Designers Australia Awards 2022 Shortlist revealed

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Outstanding Australian designers and design teams identified include Blackmagic Design, Blundstone Australia and Monash University, Cobalt Design, Design Office, Ellis Jones, Grumpy Sailor Creative, JamFactory, Richards Stanisich and Woods Bagot.

The unique awards, a first for the industry, identify Australia's best designers and studios, emphasising the designer/s and their processes as much as the outcome. The awards recognise the most nuanced design thinking applied across the categories Place, Use, Interact and dissolve the traditional silos, reflecting a trend toward multi-disciplinary approaches and problem-solving. They replace conventional design categories such as industrial, interior, graphic, digital, product, environmental, textile, fashion, etc.

DIA President Gavin Campbell FDIA said:
"The DIA's awards value the designer's influence over process and purchasing, which is integral to quality design outcomes that shape a better world. We strive to highlight a designer/s ethics, conduct and capabilities, and processes. We believe that successful design outcomes embrace the circular economy and diversity and positively impact the environment and society."

Awards juror, Dean and Principal of LCI Melbourne Karen Webster commented:
"Good design is about the designer's process and outputs; great design considers these with the additional layer of social empathy and providing value to the broader community, now and into the future. The Designers Australia Awards recognise that design does not exist in a silo and that great designers surf across disciplines and cross-pollinate ideas."

The DIA values collaborative in-group decision-making that promotes trust, thoughtfulness, understanding, competency and responsiveness. The jury of eighteen local and international industry leaders include Kate Goodwin, Adam de Guara, Dale Hardiman, Liane Rossler, Thoman Skeehan, Ellie Stathaki, and Abdullah M.I. Syed.

All shortlisted designers are identified on the next page, each with a link to a dedicated section on the Designers Australia Awards website. Winners will be announced at simultaneous hybrid events culminating in five celebrations across the country, including Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, on Wednesday, 3 August 2022. Tickets are available here.

The Designers Australia Awards is sponsored by Dulux Acratex, Smeg and Wood Solutions.

PLACE representing the spaces we live, work, and play:

• Anthology for Smith Street Bistrot

• APS Design for Lucky Kwong

• Architectus for Macquarie University 1 Central Courtyard

• Bates Smart for Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street

• Brahman Perera for Entrecôte Prahran

• Carole Whiting Studio for Calabash Bay Lodge

• Cox Architecture for Midtown Workplace

• Cumulus for Goulburn Street Housing

• Das Studio for Esca Blewitt Springs

• de Fiddes for St Bernadette’s. Specialist Dementia Care Unit

• Design Paper for South32 Singapore

• Design Theory for Indigo Oscar

• Design Theory for Level 23, Exchange Tower

• Design Theory for Parley Bar

• DesignOffice for The Grosvenor Business Lounge

• Diadem for 180 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

• Dot Dash for Logan Village to Yarrabilba Rail Trail

• Edmiston Jones for Henry Brooks Estate Kanahooka

• Foolscap Studio for The Commons South Yarra

• Gensler for EY Melbourne Reimagined

• Hither Consulting for Vermont Terrace

• Hames Sharley for Hames Sharley Studio WA

• Kennedy Nolan for Always

• Luchetti Krelle for Jane

• Map Studio and Naomi Milgrom Foundation for MPavilion 2021, The Lightcatcher

• Mata Design Studio for Gage Roads Freo Brewery

• Milieu Creative for Andrews Place II

• Milieu Creative for Mineral Resources Headquarters, Osborne Park

• Monash Urban Lab for RetroFit Kit

• Neil Cownie Architect for 123 House

• Plus Architecture for Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA (CCIWA)

• RADS for Gladstone - The Cycad House

• Rezen for IGO

• Richards Stanisich for 9-15 Young Street

• Richards Stanisich for The Woollahra Hotel

• Russell & George for Society

• Russell & George for Yakimono

• Simon Modra Design for Nihon Black

• Simone Haag and Tom Robertson Architects and Studio Sly for Bassano

• Simone Haag for The Whiskey Room

• SITE Architecture Studio for Rockingham Youth Centre

• SJB for Powerhouse Museum and Eucalyptusdom

• Studio aem and Studio Gestalt for Harbour View House

• Studio Nine Architects for The Calyx Project by Forage Built

• Studio Quarters for Bondi Terrace

• The Design Cupboard for King Tide Brewing

• United Studio for St John Urgent Care Wayfinding

• Whistle Design Group for Hemmings Street Dandenong Public Art Installation

• Woods Bagot for ABN Group HQ Leederville

• Woods Bagot for BDO Perth

• Woods Bagot for Curtin Co-Working Space

USE describing things we use:

• Advanced Navigation for Hydrus

• Blackmagic Design for Blackmagic ATEM Mini Extreme

• Blackmagic Design for Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 6K Pro

• Blackmagic Design for Blackmagic Studio Camera

• Blundstone Australia and Monash University (SensiLab and Design Health Collab) for Blundstone Intelligent Footwear

• Breville for 'an Aboriginal Culinary Journey' by Breville

• Charlwood Design for Dsmile

• Cobalt Design for Cobalt - magAssist VAD Heart Pump

• Dave Kay for Roman Shower

• DesignByThem for Olio Armchair, design collaboration by Christina Bricknell, Sarah Gibson & Nicholas Karlovasitis

• Edward Linacre and Danielle Brustman for Meteorite

• Foolscap Studio for Soufflé

• grazia&co for Catch Light

• JamFactory for Heli Pendant Light

• Monash University for miEye - Wearable Light Sensor

• Nüüd studio and Naomi Milgrom Foundation for MPavilion 2021 Dancer Chair

• Returnr / Cumulo Group for Returnr Marketplace

• Russell & George for Lil Chair

• Simon Modra Design for Hexadeca

• Sans-Arc for Bankston Architectural x Sans Arc: Super Collection

• Street and Garden Furniture Co. for Street + Garden Studio

INTERACT depicting what or who we interact with:

• Balarinji for Nation Brand Mark

• CO-architecture for CO-architecture & Australian Architecture Job Board

• Culture as Creative, Beyond the Built Environment and Sandra Githinji Studio for Say It Loud Naarm Melbourne 2022

• Design IS: for Port Melbourne Secondary College brand strategy and design

• Ellis Jones for Worth Holding Onto

• Exhibition Studios for Underground

• Grumpy Sailor Creative for How to Move a Zoo

• Ian Wong and Monash University for Victorian Premier's Design Awards Showcase

• Monash University XYX Lab for Keep Running

• Monash University XYX Lab for YourGround