November 2025 brought about significant leadership changes across pockets of Australia’s architecture and interior design industry, as well as studio updates and individual honours. View them all below. DIA welcomes new CEO Simone LeAmon. Photo: supplied. At the end of November, the country’s peak voice for design, the Design Institute of Australia, announced that Simone […]
Who doesn’t love a comeback? Think of Cher, Brendan Fraser, Tina Turner, Kate Bush (if you count the whole Stranger Things phenomenon)… the Keyn chair. OK, perhaps this design classic doesn’t have quite as high a profile as the aforementioned entertainment luminaries, but perhaps it deserves it. One of the most intuitive and ergonomically designed […]
The summer blockbuster exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is celebrating the work of two globally celebrated designers and mavericks – Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo of Gommes des Garçons in Westwood | Kawakubo. The two designers were born a year apart (Westwood in 1941 and Kawakubo 1942), but only the latter is […]
A little-known Victorian rule is pushing designers into builder territory as projects pass the $10,000 mark. An obscure Victorian building rule is reshaping the everyday reality of interior designers, who may be breaking the law each time they take on a project worth more than $10,000. The threshold, originally intended to regulate building contractors, now […]
Bringing Australia’s architecture and design community into focus since 2009.