MAPDA Shortlist announced
Museums Australasia Multimedia & Publication Design Awards 2018 – Shortlist, Museums Galleries Australia, 30 April 2018
Celebrating the most beautiful and original designs from Australia’s and New Zealand’s cultural institutions
SHORTLIST
We are very pleased to announce the Shortlist for the 2018 MAPDAs. Finalists (highly commended and winner) were selected from this list. Please note that inclusion on the shortlist does not guarantee an award, however, to have been shortlisted from nearly 200 entries is a great achievement. This list is in no particular order. Finalists will be contacted shortly.
Congratulations!
APP – Level A
Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands | Royal Botanic Garden Sydney App
Jervis Bay Maritime Museum | Jervis Bay Maritime Museum App
APP – Level B
National Portrait Gallery | Headhunt!
BOOK – Level A
Lyon Housemuseum | Unconstrained Passions. The Architect’s House as Museum
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu | Little Books of Art (series of four books)
BOOK – Level B
Sydney Living Museums | Underworld: Mugshots from the Roaring Twenties
CHILDREN’S BOOK – Level A
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Lionel’s Place | story book
CHILDREN’S BOOK – Level B
National Gallery of Victoria | Van Gogh and the Seasons: An Art Book for Kids
Museums Victoria | Where’s Dot?
National Gallery of Victoria | My Contemporary Art Book
EXHIBITION BRANDING PACKAGE – Level A
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki | The Corsini Collection: A Window on Renaissance Florence
BAMM – Bank Art Museum Moree | BAMM Branding Package
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Passchendaele: photography and the moving image in battle
Maitland Regional Art Gallery | Lionel’s Place | Lionel Lindsay from the MRAG Collection
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu | ON For Ron fundraising campaign
Heide Museum of Modern Art | Call of the Avant-Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art
Art Gallery of Ballarat | Romancing the Skull
Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki | The Body Laid Bare: Masterpieces from Tate
Centre of Democracy | Centre of Democracy
EXHIBITION BRANDING PACKAGE – Level B
South Australian Museum | NGURRA Branding Package
Western Australian Museum | Dinosaur Discovery: Lost Creatures of the Cretaceous
Museums Victoria | Ground Up Exhibition
Art Gallery of New South Wales | Rembrandt and the Dutch golden age : masterpieces from the Rijksmuseum
The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House | Card Castle
QAGOMA | Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Pipilotti Rist Sip my Ocean
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (MAJOR) – Level A
Dunedin Public Art Gallery and Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki | Gordon Walters: New Vision
Heide Museum of Modern Art | Call of the Avant Garde: Constructivism and Australian Art
Maitland Regional Art Gallery Lionel’s Place | Lionel Lindsay from the MRAG Collection
Sydney Jewish Museum | Closer: Portraits of Survival
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu | Aberhart Starts Here
TarraWarra Museum of Art | Rosemary Laing
Monash University Museum of Art – MUMA |Open Spatial Workshop: Converging in Time
Art Gallery of Ballarat | Romancing the Skull
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (MAJOR) – Level B
National Gallery of Victoria | Bill Henson
National Gallery of Victoria | Del Kathryn Barton: The Highway is a Disco
National Gallery of Victoria | NGV Triennial 2017
National Gallery of Australia | Defying Empire
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Jenny Watson The Fabric of Fantasy
National Library of Australia | Journeys into the Wild: The Photography of Peter Dombrovskis
QAGOMA | Marvel: Creating the Cinematic Universe
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Primavera at 25
National Portrait Gallery | Dempsey’s People: A folio of British street portraits 1824-1844
National Gallery of Victoria | Brave New World: Australia 1930s
QAGOMA | Gerhard Richter: The Life of Images
National Gallery of Australia | Hyper Real
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | Pipilotti Rist Sip My Ocean
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia | The National New Australian Art 2017
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (SMALL) – Level A
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery | Book Club
Science Gallery Melbourne | BLOOD: Attract & Repel
City Gallery | Ink in the Blood
Tamworth Regional Gallery | Open House: 3rd Tamworth Textile Triennial
Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery | Board Sheet: catalogue for ‘Board: surf and skate cultures meet contemporary art
Deakin University Art Collection and Galleries Unit | In the event of fire
UTS ART | Kate Scardifield: Soft Topologies
EXHIBITION CATALOGUE (SMALL) – Level B
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences | Love is – Australian Wedding Fashion
INSTITUTION WEBSITE – Level A
Public Record Office Victoria | The new Public Record Office Victoria website
BAMM – Bank Art Museum Moree | BAMM – Website
Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands | Royal Botanic Garden Sydney Website
INVITATION – Level A
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory | MAGNT Fundraising Dinner 2017
MAGAZINE – Level A
University of Sydney | MUSE
JamFactory | JAM Magazine
RMIT Design Archives | RMIT Design Archives Journal Vol 7 No. 1&2 2017
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu | Bulletin (B.187, B.188, B.189, B.190)
MAGAZINE – Level B
National Portrait Gallery | Portrait, issues 56 to 58
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences | MAAS Magazine – Winter & Summer
State Library of New South Wales | SL Magazine
MULTIMEDIA – Level A
The Lock-Up | The Lock-Up – 2018 Exhibition Program
Octapod – TiNA (This is Not Art) | TiNA 2017 Promotional Video
Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory | Tjungunutja film
MULTIMEDIA – Level B
ACMI | ACMI Code Breakers Steph Plays
ACMI | ACMI Akira Kurosawa Season Trailer
ACMI | ACMI Bombay Talkies Trailer
POSTER – Level A
Warrnambool Art Gallery | 16 Days of Activism Free to be Every Me
PROGRAM WEBSITE – Level A
National Wool Museum | National Quilt Register
City Gallery | City Collection website
PROGRAM WEBSITE – Level B
National Museum of Australia | Songlines: tracking the Seven Sisters interactive
Western Australian Museum | Collections Care Manual
National Portrait Gallery and National Film and Sound Archive | Exhibition Website – Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits
JUDGES
We have a pool of about 10 judges that we draw from each year. Each year, 5 wonderful people volunteer a day to come to Canberra and judge over 200 entries! Electronic entries are judged separately from the publications and we have a different group of judges we call upon. We have a strict recusal process to avoid any conflict of interest. If you have any questions about the conflict of interest process, please contact us.
Jude Savage, Registrar and MAPDA veteran, Art Gallery of Western Australia
Suzie Campbell, Arts Marketing Consultant, Canberra
Rick Cochrane, Printer and Artist, Bytes + Colours
Brendan O’Donnell, Graphic Designer and Artist
Brett Wiencke, Graphic Designer, National Portrait Gallery
Selena Kearney, Graphic & UX Designer, Nomat
Jonny Brownbill, Manager, Online Development, Museums Victoria