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The inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship attracted an extremely high calibre of entries from across the state. Meet the top four. Continue reading
The winner of the 2008 Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship has been announced. Continue reading
The British Council is once again calling for Australia’s best young creatives to enter the 2008 Realise Your Dream award. Continue reading
Listen to Cynthia E. Smith, a curator at New York’s Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, discuss the exhibition ‘Design for the Other 90%’. Continue reading
Be recognised as a designer of excellence in Victoria. Continue reading
Design 21: Social Design Network launches a new online design competition. Continue reading
Springboard announces the successful applicants for Stage One. Continue reading
The ultimate guide to all that there is to love about Sydney. Continue reading
Anne Watson discusses aesthetics and inspiration in the work of furniture designer Khai Liew. Continue reading
Young Blood: Designers Market is a showcase of fresh design talent. Read the stories of some of the people behind the stalls and get inspired to apply for a stall in December. Continue reading
Young Blood: Designers Market moves to the Museum’s magnificent Turbine Hall for Sydney’s biggest annual design event, Sydney Design 09. Continue reading
‘A benchmark for our scientists ” Continue reading
Nanette Carter discusses Dutch designer Jurgen Bey’s knack for transforming the banal and useful into the engaging and desirable. Continue reading
A waterless urinal and a clever peg are just two examples of clever innovation and design on display in the Australian Design Awards exhibition. Continue reading
A device that assists with the early detection of melanoma has received the inaugural Powerhouse Museum Design Award as part of the 2007 Australian Design Awards program. Continue reading
Closing discussion of ‘Smart works’ symposium in which panel of participants were asked to consider the a number of issues/questions arising out of the symposium. Continue reading
Stephen Ormandy, of Dinosaur Designs, presents his talk, ‘Handmade in a global marketplace’ at the ‘Smart works’ symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 1 April 2007. Continue reading
Robert Foster presents his talk, ‘Metal: an organic process – the nexus between handmade and industry’ at the ‘Smart works’ symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 30 March 2007. Continue reading
Janos Korban and Stefanie Flaubert, in partnership as Korban/Flaubert, approach design like a pair of mad scientists, where a row of bubbling test tubes might be as appropriate a design tool as pencils and paper. Continue reading
In June this year we invited a number of designers to participate in a digital storytelling project, which was launched and showcased during Sydney Design 07. Continue reading
Emily Howes reports on the recent Smart works symposium, held at the Powerhouse Museum. Continue reading
Sydney-based design duo Korban/Flaubert strengthen their international profile with exhibitions around the globe. Continue reading
Is it really all Philippe Starck’s fault’ When the superstar designer appeared on the cover of ‘Icon Magazine’ with a headline that read: ‘I Killed Design’, a London-based product strategy consultant, Kevin McCullagh, aired the design world’s dirty laundry, admitting that a backlash was brewing in the face of design’s fashionable profile. Continue reading
Oliver Smith comes from many generations of jewellers and metalsmiths, stretching back to makers of armour. A skilled silversmith, specialising in hot-forging, he has developed a particular interest in putting his one-off items of silver cutlery into production in stainless steel and other metals and materials. Continue reading
‘Not knowing ‘ is part of the motivation’ Continue reading
‘Materials experimentation’and pre-determined modelling” Continue reading
‘You get back what you put in.’ Continue reading
‘The future is in making best use of existing facilities.’ Continue reading
‘Design is meant to improve people’s ways of life.’ Continue reading
London-based design maverick Tom Dixon recently visited the Powerhouse. Here he talks to Anne Watson, Curator, Architecture and Design, about the business of design. Continue reading
Australian designer Matt Butler has been creating a sensation with his Zaishus. These highly desirable flat-pack stools now represent a collaborative project that continues to bring together some of the country’s most creative minds. Continue reading
Object Gallery and Melbourne Museum have collaborated to develop a landmark travelling exhibition of contemporary Australian design. Continue reading
This first anthology of modernist art, design and architecture in Australia reveals the raw nerves that modernism exposed. Continue reading
The acquisition of a telephone designed by Marcello Nizzoli represents an important addition to the Museum’s ICT collection. Continue reading
Italian-based designer Patricia Urquiola inspired audiences at the Powerhouse Museum this year. Continue reading
Douglas Tomkin, Robert Foster and David Knott talk about China and the global design community. Continue reading
Watch as glassblowers from the Hot Glass Roadshow transform molten glass into works of art. Continue reading
An online guide to innovation in Australia’s industries. Continue reading
Detailed case studies of seven industrial design groups with video interviews. Continue reading