ADA Award: vivid Emerging Designer Awards 2026
Calling all early career furniture and lighting designers, vivid Emerging Designer Awards are open. Enter by 12 April. Finalists exhibit at Decor+Design in July.
ADA 3.0: New Board, Mentor Program + Industry Code of Conduct
ADA 3.0: new governance, sustainability tools, mentor program and ethical Code of Conduct. The biggest reset in our 16-year history launches March 2026.
Good Design Awards: Meet This Year’s Recipients!
The Good Design Awards celebrate standout projects, recognising designers shaping Australia’s future with thoughtful, original work.
Prestigious Clarence Prize :: Ash Allen ‘Beanless’
BEANLESS by Ash Allen takes the Clarence Prize, reinforcing the impact of conceptual craft and thoughtful experimentation in design.
ADA in 2022 :: Awards, Partnerships and Events
From Denfair to Melbourne Design Week, Design Show to vivid, around 15,000 design lovers visited our exhibitions, awards and talks in 2022. Download our newspaper and learn more about our biggest year since [...]
MEDIA :: DESIGN ONLINE on the ADA Vision, Journey and Outcomes
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 [...]
VIVID DESIGN COMP :: Meet The Next Wave of Local Design Talent
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 [...]
DESIGN FRINGE :: Meet ADA Award Winners at Denfair 10-12 February
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 [...]
VIVID DESIGN COMP :: 2021 Winners Celebrated at a Live Event
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 [...]
CASE STUDY // Clement Meadmore – the problems with design theft in the 1950’s still prevail today!
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 [...]