Australian Production Design Guild

Australian Production Design Guild

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The APDG represents designers and their associates in screen, live performance, events & digital. Behave in an ethical and responsible manner.
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The Australian Production Design Guild was established in 2009 as a non-profit organisation that aims to:

- Represent designers and their associates in screen, live performance, events and digital production across Australia.
- Recognise and nurture excellence in design through awards, mentoring and accreditation.
- Raise the profile of stage and screen design and facilitate a vibrant design comm

22/08/2026

Aphrodite Kondos, Costume and Set Designer has been recognised with the Cameron's Management Outstanding Contribution to Design Award.
Congratulations Aphrodite!

22/08/2026

Production Designer Vanessa Cerne has won the Docklands Studios Melbourne Production Design for a Feature Film Award for her production design for Bring Her Back.
Team:
Erica Ockenden – Supervising Art Director
Michael Bell, Max Nadilo – Art Directors
Maddy Worthington – Set Decorator

Docklands Studios Melbourne

22/08/2026

The Event Engineering Set Design for a Live Performance or Event Award has been won by Keerthi Subramanyam for her set design for theatre production The Wrong Gods.
Congratulations Keerthi!

Event Engineering

22/08/2026

Congratulations to Heather Wallace who has won the Jackstock Haberdashery Costume Design For a Feature Film Award for her work on Wolfram.

22/08/2026

Tejal Gupta has won the AFTRS Emerging Designer for a Screen Production Award for their work on Mirror of the Evening.
Team:
Bam Saengsri – Art Director

Congratulations Tejal!

Australian Film Television and Radio School

22/08/2026

Production Designer Ella Wilkinson has won the NIDA Foundation Trust Emerging Designer for a Live Performance or Event Award for her design work for Peter Pan.
Visual design team:
Thomas Shepherd – Lighting Designer
Taylah Crouch – Video Designer

Congratulations Ella!

National Institute of Dramatic Art

22/08/2026

Susie Henderson has won the Krank'd Productions Video and Visual Technology Design for a Live Performance or Event Award for her video design for ENDLING.
Congratulations Susie!

Krank'd Productions

22/08/2026

Congratulations to Set Decorator Beverley Dunn APDG who has won the Illusions Set Decoration for a Feature Film or Television Production Award for her work on The Narrow Road To The Deep North.
Team:
Anna De Meryick, Lauren Miller – Senior Buyer/Dresser
Sean Muir – Lead Man
Blake Muir – Swing
Anna McEwan – Graphic Designer

22/08/2026

The Myriad Studios Production Design For a Television Production Award has been won by Production Designer Nicholas Dare for his work on The Artful Dodger (Season 2).
Congratulations Nicholas!

22/08/2026

Congratulations to Eamon D'Arcy APDG who has won the Creative Crunchers Multi-Discipline Design for a Live Performance or Event Award for his design work on Chasing The Sun, achieved with team members:
Tony Papp – Supervising Art Director
Mick Jessop – Head of Design Construction
Amber Stapff – Graphic Designer

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