Updates

Rigg Design Prize 2022—Advertising and Communication Design Exhibition

10 Aug, 2022

The first major exhibition of advertising and communication design in the NGV’s history, The Rigg Design Prize 2022 highlights the creativity underpinning the work of eight leading Australian-based agencies. For the exhibition, each agency will develop a suite of campaign assets – including billboards, street posters and moving image – to celebrate…

Powerhouse Announces Sydney Design Week 2022

9 Aug, 2022

Powerhouse has announced Sydney Design Week 2022, a seven-day program of exhibitions, talks, film screenings and workshops presented with the support of Principal Partner Holdmark across the city’s design hubs from 15-22 September 2022. Curated by writer, editor and Creative Director Stephen Todd, the 2022 program Making Now examines the role of design across a range of…

Winners of Prestigious Designers Australia Awards 2022 Revealed

8 Aug, 2022

The Design Institute of Australia (DIA)—Australia’s peak national design body, has released the recipients for its highly sought-after Designers Australia Awards 2022. The final winners out of a shortlist of eighty-two  across the country reflect the designer’s ability to make a solid contribution to a better world, including  three National…

Upcoming Exhibition—Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances

2 Aug, 2022

A new exhibition exploring American conceptual artist Sol LeWitt’s affinities with Australian Central Desert Painting and revealing the musical resonances of his work will open at the Art Gallery of New South Wales next month. Sol LeWitt: Affinities and Resonances, a collaboration between Kaldor Public Art Projects and the Art Gallery of NSW, features…

Robin Boyd Foundation’s Walsh Street Archive Launches Online

30 Jul, 2022

Since 2014, a team of Robin Boyd Foundation volunteers have catalogued, researched, digitised, and conserved the Walsh Street Archive. The archive is now available to explore on Victorian Collections. The archive makes the culturally significant collection housed in Boyd’s 1958 family home accessible online and offers new insight into Boyd’s…

Gray Puksand to Host Adaptive Reuse Discussion for Open House Melbourne

29 Jul, 2022

Recycling, reducing and reusing has become common practice in modern society as we strive for environmental sustainability. Similarly, adaptive reuse of historic buildings – giving a disused or ineffective building a different purpose while retaining its heritage fabric – is increasingly emerging as a sustainable solution for meeting contemporary commercial…

Twenty Projects Shortlisted for 2022 World Architecture Festival’s WAFX Award

28 Jul, 2022

Twenty exemplary future projects which address major architectural issues facing society and the planet have been shortlisted for this year’s World Architecture Festival WAFX Awards. The 2022 WAFX shortlist celebrates international proposals which embrace cutting-edge design approaches to address major world issues ranging from tackling the climate emergency to building…

Ninth MPavilion Design Revealed: Materials Reimagined in Ground-Breaking New Design by all(zone) Thailand

18 Jul, 2022

The Naomi Milgrom Foundation has released the design for its ninth MPavilion 2022 by Bangkok-based architecture and design practice all(zone) led by internationally-acclaimed architect Rachaporn Choochuey: a striking canopied structure set to bring the Queen Victoria Gardens to life from Thursday 17 November 2022. Experimenting with materials and forms being…