Enter now! Showcase your creative flair in the Resene Total Colour Awards

04 Dec 2025

Designers, architects, decorators and colour lovers – it's your time to shine. And you’re last chance to enter with entries closing on 19 December 2025!

The Resene Total Colour Awards celebrate the bold, the innovative and the beautiful use of colour in design. Whether your project is residential, commercial, interior, exterior, big, small, built or conceptual… if colour plays a starring role, we want to see it.

With over NZ $15,000 in prizes up for grabs, including NZ $1,000 for each category winner and NZ $2,500 for the prestigious Resene Total Colour Nightingale Award, it's more than just an accolade, it's an opportunity for your work to gain national recognition.

Winners will receive:

• A Resene Total Colour Award sculpture
• Promotion across Resene's digital, print, and social media platforms throughout the year
• Automatic entry into the Colour Master Nightingale Award the best of the best award selected from each category winners (excluding the Lifetime Achievement award).

To see the different categories, learn more about the Resene Total Colour Awards, and to enter: Click here!

Main image: 2025 winner of the Resene Total Colour Master Nightingale Award and the Resene Total Colour Commercial Exterior Award – Chelsea Sugar Head Office Exterior Colour Scheme by Eleanor Eugster and Alison Gwerder, Beca Ltd. This project is finished in Resene Foundry, Red Damask, Outrageous, Supernova, Yellow Sea, Simply Red, Scrumptious, Illusion, Titania and Oregon wood stain. Image by Eleanor Eugster.

Published: 04 Dec 2025