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
This battered leather briefcase, housing a circuit board, cassette player and removable keyboard, seems an unlikely beginning to one of the great success stories of the modern age. The Apple 1 computer was the first product designed and manufactured by … Continue reading
Dave Foster is a type disciple. He spends most of his days studying under the tutelage of some of the greatest living typographers of our age.
Foster is the 2011 recipient of the Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship offered each year by the NSW Government, with the support of the Powerhouse Museum and the British Council. 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
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
SUPERBIEN on camera about Vivid LIVE 2011 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 industrial design, historian Michael Bogle explores the work of industrial designer, graphic designer, illustrator and filmmaker, Lionel Neate (1909-1977) of Amalgamated Wireless Australasia (AWA). 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
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
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
Would you like $18,000 to boost your design career’ Continue reading
What does a chair symbolise’ Does it evoke thoughts and emotions’ Does it represent a time in your life’ Or is it simply just another object’ 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
‘Brilliant’ is a new book that brings to life an extraordinary century of creativity, tradition and change engineered by generations of Australian gold and silversmiths. Continue reading
Tasmanian designer, Brodie Neill, is recognised internationally for the bold, smooth, fluid and sculptural forms of his limited edition and production pieces of furniture and lighting. This young, energetic designer enthuses about creating and working in the 3D digital design world. 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
SCAN is a refereed journal of media arts and culture, published three times per year. Continue reading
