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. ...

Ties with tradition: Macedonian apron designs Lindie Ward, Curator, Design and Society, Powerhouse Museum (added: 07/09/2009)
A dazzling array of handwoven Macedonian aprons from the Ohrid, Bitola and surrounding areas are currently on show at the Powerhouse Museum. Curator Lindie Ward gives some background to the project....

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....

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....

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. ...

Unique Inspiration Cate Brown (added: 15/04/2009)
A discussion of the Westfield Style Pasifika Award with particular reference to Tallulah Filloy and traditional Maori culture....

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

Peter Day talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 16/03/2009)
Peter Day opens the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 30 March 2007 with his talk, 'The heartbeat economy: surviving in a global world'....

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

Electronic swatchbook (added: 12/12/2008)
Use this swatchbook of fabrics as part of your design project....

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. ...

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....

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....

4th Australian Poster Annual - entries now open (added: 26/05/2008)
The National Design Centre invites designers everywhere to participate in the 4th Australian Poster Annual....

Call for entries - Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize (added: 26/05/2008)
The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize is calling for artists to enter their work for a chance to win a total of $13,000 in prize money....

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....

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....

Florence Broadhurst Philippa Rossiter, Reference Librarian, Research Library, Powerhouse Museum (added: 22/11/2007)
A short biography of her lives....

Florence Broadhurst’s fabulous foils Anne-Marie Van de Ven, curator, visual communication design and photography, Powerhouse Museum (added: 09/11/2007)
Anne-Marie Van de Ven writes about the extraordinary output of Florence Broadhurst Wallpapers and the Broadhurst collection at the Powerhouse Museum....

Douglas Annand Gabrielle Eade (added: 05/11/2007)
Douglas Annand (1903 - 1976) was an Australian artist and designer who made his mark during the mid-20th century. Although he was predominantly known for his graphic art and design skills, Annand also worked prolifically using a broad range of techniques and media, including metal, glass, watercolour, sculpture and textiles. ...

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. ...

Prue Venables Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Each way of working … stimulates the other.’...

Höglund Art Glass Harry Richardson (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Handmade classics for the future …’, Marie Simberg-Höglund, 2006...

Gaffer Coloured Glass Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘It must be possible to make glass from scratch.’, John Croucher, 1993 ...

Ann Robinson Eva Czernis-Ryl (added: 03/09/2007)
‘A design can mature with each casting.’...

Edols and Elliot Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Repetition … is like a musician playing scales.’, Benjamin Edols, 2006 ...

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

Ernabella Arts Inc. Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Tradition to the market place …’ ...

Marian Hosking Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Extending possibilities that industry offers …’...

Jennifer Robertson Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Mixing skills and traditions … ’...

Gilbert Riedelbauch Grace Cochrane (added: 03/09/2007)
‘The CAD program is an extension to my workshop.’...

Fieldmark Hilary Pedersen (added: 03/09/2007)
‘This is where wool ought to be.’...

Vivienne Jablonski Rigel Sorzano (added: 03/09/2007)
‘Fabric is pattern, from structure to surface.’ ...

From here to Eternity Anne-Marie Van de Ven, curator, visual communication design and photography, Powerhouse Museum (added: 14/08/2007)
Contemporary tapestries from the Victorian Tapestry Workshop ...

Professor Kerstin Wickman talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 14/08/2007)
Professor Kerstin Wickman presents her talk, 'Scandinavian design is not what it used to be: new directions', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007. ...

Pamille Berg talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 10/08/2007)
Pamille Berg presents her talk, 'Indigenous artists and project-specific interior design for rug commissions' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007....

Geoff Crispin talk at 'Smartworks: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 10/08/2007)
Geoff Crispin presents his talk, 'Ceramics: towards sustainability - letting go and the development of ownership' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007....

Marc Harrison talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 10/08/2007)
Marc Harrison presents his talk, 'From waste to want? Sustainable design: recycled materials, macadamia shell' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007. ...

Elke Kramer in True Design: a digital storytelling project Emily Howes (added: 08/08/2007)
Elke Kramer’s creative practice defies pigeon-holing, wandering as it does between jewellery design, illustration, art direction, textile design, clothing, graphics, multimedia, merchandising, concept engineering and anything else she concocts or comes across. ...

Professor Xing Ruan talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Professor Xing Ruan presents his talk, 'Ephemeral China/handmade China' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 30 March 2007....

Rob Bamford talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Rod Bamford presents his talk, 'Lost in translation: designed and made across cultures' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 30 March 2007....

Jonathan Baskett talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Jonathan Baskett presents his talk, 'Glass: design in Australia, making in Mexico and beyond' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 30 March 2007....

Dr Filiippo Chiesa talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Dr Filippo Chiesa presents his talk, 'Italian crafts industries face global competition', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 31 March 20007....

Rebecca Eggleston talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Rebecca Eggleston presents her talk, 'A balance between craftsperson and entrepreneur', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007....

Oliver Smith talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Oliver Smith presents his talk, 'The best of craft and industry: developing a multi-layered silversmithing and design practice, at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007....

Janet DeBoos talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Janet DeBoos presents her talk, 'Design meaning making: making meaning design', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007....

John Croucher talk at the 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
John Croucher presents his talk, 'From artist to industry: making glass for artists', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 30 March 2007. ...

Alex Lotersztain talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Alex Lotersztain presents his talk, 'Working between global manufacturing and encouraging village industries', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 31 March 2007....

Nick Mount talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Nick Mount presents his talk, 'Glass: solo studios, team workshops and the future', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007. ...

Georgia Chapman talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Georgia Chapman presents her talk, 'Designing and producing original fabrics: changing technologies' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 31 March 2007. ...

Blanche Tilden and Phoebe Porter talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Blanche Tilden and Phoebe Porter of Studio Hacienda present their talk, 'Jewellery: industry as inspiration - making, mentorship, collaboration' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney on 31 March 2007. ...

Gilbert Riedelbauch talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Gilbert Riedelbauch presents his talk, 'The lure of new technologies', at the 'Smart works' symposium, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 31 March 2007. ...

Jill Kinnear talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Jill Kinnear presents her talk, 'Design, diversity and digital printing: the journey of a textile practice from beginnings to baggage X-rays', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 31 March 2007. ...

Brian Tunks talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Brian Tunks, presents his talk 'Ceramic tableware: local employment; global market' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 31 March 2007. ...

Catrina Vignando talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Catrina Vignando presents her talk, 'The role of Australian contemporary craft and design within a paradigm of creative industries', at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, on 1 April 2007. ...

Douglas Lloyd Jenkins talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Douglas Lloyd Jenkins presents his talk, 'New Zealand Design and the secret history of Middle Earth' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 1 April 2007....

Miranda Brown talk at 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium (added: 06/08/2007)
Miranda Brown presents her talk, 'Vision and values: keeping the handmade alive' at the 'Smart works' symposium at the Powerhouse Museum on 1 April 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....

Oliver Smith (added: 25/07/2007)
‘We researched by actually doing it’...

Liz Williamson (added: 25/07/2007)
‘Exploring surface through structure …’...

Jonathan Baskett (added: 25/07/2007)
‘Based on trust and professional communication …’...

Janet DeBoos Grace Cochrane (added: 25/07/2007)
‘I now know that I am thrilled by repetition.’...

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....

Caravana (added: 14/05/2007)
‘Women who were silent transformed into strong characters’ (Cathy Braid and Kirsten Ainsworth, 2006)...

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. ...

Anders Ousback Grace Cochrane (added: 01/05/2007)
Anders Ousback (1951-2004) was an admired restaurateur and potter who gave generously to both fields. He appreciated the age-old connection between food and pottery vessels and said that 'pottery and cookery are the most ancient crafts still practiced in our modern world'....

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. ...

The power and pleasure of objects (added: 26/03/2007)
Over 800 objects from the Powerhouse Museum's extensive decorative arts and design collection are on display in the exhibition 'Inspired! Design across time'. ...

Jon Goulder (added: 25/03/2007)
See the work of Jon Goulder in the new exhibition Smart works: design and the handmade. ...

Akira Isogawa (added: 23/03/2007)
‘I love the way Akira responds to the abstraction of dance’ (Graeme Murphy, Sydney Dance Company) ...

Jill Kinnear (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Emigration has defined my life'...

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

Studio Hacienda (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Making jewellery that means something …’ (Blanche Tilden and Phoebe Porter, 2006) ...

Donna Marcus (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Doing the most with the least…' (Donna Marcus, 2006, quoting Buckminster Fuller on geodesic domes, 1940s) ...

Marc Harrison (added: 23/03/2007)
‘Husque … a unique manufacturing identity’...

Bison Australia (added: 23/03/2007)
‘A successful business, almost by mistake …’...

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....

Caravana Christina Sumner, Curator Decorative Arts and Design, Powerhouse Museum (added: 01/02/2007)
The fashion label Caravana is a highlight in the forthcoming 'Smart works: design and the handmade' symposium, exhibition and book....

Co[ ]ect (added: 22/01/2007)
Australian Contemporary prepares to take the work of four outstanding craft practitioners to London in February 2007....

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....

Craftivity: 40 projects for the DIY lifestyle Lily Katakouzinos (added: 10/01/2007)
Tap into the heart of your creativity with this fun collection of crafty projects compiled by Tsia Carson, founder of supernaturale.com...

The cutting edge: fashion from Japan Louise Mitchell, Curator, International Decorative Arts and Design (added: 09/01/2007)
Radical and conceptual, challenging and uncompromising, functional and sometimes incomprehensible, fashion from Japan demands attention....

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

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....

Textile treasure trove (added: 29/11/2006)
The museum's collection of fashion swatchbooks available online....

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

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

COFA Online - Enrich (added: 06/11/2006)
Courses in art and design online....

A short history of typography Charlotte Fish (added: 20/09/2006)
Like any other creative pursuit, the design of letterforms is determined by the prevailing cultural climate and thus in a state of constant flux. Typography now functions as a kind of weathervane for the zeitgeist, with typographic analysis a leading design issue. Indeed, as designers have sought to express themselves and define their time, type has increasingly come to ha...

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