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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

Vivid Music Program @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Vivid Music Program @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Vivid Music has partnered with the City of Sydney to deliver a programme across a multitude of city venues.

In 2017, Vivid will be bigger and better than ever, offering an expanded program of multi-genre music with a line-up including more than 400 Vivid Music events ( up from 190 in 2016 ) across 40 venues.

Taronga Zoo – Lights for the Wild @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Taronga Zoo – Lights for the Wild @ Vivid Sydney 2017

After the animals have retired to their night quarters for the evening, the lights of Vivid Sydney at Taronga Zoo will take centre stage.

Visitors arrived at Taronga Zoo’s Heritage Entrance Facade, transformed using 3D projection mapping into a complex world of ecosystems and spectacular creatures.

Once through the main gates visitors are led on a journey filled with thousands of lanterns including 10 magnificent, larger-than-life animal sculptures, illuminated to shine a light on the 10 critical species Taronga has committed to protecting

Sydney Opera House – Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Sydney Opera House – Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2017

Sydney creative Director Ash Bolland gives life to a modern Micrographia at this years Sydney Opera House Lighting the Sails – a key part of Vivid 2017

“ I always see the Opera House as shells. People call them sails but I don’t see sails at all. To me it looks like a very organic, repetitive structure. That’s what I love about nature, the repetition, by repeating the same thing something simple becomes really complex.” ……………………. Ash Bolland

Vivid Music @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Music @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Sydney, 2014 delivered a significantly expanded program featuring a diverse range of cutting edge music, an incredible line-up of contemporary performances and talent from a multitude of genres creating the biggest Vivid Music program seen to date.

During Vivid Sydney, music fans were again spoilt for choice with an expanded Vivid Music line-up – featuring more than 80 shows and more styles of music, in even more venues around the city.

Vivid Lights @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Lights @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Sydney is again filled with Colour and Light for the 6th Annual Vivid Sydney Festival

Vivid Sydney, the largest Light, Music and Ideas festival in the Southern Hemisphere, and Australia’s Event of the Year, features a huge, free nightly light show of lighting installations, building projections and water theatre around Sydney Harbour, as well as live music performances and over 200 creative industry events.

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Lighting the Sails @ Vivid Sydney 2014

Vivid Sydney is a unique annual event of light, music and ideas, featuring many of the world’s most important creative industry forums, a mesmerising free public exhibition of outdoor lighting sculptures and installations, a cutting-edge contemporary music program and the spectacular illumination of Sydney’s iconic architecture including the sails of Sydney Opera House.

This year, projected artwork, created by award-winning international artists 59 Productions, presented a journey through time on the sails of the iconic building.