Join acclaimed designer Michael Anastassiades in conversation with Stephen Todd, ticket proceeds donated to the ADA. The first 30 people to contact us have the opportunity to also attend the exclusive events at [...]
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ADA AWARD OF MERIT I Melbourne Fringe Furniture – Origami Recliner
The inaugural Authentic Design Alliance Award of Merit - Fringe Furniture - unanimously went to Melbourne Uni Ex-Lab student Cheng-Yeu Jai for ORIGAMI RECLINER. After much deliberation from our judges Marnie Hammond [...]
WIN A LUXURY WEEKEND TO DESIGN CANBERRA FESTIVAL
Time Out are giving away a luxury weekend for two during DESIGN Canberra Festival! Held annually for three weeks in November, CRAFT ACT x DESIGN CANBERRA host 100 events, exhibitions, talks, tours, markets, [...]
ADA x DESIGN CANBERRA FESTIVAL // at designcraft
Once again we join the DESIGN Canberra 2018 program, in partnership with leading Canberra furniture distributor designcraft, supported by ADA Members TAIT and CULT (NAU) Held annually for three weeks in November, [...]
ESSENTIAL READING // IMPORTANT ADA® UPDATES
ADA® NEW LOGOS + SHOWROOM DECALS Our registered trade mark s are finalised, with many thanks to our legal partners Banki Haddock Fiora. Registered trade marks are protected by Australian trade mark law. [...]
FRINGE FURNITURE 32 // ADA AWARD OF MERIT
We’re proud to announce our supporting partnership with Melbourne Fringe, the 32nd edition of one of the longest running Australian object design platforms that will also present the debut Authentic Design Alliance [...]
MEDIA // IP TRENDING + DESIGN THEFT GONE WILD!!
Our interview by new media news site GOAT went viral. #IntellectualProperty was trending as broader issues of design theft hit the millennial readership with some basic facts about Australia's lax IP protection for [...]
MEMBER NEWS // AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE® Trade Mark
ADA® registered trade mark s are finalised! ADA Members are licensed to use our logos and the current TM logos will be updated by mid August. We thank our legal partners Banki Haddock Fiora for guiding us through [...]
MEMBER SPOTLIGHT // ARTEDOMUS + NEW VOLUMES
Artedomus has launched a furniture and object collection with New Volumes, a brand born from an idea seeded when the team were exploring ways to minimise material waste after bumping out a trade event installation [...]
ADA Award of Merit // vivid design competition
For the second year we're proud to partner with vivid design competition to present the AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE Award of Merit / vivid17 for Emerging Design. Vivid is an established springboard that has [...]
DOES BUYING KNOCK-OFFS MAKE YOU A THIEF?
How Americans fight knockoffs! Knock-offs are a huge problem the Americans take seriously. Now independent and emerging designers join heritage manufacturers in the fight against the copied designs, despite the [...]
FED UP WITH KNOCK-OFFS — WHAT THIS DESIGNER DID NEXT!
What happened when a designer discovered a big name brand promoting knock-offs their work on social media? With no response from the offending brand (or their distributors) to social media call-outs, the industrial [...]