What happens when big businesses knock off local designers? When a major retail chain advertised an identical product to one they’d borrowed for a photo shoot from a small Melbourne brand, it’s no [...]
PREVIEW NEW WORK BY 2022 FINALISTS Australia’s longest-running design competition celebrates its 19th anniversary shining a spotlight on early-career furniture, lighting and object designers. VIVID has kick-started [...]
ADA Design Futures Award Winners Discover work by five new designers at our Interiors Australia I Denfair installation. Melbourne Fringe Furniture, now DESIGN FRINGE, debuted a rebrand and a new venue partnership [...]
The 18th Vivid Design exhibition showcased an incredible lineup of work by local talent. Our ADA Award recipents Samual Burns and Zachary Hanna, joined award winners Dean Norton, Isaac Pelchen, Julia Quirk and [...]
We are proud to support the 17th edition of the vivid design competition for the fifth year, Australia’s leading springboard for emerging furnishing designers. Helmed by the team at Latitude, and held in [...]
Best known for massive outdoor steel sculptures that can be seen across Australia and around the world, the late Australian-American artist Clement Meadmore (1929-2005) was also a prodigious industrial designer. In [...]
Our ‘My Milan’ series dives into ADA Member experiences during April’s Salone Del Mobile. Artedomus / New Volumes creative director Thomas Coward had dual agendas – exhibiting New Volumes with LOCAL MILAN, and reconnecting with Artedomus brand partners – whilst trying to experience as many FioriSalone installations across the city as possible! Additional text by […]
After the Australian design set descended on Milan for Design Week last month, we spoke to Authentic Design Alliance members for an insider snapshot of their personal experience. Cult founder and managing director Richard Munao is a Salone veteran having first attended in 1999! Aside from discovering new product collections from the 20+ Cult partners, […]
Stepping behind the scenes of this year’s Milan Design Week we’ve asked ADA Members to share their inside tips and experiences from the 56th edition of Salone del Mobile in our My Milan series. James Marshall joined the Christopher Boots team as they showcased installations at Fiorisalone in three locations in central Milan. Based in […]
Learn why AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE exists & why we urgently need to solve the replica furniture problem that’s killing the future for designers Authentic Design Alliance working with industry events to [...]
