2014 PREMIER’S DESIGN AWARDS FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

Good Design Australia and the Victorian Government are proud to announce thirty eight finalists across six categories in this year’s Premier’s Design Awards.

Good Design Australia and the Victorian Government are proud to announce thirty eight finalists across six categories in this year's Premier's Design Awards.

BY Lorenzo Logi

July 25th, 2014

Good Design Australia and the Victorian Government are proud to announce thirty eight finalists across six categories in this year’s Premier’s Design Awards.

The six categories judged by our panel of design experts included Architectural Design, Product Design, Communication Design, Digital Design, Service Design and Design Strategy.

All finalists showcased exemplar design and are in the running to receive the coveted Best in Category and Premier’s Design Award of the Year to be announced at a Presentation Ceremony in Melbourne in September.

VIEW FINALISTS HERE

INDESIGN is on instagram

Follow @indesignlive

The Indesign Collection

A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers

Lizzy Stageman: Textiles & Wall Covering

Materialised

Creative Spark

GH Commercial

Suit Yourself: Textiles & Wallcovering

Materialised

Botanical Planter Screen

Stylecraft

Indesign Our Partners

Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!

Indesign

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

In the first instalment of our three-part series exploring what it means to sit your best, we pose the question to Gray Puksand’s Dale O’Brien, who discusses the importance of ease and majority rule when it comes to sitting and reveals why specifying a task chair is not unlike choosing a Volvo.

Indesign

In a different light: The Geelong College’s Belerren Centre designed by Wardle

The Geelong College’s Sport and Wellbeing Centre ‘Belerren’ designed by Wardle is designed around bringing in natural light. But Shade Factor’s job was to help modulate and precisely control it for the most important competitive moments.

Indesign

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

In the second instalment of our performance seating three-parter, we turn to DKO’s Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen to peek behind Sayl’s confident architectural form and explore the ideas of inclusivity, adaptability and freedom to move as hallmarks of what sitting your best actually means.

Indesign

A collective vision: The whimsical workplace with Intuit, COX and MillerKnoll

Stepping into Intuit’s Sydney workplace certainly doesn’t feel like walking into an office. Why? In this film, we discover that, when joy takes precedence as a design driver, even a high-performing commercial CBD headquarters can feel like an intuitive wonderland that invites employees to choose their own adventure.

In Profile: Korban Flaubert

Sydney-based design duo Janos Korban and Stefanie Flaubert create metalwork sculptures exploring order and equilibrium.

Products

When are bricks more than bricks?

Recently, Allplastics have given the finishing touch to an apartment complex through adding eye-catching, LED diffusing opal acrylic bricks its exterior.

Products

Connect the Dots with Glass Gradients from Skyline

Coinciding with NeoCon 2016, Skyline Design has released the Glass Gradients range of etched and printed patterns for glass application, designed by Dutch designers Scholten & Baijings.

Ideas

Clicks + Clouds: Design in a Digital Age

An embracement of emerging technologies is seeing design accelerate and evolve in ways never thought possible.

While you were sleeping

The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed

News

Powerhouse Parramatta readies itself for late 2026 opening

Scheduled to open later this year on the banks of the Parramatta River, the 30,000-square-metre Powerhouse museum — designed by Moreau Kusunoki in collaboration with Genton — represents a major shift in the geography of Sydney’s cultural infrastructure.

News

Newcastle Quay rethinks the harbour edge

Led by SJB, Newcastle Quay is imagined as a mixed-use waterfront precinct where housing, hospitality, public space and heritage work together to reconnect Newcastle with its harbour.

News

A perfumery with somewhere to sit

For Libertine Parfumerie’s new Armadale boutique, Tamsin Johnson looked to the warmth of the home and the rhythm of old-world shopfronts to make fragrance retail feel slower, richer and more personal.

People

Adam Markowitz on craft, architecture and the art of making

Melbourne-based architect and object maker Adam Markowitz blurs the line between design and craft, bringing a deeply considered, material-led approach to his work. As both a practising architect and furniture designer, Markowitz explores how objects can respond to space, light and human use.

2014 PREMIER’S DESIGN AWARDS FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

The Indesign Collection

Lizzy Stageman: Textiles & Wall Covering

Creative Spark

Suit Yourself: Textiles & Wallcovering

Botanical Planter Screen

Indesign Our Partners

Dale O’Brien on sitting easy with Herman Miller’s Verus Chair

In a different light: The Geelong College’s Belerren Centre designed by Wardle

Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen on finding the sweet spot with Herman Miller’s Sayl Chair

A collective vision: The whimsical workplace with Intuit, COX and MillerKnoll

Indesign Newsletter

Related Stories

In Profile: Korban Flaubert

When are bricks more than bricks?

Connect the Dots with Glass Gradients from Skyline

Clicks + Clouds: Design in a Digital Age

While you were sleeping

Powerhouse Parramatta readies itself for late 2026 opening

Newcastle Quay rethinks the harbour edge

A perfumery with somewhere to sit

Adam Markowitz on craft, architecture and the art of making

Subscribe to our Newsletters