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…
In its 9th year the Design Tasmania Award aims to further stimulate creative enterprise in Tasmania through the design and production of small objects, lighting and furniture. The Awards are distinguished by inspiring ‘Production Ready’ designs through to the final stages to market and the 2016 showcase will embody the unique craftsmanship…
Inside the Hilton Hotel complex at 255 Pitt Street is a surprising transformation of a typical 70s commercial office interior that has no ceiling, no carpet and no offices. This space was redesigned by BVN as their own work-space and whilst the design removed much of the interior they did…
The City of Melbourne is calling for people to nominate CBD laneways they would like to see given a green makeover as part of a Green Your Laneway pilot program. Chair of the City of Melbourne’s Environment Portfolio, Cr Arron Wood said the project will see up to four laneways…
French design company Alki have designed their first bioplastic chair: “The Kuskoa Bi”. The Alki workshop is in a valley at the foot of the Pyrenees in France and their proximity to untouched mountains and forests keeps them conscious of the impact they have on the environment. They have always…
Contemporary Australian artist Shona Wilson has built her 25 year practice around a daily engagement with nature. Using found natural materials to create sculptural assemblages, she invites the viewer to marvel and wonder at the myriad details found within nature. Shona’s latest exhibition at Mossgreen Gallery is a project titled,…
Garage Sale Trail has been announced as a finalist in the Community category for this year’s Premier’s Sustainability Awards for their national grass roots waste education program which together with 20 Victorian Councils, including Ararat Rural City Council, Bayside City Council, City of Greater Dandenong, City of Greater Geelong, City…
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