Entries Now Open – new for 2009 – Jewellery Design

Australasian Student Design Awards 2009

Sustainable Design – design for the environment

Calling all emerging designers. this much-acclaimed and keenly contested DIA awards program gives design students and institutions the chance to show their best work to the entire country and win valuable prizes.

The Australasian Student Design Awards 2009 program is now open to all Australian and New Zealand full time students currently studying or recently graduated from their final year Diploma, 3rd or 4th year Advanced Diploma or 3rd or 4th year Degree, in 2nd semester 08 or 1st semester 09.

Australia and New Zealand’s Best

The DIA invites tertiary institutions to nominate their top students per category disciplines: Interior Design, Interior Decoration, Furniture Design, Graphic Design & Visual Communication, Textile Design, Industrial Design, Exhibition & Display Design and, new for 2009 – Jewellery Design.

“Overall each year the entries are outstanding; it’s very difficult to make a decision due to the students high standards of design and presentation” said Geoff Fitzpatrick FDIA, National Strategy Director.

Sustainable design emphasis All entries must demonstrate a significant awareness of environmentally sustainable design practice, as this is one of the main judging criteria.

Exhibited at designEX The Australasian Student Design Awards will viewed by over 20,000 of designers, businesses, and the public, over the three day designEX event at the Melbourne Convention Centre on April 30 – May 2 2009.

Prizes The 2009 prize pool includes thousands of dollars in cash, vouchers, design products, software, and DIA memberships. Past winners and finalists have gone onto reap enormous success in Australia and globally. Most recently, Leigh Ryan who received the Industrial Design Award 2008, was snapped up by international design company, Dyson.

For more information please contact:

Caroline Benzie

National Program & Events Officer

cbenzie@design.org.au

Tel 1300 888 056