The polytechnic won five medals, with eight Otago Polytechnic School of Design projects represented at the awards, which were held via Zoom.
The design awards event was a showcase of graphic, spatial, interactive and motion design in New Zealand.
"To have five out of our eight finalists collect medals at New Zealand’s most prestigious design awards is an outstanding achievement," Otago Polytechnic chief executive Megan Gibbons said.
Cameron Tillotson, who has a bachelor in design, won a gold medal in the student moving image category for his video Merc Lady.
Judges said the "bold and fresh" project’s stop-motion and "riot of colour" came together in a memorable piece of animation, set to the song Merc Lady by artist Dexy Boy.
A silver medal in the student graphics category went to another bachelor of design student, Courtney Forbes. Her project was called Popopo Wormporium.
Another silver medal went to Mila Makasini in the Student Spatial category for his project Navigating Culture, which offered a contemporary interpretation of a Tongan "fale", or house, representing her concept for a Polynesian cultural centre.
Other winners included the polytechnic’s Desis Lab team, a product design collaborative, which won a silver medal for their Vision 2020 Child to Child Vision Screening Project. This project allowed children to test each other’s vision as part of a science curriculum.
Angus Lewry and Ella Sanderson won bronze medals for their project Freerein, a prototype bike designed for people with multiple sclerosis.
