We are surrounded by signs in our daily city existence, sometimes we notice them when driving or crossing the road but often they meld into a melange of street scenery. The growing abundance of signs in our urban landscapes as … Continue reading
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Designer Tom Skeehan talks about what inspires him, his love of Japanese design and creating playful functional objects. Continue reading
Having returned from the agIDEAS conference in Melbourne, it is one phrase that resonates – ‘the future of civilisation is a common design problem’. Of course, I’m quoting David Berman, the Canadian graphic designer and author of Do Good Design. … Continue reading
The British Council has announced the 14 shortlisted participants, who will take part in the third year of ACCELERATE – a unique career-building experience for Indigenous Australians working in the creative industries. This year, judges from Australia’s arts funding bodies joined … Continue reading
Design critic, Alice Rawsthorn, believes design is one of the most powerful tools at our disposal to empower ourselves and other people by changing the way we live. Last week, Rawsthorn gave the keynote lecture at the event ‘7 Kinds … Continue reading
What better place than the Powerhouse Museum to contemplate our future. The Museum’s vast collection has archived over 200 years of Australian related history. By looking to our collection and exhibitions we are able to determine where we have come … Continue reading
This massive work of art was created by artist Janet Echelman and features in the Love Lace exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. Placed between the Town Hall of Sydney and the Woolworths building in the centre of the city as … Continue reading
This question will be at the heart of discussions at an upcoming symposium in Sydney. The event titled ‘7 Kinds of Happiness: Conversations on Design and Emotion’ is curated by Melbourne-based design studio, The Office for Good Design and will … Continue reading
Nostalgic, elegant, tacky, cheerful, tasteless, complex and superficial, it was everything and nothing. It was far more an attitude than an aesthetic searching to disrupt. Today postmodernism has become the movement we love to hate. Yet postmodernism gave us the … Continue reading
A few brightly lit, vinyl stencilled shopfronts give a small hint of the design momentum developing inside a few council owned buildings on Sydney’s once vital Oxford Street. In October 2011 the City of Sydney called for Expressions of Interest … Continue reading
Using the crowdfunding website, Pozible, the Australian Design Alliance (AdA) has launched a national fundraising campaign to raise money to create a national design policy. The Australian Design Alliance (AdA) is the alliance of peak professional organisations that represent designers … Continue reading
International ArtExpo is selecting all interesting video/short films and photo works to include in the next 2012 Exhibition: Hidden Cities - International Videoart Festival and Photo Exhibition at Koza Visual Culture and Arts Association in Istanbul, Turkey (May 10-12, 2012). The deadline for applications is … Continue reading
Walking around the streets of Pyrmont, where the Powerhouse Museum is located, you can see glimpses of sandstone both decorative and functional. The material that once formed the distinctive cliffs and gulleys on the peninsula now exists as layers beneath … Continue reading
Liane Rossler is most well known as a co-founder of iconic Australian design company, Dinosaur Designs (with Louise Olsen and Stephen Ormandy). Last year Rossler left the company she had spent 25 years with and is now working across a very … Continue reading
What’s the fuss you say? Well today is the birthday of an Australian icon, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, fondly known as the coathanger. Now eighty years old the Bridge has become a symbol of Sydney and of Australia, its arch … Continue reading
The Design Museum in Shad Thames, London will transform into a museum for the twenty-first century when it relocates to a new site at the former Commonwealth Institute on London’s Kensington High Street. The transformation of the building into a … Continue reading
Melbourne based ‘E-idealist’ designer and artist Stephen Mushin has set sail with a team of team of scientists, environmentalists and entrepreneurs on the International Antarctic Expedition (IAE) 2012 led by polar explorer and environmental leader Robert Swan. During the 16-day … Continue reading
Locally sourced mud and moss was used to create an outdoor gallery of poetry on the walls of Sydney’s iconic Paddington Reservoir Gardens. The typographic installation, Modern Day Mossages, features words and phrases by emerging Sydney poets pays tribute to … Continue reading
The biggest name in architecture will be the subject of a major exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. Australia’s first major exhibition devoted to the work of Le Corbusier will celebrate the work of the most influential architect of the twentieth … Continue reading
Ai Weiwei’s life and career gets a positive surge with the recent announcement of his collaboration with Herzog & de Meuron as part of an annual commission for the Serpentine Gallery’s temporary pavilion for the London cultural Olympiad. The Serpentine … Continue reading
A new exhibition called ‘Flight Assembled Architecture’ is creating a buzz (or hum perhaps) in architecture schools and offices around the world. Flight Assembled Architecture is the first architectural installation assembled by flying robots, free from the touch of human … Continue reading
The CCTV (China Central Television) HQ, co-designed by Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren of OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) is an architectural and engineering spectacle. A unique space for public interaction it defies the usual notion of a ‘skyscraper’ and is … Continue reading
2012 AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS: The search is on for the best design in the world. An open invitation welcomes entries of professionally designed products and services into Australia’s most esteemed design award. Entries open 1 February 2012. Continue reading
Be it a pop-up cinema in Hackney, East London, a newspaper’s foray into iPad apps or a wind-propelled Landmine Detonator which cost $40 to produce; the list of Designs of the Year 2012 from the Design Museum, London highlights a refreshing diversity of global design talent. Continue reading
Turning their noses up to ‘good taste’, mashing up art deco, kitsch and pop art, the Memphis Group had a radical attitude and an undeniable impact on design internationally when it emerged more than 30 years ago.
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More than a platform for extraordinary athletic feats, the Olympic Games have become a Cultural Olympiad whose purpose is to display the hosting nation’s cultural economy on a global scale. It’s a platform for designers to realise challenging architecture, make … Continue reading
Recently Powerhouse Museum curator, Dr. Charles Pickett made an excellent contribution to Inside the Collection blog about Osama’s lair. Continue reading to discover the architectural merits of hideout design and the features they share across the globe. The demise of Osama … Continue reading
This year’s Sydney Design has come to a close, connecting people and creating meaningful dialogue around design issues.
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As Sydney experiences the onset of the ‘Korean Wave’ in 2011, Joanna Bayndrian considers what exactly sets Korean design apart. Continue reading
Globalisation presents enormous challenges within our society. As businesses pursue worldwide success, economies and industries are becoming increasingly competitive. Noticeably, within this global environment, culture and creativity are taking the toll, with globalisation directly threatening individuality, and creative industries and communities all over the world demonstrating an increasing lack of originality. Continue reading
ARTERRA is calling for submissions from designers and artists to participate in a residency in Tolenda, Portugal. Continue reading
Beating a highly competitive field of 150 applicants, four brilliant young Australian innovators from the fields of fashion, food farming, medical technology and mechanical engineering have been awarded a combined $60,000 prize pool from the British Council and LRQA (Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance), to make their Big Green Ideas a reality. Continue reading
The winner of the prestigious 2011 Design NSW Travelling scholarship is passionate Sydney-based type designer and font maker, David Foster, who the judges predict will become one of Australia’s foremost typographers and a household name within the design community. Continue reading
In this post-industrial age where fashion designers are developing their own scents and product designers are printing three-dimensional prototypes in moments, the protection of intellectual property is a crucial part of the design process for every maker and designer who wants to safeguard their design or idea. Continue reading
The breadth of work in Love Lace prompts us to re-think ‘lace’ and asks us to consider how we can draw on lace and other decorative textile traditions to enrich our lives. Continue reading
Love Lace: a provocative and inspirational international exhibition of lace at the Powerhouse Museum, from July 2011. Continue reading
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The world’s tallest Vertical Garden at Central Park, Sydney Continue reading
You may be familiar with the director Mike Mills who has had a fascinating career as a filmmaker, graphic designer and artist. As a filmmaker he is best known for his work creating music videos for Air, Pulp, Les Rythem Digitales, Moby, Yoko Ono, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and his debut feature Thumbsucker (2005). He is also known for his artwork for The Beastie Boys and Sonic Youth and he has created several short films for Marc Jacobs.
Mills’ latest film, Beginners, is loosely based on his own life experiences as a graphic designer and illustrator. Continue reading
Minimalist furniture designs from the set designer of Gucci Guilty 2010, Moulin Rouge! Australia & The Matrix. Continue reading
Dr Dawn Casey, Director of the Powerhouse, describes the revitalisation project that will take the Museum into an exciting new phase. Continue reading