Awards
Awards aren’t why we do the work. But they’re a useful measure of it - judged by the people who set the standard, against the best in the world.
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AGDA Best in Show
AGDA Awards 2024 - Blunt. The single highest honour across every category at Australia’s national design awards.
Best Awards Purple Pin
Best Design Awards 2023 - Blunt. New Zealand’s highest honour for graphic design - best of the entire discipline.
AGDA Two Pinnacles
AGDA Awards 2020 - Change Maker and déjà. Australia’s top category honour, twice in one year.
Dieline Plastic Free Innovation of the Year
Dieline Awards 2026 - Honeysticks. One of five special honours across 1,500+ entries at the world’s biggest packaging design awards.
11th in the world at D&AD
D&AD 2021 - Ranked the 11th design agency globally, alongside COLLINS, Jones Knowles Ritchie and Superunion.
Dieline Design For Good Award
Dieline Awards 2021 - Change Maker. Plus 1st Place (Pets) for déjà.
Year by Year
2026
Plastic Free Innovation of the Year - Dieline Awards.
Honeysticks took one of five special honours across 1,500+ entries at the world’s biggest packaging design awards, plus 3rd Place in Sustainable Design.
At home, finalist placings for Forté (with Wildlabs) and Honeysticks await October’s Best Awards ceremony.
2025
Four Gold Pins at the Best Design Awards.
Gold for Honeysticks, Type Bee, My Way Up and Hae Whakarewa (with Guardians and NZMACI), a Silver for Te Whānau and two Bronze for Honeysticks.
At the AGDA Awards, a Distinction for Honeysticks and five Merits across Type Bee, My Way Up and Honeysticks.
2024
Best in Show - AGDA Awards.
Blunt took the highest honour at Australia’s national design awards, announced at the National Gallery of Victoria - alongside 2 Distinctions and 6 Merits.
At home, Bronze Pins for Asona and BLUNT at the Best Design Awards.
2023
The Purple Pin - Best Design Awards.
Blunt named the best graphic design in New Zealand - the year’s Purple Pin.
Plus Gold Pins for Environmental Graphics and Colour, three Silvers and three Bronzes across the Blunt world - Blunt Sans and Galactic Basic Std. included.
2022
Two AGDA Distinctions. Three Silver Pins.
AGDA Distinctions for Larry (Packaging) and Resolv (Design Effectiveness), with six Merits across the studio.
At the Best Awards, Silver Pins for Pivio, So Type and Pop’Set, and Bronze for Resolv and Bitter Sweet.
2021
11th design agency in the world - D&AD.
Four awarded entries ranked Milk 11th globally, alongside COLLINS, Jones Knowles Ritchie and Superunion.
In the US, Dieline’s Design For Good Award for Change Maker and 1st Place (Pets) for déjà.
2020
Two Pinnacles. 24 awards across Australasia.
AGDA Awards - Pinnacle for Change Maker (Design for Good) and déjà (Packaging), with 4 Distinctions and 10 Merits across the show.
Best Design Awards - Gold Pins for déjà, Max and Change Maker, plus 2 Silver and 3 Bronze.