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“A journey into a whole new material world”: Plant Life at the NGV
Curator Ewan McEoin tells us about the NGV’s new exhibition on plant-based materials as alternatives to plastics, synthetic materials and other non-renewable resources.
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Migrating Modernism: Seidler on show in Sydney
Following a successful exhibition at San Marco Art Centre (SMAC) in Venice, a retrospective exhibition on the work and life of preeminent Australian architect Harry Seidler is open at the University of Sydney’s Chau Chak Wing Museum.
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Nature Weave: Jia CURATED returns to Bali for a Southeast Asian design feast
Jia CURATED is happening once again in Bali and this extraordinary design festival is not to be missed!
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Reporting back from a Scandinavian design odyssey
Following a design pilgrimage through Copenhagen, Stockholm and Finland, FK’s Nicky Drobis reflects on 3daysofdesign, the work of Aino and Alvar Aalto, and why great design begins and ends with people.
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Copenhagen special: 3daysofdesign roundtable podcast is here!
Claire Delmar, Eva-Marie Prineas, Jason Gibney and Anton Assaad join STORIESINDESIGN to discuss the charm of Denmark’s capital city and their takes on 3daysofdesign 2026.
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Finding quotidian design joy at Melbourne Design Week
Designed to be touched, picked up and played with, ‘New/Relic’ was a Melbourne Design Week exhibition of every fixture you’ve never thought about twice.
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Venice Biennale 2026: Evocations of resilience and hope
Arts writer and editor Victoria Hynes reports on the breadth of this year’s Venice Biennale, drawing out highlights from national pavilions including Australia, Morocco, India and the UK.
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3daysofdesign diaries with Jason Gibney
The Sydney-based director of Jason Gibney Design Workshop travelled to Copenhagen for this year’s Scandinavian festival of design, reflecting on what makes the event — and the city — so special.
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3days: Seven ways to get from more to meaningful
We round up the seven projects at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign that best reflected this year’s theme: Make This Moment Matter.
Ideas
More than a showroom crawl: what Saturday Indesign means to the industry
As Saturday Indesign prepares to return to Sydney this September, architects, designers and exhibitors reflect on what has kept the event relevant for more than two decades.
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Four things we learned as Saturday Indesign evolves
Our recent exhibitor session showed a renewed SID moving towards hospitality, process and more meaningful showroom experiences.
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3daysofdesign promises a collective recalibration from ‘more’ to ‘meaningful’
After Milan Design Week’s ‘festival of consumption’, 3daysofdesign offers a much-needed reset, an opportunity to ‘make the world a better place’ and perhaps even a soft-launch of the future.
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Powerhouse Parramatta readies itself for late 2026 opening
Scheduled to open later this year on the banks of the Parramatta River, the 30,000-square-metre Powerhouse museum — designed by Moreau Kusunoki in collaboration with Genton — represents a major shift in the geography of Sydney’s cultural infrastructure.
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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.
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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.
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Hong Kong Art Week wraps up for another year
Where East Meets West and where leading commercial galleries connect with global audiences in an energetic week of sales, conversations, programmes and cultural exchange.
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Preserving heritage with Yatofu Creatives
Cycling culture and heritage seldom converge, yet the AITASHOP flagship in Beijing is a space where both coexist.
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Melbourne Design Week 2026 expands design’s role
From robotics and Blak design to food, furniture and climate-responsive sportswear, Australia’s largest design event will return in May with more than 400 events across Melbourne.
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David Sequeira on colour, form and time
An array of coloured circles overlaid in perfect geometric sequences create a spectrum of musical auras in artist David Sequeira’s Bundanon Art Gallery commission, Form from the Formless (Under Bundanon Stars).
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London meets Mexico City as this year’s Serpentine Pavilion is announced
Mexican architecture studio LANZA atelier has been selected to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2026, which will open to the public in London’s Kensington Gardens on 6th June.
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Made in Geelong: A new exhibition honours 160 years of textile innovation
At the National Wool Museum, a new exhibition traces the evolution of Godfrey Hirst and its long-standing role in shaping Geelong’s industrial and design identity.
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Auckland Design Week 2026 launches with bold vision for People + Place
Auckland Design Week returns for its third edition in March, unveiling an expanded programme and a renewed focus on the relationship between people, communities and the places they shape.
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Australia’s 2025 national landscape winners
Community, Country and climate were centred at the 2025 Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) Awards in Lutruwita/Tasmania on 21st October.
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Australian Furniture Design Award 2026 registrations open
Stylecraft and NGV call for furniture and lighting designs addressing small-space living, with $20,000 prize and commercial development opportunity.
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Foster + Partners launches first Australian exhibition at Parkline Place
Civic Vision, a major exhibition showcasing the global work of Foster + Partners, has officially opened in Sydney.
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“Designers can no longer claim they don’t know the consequences”: Q&A with curator Ewan McEoin
At the NGV’s Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday, design becomes a force for repair. From algae-based vinyl to mycelium earplugs, the exhibition proves that rethinking the ordinary can reshape our collective future.
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Fletcher Arts October group show returns to Toorak
Held in a private Melbourne residence, Fletcher Arts’ annual exhibition unites over 30 Australian artists and designers in a setting where art meets architecture.
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Foster + Partners exhibition is coming to Sydney’s Parkline Place
‘Civic Vision | Foster + Partners’ is the first comprehensive exhibition of the practice’s work to be held in Australia, providing an in-depth look at its global portfolio of work since it was founded in 1967 by Norman Foster.
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Architecture as laboratory: Notes from the Venice Biennale with David Holm
In this comment piece, COX Principal David Holm reflects on Carlo Ratti’s curatorship in which climate, colonisation and gender equity took centre stage at the Venice Biennale.
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KEEP: Forever Objects by six Australian architects
AHEC’s KEEP exhibition at Cult Sydney sees six Australian architects craft lasting furniture pieces, on view until 4th October.
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Enrico Taglietti’s life in design on show in Canberra exhibition
A retrospective at Canberra Museum + Gallery honours Enrico Taglietti, shaping the exhibition through his own design principles.
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A certain type of design at Sydney Design Week
Type designer Vincent Chan, who delivered a keynote speech with the Powerhouse as part of Sydney Design Week, tells us about the history and importance of this niche profession.
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The future, today
NGV exhibition ‘Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday’ is open – and be prepared to be amazed and delighted by great creative design.
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A fresh take: Inside Adelaide Design Week
The inaugural Adelaide Design Week *everywhere unfolded across five days and nights, bringing together the creative community in a way that hadn’t happened before. Organiser and regular contributor Bronwyn Marshall gives us the inside story.
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“We have much to learn from sheds”
A recent exhibition at the Robin Boyd Foundation in Melbourne invited visitors to think deeply about sheds and what this under-appreciated building typology can teach us about construction and living today.
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Will Lynes calls for architects and designers to value the ancient trade of signwriting
Despite its long and rich history, signwriting is a profession in decline. Will Lynes’ new show, Oily Water at Canberra Glassworks, aims to showcase the techniques of the trade to highlight its potential in design.
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Saturday Indesign comes to Collingwood
Collingwood is one of three precincts at Saturday Indesign 2025 on 6th September – find out what’s on there!
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“A magic you can’t prescribe, control or manifest”: Trent Jansen’s new exhibition at Studio ALM
Trent Jansen’s first Sydney solo exhibition in years celebrates the poetry and stories that grow from collaborative making as well as the importance of co-creation.
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Wonderfully Wonderstruck
Wonderstruck is currently on view at the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA), an exuberant statement of flamboyant possibilities.
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Rose Nolan exhibition opens at TarraWarra Museum of Art
‘Breathing Helps’ is a major solo exhibition bringing together Nolan’s large-scale works with new commissions and performances.
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Adelaide launches its first dedicated Design Week this August
Adelaide will debut its first city-wide design festival – every*where: Adelaide Design Week – from 20th to 24th August 2025.
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Funding cuts are an existential threat to Australian Design Centre
The Australian Design Centre (ADC) is facing a crisis as core funding cuts leave NSW without a government-funded organisation dedicated to craft and design practice.
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The unexpected in the everyday: Drez on agency, architecture and art
The Melbourne-based artist works at the intersection of art and architecture. In a new exhibition at MAGMA Galleries, he turns his focus on urban space and agency to a smaller scale.
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Davenport Campbell: Forget ‘future-proof,’ because your workplace is about to perceive, adapt and evolve
Davenport Campbell’s Neill Johanson shares insights from WORKTECH25 and the impact of AI on the workplace experience.
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Open House Melbourne 2025: The packed program is upon us!
This year’s Open House Melbourne Weekend program has been unveiled, with almost 200 buildings, places and experiences set to open to the public in July.
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Cerith Wyn Evans at the MCA
On the eve of Cerith Wyn Evans’ first museum exhibition in the Asia-Pacific region, we interviewed the internationally acclaimed contemporary artist in a wide-ranging discussion spanning Japanese gardens, the aesthetics of Buddhism and the Australian light.
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Future force on show at Bates Smart exhibition
An exhibition titled ‘Synthetic Spaces’ by Maycon Sedrez and Gregory Pitts from Deakin University is taking place at the Bates Smart Gallery in Melbourne.
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A celebration of Tasmanian design
Tasmania Makes 25 brings together 16 Tasmanian designers in a double exhibition of material mastery, sustainability and local creativity.
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Your highlights from Melbourne Design Week 2025
Well, it’s done and dusted for another year but what a major success and influential event it was! Here are some standout exhibitions and installations for 2025.
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Grimshaw in Venice
The 19th International Architecture Biennale has been on in Venice and Grimshaw’s latest installation explores the civic role of digital infrastructure in our cities.
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From Venice with architecture: Highlights from the 2025 Biennale
Australian curator, writer and educator Kate Goodwin has been in attendance at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale and reports back on some of the highlights.
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The cultural value of craft: How craft communities strengthen regional identity
As a UNESCO Creative City of Craft and Folk Art, Ballarat is hosting Craft Lab and The Great Takeaway this month. Nicole Durling, Executive Director at Craft Victoria, tells us more.
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Australian design on show at Osaka World Expo
The 2025 Osaka World Expo 2025 is well and truly open, with Buchan’s Pavilion representing Australia on the global stage.
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Jessie French and Aesop join forces again for Melbourne Design Week
French’s experimental materials studio, OTHER MATTER, is collaborating across multiple Aesop premises for another exploration of experimental, circular design.
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HAS design and research
Practicing architecture and giving back to the next generation of students, Jenchieh Hung of HAS design and research is ensuring that the landscape of Thailand is in very good hands for the future.
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In conversation with Vincent Van Duysen at Milan Design Week
We spoke to the Belgian architect about his work ‘Optô,’ which was on display as part of the exhibition ‘Poetica’ by WonderGlass at Milan Design Week 2025.
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Stories Indesign with architect turned artist, Bruce Rowe
In this podcast episode, Timothy Alouani-Roby sat down with Bruce Rowe in Melbourne to talk about his move from professional design practice into the world of art.
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Exhibitions and installations galore from Milan
Milan Design Week amounts to so much more than product launches, so here are a few installation and exhibition highlights that we stumbled across in 2025.
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Thought for Humans: Milan 2025 Preview
On the eve of Milan Design Week 2025, we take a look at some of the expected highlights across product launches, installations and events.
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Highlights from Stockholm Design Week 2025
From bio-based innovations to circular design, this year’s fair redefined the role of materials in shaping the future of interiors as sustainable materials and a thoughtful approach to the impact of design on our world took centre stage.
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SANAA in Sydney: Interview with Art Gallery of NSW director
Michael Brand talks us through a new book on the architecture of Naala Badu, the culmination of Sydney Modern Project.
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The show goes on at MPavilion
Events continue apace at Tadao Ando’s MPavilion in Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens, as Season 11 progresses into 2025.
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Calling all photographers – Powerhouse commissions open for entry!
Expressions of Interest remain open until Friday 24th January for two major photography commission opportunities at Powerhouse.
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Perfect simplicity on show
Homing in on the experiential, HAS design and research has once again conceived a retail space that transports the customer to another, more wonderful, ethereal world.
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Monumental Imaginaries: Energy transition and visual culture in the Hunter
This Tin Sheds Gallery exhibition delves into complexity and contradiction in the Hunter Region in the context of coal and climate crisis.
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The beating green heart of SJB’s plan for Sydney Olympic Park
The next phase for Sydney Olympic Park is now on exhibition as part of the SOP Master Plan 2050.
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Echoes of Country at Bundanon
Bundanon has announced its third major exhibition for 2024. Bagan Bariwariganyan: echoes of country and running from November 2nd to February 9th, 2025.
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Theatre of arches
Neri&Hu’s design for the Cultural Arena at New Bund 31 Performing Arts Center makes a strong impression through differentiated spaces.
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The sixteenth edition of PAD London hits in October
PAD London remains a premier event for collectors and aficionados to engage with cutting-edge and historically significant design in a setting that celebrates artistic connoisseurship.
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Celebrating a decade of Dowel Jones
Dowel Jones is ten years young this year and the future is bright for the Australian furniture designers and manufacturers.
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Shrine of Remembrance design exhibition wonders what might have been
An exhibition uncovers the design history of Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance, marking the building’s 90th anniversary.
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Objects of desire
With a double win at the 2024 INDE.Awards, Australian object design and manufacture will take centre stage with Boundless, that will showcase a collection of furniture on a global platform at London Design Week in September.
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Fiction of Space
Marquetry, art and mirror are the subject of Fiction of Space, an exhibition in Melbourne that explores the ideas of space and place in the modern world.
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A ‘Current’ affair spotlighting First Nations artists
Current is an exhibition presented by the Australian Design Centre that examines the interplay between land, water and ancestral memory as seen through the works of the respective artists.
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“We will drag these systems into the light and we will make them dance”: Exhibition launch at Tin Sheds Gallery
Designed and constructed by Complete Thought Studio, the exhibition kicks off at the University of Sydney’s Tin Sheds Gallery on 1st August.
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Big and beautiful – the work of Ash Keating
Ash Keating is a treasure in the landscape of Australian art. His works are powerful and dynamic and, while they can grace a home and provide beauty, large-scale they are masterpieces of awe and wonder.
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Seeing what you know, or is it knowing what you see?
1 SHOT 24 explores these questions and more at the annual Image Makers Association Australia exhibition in partnership with Stylecraft, on display in Stylecraft showrooms across Australia.
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Two of our favourite brands collide in an exhibition that celebrates the best of Australian design and manufacturing
GH Commercial and Dowel Jones celebrate local design and manufacturing in Geelong.
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A petite art space makes a huge impression
Ames Yavuz has inaugurated its second gallery on the eclectic streets of Surry Hills. The opening exhibition speaks to personal experiences, offering a recollection of sentiment.
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3days of dreaming: Reporting from Copenhagen’s design festival
We round up the eight projects at Copenhagen’s 3daysofdesign that best reflected this year’s theme: Dare to Dream.
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Monumentality with a certain softness: Moreau Kusunoki and Genton on Powerhouse Parramatta
We met the architectural design team behind Powerhouse Parramatta as they gave a talk on the milestone project at Western Sydney University.
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Renewing a place of knowledge: TZG at the Art Gallery of NSW
Providing increased amenity and a place to linger for every visitor, Tonkin Zulaikha Greer (TZG) has created a magnificent interior for the relocated and enlarged Art Gallery of New South Wales Library.
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Enter now! Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator and Holdmark Innovation Award
The application deadline for the industrial design program is now June 28th, while the $10,000 Holdmark Innovation Award entries close July 1st.
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Australian Furniture Design Award winner 2024 with Stylecraft and NGV
Australia’s most significant furniture and lighting design accolade has been awarded to Australian-Portuguese architect and multidisciplinary designer, Marta Figueiredo.
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New crises, normal solutions: Innovative design prototypes on show at Powerhouse
Building on its beginnings in Melbourne Design Week, A New Normal is a new exhibition presented by Vivid Ideas Sydney at Powerhouse Ultimo.
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Useful Objects opens with ‘Desire x Design’ at Melbourne Design Week
Useful Objects has just opened its doors and has a notable exhibition, ‘Desire x Design,’ coming as part of Melbourne Design Week.
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The fascinating journey of timber on show at Melbourne Design Week
Hosted at the Tongue & Groove Richmond showroom, ‘The Hands That Touch the Timber’ exhibition is set to be a highlight of Melbourne Design Week.
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The 2024 WA Architecture Awards exhibition launches
The official launch of the 2024 WA Architect Awards opens today – Wednesday 1st May – with the opening of the AIA WA Awards Exhibition.
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An urban canvas: Wall to Wall festival brings street art to life in Mordialloc
Melbourne’s Wall to Wall festival has just taken place, transforming neglected urban spaces into vibrant hubs of creativity through large-scale mural works by renowned artists.
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An exhibition with vision and meaning in Bangkok, Thailand
An outstanding line-up of participants will contribute to a beautifully curated exhibition in Thailand that delves deep into the collective thinking of architecture in our region and helps set a progressive agenda for the future of design.
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Milan 2024: Seven installations and events to look forward to
Salone del Mobile 2024 is only a few weeks away, so we’re highlighting here seven special events, spaces and installations that we’re certainly planning to check out.
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Gearing up to celebrate 60 years of supporting Australian design
The Australian Design Centre (ADC) this year celebrates 60 years! A series of events are coming up to mark the occasion.
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The Powerhouse collection storehouse is an artwork in itself
Symbolising a commitment to cultural preservation and timeless design, Powerhouse Castle Hill invites visitors into the stories behind the artefacts in a diverse range of educational and cultural activities.
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It’s design festival season! Melbourne Design Week asks us to ‘Design the world you want’
With over 300 events planned, the eighth edition promises another marathon week of design and its theme is at once a proposition of hope and an urgent call-to-arms.
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The Biennale launches across seven venues in Sydney’s periphery
The curation of contemporary artworks at the 24th Biennale of Sydney explores the salient thematic of Australian culture, through a series histories, voices and perspectives.
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Highlights from the ‘Inner sanctum’ at Adelaide Biennial 2024
The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art returns to the Art Gallery of South Australia on Kaurna Yerta for its 18th edition this year.
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Image Makers on show in thought-provoking photography exhibition
Strategic partner to the INDE.Awards, the Image Makers Association Australia presents a curated offering from its I SHOT 23 exhibition at Craftworks and it’s guaranteed to be a thought-provoking feast for the eye.
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A new cultural gem plays with light and dark in Beijing
This design for a combined workplace and cultural space in Beijing is sensitive to place, people and culture, all expertly executed by CUN DESIGN.
Events
Chasing lightning at Melbourne Art Fair
Melbourne Art Fair brings the high energy each year and this 17th edition is marked by a mammoth program of showcases, activations and satellite presentations.
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Get a head start in Vietnam’s rising home textile market at VIATT 2024
The Vietnam International Trade Fair for Apparel, Textiles and Textile Technologies (VIATT) is set to launch next week, providing important players in the textile industry with a chance to make their presence felt.