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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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Call for entries: Melbourne Design Week 2026 marks a decade of design excellence
Celebrating ten years of creative impact, Melbourne Design Week 2026 invites designers, studios, and collectives to submit expressions of interest for its statewide program and the Melbourne Art Book Fair.
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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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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 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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“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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Geelong Design Week showcases a UNESCO City of Design
This November, a ten-day festival in Geelong will showcase various events, celebrating culture, craft and creative vision.
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Architecture in all its shapes and forms
Tasmania’s most popular architecture and design event, Open House Hobart, kicked of this past Sunday with fabulous crowds and some spectacular architecture.
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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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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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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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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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Map out your Melbourne Design Week with these 12 highlights
Melbourne’s epic Design Week is almost upon us. I put it out to my friends and colleagues, asking what they can’t wait to see, and have collated a top 12 program highlights list for you here.
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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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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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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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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.
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Tony Albert in dual exhibition and curated showcase at Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney kicks off the year with a compelling showcase featuring two significant bodies of work by renowned Aboriginal artist Tony Albert.
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Stylecraft hosts a feast of photography with I SHOT 23
This year, the Image Makers Association of Australia has expanded its offering with three exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth.
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Drawing on drawing: Powerhouse exhibition ‘A Line, A Web, A World’ opens
This latest exhibition begins 1 July at the Powerhouse Ultimo. Focused on drawing in the widest sense — in fact, challenging the idea of what drawing is in the first place — it’s an exhibition that will be especially interesting to designers and creatives.
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Breville uses products as canvas for Indigenous Australian storytelling
Launching last week in Sydney, Aboriginal designer and curator Alison Page and Breville announced an extraordinary partnership with First Nations People and the National Museum of Australia.
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Green Ladder
The latest instalment in SCAF’s ongoing architectural exhibition series, Fugitive Structures, has arrived in Sydney.