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Tiniest House in the World to be Auctioned on eBay
Jay Shafer's Tumbleweed XS House, now available through online auction, squeezes full domestic functionality into an incredible 6 square metres.
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IKEA Launches Fully Furnished Prefab Homes
IKEA and Ideabox, a U.S. architectural firm, have teamed up to create a line of fully furnished, prefabricated houses.
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Iconic Brand Logos Reworked by Hipsters
Ever wondered what the world would look like if it was run by hipsters?
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Pee-Powered Restaurant Pops Up in Melbourne
Joost Bakker introduces Greenhouse, his 100% recyclable restaurant to Melbourne's Food and Wine Festival.
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An American City Hoping to Change its Fortunes with a Font
In an effort to create a new visual brand for Chattanooga, Tennessee, the city considers adopting a custom typeface font for city media and signage.
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Robots Provide Sweet Rewards for Social Media Popularity
When you receive a mention or a retweet, Olly and Molly will release a treat or a scent, respectively.
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Guide
The Best Places to Buy and Order Plants in Melbourne for 2024
There's a whole world of plants out there — here's where to find them.
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Where to Shop Like a Local In and Around Melbourne CBD for 2024
Some of the best small businesses in the city can be found in the CBD's laneways, alleys and arcades.
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Guide
Seven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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Guide
Melbourne's Best Florists for Making Grand Gestures
There's nothing like a big, vibrant bunch of freshly-cut blooms to turn a frown upside down.
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Eight Stunning Locally Made Jigsaw Puzzles for When Boredom Strikes (Again)
Got too much time to kill? Instead of flicking on the TV, give these beautiful, brain-tickling gems a go.
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The Best New Melbourne Spaces of 2021
We've rounded up the most stunning buildings and venues unveiled in Melbourne this year.
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All the Best Australian-Made Picnic Gear for Your Next Park Session
Keep your drinks cool and your shopping local when you plan your next picnic outing.
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Six of This Year's Biggest Boxing Day Sales
Score up to 70 percent off wine, cruelty-free makeup and activewear at these online sales.
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Six of This Year's Biggest Black Friday Sales
Score up to 70 percent off reusable cups, homewares and sportswear at these online sales.
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Where To Shop Like a Local in and Around Brighton
These great bayside businesses are well worth a look in.
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Unfold Your Own Personal Island
A folding, portable recreational island, designed by Henry Ward, is being brought to life by British naval architects.
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The World’s 11 Most Colourful Cities
Many charming little towns throughout the world have put this idea into practice, painting their buildings in bold and bright colours.
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A Bookmark Which Follows Your Reading
For the inner bookworm in all of us, French designer and inventor Oscar Lhermitte has come up with a way to make torn, dog-eared pages a thing of the past.
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The Sydney Opera House Now Comes In Lego Form
As part of their Architecture Series, Lego has released a model of the Sydney Opera House for you to build yourself.
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Mercedes-Benz to Integrate Apple’s Siri Technology in Vehicles
Mercedes-Benz drivers will soon be able to send text messages, listen to music, change radio channels and update their status on social networks.
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Design The New Durex Condom Pack
Design Durex's new condom pack and you have the chance to be seen by naked people around the world.
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The Aquaria Grande’s Luxury Balcony Pools
This new apartment development in Mumbai allows residents to plunge off their balcony into a luxury pool.
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Ten Incredible Prefab House Designs
Architects and designers around the globe are fusing creativity with the latest technology to build unique homes at a fraction of the price.
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Moss Poetry Appears in Sydney’s Paddington Reservoir Gardens
The walls of Sydney's historic reservoir are currently playing host to obscurely profound pieces of moss poetry.
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Domsai by Matteo Cibic
Forget the electronic beeps and constant attention needed by a Tamagotchi and buy a handcrafted Domsai instead.
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Marc Newson’s Riva Aquariva
The Australian designer has unleashed what may be his most awesome creation ever - the Riva Aquariva.
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CollectFest Melbourne
Sat, 5 Jul - Sun, 6 Jul 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Marvel at some epic collections (or add to your own) at this huge convention.
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Paris Olympics Pop-Ups at Melbourne Quarter
Wed, 7 Aug 2024
Melbourne Quarter, Docklands
Celebrate the 2024 Paris Olympics with live broadcasts and delicious pop-ups.
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High Cheese at The Westin Melbourne
Wed, 19 Jun - Sat, 21 Sep 2024
The Westin Melbourne, Melbourne
This cheese-filled take on a classic afternoon tea is only running until September.
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Now or Never
Thu, 22 Aug - Sat, 31 Aug 2024
Various Melbourne locations, Melbourne
Back for its second year, this huge arts festival is closing out winter in Melbourne with more than 100 events.
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Skewsdays at Mr Miyagi
Multiple single dates
Mr. Miyagi, Prahran
Head down to this Chapel Street haunt on a Tuesday night to score charcoal-grilled yakitori for just $5 a pop.
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Mystery Parma Nights at Skinny Dog Hotel
Multiple single dates
Skinny Dog Hotel, Kew
Every Thursday night, Skinny Dog Hotel in Kew is creating a new parma flavour combo that's been dreamt up by one of you.
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Friends of Young Hearts: Sunday Service
Multiple single dates
Young Hearts, Windsor
A rotating roster of Melbourne chefs are taking over the Young Hearts kitchen — and playlist — across the next few months.
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Open House Melbourne Weekend
Sat, 27 Jul - Sun, 28 Jul 2024
Various locations across Melbourne, Melbourne
For two days this July, you can explore private homes and heritage buildings, as well as sports stadiums, places of worship, art gallery archives and more.
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Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition
Tue, 17 Sep 2024 - Sun, 16 Feb 2025
ACMI, Melbourne
Start honking: this free world-premiere 'Untitled Goose Game' celebration at ACMI showcases everyone's favourite horrible goose.
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Rich Neeley’s Book Chargers
In a delightfully clever combination of old and new, Rich Neeley has been taking actual vintage books and giving them new lives as iPhone chargers.
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Cufflinks That Double as USB Drives, Wi-Fi Spots
In what may be the ultimate fusion of practicality and style, Brookstone are now selling cufflinks that offer both Wi-Fi and data storage.
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3D Printer Makes Cupcake in 60 Seconds
Most of us associate printers with ink and paper, but a new 3D printer has more to do with chocolate cupcakes and other delicious desserts.
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Ikea Builds Apartment in Paris Train Station
The Swedish design giants are turning more heads with their latest advertising stunt in France.
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The Song Map
This is what the world would look like if you could build a city from your iTunes library.
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The Blackbox Mobile SMS Message Printer
A nifty little mobile printer that produces your text message conversations on paper.
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Make Food Not War
Stage a war in the kitchen and attempt to replicate these deliciously evil masterpieces.
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Trot Around Your Own Globe
These do-it-yourself kits allow you to customise your own vintage globe with different travel routes, photos, banners and travel stickers.
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Create Your Own Personalised Soft Drink
Online users change the percentages of whatever ingredients they choose to go into the drink, and can further determine the drink's colour, name and label.
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Bernardo Bajana’s Offensive Police Shield
Bad news for Occupy protesters: Bernado Bajana has created a new riot shield which does much more than just shield officers.
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How Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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Rooftop Farming in Berlin
Fish frolicking in beer barrels and a vegetable patch atop an old malt factory in Berlin enjoy the ultimate symbiotic relationship.
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Wake Up to the Muppet Crew
Imagine waking up, and the first thing you saw was this wall decal. There is just no way you could ever start the day in a bad mood.
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A Beer Cooler that Doubles as a ‘Photoblocker’
A product that will soon solve the first-world problems faced by many party animals.
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Vending Machine for Welcome Home Signs
Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport Bannerxpress allows people to print welcome home signs from a vending machine at the airport.
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The World’s Funkiest Contact Lenses
The Japanese have a particular skill when it comes to making useful objects much more compact and convenient.
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The World’s First Functional Painting Typewriter
To the delight of fetishists of redundant technology, an American artist has created a typewriter that paints.
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From Barley to the Bottle in the Heart of the City
Watch your beer 'grow' from start to finish at this temporary inner city brewery.
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The Little Printer
Little Printer partners with Arup, foursquare, Google, the Guardian and Nike to produce itty bitty newspapers to slip into your back pocket and read on the go.
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Basil Bangs’ Beautiful Beach Brollies
Basil Bangs' beautifully designed beach umbrellas will allow you to spend a sensible day at the beach while still looking hip.
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The Spirit of Youth Awards Set to Grow in 2011/2012
With the competition's expansion into unprecedented categories, there are now more opportunities for Australia's finest creative minds to showcase their work to the world.
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Adidas to Launch $1 Sneaker in India
Adidas is looking to the subcontinent for its new major growth market.
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It’s Just a Plant: The Children’s Book on Marijuana
The story of a young girl's educational journey as she comes to understand cannabis, explained to her by her parents, a doctor and a kind gang of Rastafarians.
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Urban Beekeeping Hits New York’s Rooftops
Philips has tapped into the growing beekeeping trend and designed a sleek looking urban beehive.
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