Good Design Australia

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Good Design AustraliaMurray Hunter – 2026 Australian Design Prize THE AUSTRALIAN DESIGN PRIZE WAS ESTABLISHED TO RECOGNISE INDIVIDUAL DESIGNERS WHO ARE MAKING, OR HAVE MADE, A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT IN AUSTRALIAN DESIGN OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR CAREER.

October 14

Good Design AustraliaBonnie Shaw – 2026 Women in Design Award THE WOMEN IN DESIGN AWARD WAS ESTABLISHED IN RESPONSE TO THE SIGNIFICANT GENDER IMBALANCE WITHIN LEADERSHIP ROLES IN THE DESIGN INDUSTRY.

October 14

Good Design AustraliaOuterspace – 2026 Good Design Team of the Year THIS ACCOLADE CELEBRATES A DESIGN TEAM WHO CONSISTENTLY PERFORMS AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN THE ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN GOOD DESIGN AWARDS AND HAS ESTABLISHED A TANGIBLE DESIGN-LED CULTURE WITHIN THEIR…

October 13

Good Design AustraliaSolShare 2026 Award of the Year + Sustainability Award For millions of people globally, the clean energy transition stopped at the door to their apartment building.

October 12

Good Design Australia2026 Winners Announced Great design begins when someone notices that the way things are done is not the same as the way they have to be.

October 11

Good Design AustraliaGood Design Week 2026 Australia’s Biggest Week in Design is Here Good Design Week brings together Australia’s design community for five days of announcements, recognition and celebration, culminating in the 2026…

October 4

Good Design Australia2026 Judging Wrapped: Jury Reflections Ahead of the 2026 Good Design Week and the much anticipated announcement of the 2026 Australian Good Design Awards, we asked some of this year’s Jury Members what it takes to be recognised in the…

September 30

Good Design AustraliaCelebrating enduring design Good Design Australia Calls for Nominations for the Livio Bonollo Award for Longevity. What Australian design has truly stood the test of time?

August 4

Good Design AustraliaWRITE DESIGNER CAMPAIGN Australia is designed every day. It’s time we counted the people behind it. Every day, Australians live and interact with thousands of examples of design, from the clothes they wear and the homes and…

July 23

Good Design AustraliaA Guide to Symbiocene Design A Guide to Symbiocene Design is available to download now from the Symbiocene Institute. Far beyond simply reducing harm, design has the potential to do good and create immeasurable positive impact.

June 3

発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo