Clarice Cliff in the Powerhouse collection Eva Czernis-Ryl, Curator, Design & Society, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (added: 02/11/2009)
A selection of Clarice Cliff tableware recently donated to the Powerhouse Museum by Sydney collector Ron Greedy has significantly enriched the museum’s holdings of ceramics by one of the best-known British ceramic designers of the 20th century. ...

A fresh look at lace Margie Borschke (added: 26/10/2009)
Contemporary artists and designers find new uses for an age-old tradition....

Eat Green Design Joan-Maree Hargreaves (added: 21/10/2009)
When sustainable design is the objective, it seems collaboration is the underpinning component to a successful outcome. ...

A new design for a new age Dr Paul Donnelly, Curator, Design and Society, Powerhouse Museum (added: 07/09/2009)
The recent acquisition of a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1927 marks a significant addition to the Powerhouse Museum's collection of Modernist furniture....

Australian Design Unit (added: 02/09/2009)
A new resource that assists designers with getting down to business....

dhub talks to designboom Jane Latief, Education and Program Development, Powerhouse Museum (added: 21/08/2009)
The first Australian 'designboom mart' was staged at the Powerhouse Museum in August, as part of Sydney Design 08. Designboom co-founder Birgit Lohmann explains how the marts bring design to the people. ...

Travel bugs Stephen Lacey (added: 20/08/2009)
The Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship can be the start of a brilliant career....

Design for the Other 90% (added: 13/08/2009)
Listen to Cynthia E. Smith, a curator at New York's Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum, discuss the exhibition 'Design for the Other 90%'. ...

Paul Cocksedge Studio: intelligent design Nicole Bearman (added: 05/08/2009)
Paul Cocksedge Studio is the internationally acclaimed design practice of Paul Cocksedge and Joana Pinho, based in London. The Studio is dedicated to building a sophisticated portfolio of some of the most inventive pieces and projects in contemporary design. Nicole Bearman interviewed Paul before his arrival in Sydney as the international guest speaker for Sydney Design 09...

Young Blood: Designers Market at SD09 (added: 20/07/2009)
Young Blood: Designers Market moves to the Museum's magnificent Turbine Hall for Sydney's biggest annual design event, Sydney Design 09. ...

Craft·design blog (added: 16/06/2009)
Youth@craft·design is an online forum on creating and making a living in the arts today. ...

Eat Green Design joins Sydney Design 09 (added: 04/06/2009)
EGD teams up with the Powerhouse Museum, renowned chef Jared Ingersoll, architect Hannah Tribe, and a group of local designers, to create a temporary restaurant space with a difference....

Design NSW - meet the finalists Stephen Lacey (added: 02/06/2009)
The inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship attracted an extremely high calibre of entries from across the state. Meet the top four....

Double-take: a look at the Sydney Design 09 campaign (added: 24/05/2009)
The creators of this year's Sydney Design festival visual identity discuss the create process behind their design....

Fostering Design: Drawing on a Pool of Raw Talent Merryn Gates (added: 28/04/2009)
To find out how F!NK and Co has prospered over the past ten years Merryn Gates spoke with founder Robert Foster about production, mentorships and the integrity of design....

Diary of the 2008 Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship winner (added: 27/04/2009)
Graphic novel and literary comic book creator Matt Huynh used the inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship to fund an overseas sabbatical in Tokyo, the UK and New York city....

Comic book hero Stephen Lacey (added: 15/04/2009)
The winner of the 2008 Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship has been announced....

Starting A New Sentence About Australian Design Anne Brennan (added: 15/04/2009)
This article discusses the reference to 'the old dichotomy between hand and mind that dogs the art/craft debate' ... but, as always with Cohn, there’s more to get here than what you see. Has the handmade object worn out its aura, redolent with the dignity of human labour and a clutch of positive aesthetic values, and now reduced to nothing more than a wank? And, if so, wha...

Grace Cochrane: Smart Works: Design and the Handmade (added: 15/04/2009)
Smart works: design and the handmade was a craft and design exhibition held at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney in 2007. Jenny Deves spoke with the curator Grace Cochrane about the development of the exhibition. ...

See the World Through Design (added: 15/04/2009)
Not so much a museum as a research centre for design, the recently opened 21_21 DESIGN SITE reminds us why Tokyo does all things design so well. With Issey Miyake, Taku Satoh and Naoto Fukasawa as its directors, and a building designed by architect Tadeo Ando, expectations were always going to be high. With one exhibition already under its belt and another on the way, 21_2...

Making It In China (added: 15/04/2009)
When it comes to the design scene - whether it's fashion, homewares or furniture - China is, and has been for years now, the name on everyone's lips. Michelle Hespe speaks to Australian designers about the pros and cons of manufacturing in China....

Pattern Recognition Rhana Devenport (added: 29/03/2009)
Australian and New Zealand designers discover exciting and diverse manifestations of pattern....

Australian designers at work (added: 24/02/2009)
Understand different aspects of a designer's profile and apply it to your own design project. ...

Ecologic: Creating a Sustainable Future (added: 10/12/2008)
Use this education kit to see how clever design can minimise the consumption of materials, use less energy and reduce waste....

Cochlear implant (added: 10/12/2008)
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What's in store? (added: 10/12/2008)
Use teachers notes to explore Australia's retail history, in terms of architecture, design and technology and creative arts. ...

Kings Cinema (added: 10/12/2008)
Use these teachers notes alongside the Kings cinema exhibition to learn about the film industry in Australia from 1900 onwards....

Inspired! Design Across Time (added: 10/12/2008)
Understand the impact of design, technology and cultural history on everyday objects with this education kit developed alongside the Inspired! exhibition....

Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia (added: 09/12/2008)
An education kit with teachers notes to complement the 'Modern times' exhibition....

The Powerhouse Wizard (added: 03/12/2008)
Design wins in the 2008 Powerhouse Wizard Award....

Call for entries - Australian International Design Awards (added: 01/10/2008)
The search is on for the best designed products on the Australian market....

Stories from behind the stalls Janson Hews, design education officer, Powerhouse Museum (added: 01/10/2008)
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. ...

Realise your dream - call for entries (added: 17/06/2008)
The British Council is once again calling for Australia’s best young creatives to enter the 2008 Realise Your Dream award....

The Zaishu project Kate Bezar, Dumbo feather (added: 12/06/2008)
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....

Premier's Design Awards 2008 - Entries open (added: 10/04/2008)
Be recognised as a designer of excellence in Victoria....

Project Springboard - entrepreneurship for designers (added: 27/03/2008)
Springboard announces the successful applicants for Stage One....

Power to the pedal - call for entries (added: 07/03/2008)
Design 21: Social Design Network launches a new online design competition....

Sydney Design Guide (added: 17/12/2007)
The ultimate guide to all that there is to love about Sydney....

Khai Liew: Expressive minimalism Anne Watson, Curator, Architecture & Design, Powerhouse Museum (added: 03/12/2007)
Anne Watson discusses aesthetics and inspiration in the work of furniture designer Khai Liew....

Swinburne timber research project (added: 18/10/2007)
‘A benchmark for our scientists …’...

True Design: a digital storytelling project (added: 11/10/2007)
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. ...

I've got you (under my skin) Nanette Carter (added: 05/10/2007)
Nanette Carter discusses Dutch designer Jurgen Bey's knack for transforming the banal and useful into the engaging and desirable....

Droog - the design tells the story Cathy Netherwood (added: 05/10/2007)
Since being launched on an unsuspecting public in 1993, the Dutch design collective Droog has subverted the sacred tenets of modern design while providing a few laughs for good measure. But behind the light-hearted irony of many Droog objects, there’s a serious questioning of contemporary design, consumerism and the role of the designer. ...

Clever design Angelique Hutchison, Curator, Product Design (added: 04/09/2007)
A waterless urinal and a clever peg are just two examples of clever innovation and design on display in the Australian Design Awards exhibition....

SolarScan wins 2007 design award Angelique Hutchison, Curator, Product Design (added: 04/09/2007)
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. ...

Nick Mount Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘The future is in making best use of existing facilities.’...

Alexander Lotersztain (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Design is meant to improve people’s ways of life.’ ...

Robert Foster talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
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....

Stephen Ormandy talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium Ormandy, Dinosaur Designs, craft, design, Smartworks, resin, jewellery, homewares, handmade, casting (added: 06/08/2007)
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. ...

Final session of 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
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....

Korban Flaubert in True Design: a digital storytelling project Emily Howes (added: 03/08/2007)
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. ...

Smart works - already an ism Emily Howes (added: 22/05/2007)
Emily Howes reports on the recent Smart works symposium, held at the Powerhouse Museum....

Robert Foster (added: 14/05/2007)
‘You get back what you put in.’...

Striding out (added: 10/05/2007)
Sydney-based design duo Korban/Flaubert strengthen their international profile with exhibitions around the globe....

Designer guilt: why sustainable design matters Margie Borschke (added: 01/05/2007)
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. ...

Craft and industry - the work of Oliver Smith Grace Cochrane (added: 01/05/2007)
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. ...

Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 Ann Stephen, Andrew McNamara, Philip Goad (added: 25/03/2007)
This first anthology of modernist art, design and architecture in Australia reveals the raw nerves that modernism exposed....

Rohan Nicol (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Not knowing … is part of the motivation’...

Andrew Last (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Materials experimentation…and pre-determined modelling…’...

Freestyle: new Australian design for living Brian Parkes (added: 15/03/2007)
Object Gallery and Melbourne Museum have collaborated to develop a landmark travelling exhibition of contemporary Australian design. ...

DESIGN 21: Social Design Network (added: 14/03/2007)
Design 21 challenges young designers to explore why design matters. Get your entries in by June 2007....

'Not a proper job': designer Tom Dixon Anne Watson, Curator, Architecture and Design (added: 07/03/2007)
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....

Massive Change (added: 10/01/2007)
Join the global movement to harness the power and promise of design....

Bits and pieces Rebecca Roke (added: 10/01/2007)
The 19th Century Industrial Revolution sparked moral debate about the virtues of the hand- versus machine-made. Today a similar debate is simmering as we embrace the digital information age. Rebecca Roke explores the middle-ground where craft and digital technology in design meet....

Freedom of fantasy Campbell Bickerstaff, Assistant Curator, Information & Communication Technology (added: 10/01/2007)
The acquisition of a telephone designed by Marcello Nizzoli represents an important addition to the Museum’s ICT collection....

Sketch furniture by Front (added: 22/12/2006)
The Swedish design group Front Design has been drawing the attention of the global design community with a revolutionary new project....

The Hot Glass Roadshow (added: 18/12/2006)
Watch as glassblowers from the Hot Glass Roadshow transform molten glass into works of art. ...

Designer of our time Anne Watson, Curator, Architecture and Design, Powerhouse Museum (added: 30/11/2006)
Karim Rashid is a Canadian-born, New York-based designer who has designed it all. From an award-winning rubbish bin to jewellery, mobile phones, furniture and futuristic concept environments, Rashid lives and breathes design. ...

Fatty elegance Lily Katakouzinos, Powerhouse Museum (added: 30/11/2006)
Italian-based designer Patricia Urquiola inspired audiences at the Powerhouse Museum this year....

China and the global design community (added: 29/11/2006)
Douglas Tomkin, Robert Foster and David Knott talk about China and the global design community....

Australian designers at work (added: 23/11/2006)
An educational resource that explores the design process....

Sydney designers unplugged: people, process, product (added: 23/11/2006)
Detailed case studies of seven industrial design groups with video interviews....

Australia Innovates (added: 23/11/2006)
An online guide to innovation in Australia's industries....

Brave innovation: the story of the Featherston Stem chair Anne Watson, curator, architecture and design, Powerhouse Museum (added: 23/11/2006)
Melbourne-based Grant Featherston (1922-1995) was one of the new wave of Australian designers to emerge in the immediate post-war years. ...

Matali Crasset: What if? Lily Katakouzinos (added: 08/11/2006)
What if a friend drops in to visit for a day or two? How would you accommodate them? What if your rug doubles as a magic kingdom? How would you use this gift? Or what if you need some privacy at work? How do you find the best solution without isolating yourself? By questioning the environments we create for ourselves and transforming our living spaces into places for mobil...

Super Natural Nicole Bearman (added: 13/09/2006)
Ross Lovegrove's epic body of work is characterised by its clever fusion of finely sculpted organic forms with the latest materials and technology....

Ruth McDermott (added: 06/09/2006)
Ruth McDermott is making her mark in Australian design through innovative lighting design and installations....

Achille Castiglioni, Italy 1918-2002 Anne Watson (added: 29/08/2006)
A champion of fresh ideas and material research, Achille Castiglioni took familiar shapes and transformed them into some of today's most sought after design icons....

Richard Bartholomew Smith (added: 29/08/2006)
Sydney clockmaker Richard Bartholomew Smith is principally associated with the 1:5 scale model of the Strasbourg Cathedral Clock, held in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum Sydney, Australia....

A product with heart Angelique Hutchison (added: 22/08/2006)
Sydney-based engineer, John Woodward, has developed a revolutionary new implantable heart pump that gives a bad heart the chance to rest and recover....

Breville & Alex Liddy (Housewares International) (added: 10/08/2006)
The Breville and Alex Liddy brands are owned by the Australian company Housewares International. Breville was founded in Melbourne in 1932 and for over 40 years has been researching and developing new appliances. ...

Disappearing act Nicole Bearman (added: 09/08/2006)
Why is there a growing trend for furniture we can see through? Are we just being ironic, or is this clearly a design revolution?...

Alvar Aalto (added: 07/08/2006)
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Design Resource (added: 07/08/2006)
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