We are proud to support TDF Design Awards.
The powerhouse behind Australia’s most widely read design blog Lucy Feagins has announced the debut edition of The Design Files DESIGN AWARDS!
With $30,000 prize money awarded across 12 categories, Lucy and her team have their finger on the breadth of the current creative climate, evident within the 12 categories. Winners will be announced in a ceremony at Deakin Edge, Federation Square on September 19, 2019.
Great architecture, design and creative projects push culture forward in the same way as fine art, literature and the performing arts. But it’s also become clear that design is something that can easily appear inaccessible to many, and almost ‘invisible’ to a wide audience.
KEY DATES & INFO
Eligible projects during January 01, 2018 and April 7th 2019 can be entered.
Entries close JUNE 07 – ENTER HERE
We spoke with Lucy who shared with us the impetus to create an award program that embraces lesser recognised creative practice.
“After running The Design Files for over a decade the cultural importance of design and creativity in Australia needs to be celebrated in a new way.
Great architecture, design and creative projects push culture forward in the same way as fine art, literature and the performing arts. But it’s also become clear that design is something that can easily appear inaccessible to many, and almost ‘invisible’ to a wide audience.
The Design Files is all about making Australian design and creativity visible, and accessible.
That’s why we wanted to create an awards program that recognises architecture and interiors alongside lesser celebrated categories like furniture and lighting design, textile design, handcrafted design, and even styling and art direction.
We see all these creative disciplines as connected, and together they contribute so much to Australia’s cultural capital.”
CATEGORIES & JUDGES
RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – Clare Cousins (Clare Cousins Architects), Albert Mo (Architects EAT), Graham Burrows (Jackson Clements Burrows)
INTERIOR DESIGN – David Flack (Flack Studio), Adriana Hanna (Kennedy Nolan), Yasmine Ghoniem (Amber Road)
LANDSCAPE DESIGN – Paul Bangay (Paul Bangay Garden Design), Rick Eckersley (Eckersley Garden Architecture), Georgina Reid (The Planthunter)
LIGHTING DESIGN – Christopher Boots, Kate Stokes (Coco Flip)
FURNITURE DESIGN – Richard Munao (Cult Design), Adam Goodrum, Grazia Materia (Grazia and co)
TEXTILE DESIGN – Bonnie Ashley (Bonnie and Neil), Lisa Gorman (Gorman Clothing)
FLORAL DESIGN – Cherrie Miriklis-Pavlou (Flowers Vasette), Joost Bakker
STYLING + ART DIRECTION – Glen Proebstel, Megan Morton
HANDCRAFTED – Chloe Powell (Craft Victoria), Louise Olsen (Dinosaur Designs), Maree Clarke (Artist and Jeweller of Indigenous Background)
SUSTAINABLE DESIGN – Abigail Forsyth (KeepCup), Jeremy McLeod (Breath Architecture, Nightingale Housing)
EMERGING DESIGNER – Lucy Feagins (The Design Files), Anne-Maree Sargeant (Authentic Design Alliance), Henry Wilson (Studio Henry Wilson)
COLLABORATION – Ken Done, Jeremy Wortsman (The Jacky Winter Group), Amanda Henderson (Gloss Creative)
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IMAGES // Photographer Eve Wilson + Art Direction Annie Portelli
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