Events
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DIA — Community: WA Design Student Portfolio Review
Join us for a unique opportunity to connect with Perth's leading designers and design studios and receive direct feedback on your work and ideas. This forum will allow design students to connect with Perth's leading designers in fields including interior design and architecture, industrial and graphic design. So come to the Castledex showroom with your portfolio, a question or open mind and learn from industry leaders.
WA GOTYA Celebrations 2024
Join us at Stylecraft as we celebrate and announce our 2024 Graduate of the Year Award (GOTYA) winners!
The GOTYA program, the Design Institute of Australia's flagship initiative for emerging designers, plays a crucial role in providing vital, real-life feedback from experienced designers and industry figures to tertiary institutions and design graduates.
Why We Draw: DIA Online
Why do we draw? Does how we draw change the outcome of a design? And what impact does drawing have on our design expectations?
Join the Design Institute of Australia at Perth Design Week in a conversation about how it is we do what we do. With new technologies available to us as designers, what design process is right for our project? Is there something about the hand brain connection that's fundamental to design and is AI blurring the divide? How is design thinking impacted by how we represent our ideas?
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DIA — Community: Colour Masterclass Perth
Join us for networking drinks and colour inspiration at the Dulux Colour Forecast 2024 Presentation hosted by Jardan. Discover this year’s palette featuring mid-tone colors, to evoke sentiments of warmth, nostalgia and self-expression.
GOTYA Celebrations
Join us at Stylecraft as we celebrate and announce our 2023 State and National Graduate of the Year Award (GOTYA) winners!
This year, we've made a slight change to the format by combining the State and National Winner announcements into one exciting event. Witness the recognition of exceptional designers from across Australia in the early stages of their careers.
Designers Australia Awards 2023: Award of Merit Celebrations
Please join us in celebrating the shortlisted entries and Awards of Merit recipients, which acknowledge Australian designers' and their contribution to ethical, innovative and impactful design. The cocktail event welcomes the attendance of the broader design community as well as entrants and previous winners.
DIA — Community: WA Design Social Drinks and Council Meet
The Design Institute of Australia invites designers and design students to network with fellow designers, meet the DIA WA Council and make suggestions on key member interests.
DIA — Community: Tour of ABN Group Building Interior by Woods Bagot
The DIA WA Branch Council is pleased to invite designers and students of design disciplines to a tour of the DAA award winning ABN Group Building Interior by Woods Bagot. The tour will be conducted by Woods Bagot with an introduction provided by builder Dale Alcock.
MILANTRACE 2023 Live Talk Series
Join us for a night with Yellowtrace to unpack the magic of Milan with MILANTRACE 2023 in an immersive experience. Presented by Yellowtrace, in partnership with Living Edge, MILANTRACE live talks are coming to Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne this June. The live 90-min keynote presentation by Dana Tomić Hughes with narrated video content and original photography is an engaging and immersive experience and the most comprehensive overview of Milan Design Week and Salone Del Mobile available globally.
DIA — Icons Exhibition launch
The Design Institute of Australia, with the support of the City of Perth and Styecraft presents Icons – Australian Design. An exhibition of Iconic Australian Products curated by Ian Wong. This collection which has been successfully exhibited around Australia and Asia but has never been seen before in Western Australia.
DIA — Design Days Perth: Icons Exhibition
The Design Institute of Australia, with the support of the City of Perth and Styecraft presents Icons – Australian Design. An exhibition of Iconic Australian Products curated by Ian Wong. This collection which has been successfully exhibited around Australia and Asia but has never been seen before in Western Australia.
Perth Design Week
Perth Design Week’s program of exhibitions, talks, walks and more has been brought together by co-creators of the new event, architect Sandy Anghie and designer David Smith. The concept is based on successful Design Weeks across Australia and around the world.
DIA — Community: WA Council Meet and 2023 Program Launch
The Design Institute of Australia WA Branch Council invites designers and design students to a networking sundowner to meet the new DIA WA Council and hear about the 2023 DIA program of events and advocacy priorities.
Designing Cities Symposium
Part of Fremantle Design Week, the Designing Cities Symposium will examine city-making from different perspectives and provide practical ideas to inform a better, more sustainable future. Three presentations will be followed by a panel discussion and viewing of Monash University XYX Lab’s award-winning exhibition ‘HyperSext City‘.
Design Thinking ‘Designer for a Day’
Part of Fremantle Design Week, Design Theory, in conjunction with the Design Institute of Australia, is hosting a ‘Designer for a Day’ workshop for Year 10 students with a keen interest in design. The day will include a series of collaborative activities focused on putting design-thinking into practice and an opportunity to explore great design in Fremantle.
Fremantle Design Week
In a celebration of design in all its forms, the inaugural Fremantle Design Week will take over the port city from 14 to 21 October with an engaging program of design-inspired events, conversations and open-studios which are set to inspire, entertain and challenge audiences. Immerse yourself in the port city. Meet local designers, explore Fremantle's design spaces and places and see the world through new eyes.
Designers Australia Awards 2022 Celebrations
Bringing together Australia's broad design community to celebrate ethical, innovative, and impactful design, the awards are an opportunity to support our emerging and established design community. Join us and celebrate our designers, their contributions and the profession.
5 Cities, 5 Celebrations: Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney