Recognising Victoria's Best Design and Innovation

From cutting edge health education campaigns to sustainable furniture and world-first cinematic technology, the winners of the 2025 Victorian Premier’s Design Awards demonstrate the design ingenuity and innovation that boosts businesses and impacts our everyday lives for the better.

Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks today congratulated the winners of this year’s awards, including Blackmagic Design who took out the top prize, the Victorian Premier’s Design of the Year, for their world-first immersive stereoscopic video camera.

Developed in collaboration with Apple, the groundbreaking URSA Cine Immersive camera replicates natural human vision with incredible realism, opening new possibilities for filmmakers, live broadcasters and educators.

The annual awards recognise excellence across architectural design, communication design, design strategy, digital design, fashion design, product design and service design. This year’s category winners are:

• Architectural Design: Woodleigh Futures Studio, a zero-waste building for the Mornington Peninsula independent school by McIldowie Partners, Joost Bakker and Woodleigh School. Woodleigh Futures Studio also received the Circular Design and Sustainability Commendation for it's holistic and deeply integrated approach to circular and sustainable design principles.
• Communication Design: Flip the Vape, a health education campaign by Mo Works and the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service
• Design Strategy: Plan for Victoria, a youth-led transport and planning design initiative by YLab and the Department of Transport and Planning
• Digital Design: Open Electricity, a free public platform that turns complex market data into clear, real-time information by Open Electricity, The Superpower Institute and AKQA.
• Fashion Design: Future Origins, a zero-waste garment line by Saskia Baur-Schmid.
• Product Design: Artist Engineering Hardware, a modular system designed to eliminate direct contact with expensive art, by Artist Engineering and Cobalt Design
• Service Design: Opioid Safety Kit, by Action Lab, Monash University and Monash Addiction Research Centre

Looking to the future of the industry, the Student Design category was awarded to Wenyu Zhang, RMIT University and Dr Andy Miller for T.R.I.A.L, a sustainable furniture range for students who frequently relocate.

Victoria’s design industry contributes $6 billion annually to the state, employs almost 100,000 people and exports more than $400 million in design services to the world.

The Victorian Premier’s Design Awards are managed by Good Design Australia on behalf of the Victorian Government. The full list of winners can be found at premiersdesignawards.vic.gov.au

Quotes attributable to Minister for Creative Industries Colin Brooks

“These awards showcase the creativity, ingenuity and technical expertise that make our state Australia’s design capital, and demonstrate how design can drive business growth and social change.”