Not what you were expecting – tricked you! Have you bought shoes for 99 cents and got ten years international travel out of them? Well a Mr Fuller bought these in 1978 and trudged them all around Europe. He mended … Continue reading
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If you’re the type of design lover who expresses themselves by wearing mostly black or perhaps muted tones, preferring an understated style (which means avoiding bursts of flamboyance and primary colours at all costs) then you probably decided not to … 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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This year’s Sydney Design has come to a close, connecting people and creating meaningful dialogue around design issues.
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A really enjoyable part of my job as producer of the Craft Punk programs at the Powerhouse Museum is finding young designers who can adapt their creative ideas to designing projects around a particular theme. These projects are then offered to … 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
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
Dr Dawn Casey, Director of the Powerhouse, describes the revitalisation project that will take the Museum into an exciting new phase. Continue reading
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 design, historian Michael Bogle explores the legacy of the ‘Opal King’ Percy Marks, of Percy Marks Jewellers, Sydney. Continue reading
Love Lace opens at the Powerhouse Museum on July 29, coinciding with the launch of Sydney Design 2011. It features 130 lace works by 134 artists from 20 countries, drawn from finalists of the Powerhouse Museum’s third International Lace Awards. Continue reading
From safety-pin earrings to homemade badges, punk has always embraced the DIY ethic. Indeed, just like lovers of knitting and embroidery they are known for doing it their own way. 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
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
Design NSW Travelling Scholarship 2010 winner – Liesl Hazelton – talks about the scholarship and how it has affected her professional practice. Continue reading
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“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