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New AFA Member TIRAR
The AFA would like to welcome new AFA member TIRAR, award winning manufacturers of solid timber door hardware. TIRAR design started when Felice Carlino, founder of SUMU design consultancy, was working on his award-winning design for THE ACCOMMODATION POD in 2015, he...
Open House Ballarat
After the success of Open House Melbourne, later this month it's Ballarat in Victoria's turn, with some of the best architecture and significant buildings set to open for public viewing. Presented in collaboration with City of Ballarat and Visit Ballarat, the two-day...
Special meeting of the Furnishing Industry Advisory Group
A Message to all AFA Members and interested parties from Furnishing Industry Advisory Group - We are holding a special meeting of the Furnishing Industry Advisory Group to discuss important developments relating to the ‘Cabinet Making’, ‘Furniture Making’, ‘Timber...
Governance
Corporate governance includes the rules, relationships, systems and processes under which authority is exercised and controlled within a business. It comprises the mechanisms by which businesses, office holders and those in control are held to account. These aspects...
Standing up desks are the way to go nowadays but what about foot fatigue?
What you wear on your feet is going to make a difference in both your level of comfort while working and your feet may feel a level of fatigue. It’s not a good idea to stand for an extended period of time in shoes that are uncomfortable in any way, which means that...
Uni SA Student Lounge – by AFA Member – Workspace
Located on the ground floor of City West campus’s Catherine Helen Spence Building, the newest social space of Uni SA’s West End, the Student Lounge offers students a space to interact outside of study time.With the concept design being driven by ideas from the...
Studio Job designs furniture shaped like fast food for Seletti
We always like to bring you a bit of the weird and the wonderful and this week we found this on the dezeen web site! A sofa shaped like a hot dog and a burger-like chair are among Studio Job's latest designs for Italian brand Seletti. The food-themed pieces are part...
20 Best Grey Paints according to top Interior Designers From calming pale colors to edgier dark tones, top talent keeps coming back to these sleek shade Grey is the cooler, chicer cousin of white that we can't stop lusting after. The neutral color can create a...
Seoul Biennale visitors invited to experience replica of a North Korean home
Amid rising tensions between North Korea and the rest of the world, a pair of architects have built a full-scale mockup of a Pyongyang apartment, as part of an exhibition in the South Korean capital. Pyongyang Sallim is an accurate recreation of a typical apartment in...
Dangerous Designs – opening new avenues for Australian designers
One of the biggest challenges for most furniture designers, those with established distribution channels excepted, is exposure. Getting new designs out and about and in front of potential manufacturers and customers That’s where Dangerous Designs comes into the...