http://www.dhub.org news, interviews, articles about design Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:13:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.dhub.org/2013-australian-international-design-awards-finalists-announced/ http://www.dhub.org/2013-australian-international-design-awards-finalists-announced/#comments Mon, 13 May 2013 05:17:00 +0000 http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014696

A record 160 entries have been awarded Good Design® in the 2013 Australian International Design Awards and are in the running for a coveted Design Award® recognising design excellence when winners are announced later this month as part of Vivid … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/2013-australian-international-design-awards-finalists-announced/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/selective-ethics/ http://www.dhub.org/selective-ethics/#comments Tue, 07 May 2013 02:06:13 +0000 Tom Heneghan, Professor of Architecture at Tokyo University of the Arts; and former Chair of Architecture at the University of Sydney http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014502

For the past month, the art museum at my university has been host to an exhibition of extraordinary beauty, fascinating experimentation, and craft technique of a skill that I thought was no longer found in the contemporary world. It was … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/selective-ethics/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/re-rag-rug/ http://www.dhub.org/re-rag-rug/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 03:22:16 +0000 Athalie Moedjoko http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014464

Re Rag Rug is an experimental design and crafts project by two very talented Swedes, Katarina Brieditis and Katarina Evans. With backgrounds in textile design, product development and needlework, the duo were brought together through a shared interest in knitting, embroidery and … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/re-rag-rug/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/sydney-design-poster-competition/ http://www.dhub.org/sydney-design-poster-competition/#comments Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:40:58 +0000 Sydney Design Team, Powerhouse Musuem http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014419

In 2013, Sydney Design, one of the world’s oldest running design festivals, decided to become more inclusive. As one of the few design festivals produced by a Museum, the festival is all about engaging audiences around design. What better way … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/sydney-design-poster-competition/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/roseanne-bartley-civic-responsibility-jewellery-design/ http://www.dhub.org/roseanne-bartley-civic-responsibility-jewellery-design/#comments Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:32:54 +0000 Rita Bila http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014378

Roseanne Bartley is a jewellery designer with a distinctive sense of civic responsibly – not as a recent development in her practice but something I have observed throughout her career. She is a designer that sees jewellery making as a … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/roseanne-bartley-civic-responsibility-jewellery-design/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/rethinking-innovation-harnessing-the-collective-creativity-of-the-crowd/ http://www.dhub.org/rethinking-innovation-harnessing-the-collective-creativity-of-the-crowd/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:04:01 +0000 By Jochen Schweitzer, University of Technology, Sydney and Joanne Jakovich, University of Technology, Sydney http://www.dhub.org/?p=1014121

The past few years have seen a resurgence in design as a driver of innovation. This has been visible in the popular managerial press and also the scholarly debate in management and design. Many foreign organisations and governments have already … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/rethinking-innovation-harnessing-the-collective-creativity-of-the-crowd/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/making-it-20-years-of-student-fashion/ http://www.dhub.org/making-it-20-years-of-student-fashion/#comments Fri, 15 Mar 2013 03:53:42 +0000 Melanie Pitkin http://www.dhub.org/?p=1013788

2013 is an important year for the Museum. Not only are we celebrating our 25th birthday, but we’re also celebrating 20 years of Student Fashion. The Student Fashion display has been held annually at the Powerhouse Museum since 1993. Initially established as The … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/making-it-20-years-of-student-fashion/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/no-basket-case-tasmania-on-the-bumpy-road-to-economic-sustainability/ http://www.dhub.org/no-basket-case-tasmania-on-the-bumpy-road-to-economic-sustainability/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:21:52 +0000 Fred Gale, University of Tasmania http://www.dhub.org/?p=1013639

Is Tasmania at a tipping point? Over the next two weeks The Conversation, in conjunction with Griffith REVIEW and the University of Tasmania, is publishing a series of provocations. Our authors ask where does Tasmania’s future lie? Has it reached … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/no-basket-case-tasmania-on-the-bumpy-road-to-economic-sustainability/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/parisian-women-breaking-the-law/ http://www.dhub.org/parisian-women-breaking-the-law/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2013 05:50:44 +0000 Rita Orsini http://www.dhub.org/?p=1013007

For over two centuries, most women in Paris have been breaking the law! Each time they wore trousers in public in the French capital, they were infringing a law introduced on 17 November 1800 (known as the 26 Brumaire de … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/parisian-women-breaking-the-law/feed/ 0 http://www.dhub.org/design-museums-shortlist-for-designs-of-the-year-2013/ http://www.dhub.org/design-museums-shortlist-for-designs-of-the-year-2013/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 03:08:39 +0000 http://www.dhub.org/?p=1012376

The Design Museum London has announced the 2013 nominations for the Designs of the Year. Highlights include a number of designs that set new directions and trends and others that reflect our concerns for the state of the world present and future; … Continue reading →]]> http://www.dhub.org/design-museums-shortlist-for-designs-of-the-year-2013/feed/ 0