Creative Victoria and NGV are offering a $20 000 major prize for professionals and $5000 for tertiary students who present the best design idea addressing one of Australia’s fastest growing waste problems – e-waste. As part of Melbourne Design Week, NGV will host the third annual Victorian Design Challenge with…

The exclusive and competitive National Landscape Design Awards were held at Melbourne Museum’s Treetops venue on the 31st of August.  The venue provided the perfect back drop with floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to Carlton Gardens. A significantly large number of entries were submitted this year – the highest on record…

Black Bamboo: Contemporary Furniture Design From Mer, Torres Strait combines traditional craft and collaborative contemporary design in a display of bamboo furniture designed by artists from the Island of Mer at the Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia from 13 September 2019 – 5 April 2020. Also known as Murray Island,…

The 13th Sydney Architecture Festival will be a week-long festival running from 11-17 November 2019 under the direction of the newly appointed Creative Director, Dr Barnaby Bennett. This year’s theme is Making. Housing. Affordable. At its core, the practice of architecture is a response to the human need for shelter. The festival…

From the reassuringly practical to the confusingly obtuse, Fringe has seen it all, and this year is no exception. With the launch of Fringe Furniture 33 at the Abbotsford Convent from 12 September – 29 September, visitors can expect a boundary-pushing showcase of cutting-edge design that celebrates our individuality, differences,…

Junction Arts Festival has announced a delicious drop of new events including guest chefs, DJs, architecture tours, a collaboration with MOFO Sessions, artist talks plus a new free music program. Launceston’s art festival Junction returns next month, with a collision of art, performance and music over four days and nights…

Australian Design Centre is presenting Real to Reel: The Craft Film Festival in the lead up to Sydney Craft Week. Fresh from the UK to Sydney for two screenings on Thursday 5 September 2019 at the Chauvel Cinemas Paddington and Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Liverpool on Saturday 21 September 2019.  Real to Reel is…

Body architect, designer and science fiction artist Lucy McRae uses film and images to consider how technology could transform the human body in the future. The first survey exhibition of McRae’s provocative and beguiling work, Lucy McRae Body Architect, explores the Los Angeles-based Australian artist’s collaborations with scientists, through to…

Due to an extremely positive response to the inaugural Open House Bendigo in October 2018, Open House is excited to announce its return to Bendigo in 2019 and 2020. “We were buoyed by how the City of Greater Bendigo embraced the event, as not only a celebration of architecture and…