Entries open: 2025 Australian Good Design Awards

Entries are open for the 2025 Australian Good Design Awards - a program celebrating design projects that positively impact people, place and planet.

The Australian Good Design Awards features 30 awards subcategories encompassed within 13 overarching design discipline categories. These overarching categories include Built Environment; Communication Design; Concept Design; Design Research; Design Strategy; Digital Design; Engineering Design; Fashion Impact; Next Gen (Under 30s); Policy Design; Product Design; Service Design, and Social Impact.

Within the Built Environment category are four subcategories, including:

The 2024 awards program saw Hurlstone Memorial Reserve Community Centre by Sam Crawford Architects win the Architectural Design division, Glenthorne National Park - Ityamaiitpinna Yarta Nature Playground by TCL, Karl Winda Tefler and Tikana Tefler, and PPA (Architecture) win the Place Design subcategory, and Hidden: Seven Children Saved at Melbourne Holocaust Museum ­by Art Processors win the Installation Design section.

The deadline for entries is 2 May 2025. Judging will take place between May-July, followed by an awards ceremony on 17 October at ICC Sydney. To find out more about the program, visit the Australian Good Design Awards website.