Sarah Stevens our 2007 Cormack Innovation Awards Winner started her internship with us this week, learning about our company, injection moulding and the Solidworks 3D mechanical design software. Sarah has benefited from working with Tim Bird and Frag Woodall who have been helping her realize her award winning design which Cormack hope to commercialise soon.

Sarah is also enjoying the multicultural food experience of nearby Bankstown with its many Vietnamese and Middle Eastern restrauants.

The quality of the designers that win our Cormack Innovation Award is being displayed by their success in other design competitions. Our 2005 winner, Frag Woodall is in the final 21 of the International Bicycle Design Competition. Frag has entered his Everglide bike design which can be found here. The numbers of entries this year were 922 from all over the world. Find out more information on the competition here.

Our 2006 Cormack Innovation Award winner, Brad Stebbings is one of the 3 finalists for the Breville Young Designer Award. Brad has entered his design for a Coffee Shakir.

Our Cormack Innovation Award is one of the most practical design competitions opened to industrial design students in Australia and it is great to see that the designers that win the Cormack with a great packaging idea, go on to be recognized for their ability in other design disciplines.

Yes, the Cormack Awards are on again with design students from the leading universities competing for one of the most practical design competitions in Australia.

Students from the University of Technology Sydney, the University of New South Wales, the University of Canberra and Monash University are this year busily creating designs to meet the brief for the Cormack Award.

The Cormack Award is regarded as one of the most practical awards, as the competition criteria and judging is done by people working in FMCG, beverage and pharmaceutical companies, the same people that one day will be commissioning designs from these students.

The awards culminate in the Presentation Night which this year will be held in Sydney in October. Past winners of the award include Tim Bird and Frag Woodall who are both working with Cormack.