Australasian Student Design Awards Results
May 25, 2009 | Levent OZLER
The DIA's hotly contested 2009 Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) concluded recently, with design students from Australian and New Zealand tertiary institutions submitting their best final year work for judging by some of the industry's most experienced designers.
The calibre of the work submitted resulted in the Overall Winner's Award being declared a tie - the first ever - judges being presented with eight category- winning entries, and a very difficult choice.
The judges commented that "while the two winning projects were widely different in their presented solutions, the quality of the work was outstanding in both, and the judges found it difficult to separate them."
Nazia Kachwalla (Interior Design) from the Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Ching Tan (Industrial Design) from Swinburne University in Melbourne, both received Awards of Excellence for their entries, with each student receiving an Eco-Design Internship at WSP Group and a $1,500 design travel grant to further their careers.
Caroline Benzie, DIA National Program and Events Officer, said that overall entries for the 2009 ASDAs were up sixty-three per cent on last year, a reflection of ASDA's rapidly increasing profile amongst design institutions throughout Australasia."ASDA is a program that rewards design excellence and proudly promotes the region's top tertiary students, the future of innovation and sustainable design practice," she explained.
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