Having visited Milan for the last 4 years, I have grown to look forward to the young designer events held at alternative venues across the city more than I do the polished commerciality of the vast official fairgrounds at Rho. … Continue reading
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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
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
While there were a number of important furniture brands in Australia offering modernist designs during the 50s, 60s and 70s such as Danish Deluxe and Fler in Melbourne and TH Brown in Adelaide, Sydney’s Parker remains the most well known. … Continue reading
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
Frame and Moooi are excited to announce the ten finalists for the year’s biggest interior design award. This year, the Frame Moooi Award received 861 submissions from a total of 71 countries. The finalists were selected by juror Jana Scholze, … Continue reading
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
With the latest instalment of the Broached Commissions project, entitled Broached East, half way through it’s stint in Melbourne, David Harrison spoke with Lou Weis founder and creative director of the project before he jetted off to Dubai to set … Continue reading
CODA, a New York based firm is the winner of the 2013 MoMA Young Architects Program. Each year emerging architects are invited to develop designs for a competition to create a temporary outdoor installation. The design must provide shade, seating … Continue reading
With the completion of 1 Blight Street, Ingenhoven Architects + Architectus in collaboration with the Dexus Property Group, have delivered Australia’s highest rated Green Star Building in Sydney. Winner of the 2012 National Architecture Award, the building is the first … Continue reading
With many designers lamenting the dwindling manufacturing landscape in Australia, David Harrison speaks with designers Gary Galego, Adam Cornish and Adam Goodrum about how they are working within these shrinking parameters. On the other side of the Tasman, Scott Bridgens, … Continue reading
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
2013 is well and truly upon us! As we approach the month of March, I’m sure many of us have settled into our respective plans for the year. I for one, have spent the last couple of months thinking about … Continue reading
Redefining the traditional mentality of ‘made-to-order’ manufacturing in Australia, a new breed of Creative Enablers are marrying their technical capabilities to the trajectories of leading designers, and broadening their product offering in the co-creation of new Australian design. Palamont Rotor, … Continue reading
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Rohan Nicol is a Wagga Wagga based designer with a craft background and a new design enterprise, Lucelux, which launched in 2009. Bridging the gap between manufacturing and design in Australia, Rohan has established an alliance with local manufacturer Precision … Continue reading
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
Last year Dhub published an article on Australia’s need to increase productivity with investment in integrated business strategy to strengthen the manufacturing sector. The proposal will increase the success of creative ventures such as those undertaken by designers while improving Australia’s competitiveness on a global scale … Continue reading
The third edition of the International Design & Communication Awards (2013) for excellent communication and creativity in the art world is now open for entries. The IDCA awards assess communications, design and branding strategies within the arts and museum sphere. … Continue reading
Many Australian manufacturers have acknowledged that innovation is key to their survival in an era characterised by increased global competition and a strong Australian dollar. The Australian Government has also acknowledged the manufacturing sector needs to reinvent itself to combat … Continue reading
Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson are the young business owners of industrial design studio, DesignByThem. As young designers who launched their own business after graduating from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) in 2006, Nick Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson bypassed … Continue reading
A few years ago, Robbie Robertson and Alex Ritchie worked at the same award-winning company in London, Imagination, but it was not until they moved to Sydney that they first met while working at Landor Associates. Originally from Scotland, Robertson … Continue reading
Tamara Maynes has had a productive year, taking her Quilt Light to Milan Design Week and London Design Festival 2012 as part of the Supercyclers collective exhibition. I thought it an opportune time to catch-up with Tamara and find out … Continue reading
Studio juju are a young Singapore based studio established by Timo Wong & Priscilla Lui in 2009. Apart from developing their own projects under the studio juju name they have also been an integral part of the National University of … Continue reading
Like everyone over the past week we have also taken stock of the last twelve months. There are always some ups and downs but somehow we got through and all our design friends have helped make this a great year. … Continue reading
Melbourne studio Büro North designs everything from logos to signage and wayfinding systems. Many design studios also offer a multi-disciplinary suite of services, but Büro North differentiates by taking an ‘evidence-based’ approach to design, painstakingly gathering data to demonstrate the … Continue reading
It’s almost the end of the year, a time when we take stock of the past and forecast what we may do in the new year. The holiday break may just be the down-time we need to start thinking of 2013, … Continue reading
Do you like the colour green? That’s lucky because Pantone has given the green light: Emerald is the official Colour of the Year for 2013. Here is what it looks like: For more than a decade, Pantone has been selecting … Continue reading
Assistant curator Deborah Turnbull gives us the low down on the Powerhouse Museum’s inaugrual ‘What’s in the Box’ talk series. Continue reading
London-based Monocle magazine shares news about international affairs, business, culture and design and this month published their third global soft power survey – an index of how different nations are using their cultural influence. Drawing on US academic Joseph Nye’s notion of applying power by persuasion and attraction … Continue reading
Chances are you’ve heard about 3D printing – or additive manufacturing as it’s otherwise known: a process that turns computer-aided designs into three-dimensional, real-world objects with a range of uses, from a range of materials and on a range of … Continue reading
The coal basin of Lens in the north of France was recently declared a World Heritage Site for its industrial history and is now also the site for the new outpost of Musée du Louvre, a project on 20 hectares … Continue reading
Looking behind some of the products on show at the London Design Festival, Karen McCartney found that the notions of revisiting, rethinking and re-engineering were a dominant force. Rethink: the book Last week saw the launch of Amanda Talbot’s inspirational … Continue reading
COFA Annual 2012 showcased the works of the next generation of fine artists, media artists and designers. More than 300 COFA graduating students displayed their works in many disciplines: animation, ceramics, drawing, digital imaging, environments, graphics, installation, interactive media, jewellery, motion … Continue reading
Today DHub continues with Lily Katakouzinos’ travel diary about Helsinki’s Design Week 2012 where she experienced a range of design options, innovations, new trends and design classics. At the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma this life-size crocheted police car by Finnish aritst … Continue reading
Speaking at a roundtable discussion with design festival organisers from around the world, Chairman of the London Design Festival, Sir John Sorrell, said that major changes in the way humans live have been affected by our journey from an agricultural … Continue reading
BPN (Building Products News) Sustainability Awards Australia’s premier awards program celebrating sustainable building design and innovation. A building that sets a new benchmark for sustainable design, the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne, has taken out top honours at this year’s … Continue reading
Woven Image have recently collaborated with award-winning Australian designer and HASSELL Principal, Matt Sheargold as part of their Imagination Partners series. For the collaboration, titled ‘Muralithic’, Sheargold was challenged to artistically reinterpret the EchoPanel® Mura Tile, an innovative acoustic wall … Continue reading
Amy Wong is one of a number of terrarium makers who have been placing Melbourne at the forefront of terrarium design. Amy is due in Sydney for a series of terrarium workshops in early December – part of the Craft … Continue reading
One Third proves designers have a role to play in reinventing Australia’s manufacturing industry Since 1996, Designs in Timber has produced quality furniture from its warehouse in Tasmania. Yet over the past four years the company has contracted from 12 … Continue reading