Earlier this year the well-known German designer, Konstantin Grcic, designer of such iconic pieces as the Chair One for Magis and the Mayday light for Flos, released a new chair for Italian timber furniture manufacturer Mattiazzi. Not such earth shattering … Continue reading
Technologies are often pitted against one another. Print, for instance, is often cast to play the role of the has-been, the also-ran, while digital and network technologies prepare for yet another close up. In this scenario any passion for printed … Continue reading
The Sea Chair designed by Studio Swine and Kieren Jones with co-authors Azusa Murakami and Alexander Groves, has won the BIO Gold Medal, the highest ranked award, as well as the BIO Green Award for environmentally friendly projects at the … Continue reading
Metalab is thrilled to announce cutting edge Melbourne jeweller, Christopher Earl Milbourne as the winner of this year’s National Contemporary Jewellery Award! This award has been judged biennially at the Griffith Regional Art Gallery since 1988 and gives praise to some of Australia’s leading contemporary … Continue reading
As Arts funding in Australia continues to shrink so does the hope that the nation will promote creative thinkers who will shape our future and lead us to developing a better one with improved outcomes. Funding creative thinking may seem extravagant and financially risky … Continue reading
When I was 18 I witnessed something truly fabulous: the removal of pastel furniture from my family home. The eighties were over, bring on the final decade of the 20th Century I thought. What I didn’t know at the time … Continue reading
Design is one of those words, it means many things to many people. It’s been defined, deconstructed, damned and deified. Architect William McDonough famously stated that design is the first signal of human intention but for most people it is decoration, mere … Continue reading
Started 14 years ago by Marva Griffin, Satellite, part of Milan’s famous Salon Internazionale del Mobile has grown from just 55 stands and 101 designers in it’s first year to one of the world’s most important platforms for young furniture and lighting designers. … Continue reading
Machine knitting is not an easy craft to master. It can be frustrating and time consuming. Perhaps I am old school recalling my mother struggling on an early model Pfaff in the 1970s but it appears to me Alana has … Continue reading
Say hello to some of the hot designers from the 2012 Young Blood Designers Markets. Continue reading
Millions have sat in them, few know their history. Yet like just about everything connected with the Sydney Opera House the theatre chairs, indispensable to audiences’ experience of the building, have their own intriguing story. When the young Sydney architect … Continue reading
Complex, intricate work in less time and with less errors – that’s the promise of rapid prototyping, a relatively new design paradigm that allows concepts to be visualised, tested and realised via three-dimensional (3D) printing technology. “Rapid prototyping enables ideas … Continue reading
Welcome to D*Hub’s ‘Loves’ column. We’ve invited design lovers to share their favourite object in the Powerhouse Museum Collection. Trent Jansen is an award winning Australian designer. Trent Jansen loves … I really like Ragnar Hansen’s Tea and Coffee set because … Continue reading
There may not be a design solution for winter but as the temperature starts to drop, I can’t help but covet cosy designs like Patricia Urquiola’s Mangas rugs produced by Spanish company, Gandia Blasco. Inspired by a knitted sleeve, Ms … Continue reading
“Design is the purposeful, technical, imaginative, thought process that shapes our country, helps our lives and fills our GDP. It is, in short, a life-enhancing activity.” His Excellency Michael Bryce AM AE Design is in everything we do and come … Continue reading
State Library creates a new online home for design thinking State Library of Queensland has launched Design Online, a new public web space for exchanging ideas and generating knowledge around design in the Asia Pacific. State Librarian Janette Wright said design … Continue reading
It is again that time of the year when cycling greats take to the impossible Alps of France and battle it out over three weeks to determine who shall be deemed ‘King of the Mountains’ or polka-dot jersey, green jersey … Continue reading
When talking of Dragon’s blood one would be forgiven for thinking of the enormously popular HBO series ‘Game of Thrones‘, based on George R. R. Martin’s epic fantasy series but I do disappoint. I mean sustainability, I mean design. Inspiration … Continue reading
This September MUD Australia will open their first international store, founder Shelley Simpson talks about retail, the hand made and the business of creativity. Continue reading
Three designers from Workshopped 2012 dicuss their work, design influences and Powerhouse Museum favourites. 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
‘Broached Commissions’ is one of the most unusual specimens to have emerged from the antipodean design-world in recent years. The newly-established collective (2010) consists of five regular members – Lou Weis (the founder), Vincent Aiello (production advisor), Charles Wilson, Adam … 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
Welcome to D*Hub’s ‘Loves’ column. We’ve invited design lovers to share their favourite object in the Powerhouse Museum Collection. Penny Craswell is the Editor of architecture and design magazine, Artichoke, and a long-time fan of great design. Craswell shares what she loves most … Continue reading
An exhibition celebrating wool highlights the significance of the material to the international design community in the 21st Century. The Wool Modern exhibition travelling the world and featuring global designer heavyweights has arrived in Sydney. The exhibition includes works made … 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
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
Trent Jansen designs chairs, stools and accessories for bikes, among other things. He designs when he thinks there’s a need to design. He has won numerous awards including the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award in 2008. He is a conceptual … 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
As a recent UTS Design graduate, and a finalist in the upcoming Social Changemakers Exhibiton and Art Prize, Rachel Rodwell wants to make us think about the impact what we wear has on the environment. Her unique label ‘Podtex’ uses … 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
When you intern with a radical thinker like Gijs Bakker, you would expect to undergo some kind of liberating realisation. This is exactly what happened to Tasman Munro who was the winner of the Design NSW Travelling Scholarship in 2010. The … Continue reading
Over the years the Powerhouse Museum has actively developed its national and regional dress collection to reflect the multicultural nature of Australian communities and more effectively document their source cultures. We were very pleased therefore to acquire this beautifully made … 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
Paperback. Softback. Hardcover. Dust-jacket. Words to comfort every book fetishist and print lover. This year, the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Book Design Awards will celebrate the best of book design in Australia for the 60th time. Much has changed in … Continue reading
