The competition, an annual showcase of excellence in graphic, spatial, product and interactive design, has been run by the Designers Institute of New Zealand since 1988.

With 514 finalists, there are too many to list in this space, so here are Idealog’s favourite finalists (this week) from the categories of graphic, interactive, product and spatial, sans descriptions.

Feast your eyes.

To see the rest of the finalists, click here. 

Graphic

Comic Sans For Cancer

Le Roy Magazine issue 2

Lighthouse Gin

Interactive

The Kakatrope

Pedigree Found

Smirnoff / Instagram Your Fridge

Shaping Taste

Mesh Space Pendant

Infinitum: The Archtop Acoustic Reimagined

Spatial

Miss Moonshine’s and The Street Food Collective

Isaac Theatre Royal

The Blyth Performing Arts Centre

The finalists were handpicked from nearly 1000 entries, representing the best graphic, interactive, moving images, spatial and product designs for the past year.

Other categories, such as Nga Aho (best indigenous designs), Best Effect (for designs that contributed most to their clients’ bottom lines) and the Public Good (a category for designs that worked for the benefit of the community) are also included in the competition.

Tickets for the Best Design Awards night Friday, 9th October are now on sale. Click here for details.

For more, click here.