As Sydney experiences the onset of the ‘Korean Wave’ in 2011, Joanna Bayndrian considers what exactly sets Korean design apart. Continue reading
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Founder of Black Star Pastry, Chris Thé, invited a group of emerging local designers to create a collection of bespoke eating implements. Continue reading
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
Twenty year old Monash University student Enzo Kocak has been chosen as the only Australian from a field of 1,300 entrants, to present his design concept to a jury of expert designers in London in September as part of the Electrolux Design Lab competition. 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
Erwan Bouroullec is one half of French industrial design duo, les frères Bouroullec. Since launching his partnership with brother Ronan in 1997, Erwan has undertaken projects with numerous manufacturers, including Vitra, Kvadrat, Magis, Kartell, Established and Sons, Ligne Roset, Axor, Alessi, Issey Miyake, Cappellini and more recently Flos and Mattiazzi. Continue reading
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The world’s tallest Vertical Garden at Central Park, Sydney Continue reading
Minimalist furniture designs from the set designer of Gucci Guilty 2010, Moulin Rouge! Australia & The Matrix. 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 Brian Sear, of Kriesler Australia and Bits design firm, Sydney. 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
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
Sketching the careers of pioneers in the field of Australian industrial design, historian Michael Bogle explores the work of Adrian Knaap (1926-1997) of Sydney-based Adrian Knaap and Associates, Industrial Design Research Consultancy and the Society of Industrial Designers of Australia (SIDA). Continue reading
Sketching the careers of pioneers in the field of Australian industrial design, historian Michael Bogle explores the design partnership of Joyce and Selwyn Coffey of Melbourne-based Kempthorne Lighting (est. 1931). 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
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
Robert Foster is internationally renowned for his lighting designs and innovative production work with F!NK and Co. His exhibition Strange Planet showed at the Gallery of Australian Design, exploring the boundaries between lighting and sculpture and showing the fruition of his latest research and development project. 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
Christine Cholewa examines our relationship with nature through image, iconography, glass, stencilling and sandblasting. Machines in the Garden investigates the way in which machines have altered the way we eat and have influenced our dis/connection with food. 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
‘At Studio Castiglioni in Milan, Giovanna Castiglioni and her mother have opened up the doors to her father’s studio allowing the public into rooms overflowing with drawings, models, prototypes and objects” HEIDI DOKULIL INTERVIEWS GIOVANNA CASTIGLIONI 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