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2020
ENTRY INFORMATION
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Design Institute of Australia
The Design Institute of Australia (DIA) is the organisation through which designers work for the future of the design professions in Australia.
As Australia’s peak industry body for professional design, the DIA represents Australian design and designers both domestically and internationally.
We exist to help Australia’s professional designers to succeed in business and to enjoy their working lives, while collectively growing Australia’s reputation as a Design Nation.
The DIA brings together design practitioners with people and organisations who employ, educate, commission, support and promote designers. As such, our membership includes design practitioners and participants in Australia’s design industry.
Graduate of the Year Awards
The Graduate of the Year Awards (GOTYA) is DIA’s flagship program for emerging designers, created to support and celebrate exceptional Australian designers as they embark on their careers.
This program is instrumental in providing tertiary institutions and design graduates with vital, real-life feedback from experienced designers and industry figures.
Tertiary institutions are invited to nominate their top graduates across various design disciplines.
Nominee portfolios are anonymously evaluated on their design excellence based on a transparent judging process and criteria. Finalists are interviewed by a panel of judges to determine their transferable workplace skills and predicted impact on the Australian design industry.
GOTYA winners have the opportunity to gain mentorships, win prizes, meet potential employers and most importantly receive acknowledgement and engagement from the design community.
Questions
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OVERVIEW
Kristen Stoddart [email protected]
Stephanie Callow [email protected]
Bernadette Wilson [email protected]
Donna Vercoe [email protected]
Dr Sacha DeVelle [email protected]
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Important Dates
Nominations Open 16 September 2019
Nominations Close 21 October 2019
Entries Open 11 November 2019
Entries Close 13 January 2020
Judging - Portfolio 20 - 31 January 2020
Judging - Interviews 17 - 28 February 2020
Judging - National 23 March – 3 April 2020
Awards Ceremonies 23 April 2020
Eligibility
Australian tertiary institutes that are registered training organisations or registered higher education providers are invited to each nominate up to 6 graduates per category per state.
Nominations are open to graduates who have completed their formal studies in 2019 in a full time or full time equivalent undergraduate and honours tertiary course.
Categories
AQF Level 6: Advanced Diploma or above• Fashion Design• Industrial / Product Design• Interior Design • Jewellery Design• Textile Design• Visual Communications Design
AQF Level 5: Diploma or above• Furniture Design• Interior Decoration
Nomination Fees
• DIA Education Members $110 inc GST per nomination• Tertiary Institutions $220 inc GST per nomination
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ENTRY INFORMATION
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Step 1 - Educators
Educational institutions are invited to submit their 6 nominations per category per state based not only on their graduate’s work but also their graduate’s work ethic and perceived ability to transfer their skills to the workplace.
Before nominating, educators must review this Information Pack. Submitting a nomination indicates that you have read and agree to all GOTYA conditions.
For each nomination, institutions are required to submit: • Tertiary Name• Tertiary Postal Address• Tertiary Website• DIA Membership Number for Education Members• Educator Name• Educator Email + Mobile Number
For each graduate, institutions are required to submit: • Graduate Name• Course Name + AQF Level• Graduate Personal Email + Mobile Number• Graduate Postal Address
To submit your institute’s nominations: 1. Register an online DIA Awards + Programs account.2. Start your first nomination and save it in-progress. 3. Submit your first nomination. 4. After making your first nomination, use the ‘copy’ feature to save your tertiary and educators details for your next nomination. 5. After submitting all of your nominations, proceed to cart for payment via credit card, pay pal or invoice.
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Step 2 - Graduates
Upon your nomination from your educator and when entries open for submission, each graduate is required to submit:
• 3 x digital presentation boards• Academic transcript• Skill showcase• Headshot
To submit your entry: 1. Register an online DIA Awards + Programs account.2. Start your entry and save it in-progress. 3. Submit your entry.
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ENTRY PROCESS
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Presentation Boards
• 3 x digital presentation boards, each demonstrating a single project that best illustrates your design skills.
• For each design project in under 300 words, include a short description of the design brief, the issues being addressed, and your design solutions and sustainable thinking.
• Include drawings and illustrations that will assist in demonstrating your development and decision making process through to design resolution.
• When printed at A2 size, text, images and diagrams must be legible from at least one metre.
• For judging purposes, your boards should be anonymous. Do not include any identifiable features including your name, course or institution.
• Your boards with your details may be displayed at the GOTYA ceremony.
• Format: Landscape orientation, PDF, high resolution 300 DPI, A2 (420mm x 594mm), 5MB maximum size.
Academic Transcript
• Stating your name, course, subjects and results, completion date and graduation date.
• Format: Portrait orientation, PDF, high resolution 300 DPI, A4 (297mm x 210mm), 2MB maximum size.
Skill Showcase
• Outline your work methodology, goals, and aspirations 100-200 words.
• List your academic and practical achievements 100-200 words.
• Include any design related work experience 100-200 words.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
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Headshot
• Capture your head and shoulders, plain background. • Format: Square, JPEG, black and white, high resolution
300 DPI, 1080px x1080px, 2MB maximum size.
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
File Naming Protocol
Ensure your entry is saved with the following naming conventions:
• state_category_yourinitials_1.pdf• state_category_yourinitials_2.pdf• state_category_yourinitials_3.pdf• state_category_yourinitials_academic.pdf• state_category_yourinitials_headshot.jpg
• Category prefixes:
- Fashion Design fas- Furniture Design fur- Industrial / Product Design ind - Interior Decoration dec- Interior Design int - Jewellery Design jew- Textile Design tex- Visual Communication Design vis
Example: vic_vis_tt_1
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Judging Process
A panel of discipline-specific, practicing designers and industry figures will assess each category based on international awards regulations and best practices.
Round 1 – Portfolio Each anonymous portfolio is assessed and shortlisted.
Round 2 – Interviews Shortlisted graduates will attend an interview with the judging panel to present their work and discuss their methodology, goals, aspirations, academic and practical achievements and any design related work experience.
Each State Graduate of the Year Award Winner will progress to the Australian Program where a new panel of judges will assess graduates.
Judging Criteria
Throughout the assessment process, the judges overall will be seeking a high level of consistent performance and presentations that make the design solution immediately apparent.
The judging panels will assess the entries in each of the categories against the following equally weighted criteria:
Concept
• Clear understanding of the parameters of the original brief from tertiary course work.
• Evidence of research, development and resolution of the original brief from tertiary course work.
Creativity
• Innovative ideas translated from conceptual approach.• Effective communication of ideas.
Space / Function / Materials / Technology
• Design intent reflects and is supported by spatial arrangement.
• Demonstrated functional practicality. • Appropriate and innovative selection of materials. • Demonstrated understanding, integration and
resolution of manufacturing processes.
Sustainability
• Demonstrated understanding and use of sustainable resources.
• Consideration of economic, social, ecological and life cycle design practices.
JUDGING INFORMATION
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For each category, the judges will assess the following:
Fashion DesignWearable applications: designs should include a focus on functional and aesthetic aspects, pay particular attention to relationship of the apparel to the human form and sustainable design practices.
Furniture Design Movable object applications: designs should consider human usage and behaviour, product appeal, aesthetics and sustainable design practices.
Industrial / Product DesignObject, light fixtures or packaging applications: designs should focus on ergonomic, functional and aesthetic aspects, human usage and behaviour, and sustainable design practices.
Interior Decoration Residential, commercial or retail applications: designs should consider surface decoration including colour applications in paint, fabric and furnishings, overall lighting plans and sustainable design practices.
Interior DesignResidential, commercial or retail applications: designs should consider and resolve the treatment of space and spatial volume, structural requirements, traffic flow, furniture, fixtures, furnishings, overall lighting plans, surface finishes and sustainable design practices.
Jewellery DesignWearable applications: designs should pay particular attention to ergonomic, functional and aesthetic aspects, craftsmanship and sustainable design practices.
Textile DesignFabric applications for use in furniture, soft furnishings, clothing, vehicles, finishes, plastics or other products: designs should consider aesthetic and functional aspects, materials, weights, textures and sustainable design practices.
Visual Communication Design2D text, symbol or picture based applications: designs should have particular emphasis on clarity of communication, the matching of information styles to audience requirements, application of evolving technologies in visual communication and sustainable design practices.
JUDGING INFORMATION
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Before completing your GOTYA nominations or submitting an entry, please carefully read these Terms and Conditions.
1. Entry into this awards program is deemed to be an acceptance of these Terms and Conditions.
2. Information on the entry information, online awards portal and the prizes themselves form part of the Terms and Conditions.
3. The Organiser is the Design Institute of Australia.
4. The Organiser may extend the program dates or vary the awards program at any time in its absolute discretion.
5. The Organiser may cancel the awards program at any time without the awards being presented.
6. Every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy, currency and reliability of the information included in this document and elsewhere. However, changes in content and process may become necessary at the absolute discretion of the Organiser. The Organiser accepts no liability for any use of the said content or reliance placed upon it.
7. Failure by the Organiser to enforce any of its rights at any stage does not constitute a waiver of those rights.
8. Australian tertiary institutes that are registered training organisations or registered higher education providers are invited to each nominate up to 6 graduates per category per state.
Nomination + Entry Information
9. Nominations are open to graduates who are Australian permanent residents or international students residing in Australia with a valid Student Visa.
10. Nominations are open to graduates who have completed their formal studies in 2019 in a full time or full time equivalent undergraduate course. Nominations are also open to honours graduates who have completed their formal studies in 2019 immediately after their Bachelor degree.
11. In certain circumstances, the Organiser may allow additional nominations per tertiary institution.
12. Employees of the Organiser as well as those individuals’ immediate family members and the residents of their household, are not eligible to enter.
13. Entries must be the entrant’s own unrealised or realised original design using authorised software.
14. Entries must be the work of one graduate. Group work will not be accepted.
15. The Presentation Boards must not include identifying features i.e. the Entrant’s name, course or institute. Text and diagrams must be legible from at least one metre.
16. Nomination fees may be paid by credit card at submission or by invoice post submission. The educator must pay all
required nomination fees and the entrant must submit all required entry information, materials and images before an entry can be considered.
17. The Organiser reserves the right, at any time, to verify the validity of entries and entrants including an entrant’s identity and place of residence.
18. The Organiser reserves the right to remove any entry from the awards program without explanation.
19. Entry fees are non-refundable. If a nominated graduate is unable to participate, the nomination fee may be transferred to another graduate however their entry must be received by close of entries date.
20. Entrants wishing to cancel their submission are required to advise the Organiser in writing by email.
Judging + Prizes
21. The judging process will be conducted by an Organiser appointed Judging Panel and a Convenor who will have a casting vote.
22. Tertiary educators who taught in 2019 at participating tertiary institutes are not eligible to judge the GOTYA 2020 program.
23. The GOTYA Judging Panels will consist of a majority of professional designers and DIA members. Committed to forming diverse and balanced panel, the Organiser will ensure that the final judging panel composition will be representative, where possible of geography, cultural backgrounds, age, gender and ability.
24. Where a jurour has a current relationship to an entrant / entry, judges must declare any conflicts of interest to the Organiser as soon as possible.
25. Judges may serve up to two years consecutively, with an option to extend for an additional two years.
26. All judging processes and decisions will be kept strictly confidential until the winners are publicly announced.
27. Entries in each category will be judged based on the following equally weighted criteria: Concept, Creativity, Sustainability, Space / Function / Materials / Technology.
28. Prizes • The GOTYA winner will be awarded to the entry in each category which best fulfils the judging criteria. • At the judges’ discretion, Commendations may be awarded.
29. The judging panel, at its discretion, may withhold awards or divide the awards in other proportions.
30. Judges decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to the conduct of the award program, or the methodology adopted to determine the Overall or Category GOTYA, Commendations or Finalists.
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TERMS + CONDITIONS
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TERMS + CONDITIONS
Privacy + Intellectual Property
31. The Organiser collects personal information in order to conduct the Awards Program and may, for this purpose, disclose such information to third parties, including, but not limited to, Australian regulatory authorities. Entry is conditional on providing this information. Unless otherwise advised, the Organiser may also use the information for promotional, marketing and publicity purposes including sending electronic messages. Entrants should direct any request to access, update or correct information to the Organiser.
32. All copyright and intellectual property rights reside with the Entrant.
33. Where the entrant does not own the copyright, the entry must be accompanied by a written agreement from the copyright holder stating that the work may be entered for an award.
34. The Organiser reserves all rights to use headshots, entries and photo reproductions for promotional purposes. The entrant and institution will be credited where possible.
Contact Information
Caroline Caneva Head of Program and Events Design Institute of Australia ABN 12 004 412 613 1300 888 056 0427283910 [email protected] www.design.org.au