DESIGN Canberra’s annual photography competition has announced its theme for 2021, encouraging professional and amateur photographers to take photos which take a closer look at Canberra’s iconic design and architecture from the 1970s.

The 2021 photo competition invites individuals to submit digital photographs that celebrate the visionary and experimental design that emerged from the nation’s capital in the 1970s. The theme of ‘Design in the 70s’ may capture iconic architecture by Taglietti, Seidler, Boyd, Andrews and Pegrum; Canberra’s co-living medium density experiments;  public art by Bert Flugelman and Margel Hinder; or the refinement of the Y plan in Canberra’s town planning.

The top 100 photos will be printed and exhibited in a signature DESIGN Canberra exhibition at Canberra Contemporary Art Space from 8-28 November 2021.