The winners of Australia’s peak international design awards were announced during the 2021 Good Design Awards Week. The Good Design Awards are the highest honour for design and innovation in the country and reward projects across 12 design disciplines and 30 subcategories.
DecoCeiling received a prestigious Good Design Award Gold Accolade in the Product Design category in recognition for outstanding design and innovation.
The Australian Good Design Awards is the country’s oldest and most prestigious international awards for design and innovation, with a proud history dating back to 1958. The awards celebrate the best new products and services on the Australian and international market, and excellence in architectural design, precinct design, engineering, fashion, digital and communication design. They reward new and emerging areas of design, including design strategy, social impact design, design research and up-and-coming design talent in the Next Gen category.
The 2021 Good Design Awards attracted a record number of submissions, with 933 design projects evaluated by more than 70 Australian and international jurors – designers, engineers, architects and thought leaders. Each entry was evaluated according to a strict set of design evaluation criteria, such as good design, design innovation and design impact. Projects recognized with an Australian Good Design Award demonstrate excellence in professional design and highlight the impact a design-led approach has on business success and social and environmental outcomes.
The Good Design Awards jury commented, “The DecoCeiling is professionally designed and well executed, with great flexibility offered by custom pattern options. The fire resistant properties of aluminium make for a compelling commercial offering, while still bringing warmth and texture to a room.”
Dr. Brandon Gien, CEO of Good Design Australia, said, “Receiving an Australian Good Design Award is testament to embedding design excellence at the heart of a product, service, place or experience. Although 2021 continues to be another challenging year, it is incredibly inspiring to see designers and businesses working together to find innovative, customer-centric design solutions to local and global challenges and to see them recognized and rewarded for their efforts through these prestigious Awards.”
“The importance of embracing good design principles is now more important than ever as many businesses around the world have had to completely re-think their business strategies to remain competitive. The standard of design excellence represented in this year’s awards is the best I’ve ever seen in my 25 years of running these awards, an encouraging sign that the design sector is flourishing,” Dr. Gien went on to say.
