Melbourne Design Week
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“Renewable real estate”: Wrapping up Melbourne Design Week with FK
FK hosted a standout Melbourne Design Week event with a panel on adaptive reuse and renewable real estate at 500 Bourke, featuring previous contributor Nicky Drobis and our editor as moderator.
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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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Living small, thinking circular
Joanne Odisho has been named the 2026 Australian Furniture Design Award winner for Mod-u, a modular lighting system made from eggshell composites and bio-filament.
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Ruth Allen and Nicole Lawrence bring shared material intelligence to Melbourne Design Week
At r.a.g.e Hot Glass Studio, the glass artist and furniture designer will trace the making of two sculptural wall sconces through live glassblowing, discussion and process-led collaboration.
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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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The future of urban liveability
At Melbourne Design Week, Plus Studio brought together planners, designers and local government voices to unpack the realities of urban densification.
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Adam Markowitz: Architect, maker, advocate
Architect, designer and craftsman Adam Markowitz bridges the worlds of architecture and fine furniture, blending precision, generosity and advocacy to strengthen Australia’s craft and design community.
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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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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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Ross Didier’s latest collection is inspired by one of nature’s ancient rituals
Curvaceous, spiraling forms tell a story of organic precision and artful engineering
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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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Intricacy, intimacy and imagination: Ross Didier’s ANTHROPOCENE
Fine art that informs commercial design has authenticity and soul, and Ross Didier is at the forefront of creativity that is infused with passion.
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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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Reporting from a whirlwind Melbourne Design Week
What a week! With so many events still to come, Jan Henderson gives us a taste of what the 2025 edition has been like so far.
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Volker Haug awarded Melbourne Design Week Prize
The announcement of Volker Haug as this year’s recipient of the Melbourne Design Week Prize starts the event on a high note.
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Hundreds of events planned as Melbourne Design Week returns
Melbourne design Week is just around the corner and here’s a glimpse of what to expect!
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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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An ode to the tactility of the handmade
With craftsmanship and contemporary form at its core, Boyac and Origine present a special showcase as part of Melbourne Design Week.
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Christmas is in the air at Tait
In Melbourne, architects and designers gathered at Tait to toast the end of one year and, in anticipation, toast the next.
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Stories Indesign: Our new podcast is here!
Expect unscripted, intelligent conversation with people from across the design community in our exciting new podcast.
Ideas
Putting back better: Circularity and regeneration, not sustainability
Following a recent panel discussion during Melbourne Design Week, Collectivity Talks Founder, Genevieve Brannigan sat down with Sally Evans, Director of Graphic Design and Product Development at Nexus Designs, to interrogate the role of biofabrication.
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Beautiful surprises at every turn at Matters, Villa Alba
Villa Alba is undoubtedly a highlight of Melbourne Design Week, with designers established and emerging putting their best feet forward within the beautiful rooms of the Villa.
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Learning from the Global South with Tosin Oshinowo
The Nigerian architect was recently in Australia for Melbourne Design Week. We spoke to her about the power of design in cities such as Lagos.
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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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Material matters: Striving for circularity in the retail sector
Ahead of the Melbourne Design Week panel, industry experts and moderator Genevieve Brannigan explore the potential of bio-based and upcycled materials, envisioning a sustainable circular future spanning retail and beyond.
Articles
Be the first to see the new modernist furniture collection inspired by Sir Roy Grounds
Melbourne Design Week will play host to a furniture launch that reimagines the moderne movement.
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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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This MDW event ‘Designing without Borders’ is about creatives merging their heritage in various design mediums
Register now for your free ticket
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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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3 ways our cities can adopt adaptive reuse – a discussion
Fender Katsalidis partner, Nicky Drobis, was recently on a panel discussing adaptive reuse and its potential to redefine our cities’ skylines. She outlines 3 ways our cities can increase adoption of adaptive reuse projects.
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Futures Collective takes over Villa Alba at Melbourne Design Week
The Futures Collective returned to Villa Alba Museum for Melbourne Design Week 2023. This event united a cadre of designers under the umbrella of three thought-provoking pillars — Transparency, Currency and Legacy.
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Launching OKO OLO at Melbourne Design Week
With outstanding track records in design, Genevieve Hromas and Juliet Ramsay have been working on the found and the formed with OKO OLO.
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Melbourne Design Fair shows collectible Australian design at its best
The second Melbourne Design Fair presented a vibrant tableau of modern Australian design. The fair balanced aesthetic allure and thoughtful discussion by showcasing a dynamic array of contemporary and collectible designs.
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Tune in for these 5 talks with Indesign’s team at Melbourne Design Week
Melbourne Design Week kicks off this week. We’re thrilled to be involved – come down and say hi as the team moderates 5 exciting panel discussions.
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Design the world you want, with Melbourne Design Week
The 2023 program for Melbourne Design Week is now live online, and it’s taking over the city, as well as the state. Here’s a taste of what’s to come.
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Reconciliation through architecture: a discussion
Indigenous-settler reconciliation is not just an intention, or even an outcome, writes Nicky Lobo. It’s an ongoing creative process that will challenge, reveal and ultimately transform relationships.
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News from the editor’s desk
Entries for the INDE.Awards close this Thursday, 31 March. Our Indesign editorial lead, Alice Blackwood, gives you the big deadlines and regales you with highlights of the past fortnight in design.
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Canberra designer Ashley Eriksmoen wins Australian Furniture Design Award
2022’s Australian Furniture Design Award goes to Ashley Eriksmoen, for her entry ‘The Dream, or: the view from here is both bleak and resplendent.’
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Australia’s first design fair reveals just how collectible Australian design is
Melbourne Design Fair opened last Wednesday and it’s an event not to be missed. We give you a run-down on what you can see – and collect, too.
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Melbourne Design Fair to fill a key gap in local market
An initiative of the National Gallery of Victoria in collaboration with the Melbourne Art Foundation, the inaugural Melbourne Design Fair runs from 16 – 20 March.
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Got a good idea for a vase? Dale Hardiman and Mark Dineen will make it happen
Once again Dale Hardiman and Mark Dineen are pushing the boundaries on product design and thinking big – in fact world-wide large!
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Brighten up the New Year with a first look at the best upcoming programs in art and design
We’re kicking off 2022 with a little reminder that there are some incredible events on the horizon. Take a look at the program from Melbourne Design Week 2022 and check out what’s on at the 23rd Sydney Biennale.
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Get ready! It’s time to submit your ideas for Melbourne Design Week 2022
Melbourne Design Week is coming up again and expressions of interest are open. So if you’re a designer, educator or industry innovator, you better get cracking – submissions close September 23.
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What not to miss during Melbourne Design Week 2021
Melbourne Design Week 2021 comprises a provocative lineup of talks, exhibitions and more, centred around the topic ‘design the world you want’. Here’s our two cents on what events are not to be missed.
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MDW 2021 invites you to design the world you want
Melbourne Design Week returns in 2021 to explore the theme ‘Design the world you want’ and expressions of interest are open now until 9 September.
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Recycled materials elegantly resolved comprise the winner of the AFDA 2020
From Australia’s top furniture designers James Walsh has been given the 2020 Australian Furniture Design Award for his design, the Anthropic Bench.
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Kohler postpones Melbourne Design Week event
The escalating crisis of the COVID-19 (Corona Virus) has forced Kohler to postpone its Kohler Design Forum speaker event until further notice.
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“If you allow architecture and design to move you, it will move you.” Presenting: Tim ‘Rosso’ Ross.
Renowned for his comedic wits and profound views of the world, Tim Ross’ love for architecture stems deep – dating back to his childhood years of fond memories and experiences of the beauty of design.
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Tackle the challenges of the future at Melbourne Design Week
Coming back for its third year, Melbourne Design Week 2020 is set to be bigger and better than ever. Engage with the most brilliant minds across diverse industry sectors and immerse yourself in an incredible experience of meaningful design thinking.
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Indesign at Melbourne Design Week + our top picks
This year’s Melbourne Design Week is the biggest and most extensive program to date. We pick out some of the highlights, including three events Indesign is proud to be involved in.
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Big social issues on the agenda at Melbourne Design Week 2019
From Melbourne’s connection to the Yarra River through to climate change and waste, this year’s program for Melbourne Design Week is asking how design can influence social good.
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The 5 best moments from Melbourne Design Week
It was jam-packed with design events, talks and exhibitions, and for only the second year running Melbourne Design Week outdid itself. But if you couldn’t make it, these were our best moments…
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<em>My Canvas</em> showcases global cross-disciplinary design
Kvadrat Maharam has curated a collection of one-off installation pieces, made by a bevvy of international designers, for an installation as part of Melbourne Design Week.
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The Design Co-op at Melbourne Design Week
An initiative by Anaca Studio and One Fine Print, The Design Co-op will host a series of events as part of Melbourne Design Week that is set to unite the industry.
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We like big design weeks (and we cannot lie)
Melbourne Design Week has released this year’s program, and it’s dramatically bigger than last year.