Queensland Design Receives Top Accolades At Qdos Awards

Queensland Design Receives Top Accolades at qdos Awards

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Monday 5 October 2009

The overall winners for the Queensland Design on Show (qdos) Awards were unleashed at a Cocktail Event at the QUT Theatre Foyer, Gardens Point Campus in Brisbane on Friday night.

The 'Environmesh' by Infinity Design Development received the top design Award of Excellence Honours and a Gold Award in the Three Dimension Industrial Design category. Environmesh eliminates concrete cancer and is a clever application of mature technology for a traditional industry.

Qdos judge, Mike Simonian said the product is beautiful in its functional simplicity. "Its functionality is something only an installer and structural engineer can account for but the overall appearance, for example colour, makes it feel like a product that can be trusted, is cost effective and simply works," Mike said.

Australian designer, Jason Bird from Luxxbox received four awards on the night in the Three Dimensional category. Jason picked up two Gold Awards, one for Furniture Design for his Brainwash Collection, an espresso culture caf series of stools, tables and benches. The other Gold he received was in the Luminare Design category for Phase.

Jason also received two Silver Awards in the Furniture Design Category for Tingle and his Radii Collection. Tingle is a series of interior or exterior low seating and table collection incorporating a range of mix and match colours.

The stand-out contender for the night was Arkhefield who picked up seven awards in the Interior Design category, including three Gold Awards. Arkhefield received Gold Awards in the New Residential Design category for Elysium Lot 153, Best Use of Lighting category for 82 Eagle Street and Public Institutional Interior Design category for the UQ Rural Clinical School.

The Elysium development can be seen as a defining moment for residential architecture in South East Queensland. It creates memorable spaces through synthesising coastal living with regionally inspired sub-tropical modernism.

Arkhefield's three silver awards included Libertine and Coffee and Chocolate, both for Hospitality Design, One Macquarie for New Residential Design and Balmoral House for Refurbished Residential Design.

Among the designers receiving awards were Cottee Parker for their Public/Institutional Interior Design for Virgin Blue's Check in Lounge, Bigfish.tv for the Corporate Identity/Branding for Love and Rockets and Studio 13's designers from West End company; Street and Garden Furniture Company were awarded a silver award.

These along with the work of all other winners and finalists are on display in a public exhibition at QUT Art Museum, Gardens Point Campus until 25 October.

Presented by the Design Institute of Australia (Queensland Branch), the qdos Awards is now in its eighth year and it is the only program of its kind recognising design across a range of disciplines.


LIST OF AWARD RECIPIENTS

3D DESIGN
Furniture Design
GOLD - Jason Bird: Brainwash Collection
SILVER - Helena Kinnunen: istool
SILVER - Jason Bird: Tingle
SILVER - Jason Bird: Radii Collection

Luminarie Design
GOLD - Jason Bird: Phase
SILVER - Infinity Design: Viento XT

Industrial Design
GOLD - Infinity Design: Enviromesh + Award of Excellence

Built Environment Collaboration
GOLD HASSELL: HASSELL Brisbane Studio, Fortitude Valley, QLD
SILVER - Street and Garden Furniture Company: Studio 13
SILVER - Urban Art Project: 53 Albert Street

INTERIOR DESIGN

Hospitality Design
GOLD - Geyer Pty Ltd: 100 Creek Street Precinct Refurbishment
SILVER Arkhefield: Libertine
SILVER Arkhefield: Coffee & Chocolate

New Residential Design
GOLD Arkhefield: Elysium Lot 153
SILVER - Arkhefield + Design Vision: One Macquarie

Refurbished Residential Design
GOLD - PHORM architecture + design: Outlook Crescent
SILVER Arkhefield: Balmoral House

Corporate Design
GOLD HASSELL: HASSELL Brisbane Studio, Fortitude Valley, QLD + Award of Excellence
SILVER - HASSELL: Hatch Workplace, Brisbane, QLD

Retail Design
SILVER - studioplus* : Dental Space

Interior Decoration
SILVER Coop Creative: Sunshine Beach Apartment

Best Use of Lighting
GOLD Arkhefield: 82 Eagle Street
SILVER HASSELL: HATCH Workplace, Brisbane, QLD

Best Use of Colour
SILVER - Arkhefield: Libertine
GOLD HASSELL: HATCH Workplace, Brisbane, QLD

Public / Institutional Interior Design
SILVER - Cottee Parker Interiors: Virgin Blue Check In
GOLD - Arkhefield: UQ Rural Clinical School

VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Corporate Identity/Branding
GOLD - Bigfish.tv : Love and Rockets Corporate Identity

Literature Design
SILVER Lumino: Gadens Infrastructure Brochure

Publication Design
SILVER - QUT Fashion: Five: fashion musings
SILVER Nous: Queensland Theatre Company 2009 Season Subscriber Brochure

Packaging Design
GOLD - Lloyd Grey Design: Mother Meg's Fine Foods 2008 Seasonal Packaging

Environmental Graphic Design/Signage
SILVER - Lloyd Grey Design: Ansaldo Foyer Signage
SILVER - The Buchan Group: Fortitude Valley Station Refurbishment

Retail Display/ Exhibition Signage
GOLD - Donovan Hill / Wilson Architects / Department of Public Works / Ideas Festival: Q Garland + Award of Excellence

Digital Media
SILVER - Cutts Creative: Brisbane Festival Launch Invitation

EMERGING STUDENT DESIGN

Emerging Student in Three Dimensional Design
GOLD - Darren Giddy: Subway Sketch Design
GOLD - Void Furniture: Phillipa Bonney, Cassandra Donald, Elizabeth Scott, Daniel Way : Void
Furniture
SILVER - Asa Jonasson: Parkfriend
SILVER - Mark Boardman: inSURFhaler
SILVER - Anna Jacobsen: ResQ

Emerging Student in Visual Communication
SILVER - Ashlea O'Neill: QCA Art Theory Bookmarks
SILVER - Tara Darby: Research Higher Degree Catalogue (RHDC)

ENDS

MEDIA INFORMATION

For Awards Information: www.qdosawards.com
CONTACT: Anna Magnus qdos Awards Coordinator p: 0408111963
e: [email protected]

MEDIA CONTACT: Peta Ellis Publicist p: 07 38558852
e: [email protected]

HIGH RES IMAGES, JUDGES COMMENTS & DESIGN DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

qdos
Queensland Design on Show (qdos) is the voice of design excellence recognition in Queensland. This state Awards program, initiated and hosted by the Design Institute of Australia Queensland Branch, has been actively promoting Queensland Designers and their work since 2002.

The qdos Awards program has grown rapidly since its introduction and is now one of the most dynamic multidisciplinary Awards programs in Australia, attracting an exceptional range, depth and quality of entries from the Queensland design community.

qdos covers the broad disciplines of Visual Communication Design, Interior Design and Three Dimensional Design, and offers an extensive range of categories from Lifestyle Product to Corporate Identity/Branding; Luminaire Design to Built Environment Collaboration.

Overall Awards are given for considerable achievement in Design Innovation and Excellence as well as the Peoples' Choice Award which allows the general public to have their say on what they consider to be good design.

Launched in 2006, the DIA Queensland Smart State Designer of the Year Award recognises one of Queensland's top designers every year with a travel bursary sponsored by the Queensland State Government.

Events across the qdos calendar include a four day Judging Program, Awards Exhibition and Awards Gala Event.

DIA
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) is the voice of professional design in Australia and has been actively improving the community recognition and status of designers since 1947. DIA is the only multidisciplinary organization representing designers from all design disciplines in Australia. The organisation promotes the value of design and designers to industry, business, government and the community. DIA provides a vibrant networking base on a state, national and international level. Through its international affiliations, the DIA links its members with designers in over 40 countries.

DIA Queensland operates several initiatives to promote communication with designers, to provide a platform for discussing relevant industry issues and to assist designers improve business performance including:

* Queensland Design on Show (qdos) Awards Program
* DIAlogues Professional Development Seminar Series
* FRESH GRO UND Business Breakfast Series new in 2009
* Bubble and Speak Breakfast Series.



SOURCE: Design Institute of Australia (Queensland Branch)