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Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives

Now in its 25th year, Top Designs returns to Melbourne Museum from 29 March 2025, spotlighting the bold ideas and creative energy of Victoria’s next generation of designers. The showcase features outstanding student work across design, technology, systems engineering and visual communication—each project pushing boundaries and imagining a more sustainable, inclusive and inventive world.

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives
Image: Coffee Table by Callum McLeod, Top Designs 2025. Photograph by Nicole Cleary, courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

WHAT TO EXPECT

In partnership with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), this exhibition presents the work of 77 students from government, independent, and Catholic schools, all selected by expert panels across nine design subjects.

This year’s exhibition features a range of innovative and thought-provoking designs, from eco-friendly sunglasses made from repurposed coffee grounds to a quick-build housing solution for Australia’s housing crisis. Each piece explores how young designers are reimagining the future through sustainability, automation, community, and craftsmanship. Visitors will get an inside look at the creative process behind these projects, with prototypes, material tests, and folio documentation on display to showcase the students’ approaches to their work.

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives
Image: Sustainable Multicultural Evening Wear by Marilyn Vincent, Top Designs 2025. Photograph by Nicole Cleary, courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum Assessment Authority

“This exceptional showcase of student work not only highlights the remarkable creations on display but celebrates the ideas, creative processes and critical thinking that inspire us all to reimagine our future.”
Sean Royal, Acting CEO & Director of Museums Victoria.

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives
Image: Fire and Ice by Jade Curci, Top Designs 2025. Photograph by Nicole Cleary, courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

VCE SEASON OF EXCELLENCE

Top Designs 2025 is part of the VCE Season of Excellence, an annual event that celebrates the talent and creativity of Victoria’s senior secondary students. In addition to the exhibition, the museum will host a series of educational forums and introductory discussions, both online and onsite, offering valuable insights from industry experts for VCE and VCE VET design and technology students.

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives
Image: Disconnected Dependency by Alexander Keep, Top Designs 2025. Courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

ACCESSIBILITY

This year’s exhibition also places a strong emphasis on accessibility, with resources developed in collaboration with Lauren Hayes and PolySensoryAccess. These include an access guide, large print labels, and 24 audio descriptions of works for blind and low-vision audiences, ensuring that all visitors can engage with the exhibition.

Top Designs 2025 Melbourne Museum: Showcasing Victoria’s Brightest Young Creatives
Image: Faded by Nellie Barwick, Top Designs 2025. Photograph by Nicole Cleary, courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

TOP DESIGN 2025 EDUCATION FORUMS

The 2025 Top Design Education Forums bring together industry experts and VCAA representatives to inspire creativity and excellence in VCE, VM, and VET Design studies. These 1-hour sessions, designed to complement school visits to the Top Designs exhibition, cover a wide range of design fields, including furniture, fashion, graphic and product design, set and costume design, film, photography, animation, web design, and technological projects. Attendees will gain insights into design thinking, study outcomes, and creative opportunities in subjects like VCE Media, Product Design, Systems Engineering, Theatre Studies, Visual Communication, and VET design studies.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION – TOP DESIGN 2025

Dates: Saturday 29 March – Sunday 20 July 2025
Location: Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Tickets: Adult $15, Child Free, Member Free. 

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Top Image: Cohab+ Modular Housing System by Noah Freeman, Top Designs 2025. Photograph by Nicole Cleary, courtesy of the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority

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