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Melbourne Design Week 2026: The Review

Melbourne Design Week 2026: The Review

With a plethora of talks, installations, exhibitions and happenings responding to this year’s theme (Design The World You Want), the eleven-day festival was the largest to date and arguably the most accomplished since inception. 

Led by designers: Casting a curatorial eye across Melbourne Design Week

Led by designers: Casting a curatorial eye across Melbourne Design Week

Curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin was in town for Melbourne Design Week. Here, she reflects on how light-touch organising and designer-led spaces created some of the most impactful, distinctive exhibitions.

Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week

Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week

What a week! With so many events still to come, Jan Henderson gives us a taste of what the 2025 edition has been like so far.

Behind the Brand with Dowel Jones

Behind the Brand with Dowel Jones

As Dowel Jones celebrates ten years with events at Geelong Design Week, we get to know more about what makes this enigmatic and celebrated team tick.

Melbourne Design Fair to fill a key gap in local market

Melbourne Design Fair to fill a key gap in local market

An initiative of the National Gallery of Victoria in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair runs from 16 – 20 March.

Got a good idea for a vase? Dale Hardiman and Mark Dineen will make it happen

Got a good idea for a vase? Dale Hardiman and Mark Dineen will make it happen

Once again Dale Hardiman and Mark Dineen are pushing the boundaries on product design and thinking big – in fact world-wide large!

‘We wanted to imbue all our products with rich personalities,’ Dowel Jones on championing creativity

‘We wanted to imbue all our products with rich personalities,’ Dowel Jones on championing creativity

With just one week to go, Dowel Jones’ Design From Home competition seeks to ignite collaboration and artistry across Australia’s design community.

New Volumes c/o Artedmous right at home with Cult

New Volumes c/o Artedmous right at home with Cult

New Volumes can now be found in Cult showrooms across Australia, making for a textbook example of perfect synergy as both brands are steadfast supporters of local designers and makers.