Winners crowned at the Melbourne Design Awards 2012
Across six major categories, 50 winners were announced on Wednesday 19 September at the Business and Investment Centre in Melbourne by Creative Director of design100, Mark Bergin.
In its third year running, the Melbourne Design Awards are run by design100, an awards platform that aims to educate the public about design and improve business acumen within the industry. Open to both emerging and professional designers, as well as to those who commission design, participants can enter into any of the six major categories − Space, Visual, Object, Fashion,
Experience and Marketplace − as well as be in the running for excellence in sub-categories such as products and furnishings, architecture, interiors, landscape design, advertising, photography, digital media and many more.
Winners for the Melbourne Design Awards 2012 were chosen by more than 4500 industry votes and close to 4000 public votes. The winners announced included BENT Architecture’s ‘Cloud House’ (featured in the next issue of Grand Designs Australia magazine on sale at the end of October) and Living Places’ ‘Suburban Revival’ projects, studio505’s work on the Wintergarden Façade in Brisbane, cSigns lighting exhibition, ‘cBraille’, for people who are blind, and Molecule’s ‘Grong Grong’ design of a residential home in Toorak.
The highlight of the 2012 awards, however, was the huge increase in industry and consumer participation. Via online media, industry members and consumers were able to have their say on whom they thought had the best design for each category. “We’ve been overwhelmed with the input from the industry… The awards have captured a wide survey of industry opinion. Beyond that, we’ve had over 100 per cent increase in marketplace input, with voting, sharing and entries from the marketplace,” says Mark Bergin.
For more information about the awards and a list of all the winners, visit the website below.
For more information:
Melbourne Design Awards
Web: www.melbournedesignawards.com.au
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