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AKQA recognised in Fast Company 2022 Innovation by Design Awards

21 September 2022
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AKQA received one Finalist and five Honourable mentions in the 2022 Fast Company Innovation by Design Awards.

The awards honour the designers and businesses solving the most crucial problems today and anticipating the pressing issues of tomorrow. The competition, now in its 11th year, features a prestigious range of blue-chip companies and emerging startups. Entries are judged on functionality, originality, beauty, sustainability, user insight, cultural and business impact.

Finalist, Experimental Design

Little Signals, Google

Little Signals is a series of interaction experiments and thought starters on how we can foster new behaviours and relationships with our technology. Map Project Office explores how technology can support us in the background of our day-to-day lives, using sound, movement and visual cues that we can subtly perceive.

Three overlapping mobile screens display a retirement planning app with congratulatory messages, savings amounts, and to-do lists, set against a purple background with illustrated clock and hot air balloon graphics.
HESTA - Addressing economic inequality

Honourable Mention, Finance

Addressing economic inequality, HESTA

Utilising personalised, relatable and trustworthy design principles, the future planning tool enables members to manage their savings through a simply designed user interface.

Honourable Mention, Experimental Design

The [uncertain] Four Seasons

Using a sophisticated algorithm, a musical design system to generate local variations of Vivaldi’s original composition for the year 2050 based on Climate Change.

A landscape blanketed in thick orange smoke from a wildfire, with trees, power lines, and faint silhouettes of structures barely visible through the haze.
The [uncertain] Four Seasons.
A tennis match at the Australian Open shows Federer (bottom) hitting a forehand, with labeled ball trajectory toward Cilic’s (top) backhand. The court, score, and audience are visible, with Melbourne written at the bottom.
Tennis Australia - Action Audio.

Honourable Mention, Accessible Design Innovation

Action Audio, Tennis Australia

An online audio stream designed making tennis accessible for 285 million people globally living with a visual impairment to follow games in real-time, using data from a ball monitoring computer vision system with 3D sound design.

Honourable Mention, Urban Design and Data Design

The City Dashboard, A2A

Serving as a platform that empowers citizens through data and a portal to access the city community life from an insider’s perspective, with the goal to create more inclusive cities.

A mobile app screen displaying city demography and sustainability stats overlays a cityscape with modern skyscrapers under a partly cloudy sky. Geometric icons float near buildings, highlighting urban data visualization.
A2A - The City Dashboard.

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