The Chairity Project 2015 is the second edition of Cult’s esteemed charity event that invites leading Australian and New Zealand creatives to reinvent an iconic chair design. Each creative is given complete freedom to reinvent the chair which is exhibited and auctioned off to a charity of the creative’s own…
Issue 46 looks at joinery, for space saving and craftsmanship. Our cover house is a cave-like retreat on NZ’s South Island. Also inside, renovations by Caroline Pidcock in Sydney and Foong + Soorman in Melbourne and a new house on 100-square-metres by Levesque and Derrick in Brisbane. Our gardens include…
The bayside home of a publishing duo celebrates the sustainable principles of their work, writes Joanne Brookfield.
With a long history of sought after design events and celebrations, the Design Institute of Australia South Australian branch and fresh new council were proud to stage a fabulous awards evening at Tenth & Gibson studios with long term partner of 24 years Laminex on the 17 October. Enthusiastically attended…
Emerging landscape and design professionals are invited to explore their creativity using timber in a new design competition, launched by premium Australian woodcare brand, Intergrain. Intergrain, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA), is launching the national design competition as a challenge to the new generation of…
Brighton resident Maxine Lynch has generously offered to open the gate to her beloved garden one last time before selling her home, in order to raise funds for local charity St Kilda Mums. Maxine’s garden, a Brighton treasure, has been lovingly established over 44 years and features Grevilleas, Gardenias, Manchurian…
Anthony Chan of Chan Architecture shares a project on AWS’s Designer Notes series.Thornbury Artist’s Studio is an artist’s studio in the backyard of an existing house. The brief was to create a beautifully detailed, creative space for painting and sculpturing that would encourage and inspire creativity.
The next generation of innovators will soon have a new place to call home when The Wade Institute opens its doors in 2016 and welcomes the inaugural class undertaking the University of Melbourne’s Master of Entrepreneurship. Designed to be as agile as the minds of its users, the space will…
New York based experimental knowledge lab, the Un-School of Disruptive Design is set to pop up for a week-long immersive fellowship program this January in Melbourne. Headed up by award winning Australian designer, Dr. Leyla Acaroglu, the unique program for professionals and emerging leaders has been run in New York…
The Fix and Make year-long program of workshops and talks has been released and tickets are available for purchase. Fix and Make brings different people together to actively question our consumption of and relationship with objects. The program, set within a specially designed space at Hotel Hotel on Canberra, combines practical, experimental and philosophical learning. Over the next…
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