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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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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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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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Listen now: SJB hits the half-century
Five SJB directors join STORIESINDESIGN podcast the morning after celebrations at the NGV marking 50 years of practice for the Australian design firm.
News
Melbourne Art Fair 2026 expands its vision
Returning to the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre this February, Melbourne Art Fair 2026 introduces FUTUREOBJEKT and its first-ever Design Commission, signalling a growing focus on collectible design, crafted objects and cross-disciplinary practice.
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Simone LeAmon is the new DIA CEO
Former INDE Luminary LeAmon joins the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) following more than a decade as the inaugural Curator of Contemporary Design and Architecture at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
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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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“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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The future, today
NGV exhibition ‘Making Good: Redesigning the Everyday’ is open – and be prepared to be amazed and delighted by great creative design.
Ideas
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.
Ideas
Ross Harding: What about the work-life balance of our cities?
The Finding Infinity Principal comments here on the question of balance in city life, with architecture and design highlighted as the key levers for making change.
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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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London-based Nipa Doshi heads to Melbourne for NGV Women in Design Commission on IWD
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has announced Nipa Doshi as the recipient of the 2025 MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission.
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Home Truth at NGV: Breathe confronts the elephant in the oversized room
Melbourne-based architects Breathe have constructed an unfinished house at the NGV that puts the question of house sizes in Australia on the agenda.
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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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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.
Workplace
Who, what, when and where – On The Move February careers news
Rounding up the movers and shakers across architecture and design in February 2024, including news from McGregor Coxall, Buchan and more.
Events
Finalists shortlisted for NGV and Stylecraft’s Australian Furniture Design Award
Five finalists will compete for the fifth iteration of the award, complete with $20,000 cash prize and presented by the NGV and Stylecraft.
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On air: NGV announces its 2023 Architecture Commission
‘(This is) Air’, designed by Nic Brunsdon in collaboration with ENESS, focuses on the ever-present but often overlooked element of air.
Events
What makes The Luminary shine so bright?
The Luminary category at INDE.Awards 2023 Gala caused quite the buzz on stage. We look at who this year’s Luminaries are, and what makes them shine so bright – both in their day-to-day practices – and on the night!
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India Mahdavi and Daniel Emma soak the NGV International with sumptuous colour
NGV has done it once again, securing the internationally renowned India Mahdavi to design its latest major exhibition. Meanwhile, Daniel Emma studio takes over the NGV Kids gallery. All in all, it makes for an outstanding exhibition visit at NGV International.
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The Design Wall at NGV is epic, here is how Hassell designed it
With raw, elemental features, Design Wall 2023 honours Melbourne’s vibrant product design scene and encapsulates a commitment to sustainability.
People
Simone LeAmon’s and Ewan McEoin’s big ambitions for Australian design
As NGV’s top design curators, Simone LeAmon and Ewan McEoin have big dreams for the design sector. And they’re coming at it with energy and ambition.
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Rigg Design Prize returns with advertising in the spotlight
The Rigg Design Prize returns with a new focus on advertising and communication design. Let’s find out what NGV has in store for us this year.
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Why we love Helen Kontouris: 5 designs for all time
Leanne Amodeo rounds up the Indesign team’s favourite Helen Kontouris designs.
Events
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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A saccharine pink pond opens in NGV’s garden
Embedded into the NGV’s Grollo Equiset Garden with an eye-catching a inviting pink hue, pond(er) – the NGV’s 2021 Architecture Commission – is officially open.
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Today and Beyond – Sampling the Future
Sampling the Future is a must-see event for those looking to the future and a better world. With design the protagonist, the exhibition showcases just what can be achieved when creativity, science and technology combine to find a pathway forward.
Articles
Who’s next in line for the Australian Furniture Design Award?
The competition, presented by Stylecraft and the NGV, aims to support Australian design, with a number of prizes to supplement income and boost the profile of the winner.
News
NGV Contemporary design team will be one of these four
Four inimitable Australian design teams have been officially announced as the finalists in the bid to design NGV Contemporary.
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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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It’s on! NGV competition official jury announced and EOIs open
The National Gallery of Victoria’s Contemporary Design Competition is now accepting Expressions of Interest from Australian design teams.
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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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Trapped in your home? National Gallery of Victoria has opened a virtual collection
The Corona virus may have us quarantined, but you can still be a patron of the arts thanks to the NGV virtual collection.
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Rei Kawakubo’s Offbeat Beauty at Collecting Comme
The latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) inspired by Rei Kawakubo and her vision for fashion will blow you away.
Articles
A celebration of curiosity and observation, come take a seat on Bauhaus
Bauhaus is a meeting of modernity with the traditional pleasures of simplicity, versatility and lush colour and we can’t get our eyes off of it.
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In Absence: Symbolic of both life and death
Open this week at The National Gallery of Victoria, In Absence is a cultural conversation through architecture by Edition Office and Indigenous artist Yhonnie Scarce.
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<em>Civilization: The Way We Live Now</em> captures urban life and the human condition
Now open at NGV Australia, Civilization: The Way We Live Now is a photographic exploration of the globalised world – including people, movement and of course buildings.
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Melbourne Design Week now calling for 2020 proposals
How does design shape life? That is the theme set for Melbourne Design Week 2020. Do you have an idea for a talk, workshop or exhibition? Apply now.
Articles
Escher was the original paper architect
As the Escher x nendo | Between two worlds exhibition continues to draw in crowds, we consider the timeless appeal of the Dutch master for architects and designers.
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Design economies unite at BODW HK
They say Australians are an intrepid bunch. Never was it more apparent than at Business of Design Week in Hong Kong, last week, which saw hundreds of Melbourne and Victoria-based designers head over to this burgeoning metropolis for a week of seminars and city experiences.
Articles
Between Two Worlds: Two creative minds collide at the NGV
What do a multi-disciplined Japanese design studio and a Twentieth century master of optical illusion have in common? The latest exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria: Escher X nendo | Between Two Worlds.
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Modern Art co-collaborators: <em>MoMA at NGV</em> exhibition
Tackling 130 years of experimentation across art and design, MoMA at NGV has been possible through careful collaboration between two leading institutions. And the results are set to inspire.
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For art’s sake: a chair designed for Australia’s biggest art events
Chris Connell’s new chair design for Schiavello was made specifically to meet the needs of one of the biggest art events Australia has ever seen.
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Escher collides with nendo in new NGV exhibition
A never-seen-before exhibition combining art and design is set to take over the NGV this summer.
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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.
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NGV is on the hunt for the next Architecture Commission
The NGV Architecture Commission Design Competition is calling for entries for its fourth iteration, presenting the opportunity for an architect to propose a temporary pavilion that bridges design and art.
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The Playfulness of Everyday Objects
Thousands of unexpected objects, arranged in creative and clever ways. The We Make Carpets installation is sure to inspire for the NGV Triennial.