“MDW 2026 PRESENTATION”
Exhibition
Exhibition
Adam Cornish is, in many ways, the archetypal industrial designer. The real kind. The kind that understands how things are made, how they work, and why they endure.
Based in Melbourne, his practice has long been defined by clarity and restraint, objects resolved through process, material, and a quiet obsession with getting things exactly right. His work spans furniture, lighting and product design, developed through research and a belief that objects should find their most natural expression over time.
Over the years, this approach has produced a catalogue of pieces that feel almost inevitable, clean, intelligent, and deeply considered.
But recently, something has shifted.
In what feels like a second phase of his practice, Cornish has begun to loosen the grip. Letting things get a little stranger. A little less resolved. Allowing experimentation, material play, and a degree of mess to enter the studio, if only to keep himself interested.
The result is work that still carries his signature rigour, but with a new kind of energy. Less polite. More curious. Occasionally unpredictable.
For Melbourne Design Week, OIGÅLL presents this evolving side of Cornish’s practice, where a designer known for refinement starts to test the edges of his own language.
Based in Melbourne, his practice has long been defined by clarity and restraint, objects resolved through process, material, and a quiet obsession with getting things exactly right. His work spans furniture, lighting and product design, developed through research and a belief that objects should find their most natural expression over time.
Over the years, this approach has produced a catalogue of pieces that feel almost inevitable, clean, intelligent, and deeply considered.
But recently, something has shifted.
In what feels like a second phase of his practice, Cornish has begun to loosen the grip. Letting things get a little stranger. A little less resolved. Allowing experimentation, material play, and a degree of mess to enter the studio, if only to keep himself interested.
The result is work that still carries his signature rigour, but with a new kind of energy. Less polite. More curious. Occasionally unpredictable.
For Melbourne Design Week, OIGÅLL presents this evolving side of Cornish’s practice, where a designer known for refinement starts to test the edges of his own language.
