Top Designs 2023 celebrates the innovation of Victoria’s VCE and VCE VET design students, offering insight into the future of socially conscious and responsive design.
Top Designs 2023
In 2023, Top Designs showcases 69 works created by students who completed VCE Media, Product Design and Technology, Systems Engineering, Theatre Studies and Visual Communication Design, as well as VCE VET Creative and Digital Media, Integrated Technologies, Engineering Studies and Music (Sound Production).
Take a virtual tour of the exhibition, view the works, and look through a selection of exemplar folio pages.
Virtual tour
Meet the exhibitors
View the works
Top Designs 2023 List of Works
The Top Designs 2023 digital list of works features images of all works and exhibitor statements.
Audio Guide
Beyond Top Designs
Explore the interesting career paths of some of our Top Designs alumni and see where your creative journey could take you.
Kimberly Engwicht
Creative Director, K-Rae Designs
This year’s graphic identity for the VCE Season of Excellence is a collaboration between Nutshell Graphics and Kimberly Engwicht. Kim is a proud Bundjalung and South Sea Islander woman and the Creative Director of K-Rae Designs, a digital illustration and stationery company located on Yuggera Country in Brisbane, Queensland.
Kim’s work is influenced by pop culture, cartoons and magic-realist landscapes. Her love for bold black outlines, bright, dynamic colour palettes, and cultural iconography aims to unite audiences of all ages.
Previous Top Designs
Top Designs 2020
Featuring a selection of Victoria’s most talented VCE students from 2019, Top Designs celebrates its 20th anniversary at Melbourne Museum.
Top Designs 2021
Now in its 21st year at Melbourne Museum, Top Designs 2021 brings together exceptional works from some of Victoria's most talented VCE students from 2020.
Top Designs 2022
Showcasing a selection of Victoria's brightest VCE design students, offering a glimpse into the future of contemporary Australian design.