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design October 4, 2025
NGV’s Rigg Design Prize exhibition
Being a young designer today isn’t easy, but the National Gallery of Victoria’s Rigg Design Prize exhibition shows how emerging practitioners are facing up to the challenges.
design May 31, 2025
Three exhibitions at Melbourne Design Week explored how furniture and other objects can go beyond their standard uses, offering something more.
design March 25, 2023
Influential designer Gaetano Pesce is incurably optimistic, even as he takes issue with the contemporary world.
design March 18, 2023
Graphic designer John Warwicker
The work of award-winning graphic designer John Warwicker and his multidisciplinary design collective, tomato, is a rhythmic chaos, and a background to the past few decades.
design May 14, 2022
Artist and curator David Sequeira
Since haunting galleries as a teenager, David Sequeira’s art has been driven by awe of human expressiveness.
dance November 20, 2021
2022 Sydney Festival director Olivia Ansell
Sydney Festival’s new director, Olivia Ansell, wants to remind the city of its unruly histories.
design October 26, 2019
Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson: Step Into Paradise
Local fashion icons Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson took Australiana to the world with their spirited explosions of colour, shape and texture. A new exhibition of their work captures the quirk and romance of their heyday.
design April 8, 2017
Artist Emily Floyd and her Icelandic Puffins
Whether using toy-like puffins to explore the global financial crisis or woodcut typefaces to examine feminist theory, Emily Floyd’s art is grounded in deep thinking and subtle references.
design July 23, 2016
Grim picture for visual artists and Sydney art colleges
Visual arts education is under siege as plans to merge Sydney colleges spark accusations economic rationalism is triumphing over creative endeavour.
design March 7, 2015
Northern lights of nordic cool
Far from functionalist, Scandinavian design displays its sensual lines in NGV’s Nordic Cool exhibition.
design September 27, 2014
Customisation and collectible editions
The design market is turning to two distinct trends – mass customisation and limited edition collectibles.
