DIA - Australasian Student Design Awards - Call for Entries

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Calling all emerging designers, the Design Institute of Australia’s Australasian Student Design Awards are now open for entries.

In recent years, Sustainable Design has moved past its pop-culture status to form a key requirement of any good design process.

Sustainable Designs allow us to live, work and play in such a way that is more efficient, profitable, secure and pleasurable but most importantly a way that does not compromise our future. Now as one of the defining ideas of the 21st century, Sustainability holds tremendous possibilities for designers.

The Design Institute of Australia’s Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) fosters the future of Sustainable Design practice by rewarding the region’s best emerging designers. As the foremost students design awards, the ASDA multidisciplinary program attracts an exceptional range, depth and quality of entries.

Now in its 15th year, the DIA presents the ASDA in conjunction with designEX. Entries will be judged and displayed at this premier interior architecture and design exhibition which attracts over 20,000 Australian and International design professionals.

The ASDA prize pool includes cash prizes, travel scholarships, art & design supplies, DIA memberships and ASDA certificates.

Why enter the ASDA?

The ASDA program offers great opportunities for young designers:

Expose your work to a national and international design audience
Gain positive public recognition of your skills as an innovative emerging designer
Gain peer recognition of your work
Launch your new design and ideas into the market place
Media attention through media releases circulated to major media outlets and features on the DIA Website, tri-annual Newsletter “Spark”, Facebook page and weekly E-Newsletter
Winning work will also be recognized by prizes and Australasian Student Design Awards 2010 Certificate

The ASDA program also offers opportunities for Tertiary Institutes:

Provide your graduates with a unique opportunity and advancement tools as they commence their professional careers.
Promote your school’s design capabilities to a national and international audience.

Categories

SPACE

Interior Design
Residential, commercial or retail applications: designs should consider and resolve the treatment of space and spatial volume, structural requirements, traffic flow, furniture, fixtures, furnishings, overall lighting plans, surface finish and sustainable design practices..

Interior Decoration
Residential or commercial applications: designs should consider surface decoration including colour applications in paint, fabric and furnishings, overall lighting plans and sustainable design practices.

Exhibition / Display Design
Trade, retail or exhibition applications: designs should outline furnishings, fixtures, display stands, signage, visitor flow, overall floor plan and sustainable design practices.

IMAGE

Visual Design
2D text, symbol or picture based applications: designs should have particular emphasis on clarity of communication, the matching of information styles to audience requirements and sustainable design practices.

OBJECT

Industrial Design
Object, light fixtures or packaging applications: designs should focus on functional and aesthetic aspects, human usage and behaviour, and sustainable design practices.

Jewellery Design
Wearable applications: designs should pay particular attention to ergonomic, functional and aesthetic aspects, and sustainable design practices.

Furniture Design
Movable object applications: designs should allow for all aspects of furniture that relate to human usage and behaviour, product appeal and sustainable design practices.

Textile Design
Fabric applications for use in furniture, soft furnishings, clothing, vehicles, finishes, plastics or other products: designs should consider aesthetic and functional aspects, materials, weights, textures and sustainable design practices.

Fashion Design – new 2010
Wearable applications: designs should include a focus on functional and aesthetic aspects, pay particular attention to relationship of the apparel to the human form and sustainable design practices.

Important Dates

17/3/10
Educators Registration Close

1/04/10
Entrant Nominations Close

9/04/10
Entrant Submissions Close

12-13/4/10
Pre-selection Process

22/4/10
Final Judging Process

22-24/4/10
designEX Exhibition
Sydney Convention& Exhibition Centre