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DESIGN101 tickets now on sale for new lecture series on design history

18 Mar, 2021

Have you always wanted to know more about the history of design and better understand the world around you? What is this thing called design? What is Australian design? Are our First Nations People our first designers? Australian Design Centre, in partnership with ArtsPeople, presents a series of entertaining and informative…

Heide Museum of Modern Art to present Stanislava Pinchuk: Terra Data

18 Mar, 2021

Heide Museum of Modern Art will present the first career survey of Ukrainian-Australian artist Stanislava Pinchuk from 20 March to 20 June 2021. Presented in Heide Modern, Stanislava Pinchuk: Terra Data will bring together for the first time more than 40 key works from Pinchuk’s practice plotting the changing topographies of war and…

By-Product 2021 at Melbourne Design Week

18 Mar, 2021

By-Product is a group exhibition exploring how circular economy and open-source knowledge sharing can help reduce waste in design, produced by E tuÌ„ and Ulla-Britta. Leading Australian designers are creating an object made from waste by-products from their practice and making their process and insights open-source for the broader design…

Design Lab \ Prue Venables in conversation with Lisa Cahill, CEO ADC

17 Mar, 2021

The works of Prue Venables show a true mastery of materials. They demonstrate a profound understanding of porcelain, that most precious and temperamental of clays, whose fine-grain and opaque qualities are expressed in rigorous works of refined detail. These are handmade functional artworks that possess clarity, luminosity and a quiet…

Four Pillars distillery now powered by renewable energy

16 Mar, 2021

Four Pillars fans can now enjoy their G&T guilt free, knowing the production of their favourite gin is powered by renewable energy. The award-winning gin producers are making moves towards a greener future with a 65.88 kW solar system installed on the roof at their Healesville distillery. The system, designed…

‘Preliminary Structures’ contemporary craft exhibition

16 Mar, 2021

‘Preliminary Structures’ (9 March – 4 April 2021) is a contemporary craft exhibition featuring the work of makers and designers working across ceramic and glass disciplines. Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week, the curated exhibition will showcase sculptural works created through experimentations with moulding and casting techniques over a…

Melbourne Design Week 2021 satellite program revealed

16 Mar, 2021

This March, Australia’s leading international design event – Melbourne Design Week (26 March – 05 April) – will present its largest satellite program to date, with more than 300 events taking place across Melbourne and greater Victoria. Complementing the main program of international speakers, industry events and public programs held…

Northcote Place townhouse development celebrates sustainable living

9 Mar, 2021

What began with a developer’s desire to create Australia’s first medium-density eight-star townhouse development at scale alongside Northcote’s Merri Creek has grown into an exemplar of sustainable living. Located on Wurundjeri Country, adjacent to the bushy parklands of Merri Creek, Northcote Place transforms the 12 000-square site of a disused…