Over the past 12 years Dale Hardiman has been working in a way he describes as ‘professionally amateur’. On June’s theme of REVERIE, he shared a selection of projects whereby this is evident, from an installation made up of hacked broken iPhones, an exhibition that had a website ran entirely from a solar power panel in the front of the building (so when the sun went down, the website went down), to an international vase exhibition with 203 exhibitors from 12 countries that cost $50 to organise.Melbourne based designer Dale Hardiman is the co-founder of furniture and object brand Dowel Jones, collaborative project Friends & Associates, and produces work under his own name. In 2021, Hardiman was named 1 of the 100 worldwide game changers in design by Architectural Digest Italy. His work is held in public and private collections, including the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Gallery of South Australia.Thanks to our generous local sponsors BrightStar and Shayna Burns for supporting our speakers with presentation and SEO coaching, Diz Bravo for the video production, Offline Supply Co for the sweet notebooks, Creative Business Kitchen supporting Belafonte Coffee to provide the incredible handmade bagels and coffee, The Commons for hosting us, and Mark Lobo Photography for continuing to support our events every month.