Tag: Objects

First prize winner: Diverse Dominion Deities by Vipoo Srivilasa.

Inaugural award celebrating innovation in craft and design

The Australian Design Centre has announced the winners of the inaugural Make Award, a new biennial prize for innovation in Australian craft and design.

‘Style meets joy’: Yeend Studio
People | Dale Hardiman | 15 Sep 2023

‘Style meets joy’: Yeend Studio

Thomas Yeend, founder of Yeend Studio, creates hand-crafted object, lighting and furniture designs from his Adelaide studio.

Object designer Jordan Fleming.
People | Marcus Piper | 12 Jan 2022

‘I have this obsession with fluoro’: Jordan Fleming

Having studied object design in Sydney, Jordan Fleming combines a fascination for colour and a childhood surrounded by multicultural influences to create pieces that evoke memory but also refer to her nomadic nature.

In the main gallery, the vessels are displayed on a surface composed of forty-five tables designed by John Wardle Architects.
Discussion | Cassie Hansen | 25 Feb 2020

Dialogues and dichotomies of vessels

Cassie Hansen reviews An Idea Needing to be Made, an exhibition of ceramic art that explores the dichotomous still life of the ubiquitous vessel.

Gackowska Source brooch, 2013,  hematite, bio-resin, silver; Domingues Set Free and Matter brooch, 2014, necuron, steel.
Discussion | Eli Giannini | 15 Jun 2015

Unnatural phenomena

The work of two jewellers speaks more of geological forces than it does of the precious material that results from them.

Peter Bauhuis, Foam Gold, Brooch 1998 (back); Gold 750; 52 x 49 x 20 mm
Discussion | Eli Giannini | 26 Feb 2015

Precious accidents: The jewellery of Peter Bauhuis

Through experimentation and happenstance, goldsmith Peter Bauhuis creates objects that achieve the seemingly impossible.

A set of vessels designed by Matthew Sheargold and named after and inspired by the Japanese technique of kintsugi.
Product News | Deborah Niski | 22 Apr 2014

Anomaly

A collection of beautiful everyday objects by Australian designers, with manufacturers Axolotl and Evostyle.

Urbis 'Best of 2012' issue.
Archive | Kirsten Matthew | 26 Nov 2012

All about Urbis issue 71

The new issue is out. Read all about it.

Peter the stuffed dog, an important exhibit in the 1952 murder trial of his owner, welcomes visitors.
Discussion | Margie Fraser | 16 Oct 2012

Cabinet of Curiosities

A Museum of Brisbane exhibition assembles local artefacts and collected curiosities into an Alice-in-Wonderland voyage of discovery.

Studio: Kristian Aus
People | Penny Craswell | 21 Aug 2012

Studio: Kristian Aus

In his Sydney studio, illustrator and industrial designer Kristian Aus creates comical characters for the home.

Bunky, for Magis, is made from polyethylene and assembled from four pieces.
People | Cassie Hansen | 11 Jan 2012

Studio: Marc Newson

Arguably Australia’s most successful design export, Marc Newson has added his Midas touch to a wide variety of items.

The Daily Haptics collection by Marie Rouillon, part of the Textile Futures course at Central St Martins.
Discussion | Giovanna Dunmall | 19 Dec 2011

Ventura Lambrate 2011

In only its second year, Ventura Lambrate is gaining momentum as destination for emerging and cutting-edge design.

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