Design awards

The Australian Good Design Awards continues a long and proud legacy of showcasing the very best in design and innovation to a global audience. The Awards are one of the longest-running international design awards in the world, promoting excellence in design and innovation since 1958. Each year, the Awards attract new and innovative design projects from around the world, celebrating the very best in all areas of design, architecture, engineering, research, fashion and social impact.

The Australian Interior Design Awards recognise and celebrate interior design excellence via a credible, industry-based program, which is backed by the Design Institute of Australia, the professional body representing Australian designers.

The Australian Timber Design Awards competition is open to build environment professionals and students who want to showcase their built design and/or building projects in residential and/or public or commercial buildings that feature timber structures or finishes. The aim of the Awards is to develop a timber design ethos through the encouragement and showcasing of superlative timber design in a variety of applications.

The intent and scope of the Australian Urban Design Awards is wide-ranging and attracts entries for initiatives, built projects and publications that will make a significant difference to the places, spaces, buildings and infrastructure of our cities and towns.

The AUSTRALAIN Design Awards is an open nomination program covering the whole of Australia and features Elevated winning projects from our Australia Award Capitals – Melbourne and Sydney. It’s time to recognise the courage, excellence and diversity of design lead projects that are transforming Australia into the future that we collectively imagine and want to create.

The Designers Australia Awards bring together Australia's broad design community to celebrate ethical, innovative, impactful design – highlighting and honouring work defined by quality. The Designers Australia Awards are presented by the Design Institute of Australia and are the ultimate industry recognition for Australian designers.

The GOV Design Awards celebrate the courage of both commissioners and creators design projects within the government, community and public sectors. Nominations are across space, object, visual and experience design categories, culminating in the best project, best transformation and best innovation awards.

The Resene Total Colour Awards recognise outstanding use of colour. They celebrate the best of the best. Resene has a long history of colour with colours like Resene Spanish White and Resene Pearl Lusta created long ago still continuing to be top choices for decorators today. With thousands of Resene colours available, there's no point having all these colours if they aren't being used, which led to the creation of the Resene Total Colour Awards in 2011 to celebrate and encourage creative use of colour. It has run annually since then.

The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards is the most important and influential design competition for food and beverage spaces worldwide. It recognises and celebrates the world's most creative spaces and the people behind them.

We’re in exciting times, where tech and innovation are creating an infinite realm of possibilities. The key to making those possibilities reality is extraordinary design.  The Sydney Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.

The Design Files + Laminex Design Awards is an awards program designed to acknowledge the designers, architects and makers who contribute to Australia’s vibrant creative community. This is an awards program which recognises the diverse creative fields which make up modern Australia, from small scale, handcrafted practices, to Residential Architecture, Interior Design, and Landscape Design. From established to emerging creatives, home studios to globally recognised design firms, these awards bring together the very best in Australian design and creativity.

The annual TikTok Young Lions Competition for Australia, participation in this competition is not only a hugely rewarding experience for Australia’s young guns – it could change your career forever. Entries are open to teams of two young communications professionals across five categories: Design, Digital, Film, Marketing and Media.