Australia

24-hour bin collects rubbish from polluted seawater

Seabin is designed to continuously remove rubbish and contaminants from the ocean’s surface. >
Award-winning outback clinic brings healthcare to rural Aborigines

This community clinic in the Australian outback, designed by Kaunitz Yeung Architecture, won Best Sustainable Development of the Year at the LEAF Awards. >
Australian beekeepers now have honey on tap

Australian beekeeping father and son have spent a decade inventing every beekeepers dream: a device that enables them to harvest honey on tap. >
Google SA takes top prize for green innovations

Google Head Office in SA has won top honours at the International Green Interior Awards. >
Projects of Imagination creates a theatre of gastronomy for Melbourne’s foodie scene

Nick Cox and Dion Hall unpack the details of designing spaces for the restaurant industry. >
Elliot Schultz’s animation involves strobe lights and a turntable

Elliot Schultz flashes a strobe light on embroidered discs to create an animated sequence that can be played on a standard turntable. >
Ripe Near Me takes the local organic food market online

Get fresh fruit and veg from the neighbours via an app that encourages homegrown food sharing. >
INSIDE World Festival of Interiors shines a spotlight on exceptional interior design

A space-like TV studio, a healthy office and an exploded cinema set the bar high for the World Interior of the Year Award. >
Glowing streets

Masashi Kawamura and his creative lab PARTY NY recently created the music video for Australian dance-rock band Cut Copy's latest track. >
Feeding 5000

Frost* Design created a quirky campaign for Sydney's first-ever Feeding the 5000 event, part of a campaign that aims to address the global issue of food waste. >
Super-sized graphics

Frost* Design's interior design of bright, quirky and oversized graphics for an Australian bank aims to aesthetically engage employees. >
Walks of light

Frost* Design created an interactive installation to celebrate Sydney's Vivid Light festival. >
Frosty delight

Eco-friendly, authentic and diverse, here is a look at the 11 projects by Frost* Design shortlisted for the Sydney Design Awards. >
Copy right

Frost* Design have created a clever new logo for the Copyright Agency. >
Antenna Garden

Faith47 and DAL East wove together different materials and found objects for their first joint exhibition, which took place in Australia recently. >
Future school

LAVA's "Classroom of the Future" aims to redefine the look, feel and function of prefabricated learning spaces. >
Quirky cauliflower

Meet Doris. She's a great-tasting, long-lasting cauliflower. Then also meet her siblings: Doug, Shirl and Bob. >
Food fight: Vince Frost

If we all just ate the amount we were meant to at meals, there will be less waste, admonishes Vince Frost. >
Rain maker

Airdrop is an irrigation concept that harvests the moisture in the air to irrigate crops in times of drought. >
Test your graphic knowledge

Are you a real graphic enthusiast? There is only one way to find out – test your knowledge in a Trivial Pursuit-like graphic design game. >
Infographic wine label

The labels for the wines of an Australian winery feature an infograph with unique information about the vineyards, vintage conditions and ferments. >
Over the rainbow

Creations this colourful can't not make one smile. And what makes it even better is that it removes plastic pollution from beaches. >
Cut and paste

Bianca Chang’s beautiful works of paper art are inspired by the simplicity of tone-on-tone signage and the shadows of 3D letterforms. >
Tubing

A pavilion made of cardboard tubes highlights the uses of discarded materials. >

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