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NEWS
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UPDATE I OUR MDW EVENTS POSTPONED
After considered consultation with our event partners, our planned Melbourne Design Week program will be reschduled for later this year. Thank you for your understanding, and we look forward to welcoming you in the [...]
EVENT I JOIN US AT MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK – Mar 19
AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE® joins the Melbourne Design Week program to spotlight the endemic problem of design theft in Australia by unpacking the importance of investing in the brands that create, make, sell and [...]
ADA® EVENT I WHAT’S ON FLACK’S PLINTHS – March 19
GET REAL, BUY REAL, SUPPLY REAL! AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE® joins the Melbourne Design Week program to spotlight the endemic problem of design theft in Australia by unpacking the importance of investing in the [...]
WHAT WE LEARNED AT OUR IP AUSTRALIA ROUND TABLE.
Following our participation in the IP Australia stakeholder forum in December, last week we met with the research team to further flesh out issues we felt were yet to be included in the ongoing ACIP review into [...]
WILL THE RADICAL 2016 UK IP LAW OVERHAUL SURVIVE BREXIT?
Following extensive lobbying by a group of leading European brands, in 2016 Britain announced radical changes to UK intellectual property (IP) laws that effectively outlawed the replica furniture industry, giving a [...]
ADA® REPORT I OUR RESPONSE TO PROPOSED ‘QUICK WINS’
Ahead of the ongoing research by IP Australia into the review of design systems (ACIP Review), some 'quick wins' have been proposed for policy recommendations in the short-term. The current designs system has been [...]
TALKING DESIGN I IP AUSTRALIA INITIAL FINDINGS – Download
Earlier this year IP Australia announced a review into design systems that includes design registrations, trade marks, patents and other rights. As part of the review ADA® stakeholders have hosted several round [...]
ADA® JOINS IP AUSTRALIA STAKEHOLDER FORUM – Dec 2nd
The ADA® joined a day long forum at University of Sydney this week, where IP Australia chaired stakeholder-led consultation into the ongoing ACIP review into design systems. Whilst the invited group spanned [...]
DESIGN THINKERS I JOIN US AT MPAVILION Nov 21
Join us for 'Thinking Globally,' the third 'Design Thinkers' speaker series presented by Christopher Boots, at the Glenn Murcutt designed MPavilion in Melbourne on November 21. We excited to moderate an [...]
DESIGN Canberra Festival + OBJECT SUBJECT I JOIN US Nov 8-9
Object Subject at DESIGN Canberra Festival, the second iteration of the national design writer's conference, explores 'Design Responsibilities.' Created for practitioners, the symposium unpacks social, environmental [...]
TDF DESIGN AWARDS I THE WINNERS ARE ….(WITH VIDEO)
The debut edition of the TDF DESIGN AWARDS delivered a fresh take on the well accommodated Australian design awards roster at a superbly executed event at Federation Square on September 19. The brainchild of TDF [...]