Making Now: Sydney Design Week 2022 Celebrates Designers Defining the Cultural Moment.Sydney Design Week returns in person for the first time in three years, with seven mega days of exhibitions, talks, film screenings and workshops all across the city’s design hubs. With the theme Making Now, the 2022 program celebrates...
Chairity Project Returns with 18 Australian Creatives Transforming a Chair for Charity.Cult Design is back with the fourth edition of Chairity Project, an event that invites leading Australian creatives to bravely reinterpret an iconic chair with the pieces then exhibited and auctioned off to charity. This year 18 creatives...
Yellowtrace Presents: Sofa Session with William Smart.Overnight success over twenty years in the making, Sydney-based William Smart, founder and creative director of Smart Design Studio, is one of Australia’s most well-known and revered architects. Yellowtrace founder & editor, Dana...
Lena Paddington by Smart Design Studio.William Smart already had a great knowledge of what his clients loved, but working on this 285-square-meter, five-storey house was also an opportunity to bring new ideas to the table. “The job was to be creative and compliment the...
Built with Brickworks: Sydney Rail Operations Centre by Jacobs & Smart Design Studio.The Rail Operations Centre for Sydney Trains by Smart Design Studio and Jacobs is a vast award-winning structure. Red brick facades from Bowral bricks define the building with two arched openings spanning forty and forty-five metres...
CONCRETE: Art, Design & Architecture Exhibition at JamFactory.CONCRETE: art design architecture debuts at Adelaide’s JamFactory, showcasing 21 concrete-centric projects by contemporary Australian artists, designers, and architects. Adelaide’s JamFactory debut’s CONCRETE: art design...
Stories On Design // Swimming Pools.Swimming Pools are like pom-poms. Everybody loves them. Ok, that may not be true (about pom-poms at least - that's probably just me), although you have to admit that Swimmings Pools feel like opening a can of instant happiness. Yay! For...
Could Indigo Slam be Australia’s (and The World’s) Most Slamming House Ever?Most of us in the design & architecture game in Australia would have had some level awareness of this high profile home in Sydney's Chippendale, designed by the inimitable Smart Design Studio. Indigo Slam was completed earlier this...
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors 2016.INSIDE World Festival of Interiors, the leading global interior design and architecture awards programme, has recently announced that a shortlist of 63 projects will compete to be crowned World Interior of the Year 2016. Projects from...