Does Design’s Biggest Event Reflect a World in Crisis? Dana’s Unfiltered Take on Milan 2025.Milan Design Week 2025 reflected our broader cultural moment: confused, transitioning, searching for meaning. With the world in crisis, genuine creativity struggles, while marketing machines dominate. Fashion brands have invaded design...
Cinema Meets Design in Roche Bobois’ Collaboration with Pedro Almodóvar & Rossy de Palma.Roche Bobois unveils its first-ever collaboration with acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar and his longtime muse Rossy de Palma at Milan Design Week 2025. This unprecedented partnership celebrates the natural connection between...
Ergonomics Everywhere: Humanscale’s Melbourne & Sydney Events with Professor Alan Hedge and Yellowtrace.NASA & Fortune 500 advisor, Professor Alan Hedge, brought cutting-edge workplace insights to Australia through a stimulating tour, in conversation with Yellowtrace's Dana Tomić Hughes. The Melbourne and Sydney events were facilitated by...
How Formafantasma Liberated Modernism from Tradition With a Theatrical Masterpiece for Cassina.Through this triumphant intervention, Formafantasma offered us a fresh lens through which to see modernism, not as some fixed ideology but as an evolving conversation with the present. In a week largely defined by pretty but forgettable...
The Emotional Objects: Hermès Unveils 2025 Home Collection in Milan.One of the most striking aspects of this collection is how Hermès approaches object creation with such philosophical depth. As their manifesto states, "To design an object, to make it, a box is needed." This poetic concept frames each...
A Decade in Light and Form: Articolo Studios Unveils Three Collections at Milan’s Euroluce.Celebrating a decade of design excellence, Articolo Studios returned to Euroluce 2025 with three collections that showcased Melbourne-based brand's remarkable evolution. Housed in a Studio Goss-designed travertine-clad sanctuary, their...
Australian Designer Ross Gardam Illuminates Milan Design Week with “Luminescent Duality”.Australian designer Ross Gardam transforms Milan's Brera Design District with "Luminescent Duality," an exhibition exploring the coexistence of opposing forces in lighting design. Featuring two new collections—the cloud-inspired Aeris...
Titina Ammannati & Gianpiero Vitelli’s 70-Year Design Legacy Comes to Light in Milan.Discover the untold legacy of Titina Ammannati & Gianpiero Vitelli, Milan's influential design power couple who quietly transformed Italian design across seven decades. Their retrospective at Atelier Balderi celebrates the inseparable duo...
Earth, Craft & Hospitality: Clare Cousins Architects’ Warm Minimalism for Fisher & Paykel Melbourne Experience Centre.Within a meticulously restored 1920s garage on Brunswick Street, Fisher & Paykel's Melbourne Experience Centre showcases three distinct kitchen environments through a material palette celebrating local provenance. Clare Cousins Architects,...
