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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]