ANNOUNCING LAUNCH PAD SHORTLISTED FINALISTS

This year’s Launch Pad competition had nearly 150 entries, all of such a high quality that the nine-judge panel had to select quite a long shortlist!

ANNOUNCING LAUNCH PAD SHORTLISTED FINALISTS

BY Lorenzo Logi

June 13th, 2014

The judges who selected the shortlist, and will now be deciding the finalists, are: Daniel Dalla Riva, Principal and Director of 6 Hats; Terri Winter of Top3 By Design; designer Ross Didier; Aidan Mawhinney, Managing Director of Living Edge; Richard Munao, Managing Director of Corporate Culture; Raymond Scott, Managing Director of Workshopped; Bec Findlay, artist and Content Manager for How We Create; and our international judges Felix Low, designer at The Foundry and Ken Koo, President of the red dot design award, Asia.

Below are the shortlisted entries in alphabetical order. The Finalists will be announced at the end of June. Be sure to visit the Launch Pad Finalists Exhibition at Melbourne Indesign: The Event! Register here to attend, which will give you free entry to the exhibition.

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