Finalists

somebody that i used to know - gotye

Animation

 

A music video for Gotye's (feat. Kimbra) song "Somebody that I used to know" that blends stop motion animation, live action cinematography, and body artistry to interpret this song for the screen.

 

Pain Summit Opener

Animation

 

A short film, sponsored by ANZCA, for the Pain Summit in Canberra, an important healthcare policy initiative attended by over 200 leading authorities in pain medicine. The purpose of the film was to convey the emotion

 

Swinburne University of Technology Advanced Technologies Centre

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

 

The Swinburne University Advanced Technologies Centre (SUT ATC) is a cutting edge Engineering focused facility for education and research, designed to be practical and flexible for future changes in education, while enriching and invigorating its occupants and the university. Precast concrete facades differentiate the building from the high rise glass boxes associated with commercial buildings and acknowledge the building’s non-commercial nature. The circular patternation and circular glazing of the facade, strengthen the buildings appearance and reference the contemporary preference for non-rectilinear geometries, currently researched by the engineering community occupying the building.

 

Victoria University Learning Commons & Exercise Sports Science

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

 

Victoria University in Footscray Victoria resolved to develop the ‘Institute of Sport, Exercise and Active Living’ as a world leader in the field of Sports Science and Biomechanics. The pursuit of such required a dynamic new building to facilitate, inspire and celebrate both athletes and researchers alike. The resultant expansive linear form gives rise to a new front to the campus that proclaims the arrival of a onetime trade school as a serious contender in the high stakes of higher education, and as the vanguard of progression in the post industrial heartland of Melbourne.

 

500 Bourke Street Podium Redevelopment

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

 

500 Bourke Street Melbourne is a key urban site within Melbourne’s CBD Law District. John Wardle Architects were engaged as the base building architects to redevelop the tower podium and adjoining retail precinct. The site includes the NAB office tower, constructed in the 1970s and a series of retail tenancies below street level and a landscaped garden setting fronting Little Bourke Street. The adjacent Supreme Court Dome to the north presented a distinct characteristic and urban setting for this new proposal. Place making was a key theme explored with the aspiration to create an enlivened series of new public spaces.

 

PEGS Junior Boys School

Architecture - Commercial - Constructed

 

PEGS Junior Boys School acknowledges and exploits its unusual urban condition, from the street its oversized silhouette dominates, from the sports ground the building is like a federation grandstand. The interior, especially upstairs where the shape of the building’s extrusion is expressed, is intriguing. We hoped to stimulate young boy’s imaginations. Is it Hogwarts? Is it Institutional? We wanted them to have a clear memory of the school life at the end of their junior years.

 

Sorrento House

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

By their very nature, weekenders and beach houses need to provide flexible accommodation so that when numbers swell — especially over long summer holidays — friends and family can be comfortably housed. For that reason Rob Mills always tries to provide separate living areas so that extended family and friends can stay with ease.

 

Queenscliff Residence

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

This house acts as an optical instrument, a series of devices that frame views beyond the abutting foreshore to the south toward the Heads of Port Phillip Bay. The most significant promenade through the house takes you from the street, along a gently stepped path, to the entry stair, where you are sufficiently elevated to appreciate the view as you arrive at the uppermost level. The careful choreography of this sequence is amplified by materiality and adjacencies: fine timber detailing, woven wicker and calacatta marble in the kitchen. The experience on entry is private and cocooned from the exterior. Once above, the views expand and are focussed on the horizon of the ocean to the south.

 

Finnon Glen

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

Finnon Glen farm house was a joint project by JCB architects and Doherty Lynch after the 2009 bushfires. A strong rectangular structure clad in black metal sheet with an interior which mimics the strong lines while also bringing warmth through its selection of timber and tile finishes.

 

Beach House, Point Lonsdale, Victoria

Architecture - Residential - Constructed

 

The building is a reflection of the owner’s passion for the outdoors and the many wonderful outdoor pursuits including; surfing, fishing, and surf life saving. A desire for a retreat whereby one could simply relax and entertain family and friends in comfortable interior spaces with an integral link to the outdoors. This was more about the connection with the ground rather than views of the water or the beach.

 

Catwalk Circus

Best Design Event

 

For their latest extravaganza, OC Communications & Events creates a roller coaster ride of orchestrated fashion chaos to a backdrop of music and video animation. Hosted by Stephanie Ryan-Smith with extraordinary performances by Circa Nica, Pole Divas and Patrick Studios, has assured that Catwalk Circus will be the FASHION highlight of 2011.

 

Bamboo

Digital Design - Mobile

 

Deloitte has long recognised the challenge of business continuity during times of crisis, specifically around providing dispersed staff with accurate and real-time information about the situation and their expected response. Deloitte brought together a team of risk advisory specialists, mobile application developers and usability subject matter experts to develop a new business continuity management (BCM) platform named Bamboo™. Bamboo™ allows staff to access, and act on, the most up-to-date business continuity, IT disaster recovery, crisis and incident management plans and procedures via their smartphone. Bamboo™ is a flexible and resilient application, capable of weathering a crisis.

 

West Gate Freeway Driving Simulator

Digital Experience - Games

 

ASPECT Studios digital team produced a serious game to simulate the West Gate freeway upgrade. The game is a high quality 3D interactive driving simulation of the new freeway system between Domain Tunnel and the West Gate bridge, where players must successfully navigate from entry to exit points. The game was deployed on the West Gate Freeway Alliance (WGFA) website, distributed to residents on CD and touch screen kiosks. ASPECT Studios worked closely with WGFA's lead engineers to accurately represent the complex new freeway design. The project received critical acclaim and was the first simulation of its kind.

 

Endota Day Spa

Digital Experience - Website

 

endota spa, a leader in the Australian spa market, approached Square Circle Triangle to create a website that would be a fluid extension of the endota brand and establish a benchmark for endota’s marketing and e-commerce.

 

Bankwest Public Website

Digital Experience - Website

 

Bankwest’s new online home, bankwest.com.au, offers a unique and differentiated website experience for personal, business and corporate customers. Through its website, Bankwest serves more than one million unique retail and business visitors a month, and attracts new customers with a range of tools that help them select, compare and apply for products online. Inspired by online shopping sites, the website encompasses a number of e-tools not seen elsewhere in the financial services industry: shopping basket-type functionality, filtering capabilities, user-generated comparison charts and ways to save products and share selections via social media. Deloitte and Bankwest were tasked with bringing the Bankwest ‘Happy Banking’ brand to life in the online experience and provide engaging, relevant and targeted content for users. The proposition, messaging and creative treatment of this website represent Bankwest’s brand promise and it offers a satisfying online experience.

 

Alaress - Digital Agency

Digital Experience - Website

 

Any designer would probably agree that the hardest creative work is designing for yourself. Through an iterative design process that saw at least twenty design concepts burned previously, our team finally felt satisfied that we had a winner. The new Alaress company website. It's been epic to say the least!

 

Hotels.com.au

Digital Experience - Website

 

Hundreds of hours of usability testing and design work resulting in a modern, simple and user friendly online platform for booking any hotel in the world. When it comes to online travel and modern websites, today’s users have very high expectations. Designing a user friendly and intuitive experience on top of so many complex functions, features and data was exceptionally challenging.

 

Have A Holiday On Us

Digital Experience - Website

 

Have a holiday without even leaving your desk... Experience for yourself an innovative Australian first with the application of digital facial recognition being used on moving footage to allow you to 'see' your online destination like never before.

 

AHRI Convention Gala dinner

Event Experience - Business

 

The AHRI annual Convention social highlight is the black-tie gala dinner and this year's theme was the Moroccan spice market. Our scope included developing the theme and styling to ensure that it was integrated across all key design areas of the printed invitation & program, the room appearance, props, the lighting design, the screen graphics and entertainment.

 

Paper Plane Academy

Event Experience - Consumer

 

Ever wanted to take to the skies and let your imagination soar? Kids of all ages explore their creativity in a hands-on way with the Paper Plane Academy. Now everyone can make, design and build their flying creations and test them out in a purpose built aerial playground – the obstacle course of the sky.

 

Oscar Calvo Autumn/Winter 2011

Fashion Design - Menswear

 

My latest Collection captures the contemporary genre and injects the menswear fashion scene with its unique brand of modern and sexy wearable offerings for the active urban man.

 

Merchant Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

 

“An Osteria is a laid-back place to enjoy food, drinks and good company.” Guy Grossi presented the CIP Creative team with the challenge of designing the theme and collateral for his new Venetian inspired restaurant, Merchant. His dream was to create a strong Venetian Osteria in the heart of Melbourne.

 

PM24 Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

 

After opening and operating several successful high-end restaurants in Melbourne, The Press Club Group wanted to open a French Bistro to be run by acclaimed French Chef Philippe Mouchel. CIP was engaged to create the brand, follow through to design and produce any associated printed collateral and signage.

 

Emporium Brand Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

 

Emporium is a new retail precinct in the heart of Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall. Home to luxury fashion brands and exciting food and beverage offers Emporium is set to be a standout retail destination fro Melbourne shoppers.

 

Newton Kerr + Partners Brand Identity

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

 

As cost consultants and quantity surveyors — everything NK+P do is defined by a number. They're the accountants of the construction industry… where to from here!

 

Designed in Australia

Graphic Design - Corporate Identity and Branding

 

Designed in Australia, celebrating Australian design quality and innovation as a point of difference to local and international markets.

 

Westfield Sydney

Graphic Design - Environmental Graphics

 

We completed the wayfinding and signage system for Westfield's new flagship store in Sydney's CBD. The new development is one of Sydney's premier retail destinations, built around the Sydney Central Tower, the new development caters for over 21 million shoppers each year.  

 

City of Whitehorse Signage Strategy

Graphic Design - Environmental Graphics

 

Create a municipal wide signage strategy for the City of Whitehorse tackling identity, branding, accessibility and sustainability. The team understood the need for the final design outcomes to strike the right balance between sustainable aspirations and the pragmatic demands of Council's corporate identity system and maintenance regimes while delivering a contemporary family of signage sympathetic to its placement within the natural and urban settings.

 

Design institute of Australia 6 x 6 Speaker Night

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

 

The Top 10x10 series is a fast paced, informative, showroom-based forum that attracts over 200 professional designers each year. Top 6x6 was held at Space Furniture's spectacular showroom in Richmond, facilitating both the social and educational aspects of the event. The theme for Top 6x6 was 'Design Icons'. Six of Australia's leading designers presented a personal selection of six of their favourite designs and the reasons for their choice. They could be environments, objects, graphics or experiences.

 

Project Otherwise

Graphic Design - Illustration and Type

 

Project Otherwise is a network of ideas about living otherwise that will lead to a sustainable future. This network brings young and enthusiastic people together online and in person to make the connections that help bridge the gap between these ideas and action. It is our goal to connect social entrepreneurs, eco-visionaries, cultural pioneers and curious individuals to knowledge, skills, projects and initiatives that will enable individuals to live better with less.

 

Emporium Melbourne Leasing Kit

Graphic Design - Packaging

 

Emporium is a new retail precinct in the heart of Melbourne's Bourke Street Mall. Home to luxury fashion brands and exciting food and beverage offers Emporium is set to be a standout retail destination for Melbourne shoppers.

 

Cardinia Village

Graphic Design - Publication

 

How do you communicate a message of a new boutique and eclectic community, in a project brochure for an infill residential development site in Officer/Cardinia (Melbourne's outer South East)?

 

Cirrus

Installation Design - Exhibit

 

‘Cirrus’ is an installation formed by thousands of hand folded origami chatterboxes. It works within the parameters of a modulated surface, where suspension allows the piece to stretch and interact with different intensities of light. The light filters gently through the matted opacity of the Tyvek sheets enlivening the density of the surface.

 

Peet in the North

Installation Design - Exhibit

 

How do you create a land sales office space that evokes the right emotion to motivate a prospective buyer to 'fall in love' with the property without even seeing it! This space creates a sense of brand and aims to communicate that through visual display.

 

St.Kilda road residence

Interior Decoration

 

This arpartment is on the 15th floor with spectacular views of the botanical gardens and the city skyline. We were given empty spaces to transform into liveable, comfortable, beautiful spaces that would suit a family with two teenage children.

 

Tongue

Interior Design - Corporate

 

Tongue is a new and exciting "ideas agency" with Jonathen Pease at the helm

 

Hospira

Interior Design - Corporate

 

Artillery was appointed to work with Hospira to establish a detailed accommodation brief for a new workplace that would see staff from 3 separate locations come together ‘under one roof’. A relatively new brand in the Australian market, Hospira saw the opportunity to use the project to increase brand presence and awareness, not only externally but amongst their own employees who were to some degree were operating in silos.

 

Legalsuper

Interior Design - Corporate

 

Designed to draw inspiration from a local icon, the Eureka tower, the reception and boardroom of Legalsuper aims to create a subtle dialogue between the urban context and the interior.

 

Yarra Lane Precinct

Interior Design - Hospitality

 

HASSELL was involved in the design of three outlets: Outpost Dining Room, Mopho and Deba. Each outlet, with different clients, reflects the broader precinct aspiration to balance diversity design outcomes within the lane way. Each outlet is designed to feel as though a unique entity, allowing the lane way to be characterised by the diversity of individual shops; a village high street.

 

Crown Metropol

Interior Design - Hospitality

 

Distinctive, vibrant and unmistakably modern, the 28-level Crown Metropol hotel features a unique wave-like shape, sleek podium entry, 658 spacious, light-filled guestrooms, a luxurious day spa, sky bar and terrace on Level 28, Gordon Ramsay’s maze restaurant, a comprehensive Business and Meeting facility, plus a world-class training and recruitment facility. The sensual, fluid S-form of the hotel tower and podium creates an interior experience that is continually revealed for the guest. Intimate, inviting and slightly mysterious interiors are created within this sinuous architectural envelope. These qualities are essential to the boutique attitude of the hotel.

 

Maze Restaurant

Interior Design - Hospitality

 

maze restaurant is located on level one of the Metropol hotel. maze is Metropol hotel’s only restaurant and seats 300 patrons. The restaurant evokes the sophistication of Ramsay’s brand . maze offers a welcoming place to eat for the very first hotel guest at breakfast through to appealing to diners looking for a special restaurant experience. Bates Smart have successfully created a boutique, personal experience in the setting of a large hotel restaurant. maze occupies the sculptural architectural podium form perched outside the main tower of Metropol hotel. This inside / outside quality has been celebrated in the interior.

 

Mister Close

Interior Design - Hospitality

 

The two owners of Mister Close met in high school in the 1980s, and formed a strong friendship that has lasted several decades. When deciding to go into business together, the drew inspiration from those years, naming the cafe after their favourite Geography teacher from year 8. Sporting a striking black moustache and dark rimmed glasses, Mister Close was loved by many of his students. Mister Close inspired his students to better things, a good analogy for the location of the cafe that bears his name.

 

Imaging @ Olympic Park

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

 

Imaging @ Olympic Park is Medical imaging and invasive treatment centre located on the ground floor of Melbourne’s Iconic rectangular stadium The focus of I@OP is the diagnosis and treatment of injured sports people with world leading equipment and cutting edge medical procedures. JDA’s challenge was to design a fitout that clearly expressed our clients philosophy by a built form that set it apart from other medical facilities and was clearly a “STATE OF THE ART “ centre.

 

Brownless Biomedical Library

Interior Design - Public or Institutional

 

Brownless Biomedical Library is an entirely internal upgrade to an existing 1960’s building at the University of Melbourne. The space has been completely re-invented to provide an attractive 24-hour student centre within the library. The old spaces transformed from worn, rigid and uninspired into a no-holds-barred new learning environment.

 

Bathroom Renovation

Interior Design - Residential

 

This 1970's bathroom had a typical layout for the era. One main room housed a bath and vanity, then within that same room a separate toilet and a separate shower room. A complete design and renovation was required.

 

Moonee Ponds Residence

Interior Design - Residential

 

The clients appreciation of art and collectables and their willingness to be bold was the basis of this project. Strong use of colour , playfulness and a narrative were elements drawn on to create comfortable,beautiful and livable spaces. This was reflected in overscaled, bright coloured display units in the hallway and the use of toille wallpaper dipicting modern day life in London by Timorese Beasties in the dinning room. The flow between spaces was the narrative that defined the way in which the clients chose to use their home ; from front room home office to the sanctuary of the back.

 

Finnon Glen

Interior Design - Residential

 

Finnon Glen farm house was a joint project by JCB architects and Doherty Lynch after the 2009 bushfires. A strong rectangular structure clad in black metal sheet with an interior which mimics the strong lines while also bringing warmth through its selection of timber and tile finishes.

 

Kryolan Cosmetics Australia

Interior Design - Retail

 

Kryolan was founded in Germany 66 years ago as a professional makeup and cosmetics company. In 1978 Marshal Caffyn, an Australian pharmacist, started to produce and offer the range to performers of film, stage and TV. More recently the company’s product has become highly sought after by the general beauty market. Kryolan chose to relocate their literally ‘underground’ shop to a new space on Little Collins Street and commissioned Artillery to design the new space. The cultural market shift, history, science and functional requirements became the catalyst for informing the design process.

 

Paul & Joe

Interior Design - Retail

 

Doherty Lynch was engaged by luxury French brand Paul & Joe to create a store within a shopping mall. The design had to reflect key brand positioning such as Paul & Joe’s French heritage and love of quirkiness in bespoke detailing. However, it was also important that the store have it’s own personality and individual charm, plus it was necessary to do so in a local context with the local shopper top-of-mind.

 

Crumpler Doncaster

Interior Design - Retail

 

The Crumpler Doncaster store aims to reinvent the notion of a traditional retail interior and its components. Design to be considered as a woven object rather than a store, the notion of a traditional shopfront is shifted from being highly transparent into a kinetic and dynamic element that shifts from clear to solid depending on the perspective of the viewer.

 

’The Spirit of Barak Trail’ The Green Spine Chirnside Park

Landscape Architecture

 

The 'Green Spine' is a sustainable, green gateway to the Shire of Yarra Ranges, along one of its major roads – Maroondah Highway. The spine delivers on multiple roles; it creates an easily identifiable ‘green lung’ and 'heart' for the Chirnside Park Major Activity Centre and a ‘sustainable’ brand and identity for the Shire, it provides a shared pathway with links to neighbouring areas, it delivers improvements in storm water quality via swales, rain gardens and ephemeral wetlands; and it captures solar energy to light the shared path.

 

500 Bourke Street Podium Redevelopment

Lighting Design

 

500 Bourke Street Melbourne is a key urban site within Melbourne’s CBD Law District. John Wardle Architects were engaged as the base building architects to redevelop the tower podium and adjoining retail precinct. The site includes the NAB office tower, constructed in the 1970s and a series of retail tenancies below street level and a landscaped garden setting fronting Little Bourke Street. The adjacent Supreme Court Dome to the north presented a distinct characteristic and urban setting for this new proposal. Place making was a key theme explored with the aspiration to create an enlivened series of new public spaces.

 

Let's Get It Started

Motion

 

A song that came together after Paris thought how Nick Cave might write a poem about a young, attractive, creative couple that forgot how to have sex.

 

somebody that i used to know - gotye

Motion

 

A music video for Gotye's (feat. Kimbra) song "Somebody that I used to know" that blends stop motion animation, live action cinematography, and body artistry to interpret the song for the screen.

 

Newcastle Museum

Photography

 

The brand identity and promotional campaign for the Newcastle Museum. The museum is a nationally significant, state of the art, new museum in the heart of Newcastle’s cultural precinct.

 

27L Clipaway Touch Top Kitchen Bin

Product Design - Consumer

 

Overview Willow’s 27L Touch Top Clipaway Kitchen Bin offers an attractive, functional way to secure and conceal a liner bag inside the bin and a top that opens in two ways – with the large red button which operates a spring loaded lid and with a hinged lift-up top for larger items. The Clipaway feature secures the bin liner, ensuring it does not collapse within the bin, which improves waste management and keeps the bin clean.

 

Pebble Collection

Product Design - Accessories and Jewellery

 

An innovative range of necklaces and earrings made of anodized aluminium, neoprene rubber and silver. The modular necklace incorporates anodized aluminium ‘stones’ with neoprene rubber lariat. The pebbles are carved out of a solid block, with a channel running along its outer diameter, allowing the rubber to embed perfectly into the metal and create a seamless fusion of colour and texture. The earrings feature a flat plane that is framed by a silver contour. Created in four colours and four organic shapes, they are designed to form various pairs based on either shape or colour; making them interchangeable.

 

mettle - Fair Trade

Product Design - Accessories and Jewellery

 

mettle - Fair Trade is the brainchild of a Melbourne based fashion designer who has worked within the industry for a number of years, both locally and abroad in London and Paris for design houses such as Alexander McQueen and Martin Grant. Each piece is hand made, fair trade, limited edition treasures made from recycled bomb shell metal used by the Khmer Rouge. The entire range is produced in Cambodia within a small, non-profit income generation and skill training project. All pieces are finished to the highest quality standards and aim to combine contemporary styling with ethical consumption.

 

This is Accessories Collection

Product Design - Accessories and Jewellery

 

This is® originated in Melbourne in 2007, with Bonnie’s debut product This is a Trivet. This is a Trivet, is about repurposing offcut Corian® materials to create something new. In other words it adds value to waste offcuts and helps to turn them into a desirable object. Inspired and infatuated by the material, Bonnie continued to explore and transform the bench top Corian® material into wearable accessories. The designs are inspired by the flexibility of the material and each piece is handmade with no two being identical.

 

b.sirius

Product Design - Accessories and Jewellery

 

b.sirius is an established Melbourne based company designing a unique range of accessories inspired by natures organic colors, forms and figures. b.sirius lovingly creates a fun story of fabrics that are crafted into a playful range of bags and accessories created to keep you feeling fresh and inspired each season.

 

Ellipse

Product Design - Architectural and Interior

 

The Ellipse tissue dispenser provides an elegant, functional and unique solution to the standard tissue box. Floating a naked stack of tissues on an elegant bamboo tray, a stainless steel weight allows individual tissues to be drawn easily and without disruption.

 

Pieces of Porcelain dinnerware

Product Design - Architectural and Interior

 

The integration of computer generated textured vessels, rapid prototyping technology and traditional porcelain slip casting techniques to produce a range of functional, beautifully coloured porcelain dinnerware for everyday use.

 

Touch

Product Design - Lighting

 

Touch is a new Melbourne designed and manufactured light which comes in pendant, chandelier and table versions. Touch is made from spun aluminium or locally hand blown glass.

 

Construction Knitting Patterns

Textile + Surface Design - Fashion

 

The Construction Knitting project is created through a collaboration between knitwear designer Nikki Gabriel, and graphic designer Anthony Chiappin. Construction Knitting Patterns and recycled Wooli Yarn, are a DIY knitting package created to stimulate a new interest in knitting that is relevant to our current design culture, as opposed to the nanna-craft it is commonly associated with. By engaging recycled materials into the project and fusing contemporary graphic design imagery to communicate the structural knitting instructions, this project attempts to transform the idea of the conventional knitting pattern into a contemporary print media design collectible, and in function create an experience where pleasure and fashion are linked by awareness and responsibility.

 

Pillow Poet

Textile + Surface Design - Interior

 

Pillow Poet awoke one morning from quite the most splendid sleep and with quite the most marvellous idea. To create a range of pillowcases that could transfer poetic genius and profound knowledge directly to the brain while you sleep. The rest as they say is poetic history! Pillow Poets eminent and illustrious talents are revealed to an astounded and delighted band of sleepers. Now every man woman and child on the planet can, Wake Up a Genius.