made from an advanced composite material that is normally used in aerospace and military application, it is 40% lighter than titanium, has the strength of die cast metal and won’t scratch your latest phone or tablet.

Designed and manufactured in Melbourne, the Talon is unlike any other multitool on the market.

The Stealth Bucket has been designed to address issues of safety and consistency in mixing of raw building materials in the construction industry. The handle design allows the bucket to be picked up from the top and bottom simultaneously. By incorporating a bottom handle, the design allows for quick release and control of materials at a safe distance from hazards.

World’s First Zero Waste Mushroom Kit MushiMushi Chromatix The idea behind the MushiMushi project is to demonstrate how a valuable resource such as spent coffee grounds is ‘mistaken’ for a waste.

The process uses coffee grounds as a medium for growing oyster mushrooms with every bag recycling approximately 35 shots worth of coffee grounds. The final product design satisfies strict criteria of only using a growing medium that was destined to go to landfill and only using home compostable packaging materials.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Service Design

122 Roseneath Street Local Peoples Assemble Papers Assemble

By adapting the principles of human-centred design, the designers created a framework for marketing off-the-plan apartments that resulted in 80% of contracts ($42M) signed on within the first 12 hours of launch.

Beyond ensuring the complete sale of the development and financial sustainability, the aim was to also entice and build new markets among consumers who would not have previously considered purchasing offthe-plan. This was achieved by changing the way people think about small footprint living through involving purchasers in consultation, collaboration and curated events. The dialogue was two-streamed and mutually beneficial, with local communities becoming advocates for the project.

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FINALISTS | Service Design

Democracy for Millennials

Family Violence Intervention Order

YLab, Foundation for Young Australians Parliament of Victoria

Portable Studios Neighbourhood Justice Centre

Young people show lower levels of formal and electoral political engagement compared to older people and previous generations of young people; yet on the other hand they are also the most politically engaged in terms of informal and digital channels. The Parliament of Victoria and the Foundation for Young Australians’ YLab worked together to redesign how Parliament approaches engaging young people in parliamentary process to start bridging this gap.

In 2013, Portable Studios began working with the Neighbourhood Justice Centre (NJC) to reinterpret the family violence legal process as experienced by victims, the courts and the police related. The Family Violence Intervention Order was redesigned from its paper form into an app and online format accessible on smartphones, tablets and the NJC website. The project received state and federal funding and has been cited as an innovative best practice as part of the Royal Commission into Family Violence in Victoria.

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BEST IN CATEGORY | Student Design

VicHyper Pod Prototype VicHyper RMIT University

VicHyper is an interdisciplinary team of RMIT students competing as the only finalists from the Southern Hemisphere in the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition.

Hyperloop is revolutionising the future of transportation with the ability to travel at the speed of sound (1,200 km p/h), utilising magnetic levitation and electrical motors within a vacuum tube.

Having been awarded the ‘The Braking Sub-System Excellence Award’, VicHyper is diligently constructing Australia’s first Hyperloop Pod prototype. Encapsulating ingenuity, simplicity and functionality, the VicHyper Pod design will place Victoria and Australia on the world stage as pioneers in innovation and transportation.

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HIHO – It’s off to Create, Make and Play We Go Lisa Fu Monash University HIHO is a conceptual Industrial Design project that studies how products might change in the future of the Share and/or Access Economy. This project envisions the types of tools people will be using in the future by designing an example of one – a smart power drill. In addition to this, exploration towards how these social changes will affect the workflows of future makers is embodied in an overarching systems design, complemented by an app.

MFI – Multi Functional Smart Asthma Inhaler Jake Deakin RMIT University As many as one in ten Australians suffer from Asthma, 75% of which fail to use their inhalers correctly, contributing to thousands of avoidable asthma related hospital admissions every year.

The MFI is a concept that is aimed at asthma sufferers to help them eliminate the possibility of incorrect usage. The design incorporates both a preventer and a reliever (a world first for a handheld asthma device) and also communicates vital information to the individual or carer by incorporating the use of smart technologies.

Long-Stitch Stephanie Henly RMIT University This project is a material exploration deriving forms from the application of the ‘long stitch’. This challenges the traditional notions of embroidery as a flat decorated surface, rather than a functional purpose. Forms are created through the performance of repetitive hand embroidery in conjunction with innovative methods of applications.

Meat Market Identity for City of Melbourne Meg McLennan RMIT University The Meat Market is a unique and historic arts venue in North Melbourne. Previously managed under the Arts House umbrella, the venue recently became a stand-alone arts venue within the City of Melbourne. This change necessitated a new identity to relaunch the venue. This project was completed as part of an industryintegrated studio in the Master of Communication Design program at RMIT University.

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