Tasmanian designer Brodie Neill has been obsessing over icebergs. For the past three months in his London studio, he’s experimented with ways to convey the beauty of their colours and textures as he develops new furniture and objects inspired by a six-week artist-in-residency on the edge of an ice shelf in Antarctica.

“When you first look, everything just seems stark blue and white,” he says of his expedition aboard the Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research ship, Falkor (too). “But as your eyes adapt, you start to see glacial layers of intensely varied hues that are markers of millennia of climatic shifts.”