Twilight by Cinnamon Lee – IDL

A contemporary jewellery designer lights up Sydney’s Metalab.

Comment: Nendo and Oluce

Following a recent visit by Nendo’s Oki Sato, Simone LeAmon looks at Nendo’s relationship with lighting manufacturer Oluce and finds some lessons for Aussie designers trying to bridge the gap between Australia and Milan.

Seidler Invitation

Rose Seidler House will open its doors to the public for a free weekend in March.

SO BUONO – Cultural Design Feast

So Buono is a delightful aesthetic mix of furniture, lighting, objects and tableware.

The exhibition runs from April 22-27 2009.

The exhibition will return to Melbourne, reinvented with the selected and additional Milanese & Melbourne designers showcasing a diversity tableware, furniture,objects and lighting as part of the State of Design in July 2009.

Walk-in vineyard offers immersive dine-and-wine experience

Le Coq Wine & Bistro, Taikooli by RooMoo offers a twist on the usual restaurant and bar experience. Visitors to the Shanghai venue can explore the process of wine production through a reinterpreted spatial design.

These 4 ‘big ideas’ will shape architecture in 2023

Fresh from her trip to the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, Fender Katsalidis’ Nicky Drobis outlines four big ideas that will shape architecture in 2023.

Regional design and the tactful art of rebuilding communities

Takt is designing architecture that is sustainable, sensitive and desirable. This studio is leading the way as a beating architectural heart in the regions and is in sync not only with the landscape but with the local communities who call it their home.

Warning to all architects: Ignore design culture at your peril

Australian architect and Conrad Gargett principal Dale Swan laments the lack of design culture in some practices across the country. According to Dale, it’s often what leads promising young architects and designers to exit such studios.