After over a thousand votes were cast during a 16-day period of public online voting, the poster created by Vrkas and Kristofic emerged as the public's favourite design.
"An incredible amount of thought, creativity and work has gone into the design of this poster," stated Brandon Gien, Jury Chair, ICSID Board Member and Executive Director of the Australian International Design Awards.
"The end result captures the brief perfectly and is a timely reminder that design is integrally linked to everything around us. As consumers and end users of design, this poster provokes us to be more aware of the entire product life cycle and is a great statement for responsible design,” he added.
Held in celebration of World Industrial Design Day on 29 June, the competition invited students from ICSID member schools to submit posters interpreting this year's theme "Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world". From the 44 entries, the ICSID Jury selected five posters for the public online voting round of the competition based on their unique interpretation of this year's theme, outstanding creativity and artistic merit.
Being the 3rd poster to represent World Industrial Design Day, Vrkas and Kristofic are preceded by the 2009 winner Carla Saipain (Instituto Profesional DuocUC de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile) and renowned German designer Uwe Loesch, who dedicated the inaugural World Industrial Design Day poster to Icsid in 2008.
The introduction of public online voting for this year's competition has advanced the ICSID Executive Board's objective to continually develop the competition on an annual basis and increase the awareness of World Industrial Design Day internationally.
"By having the voting open to the public, we are connecting with the international design community in a whole new way," stated ICSID President Dr. Mark Breitenberg. "This competition gives us the opportunity to engage and showcase the talent of the younger generation by giving them the chance at international recognition, and also moves ICSID further towards its objective of being an organisation that is as open and inclusive as possible."
The winning and shortlisted posters are available for viewing on the ICSID Website here.
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