President’s Letter – Summer 19/20

The 9th annual APDG awards were held in the Melbourne Spiegeltent on Sunday December 1, 2019. The night was a huge success – a wonderful venue, a lovely enthusiastic crowd and hosted by the charming and talented Adam Elliot. It was a lot of fun.

Congratulations to all our awards winners. Celebrating the skills and talents of our colleagues is such a great experience. As a design community we have so much to be proud of in the creative, high quality work of our colleagues. Congratulations also go to our colleagues who received AACTA awards this year.

A huge thanks must go to our awards team who put on such a memorable Melbourne event. Ashleigh Morton (awards manager), Tamara Popper (sponsor manager), Valentina Iastrebova (treasurer), Daniel Willis (website manager), Aphrodite Kondos (Melbourne committee chair), and last but not least, Fiona Donovan APDG (vice president).

Without our sponsors we would not have such a fabulous event, so thanks to both old, who have stuck with us from the very first awards event and new, we thank you.

You can check out all the smiling faces in the photos from the APDG 2019 awards on our Instagram, Facebook and website.

Finally, we would like to thank you, our members, for celebrating our 10th year and we look forward to more events and advocacy in 2020.

– George

Adam Elliot (Awards Host), George Liddle APDG (APDG President)
and Rod Allan (CEO Docklands Studios, Melbourne)
Photo Credit: Phoebe Powell