A New Take on the Classic Beanbag Melbourne-based designer-maker Ash Allen has won the 2025 Clarence Prize for his innovative work Beanless, reflecting an ongoing exploration of sustainable materials and inventive [...]
Adam Markowitz Wins The Object at the 2025 INDE.Awards Melbourne designer–maker Adam Markowitz, in collaboration with craftsman Simeon Dux, has won the Object category at the INDE. Awards 2025 for A Cabinet of [...]
Ahead of next week’s Decor+Design show, Design Online speak with ADA director AMS about the problem, the solutions and why the industry must be more aware! The ADA has worked with D+D since 2016 to eradicate [...]
HOME.GROWN. // Discovering Australian Design for Sydney Design Festival 2019 Mungo Scott Flour Mill, Summer Hill Presented by AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE® + The Design Directory.org Curated by ADA® director Anne-Maree [...]
Our HOME GROWN series joined Design Canberra Festival hosted by ADA member showroom designCRAFT where award-winning furniture designers explored the importance of investing in Australian design, and the invaluable [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
What happens when credible studios or makers unwittingly accept a commission to produce what they believe to be original work only to later discover the project is a knock-off? Hot off the heels of the scenario last [...]
