The people who will shape the future of Australian design have recently graduated. On August 20th, we name the best of the best at five simultaneous events across the nation.

The Graduates of the Year Awards (GOTYAs) has run since 2003 and remains the only program in the country that puts leading design professionals directly into the review of graduate work. Graduates are nominated by their universities, TAFEs and RTOs, judged anonymously, then interviewed by a specialist jury in their own discipline to determine state and national winners.

Join us at Stylecraft where we will announce the winners across four categories: Place, Use, Interact and Convey, at both Higher Education and Vocational level.

Nominees, finalists, educators and the wider design community are all warmly invited to celebrate with us.

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Contact the host of NSW / ACT GOTYA Celebrations 2026