Redux: Melbourne In Design

Continuing our review of Saturday in Design over the years, this week we look back to the colour and character of Melbourne SiD events

BY owen Lynch

March 12th, 2013

5 months out from the return of Australia’s leading design industry event – Sydney Indesign: the Experience, we remember all the highpoints from previous years and look forward to an even bigger and brighter program of design events in 2013.

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Remix Task Chair

Zenith

3D Ceiling Tiles

Autex Acoustics

Architectural Floor Wastes Square Range

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Memory Bathware Collection by Agape

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From Country to Carpet: Milliken’s PrintWorks™ technology brings First Nations stories to the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence

At the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence on Yorta Yorta Country in Victoria, ARM Architecture and Milliken use PrintWorks™ technology to translate First Nations narratives into a layered, community-led floorscape.

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Legacy, Refined

Herman Miller’s reintroduction of the Eames Moulded Plastic Dining Chair balances environmental responsibility with an enduring commitment to continuous material innovation.

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Soundscape serenity meets geometric pizazz

The difference between music and noise is partly how we feel when we hear it. Similarly, the way people respond to an indoor space is based on sensory qualities such as colour, texture, shapes, scents and sound.

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Translating design intent with Klaro’s manufacturing-led approach

In an industry where design intent is often diluted by value management and procurement pressures, Klaro Industrial Design positions manufacturing as a creative ally – allowing commercial interior designers to deliver unique pieces aligned to the project’s original vision.

Business Interiors Gets an Upgrade

The supplier formerly known as Business Interiors by Staples has hit refresh.

Products

CSM contributes to NSW Treasury’s relocation to 52 Martin Place

The relocation for NSW Treasury meant significant change, namely, moving from a static environment to an agile one. CSM supplied much of the office furniture, but how did this help make this major transition a success?

Ideas

Five 1960s design trends that never left

While the Mid-Century Modernism of 1960s design has since given way to Neomodern and other new trends, some classics never die.

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Inside Catalyst’s design for the Department of Corrections

This New Zealand Department of Corrections skills-up offenders in the community and prison. Every detail of the design, including its colourful Milliken carpet tiles, comes back to its ‘pathway of excellent’ mission.

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Light, space and amenity at the ‘People’s Hospital’

The new Footscray Hospital by COX Architecture and BLP has set the bar high for best practice health design.

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A Mediterranean vision, realised

Hamsi Taverna brings Aegean warmth to Sydney – delivered through a tightly aligned collaboration between Alkot Studio and Unita.

People

Colin Seah on Creative Amnesia and Designing Social Universes

Colin Seah discusses the philosophy behind crafting meaningful social spaces, the importance of emotional intent in architecture, and how “creative amnesia” helps his studio stay ahead of trends.

Projects

Urban verticality in India

Completed in November 2025, Hafeez Contractor’s 91 storey Minerva Tower sits within a 6.5 acre redevelopment that prioritised rehabilitation first.

Redux: Melbourne In Design

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Remix Task Chair

3D Ceiling Tiles

Architectural Floor Wastes Square Range

Memory Bathware Collection by Agape

Indesign Our Partners

From Country to Carpet: Milliken’s PrintWorks™ technology brings First Nations stories to the Munarra Centre for Regional Excellence

Legacy, Refined

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