Good Design Australia is an international design promotion organisation responsible for managing the annual Australian Good Design Awards and other signature design events and initiatives. With a proud history that dates back to 1958, we remain committed to promoting the importance of design to business, industry, government and the general public and the critical role it plays in creating a better, safer and more prosperous future. We are passionately committed to recognising, rewarding and promoting the value of design at a local, national and international level. We manage a number of Australian State-based design award programs including the Victorian Government’s Victorian Premier’s Design Awards program. Through the Australian Design Council, we advocate to government and industry leaders about the role and value of design to help diversify Australia’s future economy and to help embed design-led innovation into Australia’s nation-building agenda and policy settings. The Australian Design Council was originally established as the Industrial Design Council of Australia (IDCA) in 1958 and funded by the Commonwealth Government. The Council was based on the UK Design Council model, established by Winston Churchill’s wartime government in 1944 to support Britain’s economic recovery.
