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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED US MAKE PDW 2024 POSSIBLE.

Perth Design Week is a ‘coalition of the willing’ - a group of people and organisations working with us to create the festival.

The project started as a collaboration, the idea being that there is a broad array of design based organisations with budgets for their own individual annual events. If these organisations rearranged their diaries to hold events in a particular week each year, we have the start of a Perth Design Week. And that’s exactly what happened in 2023 - and now again in 2024.

Our list of event partners this year was over 60 with 86 events across the week. Thank you to all event creators, space providers and other collaborators for helping us make Perth Design Week possible.

And importantly thank you to everyone who attended events, joining us at our design talks, exhibitions, walks and gatherings. It was amazing to see so many people enjoying Perth Design Week 2024!

Photo below by Julius Pang. With Rebecca Weijand (OMA), Sylvia Chan (OMA), Alessandro Bonuccelli (UniFor), Paul Jones (OMA), Carlo Molteni (UniFor), Osarieme Isokpan (OMA) and at Principles Square.

PRINCIPLE PARTNERS

thank you to our 2024 principle partners oma+unifor

We were privileged this year to collaborate with renowned global architecture practice OMA and Italian based, international furniture brand, UniFor - presenting PRINCIPLES in a highly innovative installation ‘Principles Square’ at Cathedral Square.

Significantly, Perth Design Week was chosen as the first event after Milan Design Week to re-launch the collection composed by more than one hundred elements in various size, from S to XL, configurable in limitless ways.

‘Principles Square’ was a key hub at Perth Design Week this year, hosting a diverse program of events. Thank you OMA and UniFor for bringing this beautiful installation to Perth.

Photo of ‘Principles Square’ by Frans Frans Parthesius.

MAJOR PARTNERS

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WA MUSEUM BOOLA BARDIP
STATE BUILDINGS
BLOCK BRANDING
CURTIN UNIVERSITY
NORTH METROPOLITAN TAFE
CATHEDRAL SQUARE
CENTRAL PARK PERTH
QV1 PERTH
UNTITLED MEDIA

The WA Museum Boola Bardip again this year provided Perth Design Week with gallery space for our annual exhibition and Hackett Hall for design conversations. The WA Museum also continued its children’s program for Primary and Secondary Students, as well as a family day.

Alongside ‘Principles Square’ at Cathedral Square, the State Buildings was a hub for Perth Design Week again this year, with seven days of design conversations and gatherings at The Mark. From housing to AI, The Mark was the perfect location for a diverse range of events held throughout the day and evening.

Block Branding continued to develop our Perth Design Week brand in 2024. Block has been on board with us since the launch of the festival in October 2022 - when all we had was the logo they had created for us and an idea …

Curtin University brought their annual design exhibition into the City for Perth Design Week again, this year partnering with Central Park Perth. The exhibition showcased Architecture, Interiors, Fashion, Graphic Design, Digital Experience and more. Curtin University also hosted a celebration for Italian Design Day with the Italian Consulate.

The North Metropolitan TAFE runway show was a new event this year. Partnering with QV1 Perth, ‘Quo Vadis’ on Floor 35 was a spectacular way to close Perth Design Week 2024. North Metropolitan TAFE’s ‘SHINE’ exhibition was another highlight of the week, showcasing a broad range of design objects.

New on board as a major partner this year, Untitled Media documented our events, capturing design in motion. We look forward to sharing video content of interviews and conversations they captured in coming months.

Photo below by David Broadway. ‘Quo Vadis’ on Floor 35 by North Metropolitan TAFE at QV1, and our ‘Developing Design’ event at the WA Museum Boola Bardip.

event PARTNERS

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LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

City of Stirling / City of Vincent

INSTITUTIONS

Art Gallery of Western Australia / University of Western Australia

ASSOCIATIONS

Association of Consulting Architects / Australian Institute of Architects / Australian Graphic Design Association / Australian Institute of Landscape Architects / Building Designers Association of Australia / CASA (Curtin Architecture Student Assocation) / Design Insititute of Australia / Design Matters National / Emerging Architects Network Australia / Engineers Australia / FORM / Local Government Planners Association / Planning Institute of Australia / Women in Planning Network WA

STUDIOS

Anthologie / Cameron Chisholm Nicol (with RAC Arena) / Element / GROTTO / Hassell / Innovation Unit / Hatch RobertsDay / MDC Architects / Meld Studio / Nic Brunsdon Studio / RAD / Robeson Architects / SDV Interior Design Studio / Whispering Smith / With Architecture Studio / Woods Bagot / VOXLAB

SHOWROOMS

Innerspace / Interia / Jenny Jones Studio / Living Edge

GALLERIES

Art Collective / Kamilė Gallery / Linton & Kay Galleries / Offmarket Gallery

OTHER FRIENDS

Apparatus / Dr Brad Pettitt MLC / EPM Experimental / platFORMed consulting / Lawson Flats / My Home / Street Level / The Flaming Collective

SUPPLIERS

Kone Elevators / Brickworks / Laminex / Sii Light / Signs & Lines / Advance Press

AND MANY, MANY MORE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED IN PANEL DISCUSSIONS AND CONVERSATIONS

Special thanks to Amber Sheldon and Pretzel Communications for looking after media for Perth Design Week, Juliana Torres for coordinating sponsorships, and Eugene Hooks for coordinating our four events at ‘Principles Square’.

Photo below by James Campbell. ‘Making More Homes’ event at Hassell.

VIEW OUR PHOTO GALLERIES VIA LINK HERE.

A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed events, spaces and more to help make PDW even bigger this year!

We are already looking forward to seeing you at Perth Design Week 2025!

Best wishes

Sandy Anghie and David Smith

PDW Co-Creators