Finalist Emerging Designer Category, The State of Design Festival, Design Awards

Year 2004

Description A prestigious Design Award representing the best of Australian design

Design Floorplay

Exhibition Design 2004 Exhibition, Melbourne Museum

Image State of Design Festival 2004 Catalogue

Tyranny of Distance, travelling exhibition of Australian Design.

Date October 2004

Location Seoul, Korea

Products exhibited Floorplay

Other exhibitors Marc Pascal, Charles Wilson, Zoe Macdonell, Mathew Butler, Bianca Looney, Lucus Chirnside, Michael Trudgeon, Nick Rennie, Thomas Seymour, 2Design, Marc Harrison, Stefan Kahn, Malte Wagenfeld and Jonathan Baskett

Image Hot Style, Seoul Design Festival 2004 catalogue

Publication Interni, Italy

Date September 2004

Article Young Designers

Product Floorscape, Floorplay and Beachboard

Salone Satellite, Milan International Furniture Fair

Date April 2004

Location Milan, Italy

Products exhibited Floorscape, Floorplay, Beachboard

Photographer Samantha Parsons

Finalist (1 of 6), Australian Design Award 2004, Dyson Student Award

Year 2004

Purpose of Award “an award that recognises and rewards the outstanding design talent that exists in Australia’s education institutions”. The 35 shortlisted projects underwent an intense and gruelling judging program to select 6 finalists, of which the winners were chosen to represent the ultimate in Australian Student Design in 2004.

Design Floorscape

Photographer Trevor Mein

Finalist, The Lifestyle Channel Design Award for Excellence

Year 2004

Design Floorscape

Exhibition The Lifestyle Channel Visitors Lounge and Hot House, DesignEx, Sydney, Australia

Photographer Trevor Mein

Publication The Washington Post, USA

Date April 2004

Article Milan’s Leading Indicators

author Linda Hales

Product Floorscape

40 degrees, Contemporary Australian Design (exhibition curated by Helen Punton of Modern White). To coincide with Designmai 2004, International Design Festival.

Date 2004

Location Stilwerk, Berlin, Germany

Products exhibited Floorscape

Image Modern White

Finalist, Inspired by Cologne, The Talent Show of IMM Cologne, Germany

Year January 2004

Design Floorscape

Exhibition Cologne Furniture Fair, Germany

Other finalists Sam was 1 of 31 young international designers selected by the German Design Council from over 400 applications worldwide. Finalists were from Austria, Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands (including Radiator by Joris Laarmann, now part of Droog Design Range), UK and USA

Judges included renowned international designer Patricia Urquiola

Finalist, Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, Australia

Year 2003

Design Floorscape

Exhibition Space Furniture showrooms Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia

Judges included Philippe Starck