DIGITAL MEDIA AWARD 2025

DIGITAL PROCESS AND ILLUSTRATIVE REPRESENTATIONS

Works pushing the boundaries of creativity, originality and innovative representation. Undefined by process, recognising exemplar imagery across all mediums, processes and styles that have excelled in experimentation, ingenuity and confidence. Top works display a mastery of their media, narrative and purpose.

Cultivate Rainforest Commons by Ying Yu Wong

Winner of Digital Media Award 2025

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Through strategic regional planning and multiscale landscape designs, a system of landscape infrastructure and new afforestation technique is developed to cultivate ‘rainforest commons’, transforming commons from bracken-invaded moorland to temperate rainforest with phased management. The designed landscape infrastructure and landscape management system support local communities to actively involve and participate in the extensive process of restoring temperate rainforests. Multipurpose landscape interventions are designed to support the development of temperate rainforest over a long period of time and cultivate a self-sustained rainforest eventually. The design itself will be a perpetual process which expand and evolve with time.

Vinoduct by Jonas Kaiser

Highly Commended for Digital Media Award 2025

Fachhochschule Regensburg, Germany

This drawing presents a winery in Austria designed as both a building and a bridge, merging architecture with infrastructure. Inspired by traditional aqueducts and viaducts, the structure spans the landscape, connecting two terrains while serving as a space for winemaking and gathering. The drawing, composed entirely of small dots, echoes historical architectural representations while utilizing modern digital tools—reflecting the project’s conceptual duality of past and present.

Le Gîte by Emma Stévenot

Highly Commended for Digital Media Award 2025

France

Made for the 2024 edition of the challenge Inktober, with gathered ideas on instagram for themes around architecture, nature, landscape and utopia. 25 themes were used to trace 13x13 cm blue ink drawings by hand : montains, landscape, a nest, fatal, ancient greece, spomenik, metamorphose, ruins, riparian vegetation, opus incertum, roof, water cycle, abundance, insects, pinus wallichiana,hut, balcony,people welcomed, tree house, forest undergrowth, sequoias, human stupidity, an orchard, naval architecture, underwater world. Using Photoshop and procreate, these 25 drawings were scanned and assembled to create a 70x70 cm illustration.

Dawn in Cherry Hill by Cassie Kadish & Brandon Gicquel

Special Mention for Digital Media Award 2025

The Tulane University of New Orleans, United States

Block Party! imagines a New Jersey suburban block in which property lines have been abolished and the land between homes is communally owned. Generational wealth is no longer a requirement to access the "American Dream", and the block becomes densified with ADUs and other communal program to allow older adults to age-in-place in a multigenerational environment.

Brooklyn Stories by Winston Yuen, Evan Sale + Christopher Tritt

Special Mention for Digital Media Award 2025

Canada

Brooklyn Stories is a faithful as-built drawing, capturing a chapter in the life my roommates and me. This turn-of-the-century rowhouse serves as both stage and witness to a rich life, where each object gain meaning and a rotating cast of lovers and friends comes and goes. Each object tells a story—like the night I accidentally set my landlord’s planter on fire, the house parties that called for fancy dishes and claimed a few guests, the salvaged Ionic capital turned coffee table, or marathon games of chess in our immaculate kitchen. These moments live on, intertwined with the characters who bring these stories to life. The drawing is a love letter to a fleeting yet profound chapter in our lives, to a place and time that shaped us.

The Basin by Rachel Wong, Mia Pearn, Long Nguyen + Yixi Chen

Special Mention for Digital Media Award 2025

University of Melbourne, Australia

Welcome to The Basin - a mixed-use creative institute which aims to reestablish meaningful dialogue between art, industry, nature and the river. The conflict between artistic expression and the commercialized creative industry fuels a relentless cycle of urban growth, gentrification, exploitation, and decline. Capital gain overrides creative process and community values, while natural landscapes deteriorate out of ignorance and neglect. The Basin is a reimagined amalgamation of river, convent, and industry, where unexpected collisions provoke unbridled artistic expression in opening a new discussion with the river. We challenge the complex and often destructive human-nature relationships in a new narrative of coexistence with the river.