Decor + Design VIVID Finalists Plus People's Choice Award
See entries from the best emerging Australian designers in the 2019 VIVID design competition and vote for your favourite
2019 marks the sixteenth year of Australia’s longest running design competition, VIVID, which continues to shine a spotlight on some of the most dynamic emerging Australian designers. This year the Houzz community voted for its favourite design in the Houzz People’s Choice Award… and the winner was number 20. Eamon Riley’s
Bar-code Drinks Cabinet…
Bar-code Drinks Cabinet…
2. Rachael Brown
Suspender Chair
Designer’s description: The sustainable, eco-friendly Suspender Chair prototype challenges the notion of seating as an inactive, sedentary activity. I introduce a mentally stimulating, movement-encouraging chair with an innovative pull-apart design that makes it easy to replace and ship parts. The innovative joinery means when in use, the user’s weight makes the chair stronger.
Suspender Chair
Designer’s description: The sustainable, eco-friendly Suspender Chair prototype challenges the notion of seating as an inactive, sedentary activity. I introduce a mentally stimulating, movement-encouraging chair with an innovative pull-apart design that makes it easy to replace and ship parts. The innovative joinery means when in use, the user’s weight makes the chair stronger.
3. Joandita Centika
Mr P
Designer’s description: The project aims to embody an anthropomorphic gesture through everyday objects, which invites interaction and conversation. Mr P captures a retiring reflection of ourselves. On its simplicity, this coat hanger offers a new way of perceiving domestic objects.
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Mr P
Designer’s description: The project aims to embody an anthropomorphic gesture through everyday objects, which invites interaction and conversation. Mr P captures a retiring reflection of ourselves. On its simplicity, this coat hanger offers a new way of perceiving domestic objects.
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4. Brandon Chow
Steel Bench
Designer’s description: The bench is a two-seat bench made for outdoor use. It was designed for both residential and commercial use.
Steel Bench
Designer’s description: The bench is a two-seat bench made for outdoor use. It was designed for both residential and commercial use.
5. Simeon Chua, Emma Kelly
[B]01-FLOW
Designer’s description: [B]01-FLOW is a collaboration with Emma Kelly, and investigates digital fabrication joints and techniques. It looks into marrying the conventional aesthetics of traditional craft with contemporary forms and structural principles.
[B]01-FLOW
Designer’s description: [B]01-FLOW is a collaboration with Emma Kelly, and investigates digital fabrication joints and techniques. It looks into marrying the conventional aesthetics of traditional craft with contemporary forms and structural principles.
6. Bryan Cush
The Dish
Designer’s description: The Dish celebrates the 50th anniversary of Parkes’ CSIRO Radiotelescope broadcasting the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing to the world. The brass star-map inlay simulates the precise stellar positioning of the southern sky as viewed at 12.56pm AEST on 21 July 1969 from the rural, central-west NSW town of Parkes.
The Dish
Designer’s description: The Dish celebrates the 50th anniversary of Parkes’ CSIRO Radiotelescope broadcasting the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing to the world. The brass star-map inlay simulates the precise stellar positioning of the southern sky as viewed at 12.56pm AEST on 21 July 1969 from the rural, central-west NSW town of Parkes.
7. Tonielle Dempers
Loopdey Side Table
Designer’s description: A minimalist pair of side tables designed for disassembly; every element can be recycled. Well-suited to slide under a couch or bedside, it takes cues from childhood fun, which is expressed in the playful details and joinery. Materials of mild steel, and timber table tops of rock maple and American oak.
Loopdey Side Table
Designer’s description: A minimalist pair of side tables designed for disassembly; every element can be recycled. Well-suited to slide under a couch or bedside, it takes cues from childhood fun, which is expressed in the playful details and joinery. Materials of mild steel, and timber table tops of rock maple and American oak.
8. Jaron Dickson
Grenache Wine System
Designer’s description: A wall-hung or stackable wine cellar system for the living space or purpose-built cellars. Handmade in Melbourne from FSC-Certified Tasmanian Oak and Black Aluminium. Designed to display your wine collection as a centrepiece in the living space.
Grenache Wine System
Designer’s description: A wall-hung or stackable wine cellar system for the living space or purpose-built cellars. Handmade in Melbourne from FSC-Certified Tasmanian Oak and Black Aluminium. Designed to display your wine collection as a centrepiece in the living space.
9. Marinos Drakopoulos
MM03 Chair
Designer’s description: A bentwood dining chair made of solid timber. The design is simple with a refined structure, highlighting the natural wood. The construction is as minimal as possible and features solid joinery throughout. The construction of the chair is a mix of traditional and CNC fabrication.
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MM03 Chair
Designer’s description: A bentwood dining chair made of solid timber. The design is simple with a refined structure, highlighting the natural wood. The construction is as minimal as possible and features solid joinery throughout. The construction of the chair is a mix of traditional and CNC fabrication.
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10. Dustin Fritsche
Clearer
Designer’s description: Clearer is a coffee table made of tinted toughened glass and stained American Oak. The frame uses intricate joinery methods and appears tubular in form . It is a playful approach to a sophisticated and practical coffee table design.
Clearer
Designer’s description: Clearer is a coffee table made of tinted toughened glass and stained American Oak. The frame uses intricate joinery methods and appears tubular in form . It is a playful approach to a sophisticated and practical coffee table design.
11. Jordan Gogos
Morphe Table
Designer’s description: Morphe Table is a singular sheet-metal design that’s modular and interlocks to extend into long bench. It functions as an object, stool and table.
Morphe Table
Designer’s description: Morphe Table is a singular sheet-metal design that’s modular and interlocks to extend into long bench. It functions as an object, stool and table.
12. Simon Haeser
Oceania
Designer’s description: Oceania is inspired by the designer’s experience of Australia’s beautiful coastlines, reflecting the bright, clear light and the expansive beaches. The contemporary two-seater suits the sophisticated commercial interior or will equally enhance the living space of the discerning design enthusiast. Oceania’s clean lines and flowing curves embrace and comfort.
Oceania
Designer’s description: Oceania is inspired by the designer’s experience of Australia’s beautiful coastlines, reflecting the bright, clear light and the expansive beaches. The contemporary two-seater suits the sophisticated commercial interior or will equally enhance the living space of the discerning design enthusiast. Oceania’s clean lines and flowing curves embrace and comfort.
13. Max Harper
Big Round
Designer’s description: Big Round is a coffee table that is simple and eye-catching. It is made from cork and steel in Sydney. The top is fabricated using woodworking techniques to join cork lumber and CNC to machine the dished shape. The steel architectural frame was designed to balance the top.
Big Round
Designer’s description: Big Round is a coffee table that is simple and eye-catching. It is made from cork and steel in Sydney. The top is fabricated using woodworking techniques to join cork lumber and CNC to machine the dished shape. The steel architectural frame was designed to balance the top.
14. Tom Hewitt
Elk Dining Chair
Designer’s description: The Elk outdoor dining chair is a minimalist solution to the indoor or outdoor space. The form is compact and simple to maximise seating numbers around a table. Teak is well-known for its excellent resistance to the elements, and walnut is also available for indoor options.
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Elk Dining Chair
Designer’s description: The Elk outdoor dining chair is a minimalist solution to the indoor or outdoor space. The form is compact and simple to maximise seating numbers around a table. Teak is well-known for its excellent resistance to the elements, and walnut is also available for indoor options.
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15. Daniel Margules
Kodo Hat & Coat Stand
Designer’s description: Made from ash timber and powder-coated steel, the Kodo Hat and Coat Stand is a sophisticated statement piece that is both stylish and functional. This Scandi-inspired design incorporates a powder-coated steel shelf plus a variety of hooks to provide plenty of hanging space.
Kodo Hat & Coat Stand
Designer’s description: Made from ash timber and powder-coated steel, the Kodo Hat and Coat Stand is a sophisticated statement piece that is both stylish and functional. This Scandi-inspired design incorporates a powder-coated steel shelf plus a variety of hooks to provide plenty of hanging space.
16. Bailey McFarlane
Pedipalp Table
Designer’s description: Beautiful curves and subtle details, this is the essence of the Pedipalp table. With its gentle detailing, this table is reliving its beauty through form and craftsmanship.
Pedipalp Table
Designer’s description: Beautiful curves and subtle details, this is the essence of the Pedipalp table. With its gentle detailing, this table is reliving its beauty through form and craftsmanship.
17. Rachel McGuigan, Kerri Hollingsworth, Zetta Kanta
form.fibre.future
Designer’s description: ‘form.fibre.future’ is a collection of three multi-functioning storage ottoman/coffee tables with reversible lids, harnessing individual artistic expertise through a joint collaboration with Zetta Kanta and Kerri Hollingsworth of an.ti.quate. On the surface, the story promotes an eco-conscious mindset and practical living; beneath is a unified expression of the human journey.
form.fibre.future
Designer’s description: ‘form.fibre.future’ is a collection of three multi-functioning storage ottoman/coffee tables with reversible lids, harnessing individual artistic expertise through a joint collaboration with Zetta Kanta and Kerri Hollingsworth of an.ti.quate. On the surface, the story promotes an eco-conscious mindset and practical living; beneath is a unified expression of the human journey.
18. Alan Newnham
Swept Stool
Designer’s description: The Swept Stool is a sculptural piece that can be used as a stool, occasional or side table. The observer is drawn to the sweeping intersection of the eccentric curves and the contrasting flat top, which illuminates a visual distinction between differing grain orientations. Made by hand with love.
Swept Stool
Designer’s description: The Swept Stool is a sculptural piece that can be used as a stool, occasional or side table. The observer is drawn to the sweeping intersection of the eccentric curves and the contrasting flat top, which illuminates a visual distinction between differing grain orientations. Made by hand with love.
19. Adrian Olasau
C.O Stool
Designer’s description: Beautiful sweeps and subtle curves, this is the C.O Stool. Upon first glance the intricacies of the details may be overlooked; take a closer look and the subtleties will slowly reveal themselves. From the gentle sweeping seat to subtle curves of the footrest, this stool is all about the senses.
C.O Stool
Designer’s description: Beautiful sweeps and subtle curves, this is the C.O Stool. Upon first glance the intricacies of the details may be overlooked; take a closer look and the subtleties will slowly reveal themselves. From the gentle sweeping seat to subtle curves of the footrest, this stool is all about the senses.
WINNER
20. Eamon Riley
Bar-code Drinks Cabinet
Designer’s description: A curiosity of a drinks cabinet, enticing you to playfully spy through its figure as you watch light dance off the contents inside. The surrounding facade consists of 62 individually cut and cored pill shapes, which also, as a motif, is used subtly through the majority of the piece.
20. Eamon Riley
Bar-code Drinks Cabinet
Designer’s description: A curiosity of a drinks cabinet, enticing you to playfully spy through its figure as you watch light dance off the contents inside. The surrounding facade consists of 62 individually cut and cored pill shapes, which also, as a motif, is used subtly through the majority of the piece.
21. Phoebe Rogers
Bernard
Designer’s description: The Bernard love seat was designed to fulfil a growing need for environmentally friendly pieces, and an ever-growing desire of timeless design. Using renewable local timber, natural finishes, with solid construction made to last, this piece is sure to make an impact in the home, without having one on our environment.
Bernard
Designer’s description: The Bernard love seat was designed to fulfil a growing need for environmentally friendly pieces, and an ever-growing desire of timeless design. Using renewable local timber, natural finishes, with solid construction made to last, this piece is sure to make an impact in the home, without having one on our environment.
22. David Tate
Australiana
Designer’s description: Australiana was inspired by the desire to seek and explore authentic Australian design inspiration through its unique fauna, using design elements such as colour, shape and texture. In Australiana we take the two most iconic emblems, the emu and the kangaroo, and bring them to life in modern contemporary living.
Australiana
Designer’s description: Australiana was inspired by the desire to seek and explore authentic Australian design inspiration through its unique fauna, using design elements such as colour, shape and texture. In Australiana we take the two most iconic emblems, the emu and the kangaroo, and bring them to life in modern contemporary living.
23. Min Tian, Roy Zheng
D Desk
Designer’s description: The D Desk was designed for an organised lifestyle. The desk has a curved profile in the back to organise cable runs and store power-boards. Two push-out drawers plus a hinged compartment offer plenty of storage, while two hidden compartments offer security for more personalised items.
D Desk
Designer’s description: The D Desk was designed for an organised lifestyle. The desk has a curved profile in the back to organise cable runs and store power-boards. Two push-out drawers plus a hinged compartment offer plenty of storage, while two hidden compartments offer security for more personalised items.
24. Colin Whitehead
Sid
Designer’s description: The contemporary and timeless design of this chair, with its slightly oversize proportion, sits low and sleek. Sid is made of a solid timber frame and ply back and seat, using traditional joints for a streamlined finish.
Sid
Designer’s description: The contemporary and timeless design of this chair, with its slightly oversize proportion, sits low and sleek. Sid is made of a solid timber frame and ply back and seat, using traditional joints for a streamlined finish.
25. Dallas Winspear
Helia
Designer’s description: Hatstand/coat rack. Held together with just one bolt.
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Helia
Designer’s description: Hatstand/coat rack. Held together with just one bolt.
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VIVID Award for Lighting Design
26. Adam Broadby
Later Lite 01
Designer’s description: An Australian road is neither here nor there, a non-place. A ribbon of un-buyable land – inhospitable to living things. The surface is full of oil and so too are the vehicles upon it. A fossil-fuelled bubble of comfort that delivers us across the expanse. Can we make the tranistion?
26. Adam Broadby
Later Lite 01
Designer’s description: An Australian road is neither here nor there, a non-place. A ribbon of un-buyable land – inhospitable to living things. The surface is full of oil and so too are the vehicles upon it. A fossil-fuelled bubble of comfort that delivers us across the expanse. Can we make the tranistion?
27. Tyrone Cleary
one.two – noise-reducing pendant lights
Designer’s description: one.two is a bespoke collection of noise-reducing pendants. They have a curvaceous fluted design, composed of 12 fins, contrasted against Scandinavian-inspired designer plywood support rings. They are medium-sized pendants made of a sustainable sound-absorbing textile, giving customers an attractive and functional way to fight noise pollution and improve acoustic privacy.
one.two – noise-reducing pendant lights
Designer’s description: one.two is a bespoke collection of noise-reducing pendants. They have a curvaceous fluted design, composed of 12 fins, contrasted against Scandinavian-inspired designer plywood support rings. They are medium-sized pendants made of a sustainable sound-absorbing textile, giving customers an attractive and functional way to fight noise pollution and improve acoustic privacy.
28. Tonielle Dempers
Loopdey
Designer’s description: A playful and nostalgic approach to a task lamp that provides every degree of mobility and rotation. Designed for disassembly, every aspect of the lamp can be taken apart and recycled. Minimal materials of silver-birch timber and powder-coated mild steel correspond to roles of movement, touch and structure.
Loopdey
Designer’s description: A playful and nostalgic approach to a task lamp that provides every degree of mobility and rotation. Designed for disassembly, every aspect of the lamp can be taken apart and recycled. Minimal materials of silver-birch timber and powder-coated mild steel correspond to roles of movement, touch and structure.
29. Tyran Hanlon
Torque Lamp
Designer’s description: Inspired by a spinning top, this design invokes the user to playfully and purposefully engage with the product. Tactility is key with users rolling the lamp about on its base to direct light, a theme that is enhanced by the coloured disk on the top, functioning as the product’s switch.
Torque Lamp
Designer’s description: Inspired by a spinning top, this design invokes the user to playfully and purposefully engage with the product. Tactility is key with users rolling the lamp about on its base to direct light, a theme that is enhanced by the coloured disk on the top, functioning as the product’s switch.
30. Chris Miller, Lisa Kajewski
Too Tone Pendant
Designer’s description: The Too Tone Pendant is a simple hand-rolled pendant light with a patina applied to the outside of the conical form. The varying patinas cause colourful and varying effects on the surfaces, creating a contrast between the two tones, inside and out.
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Too Tone Pendant
Designer’s description: The Too Tone Pendant is a simple hand-rolled pendant light with a patina applied to the outside of the conical form. The varying patinas cause colourful and varying effects on the surfaces, creating a contrast between the two tones, inside and out.
Winners of the 2019 Australian Interior Design Awards
31. James Nolan
Sharp Light
Designer’s description: The Sharp Light is a desk light designed around a set Ikea lighting component. It is a sleek and simple desk lamp that complements contemporary design aesthetics. The light is made from one piece of aluminium with a wooden base, giving it the perfect marriage between man-made and natural mediums.
Sharp Light
Designer’s description: The Sharp Light is a desk light designed around a set Ikea lighting component. It is a sleek and simple desk lamp that complements contemporary design aesthetics. The light is made from one piece of aluminium with a wooden base, giving it the perfect marriage between man-made and natural mediums.
32. Pauline Tsolos
(OUYSE) / brass wall sconce
Designer’s description: A jewellery-like piece of functional sculpture and collectable design, individually crafted in Melbourne. Each piece is unique and has been designed to inspire evocations of intimacy in spaces of dwelling and dining. The oyster-like form takes from nature a wild beauty that is art by day and light by night.
(OUYSE) / brass wall sconce
Designer’s description: A jewellery-like piece of functional sculpture and collectable design, individually crafted in Melbourne. Each piece is unique and has been designed to inspire evocations of intimacy in spaces of dwelling and dining. The oyster-like form takes from nature a wild beauty that is art by day and light by night.
VIVID Award for Object Design
33. Jack Balfour
Candy
Designer’s description: Candy is a collection of uniquely wheel-thrown porcelain forms, which celebrates the beauty of controlled surfaces accentuated by refined glazes derived from the lanthanides oxides, copper and iron. Each object creates a vibrant individual experience capturing the motions of the handmade afforded by small batch production.
33. Jack Balfour
Candy
Designer’s description: Candy is a collection of uniquely wheel-thrown porcelain forms, which celebrates the beauty of controlled surfaces accentuated by refined glazes derived from the lanthanides oxides, copper and iron. Each object creates a vibrant individual experience capturing the motions of the handmade afforded by small batch production.
34. Manuel Canestrini
Colonnade
Designer’s description: Colonnade is a metal stackable indoor planter box that is inspired by ancient Roman aqueducts. It is available in two modules, with narrow and wide arches that allow a variety of combinations and heights. Folded aluminium with satin white powder-coat 790mm (L) x 160mm (W) x 400mm (H).
Colonnade
Designer’s description: Colonnade is a metal stackable indoor planter box that is inspired by ancient Roman aqueducts. It is available in two modules, with narrow and wide arches that allow a variety of combinations and heights. Folded aluminium with satin white powder-coat 790mm (L) x 160mm (W) x 400mm (H).
35. Joandita Centika
Mr. D
Designer’s description: Mr. D projects our romantic self, through this project I am exploring the potential of a single line to represent the human body. Like a shy person, on its quietness, it demands interactions. Mr. D invites its spectator to create romance by their own means of using the object.
Mr. D
Designer’s description: Mr. D projects our romantic self, through this project I am exploring the potential of a single line to represent the human body. Like a shy person, on its quietness, it demands interactions. Mr. D invites its spectator to create romance by their own means of using the object.
36. Thomas Cohen
0001 CANDELABRA
Designer’s description: The exterior of this totemic brass candelabra has a matt finish that is contrasted by the highly-polished inside surface. Each time a segment is separated from the column, the undulating inside face is revealed. The flickering flame of the candle casts a golden light across the rippled, polished internal surfaces.
0001 CANDELABRA
Designer’s description: The exterior of this totemic brass candelabra has a matt finish that is contrasted by the highly-polished inside surface. Each time a segment is separated from the column, the undulating inside face is revealed. The flickering flame of the candle casts a golden light across the rippled, polished internal surfaces.
37. Marta Figueiredo
TOTEMS: C&Q and Candy N.2
Designer’s description: One ottoman and two sound-absorbent sculptures. Materials: wool fabric, acrylic paint and pine. TOTEMS were conceived as expressive tactile pieces covered in the vibrant colours of wool fabric and 3D patterns. Playing with human scale, they are 2.5m, 2.1m and 0.5m respectively. Their texture and colour are invitations to interaction and play.
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TOTEMS: C&Q and Candy N.2
Designer’s description: One ottoman and two sound-absorbent sculptures. Materials: wool fabric, acrylic paint and pine. TOTEMS were conceived as expressive tactile pieces covered in the vibrant colours of wool fabric and 3D patterns. Playing with human scale, they are 2.5m, 2.1m and 0.5m respectively. Their texture and colour are invitations to interaction and play.
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38. Sureen Gouws
TOO D art
Designer’s description: A patented geometric wall-art system that consists of blank metal canvases to which magnetic geometric metal shapes in different colours can be applied. One can arrange, layer and combine the shapes on the canvas in your own designs and choice of colours to create indefinite design possibilities.
TOO D art
Designer’s description: A patented geometric wall-art system that consists of blank metal canvases to which magnetic geometric metal shapes in different colours can be applied. One can arrange, layer and combine the shapes on the canvas in your own designs and choice of colours to create indefinite design possibilities.
39. Jordan Leeflang
Soft Spot Bowl
Designer’s description: The Soft Spot Bowl is made from water-formed leather, creating a gentle bowl shape that encourages touch. The hide will naturally patina, changing colour and hardening with use. This seamless leather form is an ideal home for your small items and jewellery.
Soft Spot Bowl
Designer’s description: The Soft Spot Bowl is made from water-formed leather, creating a gentle bowl shape that encourages touch. The hide will naturally patina, changing colour and hardening with use. This seamless leather form is an ideal home for your small items and jewellery.
40. Eva Novakova
Democracy of shapes
Designer’s description: Exhibited during Milan Design Week 2019, this tableware series displays fundamental shapes and balances sterile functionalist form with surreal appearance. Kiln-cast from colour-sorted offcuts of glass from industrial lighting production, it repurposes a strictly waste material. Blanks used to form the moulds for the lost-wax technique use machinable wax.
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Democracy of shapes
Designer’s description: Exhibited during Milan Design Week 2019, this tableware series displays fundamental shapes and balances sterile functionalist form with surreal appearance. Kiln-cast from colour-sorted offcuts of glass from industrial lighting production, it repurposes a strictly waste material. Blanks used to form the moulds for the lost-wax technique use machinable wax.
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41. Isaac Pelchen
Ombre
Designer’s description: Ombre is an exploration of form, texture, artistic expression and its translation into functional product design. The textural and simplistic inverse forms of the Ombre collection create sophisticated sculpture-like surfaces for the living environment, while providing a safe resting place for beverages.
Ombre
Designer’s description: Ombre is an exploration of form, texture, artistic expression and its translation into functional product design. The textural and simplistic inverse forms of the Ombre collection create sophisticated sculpture-like surfaces for the living environment, while providing a safe resting place for beverages.
42. Wayan Preston, Jed Kelly, Indigo Tolhurst
Mesa Heat
Designer’s description: Sculptural dinnerware cast from recycled aluminium hair foils. The inspiration for our design aesthetic is from large landforms such as mountains and craters. We take elevation data then manipulate it into our desired form. All designs are smelted in our handmade foundry and moulds are 3D-printed using biodegradable plastic.
Mesa Heat
Designer’s description: Sculptural dinnerware cast from recycled aluminium hair foils. The inspiration for our design aesthetic is from large landforms such as mountains and craters. We take elevation data then manipulate it into our desired form. All designs are smelted in our handmade foundry and moulds are 3D-printed using biodegradable plastic.
43. Sarah Tracton
Acoustic Landscape
Designer’s description: These porcelain vessels are constructed using a niche method of slip/slab technique that results in highly individualised and unique surfaces. Each piece is 100 percent handcrafted, forming its own unique markings and personality. The making process involves building architectural porcelain slabs. Joins are constructed over several days and dried slowly. The lights are sanded and fired twice – once at 1,000 degrees and again at stoneware 1,280 degrees. Between firings, the pieces are then wet/dry sanded to ensure smooth surface qualities. With varied colour-stain additions, marbled and iridescent surfaces akin to landscape topography are the result.
Acoustic Landscape
Designer’s description: These porcelain vessels are constructed using a niche method of slip/slab technique that results in highly individualised and unique surfaces. Each piece is 100 percent handcrafted, forming its own unique markings and personality. The making process involves building architectural porcelain slabs. Joins are constructed over several days and dried slowly. The lights are sanded and fired twice – once at 1,000 degrees and again at stoneware 1,280 degrees. Between firings, the pieces are then wet/dry sanded to ensure smooth surface qualities. With varied colour-stain additions, marbled and iridescent surfaces akin to landscape topography are the result.
44. Fran White
VaryVases
Designer’s description: VaryVases are a family of mass-customised vase objects made by rotational casting quick-set resin in an adjustable latex mould. This parametric mould allows the vase’s profile, size, colour and number of openings to vary, while the process of rotational casting creates thin, hollow, and curvaceous vase forms each time.
VaryVases
Designer’s description: VaryVases are a family of mass-customised vase objects made by rotational casting quick-set resin in an adjustable latex mould. This parametric mould allows the vase’s profile, size, colour and number of openings to vary, while the process of rotational casting creates thin, hollow, and curvaceous vase forms each time.
45. Colin Whitehead
Shard
Designer’s description: This Shard dressing mirror with its organic shape and random bevelled edges is able to be wall-mounted or freestanding, creating flexibility and reflecting life from different angles.
Shard
Designer’s description: This Shard dressing mirror with its organic shape and random bevelled edges is able to be wall-mounted or freestanding, creating flexibility and reflecting life from different angles.
46. Thomas Yeend
PALETTE
Designer’s description: Made using TYD’s signature reclaimed-glass terrazzo mix, the PALETTE serving board is both stylish and environmentally conscious by design. Taking inspiration from a traditional painter’s palette, the centre acts as a comfortable, balanced holding position, as well as a convenient cradle for a TYD series Gacha Bowl.
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PALETTE
Designer’s description: Made using TYD’s signature reclaimed-glass terrazzo mix, the PALETTE serving board is both stylish and environmentally conscious by design. Taking inspiration from a traditional painter’s palette, the centre acts as a comfortable, balanced holding position, as well as a convenient cradle for a TYD series Gacha Bowl.
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VIVID Award for Concept Design
47. Manuel Canestrini
Cannon Vase
Designer’s description: Cannon Vase is inspired by ‘the living cannon ball’ act in an old-fashioned circus. Its rounded mouth-blown grey glass vessel can tilt freely in a conical charred timber base with a perfectly fitting concave cutout. The grey glass vessel features an inserted dark grey glass (cannon) ball serving as a counterweight. 350mm (H) x 200mm (DIA).
47. Manuel Canestrini
Cannon Vase
Designer’s description: Cannon Vase is inspired by ‘the living cannon ball’ act in an old-fashioned circus. Its rounded mouth-blown grey glass vessel can tilt freely in a conical charred timber base with a perfectly fitting concave cutout. The grey glass vessel features an inserted dark grey glass (cannon) ball serving as a counterweight. 350mm (H) x 200mm (DIA).
48. Ivana Dancova
Freak. the Chair
Designer’s description: Freak. the Chair explores the multiple ways a human body twists and contorts in its physical environment by inspiring a physical interaction with this bulbous inflatable. Hand-cut and tailored to its narrative, the chair dreamily adopts an animalesque form with a shiny, black, latex-resembling skin.
Freak. the Chair
Designer’s description: Freak. the Chair explores the multiple ways a human body twists and contorts in its physical environment by inspiring a physical interaction with this bulbous inflatable. Hand-cut and tailored to its narrative, the chair dreamily adopts an animalesque form with a shiny, black, latex-resembling skin.
49. Eial Donnenfeld
Espressflow
Designer’s description: An espresso cup specifically designed for at-home machine use. The design features a slope proportional to the gravitational constant, causing coffee to flow perfectly without creating air pockets in the ‘crem’ due to splashing. Features a 5mm double-walled glass design to better insulate the coffee temperature.
Espressflow
Designer’s description: An espresso cup specifically designed for at-home machine use. The design features a slope proportional to the gravitational constant, causing coffee to flow perfectly without creating air pockets in the ‘crem’ due to splashing. Features a 5mm double-walled glass design to better insulate the coffee temperature.
50. Calum Hurley
Hold, Please
Designer’s description: A wall-mounted door-side mirror, Hold, Please, hosts everything your pockets have carried around all day. Keep your phone, keys, wallet, coins and post in one place to prevent another frantic search for essentials on your way back out; also, check your hair.
Hold, Please
Designer’s description: A wall-mounted door-side mirror, Hold, Please, hosts everything your pockets have carried around all day. Keep your phone, keys, wallet, coins and post in one place to prevent another frantic search for essentials on your way back out; also, check your hair.
51. Kristen Wang
Re.Bean Coffee Stool
Designer’s description: Re.Bean Coffee Stool explores a brand-new sustainable material for furniture pieces from locally collected coffee-ground waste and other coffee-industry waste. The project not only features a unique smell and tactility of materiality from coffee, but also also it is 100 percent biodegradable, generating no waste to our natural environment.
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Re.Bean Coffee Stool
Designer’s description: Re.Bean Coffee Stool explores a brand-new sustainable material for furniture pieces from locally collected coffee-ground waste and other coffee-industry waste. The project not only features a unique smell and tactility of materiality from coffee, but also also it is 100 percent biodegradable, generating no waste to our natural environment.
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1. Sarah Brooke
Fence Sitter
Designer’s description: This steel expanded mesh bench takes a bubbly and playful approach to a traditionally industrial material. Through investigations into various rolling and TIG-welding processes I was able to achieve maximum robustness with minimal use of material.