The Monash Design Prize

The Department of Design at Monash Art, Design and Architecture is proud to announce its second Annual Design Award, open to all Australian students in years 10, 11 and 12.  We’d like to invite you, the budding designers of the future, to show us how you apply design to respond to some of our most urgent challenges; from sustainability and climate action, to social equity and healthy communities.

At Monash we’re committed to ensuring our design practice contributes to the essential change the world needs as we transition towards a more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term future. Whether it’s through our education programs or the work of our research labs, Monash Design, designs for good.

The world is confronting numerous challenges that design can play an active role in resolving, and we’re keen to encourage our ‘design for good’ philosophy beyond the university. We’d like to invite you, the budding designers of the future, to join us in this mission and show us how you apply design to respond to some of our most urgent challenges.

  • What’s involved?

    Show us what you’ve designed to address a particular challenge. You can address any issue from sustainability and climate action, to social equity and healthy communities. And you can choose any format; a poster campaign, product design, interior or public space, wearable device, digital platform... the choice is yours.

  • The prize

    The winning entrant will receive the Monash Design Award, judged by a panel of leading university and industry designers. The award will consist of a certificate, $1000 VISA/Mastercard voucher and a two week paid internship with one of our Design Research Labs.

  • Who can enter?

    If you’re a year 10—12 student in Australia you are eligible to enter.  At Monash, we believe anyone can think, act and make like a designer so you don’t need to have undertaken any specific subjects. You just have to have the ability to show us your ideas visually. Check out our image gallery below to see how Monash students, staff—and last year’s winner Nicholas Reed from Matthew Flinders Anglican College in Queensland— have all addressed similar challenges. We very much look forward to seeing your solutions among our own.