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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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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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Curious problem solver: Vipoo Srivilasa excels in “innovation, creativity and progression”
Vipoo has taken home the winning title in the biennale MAKE Award for Australian creatives. Learn who took home second prize and highly commended in what is Australia’s richest, non-acquisitive prize for craft and design in Australia.
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Meet Rhys Cooper, champion of local craftsmanship
Aleesha Callahan talks with Rhys Cooper, an emerging Australian furniture designer, about all things design, materials and manufacturing.
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Fresh out of JamFactory and onto our radar
Soon-to-be alumni furniture associates of JamFactory, these three emerging designers/makers are destined for acclaim — but not without an official introduction.
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Australian Furniture Design Awards (AFDA) 2020 calling for entries
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) and Stylecraft will present the biennial award extravaganza as part of the Melbourne Design Week next year.
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Emerging designer Jake Rollins: In conversation
JamFactory’s exhibition, Materials Matter: A Bauhaus Legacy, celebrates and highlights the influence of the Bauhaus on the Adelaide design institution and South Australia’s design industry in general. Leanne Amodeo talks to emerging designer Jake Rollins, whose work in the group exhibition expresses a ‘building block’ style of construction that addresses issues of sustainability and regeneration.
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INDE.Awards 2019 Luminary: Jon Goulder
Jon Goulder has been a mainstay of the Australian design industry for 20 years, but it’s only now that he considers his career to be taking off. With a new gig at Snøhetta, and blossoming partnerships with the likes of Spence & Lyda and Rakumba Lighting, Goulder is establishing his own unique design language.
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The late bloomer: Jon Goulder
Jon Goulder has been a mainstay of the Australian design industry for 20 years, but it’s only now that he considers his career to be taking off. We look at the 2019 INDE Luminary nominees career trajectory.