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Textile graduate wins inaugural Vic GOTYA award.
Victoria’s top design graduates competed for honours at the inaugural DIA Victorian Graduate of the Year Awards (GOTYAs) on April 2 at Emanate Design.
The DIA’s GOTYA awards are a high profile way of supporting students in the early stages of their career, recognising excellence and talent in the professional spheres the DIA encompasses.
Textile Designer Elly Gardener, a recent graduate from RMIT, took out two GOTYAs as the Overall Winner and Textiles Design Category Winner.
Her winning 'Contemporary Curtain' window treatment incorporated
a translucent panel of meandering motifs and a heavier inky patterned layer.
Geoff Fitzpatrick described Elly as ‘a designer who engaged with great deal of innovation in the design and production process, and demonstrated skill and sensitivity in the mixture of technique and materials’.
Each Category Award winner received a one-year DIA Graduate Membership and access to a wide range of benefits including career building networking programs, DIA practice notes, subscription to Artichoke magazine and the DIA Spark newsletter.
Category winners also received a two-week, paid work experience placement with a design leaders Beci Orpin, DesignINC, Wellcom and Catalyst Design Group.
This year's GOTYA judges included design experts and DIA VIC councillors Egle Findlay from Patternique, Karen Baynes from DesignINC, Ian Scott from Watts Design, Simon Marriott from Arrk and National DIA Director Geoff Fitzpatrick.
Category winners were as follows:
Textile Design
GOTYA Elly Gardener, RMIT
Runner Up Courtney King, RMIT
Interior Design
GOTYA Anthony Hamilton-Smith, RMIT
Runner Up Zaiga Padoms, Monash
Honorable Mention Naomi Fogel, RMIT
Graphic Design
GOTYA Hamish Smyth, RMIT
Runner Up Zoran Konjarski, RMIT
Honorable Mention Lucinda Everett, RMIT
Industrial Design
GOTYA Krista Lindegger, Swinburne
Runner Up Jessica Diec, Monash
Runner Up Shannon Vass, Swinburne
The DIA congratulates all GOTYA winners, and thanks our GOTYA judges, DIA Victorian councillors, educators who supported the GOTYAs program, work experience placement sponsors, Emanate Design for kindly donating the showroom, Box Stallion for sponsoring the wine and Whirlwind for providing all the printing including the posters of the student’s projects.
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The DIA’s GOTYA awards are a high profile way of supporting students in the early stages of their career, recognising excellence and talent in the professional spheres the DIA encompasses.
Textile Designer Elly Gardener, a recent graduate from RMIT, took out two GOTYAs as the Overall Winner and Textiles Design Category Winner.
Her winning 'Contemporary Curtain' window treatment incorporated
a translucent panel of meandering motifs and a heavier inky patterned layer.
Geoff Fitzpatrick described Elly as ‘a designer who engaged with great deal of innovation in the design and production process, and demonstrated skill and sensitivity in the mixture of technique and materials’.
Each Category Award winner received a one-year DIA Graduate Membership and access to a wide range of benefits including career building networking programs, DIA practice notes, subscription to Artichoke magazine and the DIA Spark newsletter.
Category winners also received a two-week, paid work experience placement with a design leaders Beci Orpin, DesignINC, Wellcom and Catalyst Design Group.
This year's GOTYA judges included design experts and DIA VIC councillors Egle Findlay from Patternique, Karen Baynes from DesignINC, Ian Scott from Watts Design, Simon Marriott from Arrk and National DIA Director Geoff Fitzpatrick.
Category winners were as follows:
Textile Design
GOTYA Elly Gardener, RMIT
Runner Up Courtney King, RMIT
Interior Design
GOTYA Anthony Hamilton-Smith, RMIT
Runner Up Zaiga Padoms, Monash
Honorable Mention Naomi Fogel, RMIT
Graphic Design
GOTYA Hamish Smyth, RMIT
Runner Up Zoran Konjarski, RMIT
Honorable Mention Lucinda Everett, RMIT
Industrial Design
GOTYA Krista Lindegger, Swinburne
Runner Up Jessica Diec, Monash
Runner Up Shannon Vass, Swinburne
The DIA congratulates all GOTYA winners, and thanks our GOTYA judges, DIA Victorian councillors, educators who supported the GOTYAs program, work experience placement sponsors, Emanate Design for kindly donating the showroom, Box Stallion for sponsoring the wine and Whirlwind for providing all the printing including the posters of the student’s projects.
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