Headspace enters the Melbourne Design Awards 2010
ABP’s innovative Headspace project, coordinated by digital technology expert Dr Stanislav Roudavski, has been entered into the 2010 Melbourne Design Awards (MDA). An initiative of the Design Institute of Australia and A Thinking Company, the Melbourne Design Awards celebrate the impact and role of design in our contemporary world. As well as profiling exceptional design, the Awards are a forum for design conversations involving not just designers, but anyone with an opinion about good design.
The Melbourne Design Awards are split into various design concepts: object design, fashion, visual, experiential and spatial and include traditional design disciplines such as Architecture, Product Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design, Fashion and Interior Design.
Headspace has been entered under the ‘Product Design – Accessories and Jewellery category’. Described as ‘an experimental collection of micro-scale architectures for the head’, the collection includes several hundred designs, which were profiled in design forums both locally and internationally. The documentary depicting the Headspace 1 event has been screened in New York and Moscow architecture and design film festivals in 2010.
Anyone interested in design is encouraged to voice their opinion and vote in the MDAs, however votes from members of a professional design organisation are weighted at five times those of the general public. The MDA website is fully interactive and each entry has its own page with a voting application. You can view and vote for the Headspace project here.
The Melbourne design community has welcomed the awards as an exciting new concept: ‘We’ve been really pleased with the reaction from both sides of the industry; design clients and design creators. There are some terrific entries and we’re looking forward to unveiling the winners at the Awards Night in February,’ said Mark Bergin, Creative Director of the Awards. Voting is open until the 13th of February 2011 and all entries are visible on the awards site. Follow the Melbourne Design Awards as they progress on Facebook.