From sculptural furniture and glowing glassware to First Nations storytelling and radical material reuse, this year’s Melbourne Design Week 2026 (MDW) arrives with an expansive program that pushes design beyond object making and into culture, community and conversation. Across 11 days and more than 400 events, exhibitions and installations, the festival will transform galleries, warehouses, […]
The country’s largest design festival will return in May for its 10th year with more than 400 events. Since its launch in 2017, Melbourne Design Week (MDW) has become a national platform for design innovation and imagination from Australia and around the globe. Organiser, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), announced the 2026 program this […]
Perth Design Week organisers have unveiled the festival’s 2026 program under a new curated format. Perth Design Week (PDW) 2026 plans to bring local and national design leaders together with the wider community in a program of events running from 19 to 26 March. The festival’s fourth iteration is set to celebrate a broad spectrum […]
Design culture organisation DesignFreo has launched its 2026 program, kicking off its sixth year of events celebrating design and ideas in Western Australia. The program invites audiences to tour award-winning projects by Perth’s leading architects, including spaceagency, vittinoAshe and MDC Architects, and hosts conversations that give voice to practitioners across all design disciplines. DesignFreo Conversation […]
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