German-born, Melbourne-based lighting designer Volker Haug has won the 2025 Melbourne Design Week Award. The award is an annual prize celebrating an exceptional contribution to Australia’s premier design event, and offers significant recognition of creative excellence within the local and international design community. The award recognises Haug and his Brunswick-based studio’s outstanding contribution to the […]
Maryam Moghadam is among Australian Design Review’s 30UNDER30 Interior and Product Designers for 2024/2025. Below, we get to know the passionate industrial designer, who brims with gratitude for the opportunities afforded by design and carries around a potent childhood memory as inspiration for creating and making. Maryam Moghadam. Photo: James Braund Australian Design Review: Do […]
Autumn in the Garden State is synonymous with many things – the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, fluttering brick-coloured leaves, footy scarves galore and Melbourne Design Week. The globally celebrated design week returns on 15 May and patrons can expect 11 memorable days packed with more than 350 events, exhibitions, talks and installations. Melbourne Design Week […]
There’s a new kind of nightlife brewing on the corner of North Terrace and Bank Street in Adelaide’s CBD. Once home to the gritty Fat Controller nightclub, the basement space is now undergoing an imaginative transformation into K-Box – a genre-bending karaoke destination from Matthews Architects that promises to blur the lines between intimacy, spectacle […]
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