SUPERBIEN on camera about Vivid LIVE 2011 Continue reading
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Now in its ninth year, the London Design Festival programme has grown from 40 events in 2003 to 250 this year. Attracting international designers, contributors, partners, sponsors and audiences, last year 350,000 people attended Festival events and a million people experienced installations in Trafalgar Square and at the Southbank Centre. In this article, Catherine Sidwell talks to Will Knight the festival’s Deputy Director and reports on highlights for September 2011. Continue reading
Prue Gibson discusses the collision between tradition, innovation, heritage and experimentation in this year’s Sydney Design theme- Is old new again’ Continue reading
Sketching the careers of pioneers in the field of Australian industrial design, historian Michael Bogle explores the work of Brian Sear, of Kriesler Australia and Bits design firm, Sydney. Continue reading
Including sustainable design content in course projects of a visual art nature can be a very practical strategy for broadening responses. Continue reading
Le collectif d’artistes français SUPERBIEN parle à D*Hub du projet ‘Lighting the Sails’ de Vivid LIVE à Sydney. Continue reading
French-based digital projection artists SUPERBIEN
speak to D*Hub about their project for Vivid LIVE in Sydney. Continue reading
Robert Foster is internationally renowned for his lighting designs and innovative production work with F!NK and Co. His exhibition Strange Planet showed at the Gallery of Australian Design, exploring the boundaries between lighting and sculpture and showing the fruition of his latest research and development project. Continue reading
Designer 6×6 is simple. We interview 6 designers in 6 minutes each – delving into the quirky, the unknown, the understated and the oh-so unbelieveable personal habits, interests, thoughts and idiosyncracies of Australian and International designers. Continue reading
Would you like $18,000 to boost your design career’ Continue reading
Imagine a bike rack so enticing you just can’t wait to ride up and park your bike against it. Continue reading
“The Hand’s Thought”, a product design competition sponsered by Bosch and EXPOnenti, has been extended and the conditions of participation amended. Continue reading
Finalists for the Powerhouse International Lace Award have now been chosen by five international and Australian judges. From an outstanding field of 700 entries, the chosen designs feature a broad scope of philosophies, techniques and materials from 22 countries around the globe. Continue reading
After the recent revolution in Egypt, a competition has been established to commemorate the events of January 25 – February 11, 2011 with a special call to dialogue towards design. Continue reading
The annual Brit Insurance Designs of the Year awards, presented by London’s Design Museum, is on again. Now in its fourth year, the awards celebrate the past 12 months of design in the fields of architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactives and transport. Category winners have already been announced and the overall winner was revealed at an awards dinner on 15th March, 2011. Continue reading
craft + design enquiry is currently calling for papers that relate to the theme of ‘relational craft and design’. Continue reading
Craft Australia and the ACDC (Australian Craft and Design Centres) network sit along with ten other design and creative arts peak bodies to represent a new national alliance: the Australian Design Alliance (AdA). The combined membership is in excess of 20,000 members representing almost 80,000 design practitioners. His Excellency Michael Bryce AM AE launched its first national meeting with one hundred of Australia’s leading designers, architects, planners, educators and policy makers in the Utzon Room at the Sydney Opera House on 3 September 2010. Continue reading
MAGAZ is the Middle East’s foremost magazine of design spanning architecture, urbanism and landscape, interiors, furniture and product design, industrial design, visual communication and fashion. Continue reading
At a recent fundraiser event and farewell for the President of Trustees of the Powerhouse Museum, Dr Nicholas Pappas, Director Dr Dawn Casey delivered an important speech for the Museum’s revitalisation plans which are now underway. This article provides a full transcribe of that speech with a main summary outline of the plans. Continue reading
The theme for Sydney Design 2010 was ‘Tell Us a Story’. In this article by the Powerhouse Museum’s Contemporary Programs Manager, Lily Katakouzinos, we learn more about the origins of this theme, its success and how it translated throughout the full breadth of exhibitions, programs, speakers and activities offered throughout the 16-day long festival. Continue reading
Oprah and Frank are in town this week. Last week it was Anne and Jake and as Jake told the media, Sydney is just like New York with celebs buzzing through constantly. I missed out on Oprah, Anne and Jake. I didn’t even catch up with Becks the other week. But I did get to be in the same airspace as Frank when he was unveiling his concept for the new Dr Chau Chak Wing Business School at UTS. Continue reading
CUSP: Australian design for the next decade is the next instalment in Object’s series of exhibitions that looks at design and its potential to transform the way we live. Continue reading
The inaugural Melbourne Design Awards are bringing together 15 education organisations, 6 industry groups and 55 categories. All focused on celebrating design, from the people who create the works to the people who sponsor the projects. There is also an opportunity for students to enter and have their work compete alongside industry professionals. Continue reading
The streets of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane have been transformed into a giant gallery space with
the launch of a new project by Object: Australian Centre for Craft & Design. Continue reading
About a year ago it became official: new Australian houses are the biggest in the world. In Sydney new houses average a whopping 260 square metres of floor space. The ‘Australian dream’ of suburban home ownership is regarded as a defining aspect of modern Australia ‘ but how did it get so out of control’ How did the Aussie battler become proud custodian of a mansion, even one satirised as a Mcmansion’ Continue reading
Beavering away behind-the-scenes of any museum are collections focused staff (curators, registrars and conservators) working on lively projects, exhibitions, object acquisitions and research papers. Much of this work is only ever experienced by audiences as an end product, as a display in the museum; a publication or event. In light of this and the fact that museums’ only ever have 3-5% of their collection on public display at any one time, the Powerhouse Museum has turned to collections blogging as a way of improving access, dialogue and transparency in museum practice. Continue reading
When sustainable design is the objective, it seems collaboration is the underpinning component to a successful outcome. Continue reading
More than an just an exhibition, WORKSHOPPED has become an important organisation that launches careers and assists designers with moving from prototype to production. Continue reading
Browse the Powerhouse Museum’s wonderful collection of Wunderlich. Continue reading
A new resource that assists designers with getting down to business. Continue reading
Now entering its fifth year, the Powerhouse Museum’s Young Blood: Designers Market continues to evolve as one of Sydney’s premier forums for showcasing new Australian design. Continue reading
Graphic novel and literary comic book creator Matt Huynh used the inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship to fund an overseas sabbatical in Tokyo, the UK and New York city. Continue reading
EGD teams up with the Powerhouse Museum, renowned chef Jared Ingersoll, architect Hannah Tribe, and a group of local designers, to create a temporary restaurant space with a difference. Continue reading
Not so much a museum as a research centre for design, the recently opened 21_21 DESIGN SITE reminds us why Tokyo does all things design so well. With Issey Miyake, Taku Satoh and Naoto Fukasawa as its directors, and a building designed by architect Tadeo Ando, expectations were always going to be high. With one exhibition already under its belt and another on the way, 21_21 DESIGN SITE’s Associate Director, Noriko Kawakami, lets us know exactly what we can expect. Continue reading
Use this education kit to see how clever design can minimise the consumption of materials, use less energy and reduce waste. Continue reading
Use teachers notes to explore Australia’s retail history, in terms of architecture, design and technology and creative arts. Continue reading
Use these teachers notes alongside the Kings cinema exhibition to learn about the film industry in Australia from 1900 onwards. Continue reading
Understand different aspects of a designer’s profile and apply it to your own design project. Continue reading
Understand the impact of design, technology and cultural history on everyday objects with this education kit developed alongside the Inspired! exhibition. Continue reading
An education kit with teachers notes to complement the ‘Modern times’ exhibition. Continue reading