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Take a tour of the prestigious 2008 Premier's Design Awards in the Virtual Pavilion

Set up in the ‘virtual’ space on your computer, between the Melbourne Museum and the Melbourne Exhibition Buildings, the amazing ‘Virtual Pavilion’ designed by Tom Kovac in partnership with the Design Research Institute at RMIT, will guide you through the award winning entries of the prestigious Premier’s Design Marks as part of the State of Design Festival 2008.

Premier’s Design Mark recipients are designers and practices that have developed their skills and their creative processes to respond to the new, more demanding market conditions, producing exemplary approaches and outcomes that are perceived by the profession, clients and the community as a contribution to a sustainable future.

The awards identify and recognise Victorian design practices and professionals who deliver exceptional design across 11 categories including; interior, graphic, multimedia, landscape, set and textile design. Design quality is assessed by function, material, space and aesthetics that deliver value, provokes delight and anticipates our rapidly changing social and environmental conditions. This comprehensive list demonstrates the breadth of design skills and talent within Victoria.

Within each category, submissions could be made in commercial, cultural or self-initiated classes.

Commercial implies a project that has been privately commissioned for use within a business or commercial process. This includes commercial buildings, commercial interiors, commercially motivated products, graphic solutions for business, craft based products for multiple production and retail sale.

Cultural implies a project that is designed for use, exhibition or deployment in the public realm, for general public use or consumption – either as a community resource, an institution or a public commercial product/space.

Self-initiated implies that the entry has not been commissioned by a client for commercial purposes, but is generated by the designer (entrant) as a speculation, case study, exploration, or entrepreneurial idea that is mainly held within a non-commercial sphere.

The Premier’s Design Awards are a biennial awards program developed by the Victorian State Government. The awards recognise design practice excellence in Victoria and promote the value of outstanding design to business and the public both locally and internationally.

The official Premier’s Design Awards 2008 Exhibition is at the Melbourne Museum until 3 August.

To enter the Virtual Pavilion and begin your tour of the Premier’s Design Awards 2008, please click here.

To purchase the official catalogue of the Premier’s Design Awards Exhibition 2008 “Designing the future of Victoria” please click here.

Design Victoria would like to congratulate all recipients of a 2008 Premier’s Design Mark.

Architecture
Australian Wildlife Centre, Minifie Nixon Architects, Cultural Architecture
Children's Activity Centre, PHOOEY Architects, Cultural Architecture
Monaco House, McBride Charles Ryan, Commercial Architecture
Nigel Peck Centre for Learning and Leadership, John Wardle Architects, Cultural Architecture
Seaford Life Saving Club, Robert Simeoni Architects, Cultural Architecture
Vaults Precinct, Six Degrees, Commercial Architecture

Exhibition Design
Conflicts 1945 to Today, Cunningham Martyn Design, Cultural Exhibition Design
Note To Herself Gallery, Eugene Cheah, The University of Melbourne, Cultural Exhibition Design

Fashion Design
Curtain, MATERIALBYPRODUCT, Cultural Fashion Design
Remake / Remix (Chiodo: The Tunnel), S!X, Commercial Fashion Design
Template, MATERIALBYPRODUCT, Commercial Fashion Design

Graphic Design
Heide Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Catalogues, Design By Pidgeon, Cultural Graphic Design
Measure, FOUNDRY, Commercial Graphic Design

Hand Made Objects
General Assembly, Studio Hacienda, Self-initiated Hand Made Objects
Paul the bookscreen, Studio Sam, Self-initiated Hand Made Objects
Trinity Buffet, Roseadora/John Waters, Commercial Hand Made Objects

Industrial/Product Design
Dog cycling inspired urban bag range, Catalyst Design Group, Commercial Industrial/Product Design
Green X-mas Tree, Büro North, Commercial Industrial/Product Design
Varian 900-LC series High Performance Liquid Chromatography instrument HPLC, CobaltNiche, Commercial Industrial/Product Design
VeggiePatch, Jo Szczepanska, Self-initiated Industrial/Product Design

Interior Design
1010 LaTrobe Street, Docklands, ARM (Ashton Raggatt McDougall), Commercial Interior Design
Dark Matter, The Spatial Research Group, Monash University, Cultural Interior Design
Deacons Law Tenancy, Sydney, Carr Design Group, Commercial Interior Design

Landscape Design
The Australian Garden, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, Commercial Landscape Design
Terra Fluxus, Rosalea Monacella & Craig Douglas, Cultural Landscape Design

Multimedia Design
Dynamic Map - Melbourne Museum, ENESS, Commercial Multimedia Design
Mission H2O, Multimedia Design Team, Swinburne University Faculty of Design, Cultural Multimedia Design

Textile Design
Sustainable Ecostyle, Sustainable Living Fabrics, Cultural Textile Design

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