Local Design | Brisbane From 9 December 2019 to 12 April 2020

Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery transforms Brisbane’s laneways and city streets into imaginative, curious and engaging spaces. Comprising light boxes, banners, vitrines and evening projections, the Outdoor Gallery displays art outside in city streets, instead of inside on gallery walls. Recently, the Outdoor Gallery has grown to now include art projections at Howard Smith Wharves.

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The weeks and months post Milan Design Week, see offline and online media share their views and thoughts on this years show. So we invite you to discover our recent exhibition through their eyes, ears and mind. To view their reach and opinions that shape our design industry……….

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WOW and CIAO what a week! Milan Design Week is over for another year and LOCAL MILAN No.4 hosted 44 designers under the curation and creative direction of LOCAL DESIGN’s Emma Elizabeth including:

AARON GARLICK – ADAM GOODRUM
ADAM & ARTHUR – ADESIGNSTUDIO
ANNA VARENDORFF / ACV STUDIO
ADAM CORNISH x TAIT
BEN-TOVIM DESIGN- BMDO – CALLUM CAMPBELL
CHRISTOPHER BOOTS – CJ ANDERSON
COCO FLIP- COPPER DESIGN
DALE HARDIMAN – DANIELLE BRUSTMAN
DOWEL JONES – DYLAN FARRELL DESIGN
EMMA ELIZABETH – EVIE GROUP
FIGGOSCOPE CURATES  – 

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Award-winning Australian designer Adam Goodrum was among the first to recognise Seigneur’s unique skill not long after the Parisian arrived in Sydney in early 2015. Goodrum, who has worked with an impressive list of global brands including Cappellini. Alessi and Veuve Cliquot inviting Seigneur to collaborate on a reinterpretation of Arne Jacoben’s iconic Series-7 chair for Cult furniture. The Bloom cabinet was the first of their purpose-designed piece launching with LOCAL DESIGN in Milan last year and marks the beginning of an ongoing collaboration, having been acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria. The combination of Adam and Arthur is a unique fusion of award winning industrial design meeting artisanal craft,

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Skeehan x Stellen combines the unique talents of two of Australia’s leading design studios.- One, a design studio with in depth produc­tion knowledge, the other, an atelier with a strong design focus. The result is a symbiotic relationship that celebrates materiality and pushes the boundaries of traditional production methods. Tom Skeehan & Geordie Ferguson, have come together over the creative direction of LD’s Emma Elizabeth, to create The Aviso Collection featuring Kvadrat Textiles & Maharam Studio leathers.

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Lane Crawford, Asia’s iconic luxury department store, is continuing its commitment to identify and nurture emerging talents as a part of its Creative Call Out programme. A global exclusive collaboration, formed by a series of Australian and New Zealand designers, curated and creatively directed by LOCAL DESIGN’s Emma Elizabeth.

Lane Crawford is an authority in design and prides its self on bringing the world of design to its in store and online flagship store lanecrawford.com. Connecting art and design, Australian curator Emma Elizabeth brings eight design talents to present a collector’s edition of the best of the best innovative Australasian design,

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Designer Rugs are proud to announce their 4th edition of the EVOLVE AWARDS – with this years awards extending the reach for the first time to Asia, inviting a larger range of design professionals to take part in the competition. The winning rugs will form part of Designer Rugs EVOLVE COLLECTION 2019, (formerly known as the ID Collection). The winners from both EVOLVE and EVOLVE EMERGE have the chance to take home a prize pool worth over $30,000 AUD including a trip to Milan and their personal rug design to own.

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