Sightline 2026: What Happened When We Asked the Design Industry to Be Honest With Itself.Across two sold-out sessions in Sydney and Melbourne, Sightline delivered a clear-eyed diagnosis of the forces flattening design culture—and mapped six territories where the most compelling work is pushing back. The response was unlike...
From Sydney to Copenhagen: Four Leading Creatives Share Essential Global Design Insights.Australia's design community is experiencing unprecedented international recognition, as revealed at the recent Design Horizons event in Sydney. Four prominent creatives shared insights from Copenhagen's intimate 3 Days of Design festival,...
Furniture & Product Designer Tom Fereday on Creating a Body of Work that Grows & Lasts a Lifetime.A unique figure in today’s design landscape with his star on the rise, Tom Fereday develops furniture and objects through a process of inquiry and collaboration. Fascinated by the tension that lies between natural materials and...
A Creative Dialogue: Versa by Tom Fereday & Charlie White at Melbourne Design Week.Tom Fereday and Charlie White have presented Versa, a joint show at this year’s Melbourne Design Week. Developed through a process of independent collaboration, the pair’s works utilise end-of-life materials and the challenging of...
Life & Other Stories: Dana Tomić Hughes in Conversation with Giusi Tacchini.To celebrate Tacchini’s latest collection of reissued classics and new releases by the likes of Tobia Scarpa, Mario Bellini, David/Nicolas and Studiopepe, Yellowtrace Editor and Founder, Dana Tomić Hughes, had the pleasure of sitting...
Chairity Project Returns with 18 Australian Creatives Transforming a Chair for Charity.Cult Design is back with the fourth edition of Chairity Project, an event that invites leading Australian creatives to bravely reinterpret an iconic chair with the pieces then exhibited and auctioned off to charity. This year 18 creatives...
Interview: Sarah Gibson & Nicholas Karlovasitis of DesignByThem.Sarah Gibson and Nicholas Karlovasitis, founders of Australian furniture, lighting and homewares brand DesignByThem, were one of the first people I interviewed on Yellowtrace back in 2011 (which is about 100 internet-years ago, when I used...
