Two of the Gold Awards went to recent graduate Wayne Shih – one for the typeface and publication of his New Zealand Mapping Service he designed as part of his graduating year projects. The other for his Kōrero book project designed with Sabah Rahman.
The third Gold Award was to BFA graduate and current MFA student Ken Khun for the exhibition project he did with lecturer Giles Peterson last year.
Students Kati Paton, Kayleigh Bartleet, Sydney Plested
The DINZ Best Awards are a celebration of Aotearoa design, with over 1200 entries nominated from across nine categories from New Zealand and Australia.
The awards this year saw a whopping 13 Whitecliffe student projects nominated as finalists in the awards. For the full list of finalists, see below: