opinion

August 16, 2021

Arches Are Crime

Jamileh Jahangiri, a Senior Architect at Cox, muses on the oversaturation of arches in architecture and interior design in recent years.

May 14, 2015

Saving the Industry from the Replica Plight

Last week we looked at copyright and design laws, which relate to the form of a design. In Part 3, we discuss what can be done about the common practice of replica furniture being sold by association with the name of the original designer, design or brand.

May 7, 2015

Continuing the Replica Design Fight

In Part two of our series with K&L Gates on replica designs, we look at the ways in which new and original designs can be protected.

February 18, 2015

Mindful Design with Nicky Lobo: Kitchen & Bathroom Special

A specially themed opinion piece from Habitus Editor, Nicky Lobo, to launch the very first Habitus special issue – kitchen & bathroom.

October 22, 2014

Mindful Design #01

We begin our series of regular opinion pieces from Habitus Editor, Nicky Lobo. She claims: design is not something you buy, it's something we can all do.

August 11, 2014

Discovering place by painting: Ben Quilty on exhibition ‘Hill End’

Ben Quilty invites three mates, artists Guy Maestri, Luke Sciberras and Robert Malherbe, to retrace the steps of the greats – Russell Drysdale, Margaret Olley, John Olsen and Brett Whiteley to the former gold-mining town of Hill End.