Last week saw hundreds of products across a wide range of categories awarded in the annual Good Design Awards. Here we highlight the projects and products that remain close to our heart – architecture, interiors and furniture.
May 23rd, 2018
It’s all too easy to forget that design as a discipline encompasses more than architecture and furniture. A quick look at the complete list of Best in Class winners from the 60th Annual Good Design Awards can attest to that.
But as architecture, interior design and furniture speaks to our core, we wanted to shine some light on all the other winners of these categories from the 2018 Good Design Awards.
The path to receiving a Good Design tick is no easy feat. Each category has a dedicated jury, for furniture that included Indesign’s publisher Raj Nandan, along with Terri Winter of Top 3 Design and Cathy Veninga of The Design Institute of New Zealand.
When commenting on the judging process, Raj says, “the calibre of products continues to impress and this year we saw plenty of innovation.
“Commercial furniture was a particular stand out, from Ross Gardam’s Adapt range for Stylecraft, and Navi by Steelcase, to the stunning SIA Chair by Tom Fereday for Cult’s brand NAU and the Cabin Lounges by DesignByThem. There is a new age of versatility in office furniture coming through.”
See the designs that collectively create a picture of what makes good design below:
The collection of armchairs, lounges, ottomans and booths utilises upholstered ‘logs’ to create playful and personable pieces for the home or office.
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The Cloudie Table is the result of extensive school classroom observations and design work.
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Flexible, inviting and productive, the Adapt Collection is designed to evolve with the dynamic needs of today’s workspace.
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Fab 25 Table Lamp is a totally re-imagined version of the company’s very first light ‘Fab Lamp’ that was developed and released in 1991.
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Having not one but two products awarded, the TeamIsland is a modular desking system with a more compact footprint, while the Series 1 Chair is a high-quality, performance chair.
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ThinkingQuietly’s range of acoustic furniture offers a peaceful respite from today’s growing office noise. Available through Stylecraft.
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Zaza’s design features adjustable arms and backs that allow you to personalise your comfort.
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The NGV gallery chair was designed as a high performance and lightweight conference chair that embodies the design elements of the Great Hall in the NGV.
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The SIA chair is a slender and unique dining chair developed with an articulating backrest, which was inspired by traditional bearings.
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The Botanical Planter Screen is a response to the human need to connect with nature. Intertwined with active climbing plants, these double-sided, self-watering mobile planter screens can be used indoors and out.
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The Mito Sospeso seeks to advance the capabilities of LED lighting in both commercial and residential settings, utilising state-of-the-art technology.
The Russell McVeagh office is an agile workspace, and of a discerning design quality intent on attracting and retaining the brightest legal minds in New Zealand.
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The new studio provides freedom of movement and choice with an eclectic mix of hip hop aesthetics in a nod to its original function.
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The Barcaldine Tourism Precinct master plan includes the renewal of the historically and politically significant Tree of Knowledge, and renovation of the Globe Hotel into a tourist information centre.
Homes built for people, not profit. Nightingale 1 is the inaugural project of the Nightingale Model – a replicable, triple bottom line housing model with an overarching priority towards social, economic and environmental sustainability.
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Campbell Street is a study in pushing multi residential architecture and vertical living to the limits. Two dwellings side by side, identical in dimension but not layout.
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A single-family residence on a narrow site, Living Screen House is a stunning home built for entertaining, featuring a unique lap-pool.
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We live in a fast moving, high-tech, uncertain, disrupted world – this ‘boardroom of the future’ helps businesses navigate the ‘new normal’.
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This new building was designed to promote a high-tech image in accordance with advanced medical technology.
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The memorial concept creates a subtly reflective and symbolic memory of the floral tribute following the 2014 Martin Place siege.
Read all the stories in the archive for the 2018 Good Design Awards.
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