Ten OP finalists in 2024 Best Design Awards

It's another strong year for OP ākonga at the Best Design Awards!

Pictured — Omea Hall's Summit Spas concept

The Best Design Awards are an annual celebration of graphic, spatial, product, digital and motion design. This year, ten OP finalists have demonstrated excellence across categories including Spatial, Product and Moving Image Design.

The finalists from Otago Polytechnic School of Architecture are:

• Omea Hall — Summit Spas
• Nicolas Sharp — Terroir Unearthed
• Georgia Pope — Ephemeral Vines
• Eden Yon-Rose — The intermission
• Oliver Mammitzsch — Street to Eat

From the School of Design, the finalists are:

• Justina King — The Little Herbal Handbook
• Evie Noad — Living Campus seed library packaging
• Ryan Dombrovski — H2YO spec advertisement
• Otago Polytechnic Te Pūkenga Midwinter Carnival animation team — Dunedin Midwinter Carnival Animation
• Ella Smillie — Figment music video

For images and descriptions of the finalists’ projects, you can visit the Best Design Awards website.

Check out this lovely profile of Architecture Master’s student Omea Hall’s project on the Otago Daily Times website.

The Best Award winners will be announced October 11th. Good luck to all the finalists!