At this event, the winning collaboration of V-ZUG and Whitehouse Institute of Design captured the imagination of attendees and secured 40.4% of the votes. The multi-sensory gallery experience presented by this team wove together design, history and innovation, allowing visitors to explore V-ZUG’s design evolution while immersing themselves in a narrative that looked to the past and the future. Through interactive installations, the team created a journey of sight, sound and touch, revealing the future of premium lifestyle solutions through the creative lens of Whitehouse students. This winning project stood out for its innovative approach to storytelling through design, leaving a lasting impression on visitors.

Other notable projects included Hydrographia, a collaboration between Autex Acoustics, Infinity Commercial Furniture and students from Whitehouse Institute of Design. The installation reimagined an abstract underwater world, crafted from Autex’s products with zero waste, underscoring the sustainability focus. This installation brought to life the serene beauty of the ocean, inviting guests to ponder the fragility of life beneath the surface while celebrating the possibilities of material reuse and creative environmental design.

Meanwhile, New Skins, presented by K5 and Elton Group in collaboration with Jasper Knight, fused industrial landscapes with iconic design influences from Mondrian, Memphis and Bauhaus. This bold reimagining of architectural spaces showcased the fusion of old and new, encouraging attendees to experiment with the layering of design eras and materials. Knight’s signature vivid industrial landscapes brought an art gallery feel to the installation, offering a fearless approach to design that celebrated innovation through creative collaboration.

Related: Saturday Indesign panel discussions covered a wide range of critical ideas in 2024

The Projects Wander by Klaro Industrial Design, Deco and Billy Blue College of Design combined design with refreshments in an engaging experience. The installations, created by students, were complemented by a casual atmosphere where attendees could enjoy smoothies and doughnuts while engaging with the young designers’ visions. This light-hearted and interactive approach brought a fresh perspective to design, making the experience both educational and enjoyable.

Finally, the collaboration between Maxton Fox, Kaolin Tiles and PTW’s Jacqueline Hall delivered a sophisticated design in Against the Grain. This bespoke piece of furniture fused classic shapes with contemporary style, using recyclable materials to create an elegant yet playful mosaic of porcelain tiles. Drawing inspiration from Ray Eames, the design turned furniture into a work of art, balancing sustainability with timeless appeal.

Each collaboration at Saturday Indesign 2024 showcased the creativity and potential that The Projects brings to life. With such dynamic installations and thought-provoking themes, the excitement for 2025 is already building as creatives anticipate even more bold, sustainable and innovative designs that will continue to push the boundaries of what’s possible.

And that’s a wrap: Saturday Indesign was a design lover’s playground

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So, what exactly is Saturday Indesign? Imagine a day brimming with design marvels, from enthralling walking trails and insightful discussions to hands-on workshops. At its core, Saturday Indesign fosters deep connections between designers and suppliers, setting the stage for collaboratively designed activations to take the spotlight in selected showrooms.

2024’s theme, “Reawaken,” calls for a journey through reinvention and sustainability, urging you to explore and blend the past, present, and future of design. 

Here’s a simple guide to getting involved:

Step 1: Show your interest! Fill out the form here to get the adventure started.

Step 2: We match you with a design exhibitor, setting the stage for collaboration.

Step 3: Together, you’ll craft an installation that not only aligns with the “Reawaken” theme but also transforms the exhibitor’s space into a hub of innovation for Saturday Indesign.

The Project offers a unique chance to step away from the conventional, nurturing your ideas from seeds to full-blown spectacles. With a history rich in diverse and impactful installations, The Project is a testament to the joy and connection sparked by great design. What magic will you conjure up in 2024?

The Project is free to be involved in and similarly, brands are not required to pay you a fee. While there may be costs involved in bringing your vision to life, we encourage a mindful approach to budgeting and environmental impact.

Feeling inspired? Registration for The Project is now open! Whether you’re looking to exhibit or simply attend, mark your calendar for Saturday Indesign on September 7, 2024, and get ready to be part of something truly special. To begin your collaborative journey, express your interest in The Project now! 

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Picture this: you and your design peers will set out on a sunny Melbourne morning, starting off in a showroom serving fresh coffee and a little morning motivation. You’ll see brand new product, meet showroom staff and navigate around a space that has been opened just for you. And then you’ll repeat this for the day, swapping coffee for fresh juice, a glass of red or maybe an espresso martini as you travel around the city visiting specially curated showrooms, listening to design talks, meeting new people, and engaging with bespoke activations and workshops. 

Hit up exhibitors including Ajar, Arthur G, Aspect Furniture, Autex Acoustics, Axor, Brickworks, Camerich, Cantilever, Cosh Living, Design Precinct, Didier, E&S, ECF, Great Dane Furniture, HAY, HOW., Jardan, K5, Living Edge, Mobilia, Neolith, Omvivo, Own World, Reece, Signature Floors, Style Timber Floor, Sub-Zero & Wolf, Surface Gallery, Tait, Thinking Works, Winning Appliances and Winya. See new products and iconic designs in situ from the likes of Gaggenau, Bosch, Fisher & Paykel, Herman Miller, Walter Knoll, BassamFellows, Shaw Contract, Arlex, Viccarbe, Kett, Antonio Lupi, Mutina, Artisan, La Corne, Parisi, Sussex, Zip Water, Woven Image, Humanscale, Pedrali, Karl Andersson, Nola, Cassina, Moroso, Flokk, Roca, Grohe and Caroma.

Saturday Indesign is a choose your own adventure, pick the showrooms that reflect your design practice, the talks that pique your interest, or the activities that you simply have to see. Our exhibitors will open from 9am-5pm, so it’s entirely your choice to navigate how you choose. Put on your walking shoes to cover the event, or alternatively hop on public transport, rent a lime bike or car pool with your colleagues. For the full Saturday Indesign experience, why not make use of our free event buses, which will loop around showrooms and precincts as a hop-on, hop-off service. 

Be sure to see as many showrooms as you can and cast your vote for the winner of The Project, a series of experiential installations created by partnerships between exhibitors and creatives. This year’s theme is all about “utopias”, with our participating showrooms set to transport you to an immersive design dreamscape. 

The best part – Saturday Indesign is completely, 100% free, meaning registration, showroom entry and all catering is on the house. All you need to do is register, plan your day and enjoy!

Our full event schedule, including talks, timed events, catering and activations, is on its way. Be the first to know when it’s dropped by completing your free registration today. 

Find out more information via our event page or reach out to events@indesign.com.au with any questions. We can’t wait to see you at #saturdayindesign!

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That’s right, everyone’s favourite creative collaboration is back and ready to shake up Saturday Indesign once more. This year, we’re putting the call out to creatives of all persuasions to get in touch and work with our exhibiting partners on an activation centred around the theme of “utopias”. 

If you’re an artist, a visionary or a designer of any persuasion, this is your chance to be involved in the industry’s most loved event. Get in touch today and start your collaboration journey or read on for more information. 

What is the project?
On Saturday 2nd of September, Melbourne will be transformed into a design playground, with the city’s top showrooms opening their doors for a full-day extravaganza. The antithesis to the tradeshow, Saturday Indesign is all about intimacy and authenticity – forget one giant cavernous location, this event is all about individual showrooms opening their doors to you, inviting you into their space for exclusive product launches, experiences and hospitality. As you travel around the city visiting participating showrooms, you’ll make connections, transform your specification process and refuel with all the latest in design.

The Project is a fundamental part of the Saturday Indesign formula: adding to the showroom experience by creating immersive activations that are brimming with design inspiration. 

More than this, it also provides a chance for creatives and brands to work together in new and exciting ways as they collaborate on a joint work that responds to the year’s event brief.

The Project can be anything you dream it to be, from a tangible installation to a digital art piece. The only limit is your creativity!

Utopias
The 2023 theme for the project is “Utopias”, an imagined state of idealism. This year, we want you to picture a better future in a way that makes sense to you, you might draw on conversations around futurism or sustainability, you might be inspired by space exploration or capture your dream holiday destination. Think fields of flowers or installations with water, experimental design models or blueprints into sustainable futures. Lean into recycled material and up and coming talents, look for inspiration in unexpected places and bring the audience into your utopian creation.

Do I need to pay?
No! The Project is free to be involved in. Similarly, brands are not required to pay you a fee.

There may be a cost associated with the final activation however we leave that process up to the participating parties. We do encourage Project participants to work within a budget of $5,000 and to seriously consider their environmental impact when putting together their work. 

I’m interested! What’s next?
The Project is now open for expressions of interest. If you’d like to be involved, please register your interest with us and we will put your information on file for a potential partnership. If any of our participating brands would like to explore a Project collaboration with you we will be in touch and introduce you both to get the magic started!

While you wait for your perfect match, why not get inspired by some past Projects or find out some more information on what’s involved.

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Saturday Indesign will take place in Melbourne on September 2, 2023. Attendee registrations will open July 5. 

Interested in exhibiting at Saturday Indesign? We’d love to have you, why not get in touch!

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Part of this transformation of the harbour city included  never before seen collaborative installations between exhibiting brands and creative partners as part of ‘The Project’. The Project is one of the most highly anticipated features of Saturday Indesign. A jewel in the crown of the SID program, providing architects, designers and other creatives the ability to work in conjunction with exhibiting companies and their products to create installations, visual displays and interactive experiences within showroom spaces. 

This year, The Project was themed around regeneration, prompting exhibitors, creatives and attendees alike to consider their role in a society which is reawakening after a pandemic-induced slumber. As we re-emerge, the stark realities of climate destruction, mass wastage, and a lack of true human connection are issues we as an industry need to address.

Every installation at SID provided attendees with the opportunity to interact with some of the country’s foremost design organisations and experience never before seen installations. Visitors had the chance to vote for their favourite The Project installation, and we are excited to officially announce the winner of The Project people’s choice: Kaolin Tiles in collaboration with ARM Architecture!!

People’s Choice winner of 2022 The Project Kaolin Tiles x ARM Architecture 

Cleverly designed by ARM Architecture and crafted by Kaolin, a circular patterned installation spoke to the visitor, where Regeneration became fully realised at a given point or moment in time. As a permanent fixture in Kaolin’s impressive new showroom, the scale, detail, interactivity and depth of meaning of the creation amazed attendees.

Mark Raggatt, Director of ARM Architecture, provided the following words on the project’s meaning and it’s response to the brief:

“To REGENERATE is to grow again, or bring new life and vigour, to be reborn. What more perfect theme could we be given after all we’ve been through.

How can we reflect on this recent past and see a new future? Can we hope to be reborn?

We are not the first to ask these questions. Hans Holbein the Younger painted The Ambassadors in 1533. At the base of the painting is a dark smudge, an incomprehensible blemish it would seem but standing in just the right spot, looking from the perfect vantage point we would see a skull emerging from the painting. The skull is a perspectival anamorph a distorted image revealed only through the foreshortening of perspective created by our viewing.

The word anamorph is derived from the Greek prefix -ana meaning ‘again’ and the word morphe meaning shape or form – literally again-form or to shape again, or perhaps to REGENERATE.

Here, we placed a mirrored cone on the contorted Kaolin tiles, the reflection in the mirror reveals an undistorted checkerboard, this anamorph is called a conical catoptic or mirrored anamorph. But in this mirror is something else what seems like a white streak across the tile is regenerated as the word Eternity in the conical mirror.

Eternity is part of the folklore of Sydney. Arthur Stace woke at 4am most mornings to chalk Eternity on the streets of Sydney. Surely this Eternity is the hope of regeneration for the world – that this time it will all last forever. A hope that this regenerated reflection will linger in the mirror.”

Voting was tight, with seven other authentic and exceptional installations across the event footprint, The Project was an absolute star along the extensive design trail laid out by Saturday Indesign 2022. Here are some of the highlights: 

1. Stormtech x Squillace

Visitors were guided through the exhibition space by illuminated cubes containing Stormtech’s product off cuts, showcasing Stormtech’s practice of recycling and sustainability. Renewing and re-using products to reduce the environmental footprint is leading to growth and new versions of what has been. At the end of the path experience an immersive display was reached demonstrating growth, renewal and flexibility.

2. Anterior XL x Plus Architecture

Through various iterations, Plus Architecture and Anterior XL were able to develop a demountable structural system that is easily used to stack stone slabs, creating a piece that restores its sculptural qualities. It is a prototype that involves cutting up a stone slab, with the concept that after the exhibition, it can be taken apart and reused for other purposes if required.

3. Porter’s Paints x PTW

To replicate the psychological transformation of being “reborn”, Porter’s Paints and PTW decided to reference colour strategies from a variety of influences such as Johannes Itten, Joseph Albers, Sanzo Wada, experimenting with colour action, layering and in turn creating a journey of colour interaction.

4. Wilkhahn x Geyer

Geyer and Wilkhahn took visitors through a journey of the evolution of the workplace, a transcendental and experiential installation that connected past, present and future. Anchored in the exploration of Wilkhahn’s iconic FS line, which has seen iterations and regenerations since its launch in 1980, the project brought a mix of physical, visual and augmented reality mediums to represent the workplace multiverse.

5. SeehoSu x Hammond Studio

SeehoSu’s approach to “regeneration” demonstrated how effortlessly good design and sustainability can be achieved when nature, knowledge and craftsmanship is inherently embedded in each and every piece of their furniture.

Collaborating with the talented team at Hammond Studio, this The Project installation invited visitors to come and reconnect with industry peers in the iconic Molo lounge. 

6. Maker&Son x Liv Green 

This collaboration created an Indoor Forest at the Maker&Son Alexandria Showroom transforming the space into another world including an indoor forest experience complete with trees and bracken throughout. 

7. Ignite Fireplace x Billy Blue

Teaming with Ignite, the students of Billy Blue College of Design at Torrens University regenerated the fireside experience with the best of Australian design and crafting.

Utilising the concept of DAY/NIGHT, they looked to challenge the role of the fireplace in the contemporary home by igniting the senses.

With Saturday Indesign returning to Melbourne in 2023, now is the time to express your interest in getting involved! Register your interest in participating in The Project here.

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For creative minds and design studios, you don’t need to wait until 21st May to get your dose of design inspo, because we want you to start cranking up your creative dial with The Project!

Each year at Saturday Indesign, the Project has been a mainstay of the program, a chance for exhibitors and creatives to collaborate and flex their creative vision and ingenuity. For 2022, we’re putting out the call to those who have the itch to create and explore, to think outside the box and colour outside the lines. We want you to join us on our quest to make Saturday Indesign the industry’s most immersive design event.

What is The Project?

The Project is an initiative that pairs Saturday Indesign’s exhibitors with creative studios and design firms to create installations, visual displays and interactive experiences within showroom spaces. Each year, the teams respond to a brief provided by Saturday Indesign to produce an experiential feature that reflects the values, talents and stories of all parties involved.

So what’s the theme for 2022? Regeneration!

When we think of regeneration, we think of all things natural and handmade: of seasons and AI, robotics and life cycles. We think of old buildings brought back to life, of ground-breaking innovations, of communities reconnecting and movements of sustainability.

What’s next?

Step 1: Register your interest in being a design collaborator, just drop us a line at info@saturdayindesign.com.

Step 2: We pair you up with a design exhibitor.

Step 3: You work together on designing an installation for the exhibitor’s showroom as part of Saturday Indesign.

Step 4: Thousands of people stream through and interact with your amazing creation and your kudos and cred kick up a few notches.If that’s all you need to know to sign yourself up… go ahead and register now. If you need more convincing, take a look at some of these unforgettable projects from past Saturday Indesign events.

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It’s not everyday you get an open brief. The Project at Saturday Indesign is pretty much that. Working in collaboration with our exhibiting partners, which we pair you up with, you’ll design and execute an installation that will form a key part of Saturday Indesign, set for 20 June 2020. 

What exactly is Saturday Indesign? It’s a one-day design showcase full of walking trails, design discussions, workshops and everything in-between. Focused on fostering relationships between designers and suppliers, The Project is a much-loved feature of the overall program where collaboratively-designed activations (this is where you come in) pop-up in the showrooms of select exhibitors.

As Indesign Media celebrates its 20th birthday in 2020, the theme for the project is “Back to the Future”, a brief that encourages exploration into everything that was, is and will be. 

Here’s how it works in a nutshell: 

Step 1: Register your interest in being a design collaborator, just drop us a line at info@saturdayindesign.com.

Step 2: We pair you up with a design exhibitor.

Step 3: You work together on designing an installation for the exhibitor’s showroom as part of Saturday Indesign, guided by the theme “Back to the Future”.

Step 4: Thousands of people stream through and interact with your amazing creation and you get all the feels.

The Project is the perfect opportunity to get away from your desk and let ideas germinate and grow. Over our 15 year history, The Project has seen installations of all shapes and sizes, but one thing they all come back to is the fact that good ideas spark pure joy. What will you bring in 2020?

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