Best Awards Winners 2020
AUT has had another successful year at the Best Awards – the Design Institute of New Zealand’s annual awards recognising excellence in graphic, spatial, product, interactive and motion design.
The Best Awards are the pinnacle of design in New Zealand, and this year AUT entries were successful in many categories. Entries from the School of Art and Design have won five Gold, six Silver and nine Bronze awards.
A collaborative entry led by Maree Sheehan from Te Ara Poutama won a Purple and a Gold award.
See below the full list of AUT’s winning entries:
Purple and Gold
Ōtairongo, Extended Whānau, Design Communication, Maree Sheehan (Te Ara Poutama)
Judges said Ōtairongo is an absolutely stunning and breath taking piece of work, original in its thinking and striking in its execution, a truly contemporary take on culture. This project has depth and layers of thinking with an authentic connection to traditional storytelling and combine that with a fresh and beautifully crafted visual execution, Ōtairongo moves a visual language forward in leaps and bounds.
Ōtairongo is Maree’s debut solo exhibition and pushes the boundaries of contemporary Māori art.
Gold
- Ida, Public Good Award [Industrial], Alice Thompson
- Kete Menemene (Smile Kit). Public Good Award [Good Health Design], Phoebe Lee, Jessica Kwong, Zora Situ
- Quincala, Graphics [Communication Design], Kauri Finlay
- #Things I Wish I Knew, Toitanga [Communication Design], Maria Lokshina
- Te pūrākau ō Māui rāua ko Mahuika, Toitanga [Communication Design], Kees Bakker
Silver
- Soyal, Product [Industrial], Sam McGerty, Oscar Zong
- Flex, Product [Industrial], Hollie Riddell
- Paradice Isle, Moving Image, Reuben Shortland
- Lights, Moving Image, Nick Dew
- *get over yourself*, Graphics [Communication Design], Alyssa Pua
- GOAL STORY, Digital [Communication Design], Kathleen Fetesio
Bronze
- Homegrown, Spatial, Eva Blok
- A revitalising of space, an embrace of shadow: The Mount Street Bathhouse, A revitalising of space, an embrance of shadow: The Mount Street Bathhouse, Daniel Eaton
- Voyager, Moving Image, Marcos Staines
- Puppet, Moving Image, Lily Martin-Babin
- Spectrum, Graphics [Communication Design], Gemma Parmentier
- Subnatural Axis: resurfacing a post industrial landscape, Spatial [Communication Design], Ellen Ransfield
- PAX, Digital [Communication Design], Marcelle Fritsch
- Tokomaru Bay Ruins, Graphics, Lydia Harden Bull
- YourHealthPal, Novia Suntornjarayakul & Cassie Paotama, Digital (Student)