In recent years, Sustainable Design has moved past its pop-culture status to form a key requirement of any good design process. So, it’s only fitting that the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) devotes one of its most prestigious awards to fostering Sustainable Design practices in the region’s emerging designers.

Now in its 15th year, the Australasian Student Design Awards (ASDA) is a multidisciplinary program that attracts an exceptional range, depth and quality of entries. The 2009 ASDA program saw entries increase by sixty-three per cent on the previous year, a reflection of ASDA’s rapidly increasing profile amongst tertiary design institutions throughout Australasia.

On-line registrations for the 2010 ASDA program are now open at www.design.org.au/asda. The DIA invites educators to register their institutes and nominate their top students’ design projects that reflect design excellence and adopt innovative Sustainable Design principles. These Awards are open to all Australian and New Zealand full time equivalent or apprentice undergraduate students, currently studying or recently graduated in 2nd semester 2009 or 1st semester 2010.

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