Geodesic metal sphere with hexagonal panels in dark tones, split horizontally in two. The bottom half rests on a curved black-metal stand while the top half sits alongside.

Top Designs 2025

What
EXHIBITION
When
General information
Melbourne Gallery
Tickets
Included with museum entry
Adult $15
Child Free
Member Free

Top Designs will return to Melbourne Museum from Saturday 29 March to 20 July 2025 as part of the VCE Season of Excellence.

Now in its 25th year, Top Designs showcases the young future designers of Victoria. Explore the research, experimentation and development of 77 imaginative works across 9 design studies.

Smiling person lying on a white background with arms in a prayer position, surrounded by white T-shirts with hand-drawn illustrations.
Our Guide to Feminism by Catrin Walker, Top Designs 2025. Courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority.

Top Designs 2025 exhibitors interrogate the changing world around them to propose innovative possibilities in sustainability, place, community, automation and craftsmanship.

Woman in long green dress with a white apron, sitting in front of a wooden backdrop with a framed painting, hanging animal carcass, dried plants, and a "Staff Only" sign. Stack of three flotational devices in orange, yellow and green. Open hardback book featuring text and cartoon illustrations of the characters Little Frog and Tiny Mouse. Rectangular coffee table in mixed wood tones with curved edges, enclosed sides and open compartments segmented by angled dividers. One front drawer is partially opened. Person wears a brown tweed oversized top with sheer grey wide-leg trousers and black heels. Model aeroplane suspended under a wooden frame with attached wiring and motors. Person seen from behind wears a green long-sleeved rash top with fish-scale patterned sleeves and a matching bucket hat. Small robotic arm on a yellow hexagonal platform, sorting model trucks in a variety of colours. Geodesic metal sphere with hexagonal panels in dark tones, split horizontally in two. The bottom half rests on a curved black-metal stand while the top half sits alongside.

Top Designs 2025 is a hybrid-exhibition presented both on-site at Melbourne Museum and online through our web hub (see the 2024 web hub below). Education Forums will be presented on-site at Melbourne Museum (see below).

Top Designs 2025 is proudly presented as part of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority’s VCE Season of Excellence, which also includes Top Talks, Top Screen, Top Arts, Top Class and Top Scribe.

 

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