Featuring a dazzling showcase of 100 elegant and avant-garde contemporary lights, furniture designed for neurodivergent audiences and leading designers and brands from across the country, Australia’s premier design festival Melbourne Design Week returns from 15 – 25 May 2025 offering a vital platform for creatives to showcase boundary-pushing work and test new ideas.

Over 11 days and 350+ events, exhibitions, talks, and installations, Melbourne Design Week will celebrate the depth and richness of design talent in the region from a new crop of emerging talent to the industry’s most well-respected and established professionals. Highlights include A New Normal an exhibition of designs to make Melbourne a self-sufficient city by 2030; a retrospective exhibition of lighting designer Volker Haug marking 20 years of designing and making in Australia; plus presentations by the country’s leading showrooms, studios and makers including Trent Jansen, Coco Flip, Jessie French, Fiona Lynch, Tait, Cult and more.