Get your ideas in 'Motion' - this year's key word for The Project gets the design community moving!

Be inspired by unique collaborations between designers, architects and participating showrooms as part of the evolving creative program, The Project.

Similar to the Milan fair, design locations during Saturday in Design are transformed for the occasion with the designers taking inspiration from product to create installations of every kind, shape and colour, as part of The Project 2010. Members of Australia’s best architecture, design and creative firms partner up with participating SiD showrooms, and create installations and innovations, using and inspired by showroom product.

This year, the keyword for The Project is MOTION, and it’s got the whole design community moving. Explore sensory wonderlands, with designers taking inspiration from showroom product and the idea of MOTION, to create installations of every shape, colour and dimension.

The design community has risen to the challenge, so make The Project part of your Saturday in Design plans. Check out a sneak preview below...

Burgtec, Macquarie Textiles and CSM with SKM
Backyard in the City
Burgtec have transformed their showroom for the launch of the NFT folding table, Artiv workstation, IS chair collection, new soft seating, and Gecko adhesive fabric – all complemented by Waldmann lighting, Macquarie Textiles, CSM metal storage displays, and a woodfired pizza oven...

Dexion Office with DesignInc
Experience tomorrow’s storage products today, discover a place in which product design is limited only by your imagination. Visit the Dexion Offi ce display designed in conjunction with DesignInc where they showcase products that put your space to work.
designinc.com.au

Euroluce Lighting with Tim Fleming of Flatland OK
‘Ordinary things, beautifully lit...’
This Euroluce collaboration with Melbourne artist, Tim Fleming, emphasises the power of lighting as a transformative device, making the ordinary into the sublime. Fleming’s theatrical scenes of life-size ordinary objects and people in ordinary situations come to life with the creative use of architectural lighting.

Eurowalls with Studio Equator
Designer Faces [a wallpaper experience]
Who you are never changes, but what you are does. Designer Faces captures the essence of the celebrity designer through an installation of wallpaper portraits. The product, supplied by Eurowalls, becomes an exhibition piece while interactive elements ask, What kind of designer
are you? Face your fears and get [wall]papered. studioequator.com.au.

Fitzroy Design Studio (CSR) with Piranha Designs
Running Rings Around the Elements
The elements are the keys to sustainability – water grows, wood burns, fire breaks down to earth, earth compounds metal, metal is extracted from the earth and the circle of life continues...
What on earth do they have in store for us?

Hettich with bleux
Hettich collaborate with graphic design for interiors team, bleux, to enhance their new InnoTech DesignSide product with contemporary, stylish designs. Bleux creates a world of possibility, integrating new innovations into drawer systems, creatively and cleverly applying them to hardware solutions.

Insitu with Bryn Holton of A Life Less Ordinary
Taking inspiration from Holton’s company name, this year Insitu focusses on the handmade beauty and sustainable qualities of the Granny lamp. Expert knitters will ‘purl’ their way through a never-ending strand of wool, drawn from the delicate web which Holton has spun around the showroom space.

 

InterfaceFLOR with a mix of design studios and students: Geyer, Gray Puksand, Housemouse, Moth Design, Spaceleft, Trout Creative, Whitehouse, Woodhead and Y2 Architects (Geyer concept in hero image)
See freedom of interpretation in action, as 10 designers fuse fashion, fabric, flooring and inspiration. A unique collaboration between InterfaceFLOR and leading design studios and students, who will ‘dekonstrukt’ carpet tile to its raw ingredients and ‘rekonstrukt’ it into an art installation. In response to one simple brief: inspire emotion. Supported by Zambesi and JSB Lighting.

Jardan with SJB
Be transported through time and interiors by Jardan’s temporary installation space, designed in collaboration with SJB. Get carried away with installations and new products. Switch between eight interior settings in a matter of minutes.

 

Maxton Fox with Bellwood Design
Reshape, adapt, and evolve with Maxton Fox’s new beta system from Tecno Spa. Visitors will be wowed by show-stopping BETA installations, created by Maxton Fox with Bernadette Bellwood of Bellwood Design.

Multyflex / Sub-Zero & Wolf Appliances and Gunnersen with Royston Wilson Design
Royston Wilson Design puts Sub-Zero, Wolf and Gunnersen to good use in a real, working kitchen. This special in-house kitchen features Sub-Zero integrated and built-in refrigeration, Wolf cooking appliances and Gunnersen laminates and bench materials.

Nexus Interiors with Giovanni Baccolini and Paolo Pininfarina of Ares Line
Visit the Mechanics Garage, showcasing the XTEN chair by Italian design house Pininfarina (famous for their work with Ferrari, Lamborghini, Porsche and Peugeot). Complete with Top Gear-esque characters, Nexus takes you to an automobile paradise!

Schiavello with Akira, S!X, LAVA and Giulio Rdoolfo
Embedded with a spirit of collaboration, fashion designers Akira Isogawa and S!X, architectural firm LAVA, and Italian colour master Giulio Ridolfo create eclectic installations connecting design, fashion, personalisation and diversity. A combination not to be missed!

Stylecraft with RMIT Interior Design
Stylecraft in collaboration with RMIT Interior Design present Floating Form. Experience,a play on texture, form and movement while viewing Stylecraft’s latest collections.

Zenith and BOLON with Woodhead
You’re sure to be wowed by ZENITH and BOLON, as they team up with Woodhead for The Project 2010. More details to come.....

57 South with Woodhead
Inspired by the street culture of Melbourne’s laneways, Woodhead have created something special at 57 South (57 Haig Street, South Melbourne).