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“Good Design Awards” Selection Process & Awards Night @ Vivid Sydney 2017

“Good Design Awards” Selection Process & Awards Night @ Vivid Sydney 2017

The 2017 Good Design Awards has attracted the broadest and most diverse range of submissions in the program’s history with entries across seven main design disciplines and spanning 25 individual categories.

After an extensive evaluation process involving more than 35 Australian and international design experts, the Jury finalised their results and awarded only the best entries to receive the Good Design Selection 2017

See the Awards Presentation Night and peek behind the scenes to see how the judging process was organised and unfolded

The Good Design Awards Showcase @ Vivid Sydney 2017

The Good Design Awards Showcase @ Vivid Sydney 2017

One of the longest standing and most prestigious design awards in the world, promoting excellence in design and innovation since 1958.

Presented by Good Design Australia, the Good Design Showcase is an interactive exhibition featuring the finalists and winners of this year’s Good Design Awards and Young Australian Design Awards.

Showcasing the best of the design spectrum through Architectural Design, Product Design, Automotive Design, Digital Design, Communication Design and design for social good.

Transported Through Time @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Transported Through Time @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Making its Vivid Sydney debut this year, the Central Station Clock Tower, a railway icon, comes alive to celebrate Sydney rail’s origins and conjure the trains of the future.

Celebrating the evolution of rail transportation, this dynamic installation invites you to take a great train journey through time with us.

Martin Place Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Martin Place Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Martin Place has traditionally been considered the ‘centre’ of the city of Sydney, so it’s more than suitable that it should also be the ‘centre’ of Vivid Sydney.

See cutting-edge projections, extraordinary installations and a showcase of the Creative Industries Food inspirations.

Deep Forest at Martin Place is where an oasis has been created by the fusion of artists and chefs for you to enjoy!

Barangaroo Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Barangaroo Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Barangaroo South joins the Vivid Sydney line-up for the first time in 2017 with an exciting illuminated trail of light installations

Visitors to Vivid Sydney’s newest CBD precinct will uncover secret worlds and create their own universe as they wander and weave through the streets and laneways of Barangaroo

Harbour Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Harbour Light Walk @ Vivid Sydney 2017

The 2017 Vivid Light Walk is a journey that takes you through streets, byways and secret places, by harbour coves, garden parklands and new parts of the city.

There are over 65 works on show, many are thought-provoking, ingenious, magical, witty, hilarious, awe-inspiring and stunningly beautiful

The busiest stretch of installations at Vivid Sydney 2017 is the Vivid Light Walk which trails around the foreshore from the expanded Royal Botanic Gardens, past the Sydney Opera House, through Circular Quay passing the Museum of Contemporary Art. Then onto Cadman’s Cottage and the lanes and backstreets of The Rocks, through to Campbell’s Cove and onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Darling Harbour Precinct @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Darling Harbour Precinct @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Now in its ninth year and one of Sydney’s most popular winter events, Vivid Sydney again wowed the city with multimedia light shows, music, art, talks and ideas.

Vivid Sydney returned to Darling Harbour Precinct in 2017 with activities and events to engage audiences of all ages.

Magicians of the Mist @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Magicians of the Mist @ Vivid Sydney 2017

The Darling Harbour precinct is the setting for one of the most thrilling spectacles of Vivid Sydney 2017, the astonishing and technologically advanced Magicians of the Mist.

Magicians of the Mist came together through a passionate collaboration between artists and composers, engineers, a ‘fountaineer’, pyrotechnicians and other leaders in their fields.

This extraordinary work straddles the blurred line between art and technology that defines the digital era, celebrating the power of creativity and innovation

Dreamscape @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Dreamscape @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Dreamscape, the world’s largest interactive lighting display links the entire Quay precinct from the Sydney Opera House to the Sydney Harbour Bridge into one cohesive canvas of light.

Key features of the installation are its accessibility and interactivity, enabling participants to control the colour, texture and pattern of lighting along the entire precinct.