The 2026 Australian Good Design Awards are now open for entry. This year, the Awards Design that Leads is celebrated. Whether your work listens deeply, innovates boldly, cares responsibly or transforms systems, leadership in design takes many forms. What unites award-winning projects is not scale or sector – it is clarity of purpose and meaningful impact. The Good Design Winner’s Package provides winners with the opportunity not only to celebrate and promote their success, but to gain recognition and exposure to a global audience.

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Entries are officially open for 2025 Australian Good Design Awards, celebrating the very best in design and innovation. This year’s theme, “Rewarding, Defining and Celebrating Better ______.”, invites exploration of what “better” means in today’s world – whether through better products, services, spaces, experiences, or beyond. From reimagining workplaces and user interfaces to transforming branding and buildings, the potential for design to shape a better world is limitless. The Good Design Winner’s Package provides Award winners with the opportunity not only to celebrate and promote their success but to gain recognition and exposure to a global audience.

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Good Design Australia is calling for game-changing design projects that improve our quality of life and contribute to a better, safer and more sustainable future to enter the 2024 Good Design Awards. This year’s theme, the Design Effect, aims to showcase the profound ripple effects that exceptional design can have on individuals, communities and the world. It’s about pushing boundaries, co-designing closely, challenging conventions and harnessing the power of imagination to positively transform the ways we live, work, interact, strategise and lead. Each year the Good Design Awards attract new and innovative design projects from around the world, celebrating the very best in design and architecture across 11 main design disciplines and spanning more than 30 categories.

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Good Design Australia is calling for game-changing design projects that improve our quality of life and contribute to a better, safer and more sustainable future to enter the 2023 Good Design Awards. Now in their 65th year, the Good Design Awards continues a long and proud legacy of showcasing the best in design and innovation to a global audience. The Awards are Australia’s highest design honor and have been recognizing and rewarding design excellence since 1958. Each year the Awards attract new and innovative design projects from around the world, celebrating the very best in design and architecture across 11 main design disciplines and spanning more than 30 categories.

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Good Design Australia is calling for game-changing design projects that improve our quality of life and contribute to a better, safer and more sustainable future to enter the 2022 Good Design Awards. Now in their 64th year, the Good Design Awards continues a long and proud legacy of showcasing the best in design and innovation to a global audience. The Awards are Australia’s highest design honor and have been recognizing and rewarding design excellence since 1958. Each year the Awards attract new and innovative design projects from around the world, celebrating the very best in design and architecture across 11 main design disciplines and spanning more than 30 categories.

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Good Design Australia is calling for game-changing design projects that improve our quality of life and contribute to a better, safer and more sustainable future to enter the 2021 Good Design Awards. Now in their 63rd year, the Good Design Awards continues a long and proud legacy of showcasing the best in design and innovation to a global audience. The Awards are Australia’s highest design honor and have been recognizing and rewarding design excellence since 1958. Each year the Awards attract new and innovative design projects from around the world, celebrating the very best in design and architecture across 12 main design disciplines and spanning more than 30 categories.

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Good Design Australia is calling for Australian and international entries to the 2020 Good Design Awards. Now in its 62nd year, the Good Design Awards has a long and proud legacy of promoting the best in design to a global audience. A diverse spectrum of design is represented across 11 main design disciplines spanning 28 categories. Australia’s Good Design Awards annual program recognizes and celebrates excellence in cutting edge design and breakthrough innovation.

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Good Design Australia is accepting entries for 2018, for its annual Awards program – open to all designers and innovators worldwide. Professionally designed products, services, projects or experiences designed in Australia or overseas are eligible. Judged by a panel of industry experts, the winning entries will receive widespread exposure via mainstream media, digital and social media channels, Sydney exhibitions and national and international trade fairs and exhibitions, among many other benefits.

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Good Design Australia has started accepting entries for 2017, for its annual Awards program–open to all designers and innovators worldwide. Professionally designed products, services, projects or experiences designed in Australia or overseas are eligible to enter. Judged by a panel of industry experts, the winning entries will receive widespread exposure via mainstream media, digital and social media channels, Vivid Sydney exhibitions and national and international trade fairs and exhibitions, amongst many other benefits.

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Good Design Australia has recently opened entry in their annual Awards program and invites all designers and innovators around the world to participate in the competition for 2016. The Program recognizes and rewards excellence in design, innovation and creativity at a national and international level, in seven main design disciplines, across more than 25 categories. The main entry categories are: Product Design, Service Design, Digital Design, Communication Design, Architectural Design, Business Model Design and Social Innovation; and each category has different criteria.

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