Meet the 2026 Graduates of the Year

The Design Institute of Australia has announced the winners of its 2026 Graduates of the Year Awards, with 66 awards presented across 18 Australian institutions and University of Technology Sydney graduate Jannah Abdellatif receiving the program’s highest honour.Abdellatif has been named the 2026 Madeline Lester Australian Graduate of the Year for a communication design practice moving between Franco-Arabic, English and Arabic scripts. Grounded in primary field research across Egypt and Jo