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Video: Talking Design with Adam Goodrum, Mercedes-Benz Design Award Mentor

Video: Talking Design with Adam Goodrum, Mercedes-Benz Design Award Mentor
We ask Australia’s leading industrial designer, what makes great design?

· Updated on 05 Nov 2018 · Published on 12 Oct 2017

Entries to the Mercedes-Benz Design Award have now closed. The winner will be announced in November.

The winner of the 2017 Mercedes-Benz Design Award by Broadsheet will win mentoring from a panel of Australia’s top design experts including Adam Goodrum.

Goodrum is the industrial designer behind legendary Australian furniture such as the Molloy Chair for Cult Design.

In our video we talk to him about what makes great design.

The Mercedes-Benz Design Award recipient will also have their design manufactured and sold in Australia by design retailer Cult Design and will receive a trip to the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.

This year the award is calling for design entries that enhance the dining space – be it furniture, lighting, crockery or wall hangings – and is open to designers of any experience.

The winner of the Mercedes-Benz Design Award by Broadsheet will receive:

  • Their design prototyped, manufactured and sold by Cult Design

  • Mentorship from Australia's design leaders

  • A trip for two to Germany

This article is produced by Broadsheet in partnership with Mercedes-Benz. Learn more about the Mercedes-Benz Design Award by Broadsheet and the latest Mercedes-Benz designs.

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