is not just any old table! & we’re taking orders!
After years of frustration as a student, then as a fledgling fashion & costume designer, then as a global trotter, Sruli Recht (Issue 13) has developed a portable cutting table.
This light and sturdy corrugated structure was developed to meet the requirements of both the travelling designer […]

As research for an article we’re writing for the next issue of Dumbo feather, we’d love to know what your favourite bookshops are, where they are, and why they’re so delicious… because let’s be honest, a great bookshop sates a hunger you didn’t even know you had till you walked in!
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While we did peddle to work for the first time ever today (and are slowly getting over it), this is about the other type of peddling here… the peddling of wares.
This coming Sunday (20 July) in Melbourne, the undercover car park at Federation Square once again plays host to the Melbourne Design Market. We’ve lost […]

at Df HQ! It should have reached all our wonderful subscribers and stockists by now, except perhaps those overseas and in WA & SA… it seems to take forever to get x-country. This is what it looks like;

Cover photograph by Mia Mala McDonald
[*Spoiler warning* If you want the five people in Issue 16 to remain […]

Alex Charchar from RetinArt has just written a fantastic article for Jacob Cass’s ‘Just Creative Design’ blog in which he talks about the key role paper plays in the design process. He cites Dumbo feather as an example of how paper can be “warm and soft” and “can help set a mood and feeling in […]

Opening Friday 18th July 6 - 8pm
Julia deVille (Issue 12) is exhibiting her new collection of Victorian garment-inspired jewellery/art/taxidermy pieces in collaboration with Eastern Market as part of the National Design Festival 2008 in Melbourne.
Her collection incorporates her signature silver bird bones, bird skulls and other cast natural objects… the pieces are made […]