Registrations are now open for Melbourne Fringe and Linden New Art’s annual Design Fringe exhibition.
It’s time for your best and brightest creative ideas to come out to boogie on the d-floor (design floor, that is). After a smash success program in 2022, Design Fringe returns to celebrate the ambitious, the iconic and the avant-garde at its home at Linden New Art.
Design Fringe is Melbourne Fringe’s annual contemporary design exhibition that celebrates innovation across all facets of the industry, showcasing bold new ideas and amplifying the work of ambitious designers at all stages of their careers. It’s your chance to push the limits of traditional notions of design.
We’re inviting artists to participate and contribute their work in everything from textiles, jewellery, furniture and ceramics, through to architectural and civic design. We want the most daring feats of design that you can devise, so show us what you’ve got and apply now.
Design Fringe will feature:
· A Design Fringe suite of public programs including tours, talks and workshops
· A range of diversity initiatives, including a mentorship program and subsidies for female and non-binary designers
· A brand new First Nations commission
· An awards program.
In addition to this program of events, in 2023 we will launch our Design Fringe Ambassadors program, featuring established designers including past participants to deepen our engagement with the object design industry. We will also offer two mentorships to emerging designers, providing them the opportunity to learn from experts, gaining valuable insights and guidance to further their careers.
2023 Provocation
Design Fringe’s 2023 theme, Speculation: Eight Billion Little Utopias, invites Australian designers to imagine alternative visions of the future through design. We’re seeking powerful, critical, progressive work which will engage with the big issues of our time, work that will stimulate conversations and imagine all the possibilities of what a new utopia might be. We don’t need you to define the future, but to help us imagine its alternatives.
Design Fringe for Gender Equity
We’re offering female and non-binary designers and artists the opportunity to participate in this exciting initiative, which includes a 13.3% discount on regos (representing the gender pay gap), mentorship opportunities and more.
More info here: bit.ly/DesignFringeForGenderEquity23
Design Fringe Microgrants
Our Design Fringe microgrants program is jam packed with small parcels of cash (a microgrant if you will) to support artists who are finding the rego fee or other upfront costs (like material fees) a barrier to participation.
Find out more: bit.ly/DesignFringeMicrogrants23
