Design Victoria is a Victorian Government initiative delivered by RMIT University in collaboration with industry stakeholders to increase the competitive skills of designers in local and export markets, while developing the design innovation and excellence capabilities of small to medium enterprises in Victoria.
Design Victoria strives to create:
- innovative Victorian Industries, where design is a value driver underpinning
- competitiveness and export performance
- a more creative and commercial design sector; and
- new markets for Victorian design and designers.
Through the Business Ready and Design Ready programs, Design Victoria partners with leading professional associations, business experts, peak industry groups and associations, tertiary education institutions and government to achieve the highest standard of outcomes.
Design Victoria’s Programs
Victoria’s Industry: Design Ready
Design Ready demonstrates to Victorian SMEs how to use design to create innovative profitable products and services to improve their competitiveness and increase export performance. Design Ready will create design savvy businesses that understand and are able to use design strategically to drive business growth.
Victoria’s Design Sector: Business Ready
Business Ready builds the competitiveness of Victoria’s design sector through greater engagement with industry and improved export performance. The programs cerates Business Ready design firms able to compete locally and internationally.
A Bank of Design Information: Design Knowledge
Design Knowledge produces and distributes research findings that provide a better understanding of the economic, environmental, cultural and social impacts of design. Design Knowledge provides a rich source of information supporting the use of design through Case Studies, Research, Hot Topics and How to Kits.
Design for the Community: State of Design
The annual State of Design Festival, delivered by the State of Design Alliance, strengthens the broader community’s appreciation of Victorian design and builds Victoria’s international reputation as a centre of design leadership. The State of Design Festival is a dynamic program of events, exhibitions and workshops, conferences and seminars showcasing design excellence.
At the heart of the State of Design Festival is the biennial Premier’s Design Awards.
Design Victoria works closely with the State of Design Alliance to deliver events on the business of design and to promote the festival.
- Click here to access State of Design’s website.
- Click here to download an Overview of Design Victoria.
- Click here to access Design Victoria’s Design Ready and Business Ready programs
- Click here to access Design Victoria's Design Knowledge base.
- Click here to read the Victorian Government’s media release launching the Design Victoria strategy.