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AUTHENTIC DESIGN ALLIANCE ® members enable our ongoing education, advocacy and event program and support the best future for the Australian furnishing sector.
ADA Lighting Roundtable – Melbourne / Sydney October
Surprisingly, most of our contact with industry members affected by design theft are from the lighting sector! Independent designers, brands, importers and retailers are being savaged by online platforms and bricks [...]
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Stay informed with our latest campaigns and overview of ADA Members at DENFAIR! It is important as an industry that we remain informed – Download our latest Tabloid here GET INVOLVED & SUPPORT OUR [...]
MEDIA I ADA: objectives, challenges & outcomes
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 [...]
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Download our ADA tabloid newspaper to learn how the growing problem of design theft in Australia began & why we must act now to protect our design industry! SO WHAT’S THE PROBLEM? Stay informed about the [...]
CASE STUDY I The problem with copyright – don’t assume you’re covered!
Some of Australia’s best-known rock photographers claimed copyright infringement by an online auction of media giant Fairfax’s Sydney Morning Herald image archive. ABC news reported hundreds of original photographs [...]
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 [...]
WHY DO AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTIONS BUY REPLICA FURNITURE?
National Gallery Australia: NGA x Replica furniture As the problem with design theft escalates it’s clear that many national gallery, museum and public institution decision-makers simply don’t know what’s real and what’s fake. Either that, or they simply don’t care. But, sadly, replica furniture resides in many galleries and public institutions in Australia. Authenticity is […]
CASE STUDY // Australian Companies Knock-off Local Designs
Kate Stokes from CocoFlip “The Coco Pendant was designed at the beginning of my career and didn’t register the design as I had no concept it would be such a huge success. It was my first product shown [...]
CASE STUDY // Handmade in Melbourne vs Chinese Copies
A good result but the damage has been done! Melbourne industrial designer Ross Gardam, a self manufacturer whose products are distributed by STYLECRAFT discovered his solid timber OAK Light had been knocked-off [...]