Designers

Events
EOIs open for Adelaide Design Week 2026
Adelaide Design Week returns in October 2026 with the theme every*one, inviting designers, makers, studios, collectives and creative thinkers to submit expressions of interest.

Events
CPD Live Returns: 14-16 October 2025
Join CPD Live from 14-16 October for three days of live, interactive education – 100% online, 100% free, and packed with insights to keep your knowledge current and earn CPD points.

Events
A history of Saturday Indesign: More than two decades of bringing designers and showrooms together
Saturday Indesign is one of the standout fixtures on the Asia-Pacific design calendar – but how exactly did it start, and when did it become so big?

Project
The material and the maker: How the Indo Pacific’s best designers are using timber
What happens when the Southern Hemisphere’s best design talents meet the Northern Hemisphere’s best timbers?

Events
Designing for success
Two designers from Aotearoa/New Zealand are making a splash in the world of furniture design, creating objects of desire while carving their individual pathways to success.

Products
A stone centrepiece – CDK Stone’s Selection Centre is a hub for designers
CDK Stone’s new Selection Centre is crafted specifically for the design community, providing a dedicated space for architects, designers and specifiers to explore, collaborate, and take clients on an immersive journey through premium natural stone.

News
Win a $3600 Luxury Retreat at Sequoia Lodge by Attending the 2024 Sustainability Summit
Attendees of the Sustainability Summit will have an extraordinary chance to win a luxurious adult-only retreat to one of South Australia’s finest destinations

Articles
How Architects and Designers are Setting new Design Boundaries
Explore new possibilities thanks to the launch of Tilt Industrial Design’s new Product Division

Events
Discovered Singapore presents 10 hardwood creations by emerging APAC designers
The American Hardwood Export Council promotes the works of next-gen designers through Discovered Singapore exhibition happening from 16 to 22 May at Red Dot Design Museum Singapore.

News
“Proud of our people”: Plus turns 25
As Plus Architecture celebrates a major business milestone, director Ian Briggs offers insight into how Plus has bolstered its business growth.

People
SHAU improves social well-being through architecture and urban design
Daliana Suryawinata and Florian Heinzelmann of SHAU are dogged idealists when it comes to the transformative power of architecture and urban design. Projects like their series of microlibraries show how social improvements can come one architectural experiment at a time.

People
Where Are They Now? Launch Pad Asia 2015 Winner Aaron Lim
In 2015, designer Aaron Lim was a Launch Pad Asia winner with his lamp Mirage, which casts watery patterns onto surfaces. Judge David Chiu admired how it both served a function and conveyed an emotion. We tracked down Aaron to see what he’s been up to since and discovered he’s still designing for emotion.

Ideas
In Real Time
Dutch-designer Maarten Baas has expanded his Real Time series to Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport.

People
Sruli Recht, A Little Controversial
Icelandic-Australian designer Sruli Recht has been arrested, fashioned a ring from his own skin and created a jacket from the skin of a stillborn lamb – but he doesn’t believe he’s intentionally controversial.

People
In Profile: BassamFellows
Life beyond the Tractor Stool. We check in with Craig Bassam and Scott Fellows.

People
In Profile: Sean Dix – IDL
“What’s really nice about being a designer is this idea that, theoretically, you should be able to design anything.”