manufacturing
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“The junction of the rational and the poetic”: Glenn Murcutt’s award bestowed upon Francis Kéré
With the inaugural Glenn Murcutt Symposium set to take place in Sydney in September 2025, Pritzker Prize-winner Francis Kéré receives the Murcutt Pin.
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Proven and experienced Australian manufacturer evolves
With a bold, singular vision and a new factory just around the corner from their Western Sydney manufacturing heartland, Maxton Fox’s evolution takes the best of its history while setting its eyes on the future – and keeping its feet firmly planted on Australian soil.
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Rethinking Plastics in Product Design: The new book aiming to guide sustainable transitions
Geoff Isaac’s book provides industrial designers and manufacturers with the knowledge needed for a transition to sustainable material choices.
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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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Tilt’s Tim Phillips on technology and the essence of industrial design
We spoke with Tilt’s Managing and Creative Director about industrial design, innovative technology and wellbeing within education spaces.
People
Turning 10 with Type: SBW
Razzy graphic forms and pops of hypercolour – this new furniture collection from SBW shows that after 10 years of designing and manufacturing, they really know what they’re doing.
People
Slow design with Thomas Bentzen x Muuto
The softly spoken and eloquent Danish designer Thomas Bentzen shares his slow and meticulous approach to design with IndesignLive on the Muuto stand during Salone del Mobile Milan.
People
The state of manufacturing with Anton Schiavello
With trades and skills moving offshore, manufacturing in Australia has been a hot topic for the industry. We talk to Anton Schiavello about how they are keeping the sector alive, and how they are working closely with the next generation of design talent.
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Do Designers Have A Responsibility To Manufacturers?
The A+D world faces a precarious future: dwindling local expertise, unlikely local capacity, and a race we thought was heading toward the bottom but seems, instead, to be heading nowhere.
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Manufacturing: A Local Secret
How might the national GDP and the deregulation of manufacturing impact the success of your design?
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Top three things you need to know about Zenith Interiors
For an Australian company that has been around since the early 1950s, you’d think you’d know all there is to know about them. But here’s three things you might be surprised to learn what the Zenith brand is all about…
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Vertilux – 36 Years of Reinvention
Vertilux display true manufacturing competitiveness with their tireless search for innovation