Design

Being a young designer today isn’t easy, but the National Gallery of Victoria’s Rigg Design Prize exhibition shows how emerging practitioners are facing up to the challenges.

Three exhibitions at Melbourne Design Week explored how furniture and other objects can go beyond their standard uses, offering something more.

Influential designer Gaetano Pesce is incurably optimistic, even as he takes issue with the contemporary world.

The work of award-winning graphic designer John Warwicker and his multidisciplinary design collective, tomato, is a rhythmic chaos, and a background to the past few decades.

Since haunting galleries as a teenager, David Sequeira’s art has been driven by awe of human expressiveness.

Sydney Festival’s new director, Olivia Ansell, wants to remind the city of its unruly histories.

Local fashion icons Jenny Kee and Linda Jackson took Australiana to the world with their spirited explosions of colour, shape and texture. A new exhibition of their work captures the quirk and romance of their heyday.

Whether using toy-like puffins to explore the global financial crisis or woodcut typefaces to examine feminist theory, Emily Floyd’s art is grounded in deep thinking and subtle references.

Visual arts education is under siege as plans to merge Sydney colleges spark accusations economic rationalism is triumphing over creative endeavour.