Experience the future of design and manufacturing technology at Out of Hand: Materialising the Digital, an exhibition exclusive to the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, curated by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) and the Museum of Arts and Design, New York (MAD). Opening on 3 September 2016, this cutting-edge exhibition…
Spanning five centuries and presented by the State Library of NSW, upcoming exhibition, Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens, will explore the ideas, influences and inspirations that have shaped our gardening culture — bringing together highlights from the State Library’s collection. Curator and garden historian, Richard Aitken, has trawled through the State Library’s extensive…
Design Tasmania is set to open Resolved: Journeys in Australian Design on July 1, 2016. The exhibition is presented by Object: Australian Design Centre in collaboration with Workshopped, a design organisation nurturing and supporting designers in bringing their products to the marketplace. This major design exhibition showcases the winning designs…
Professor Rob Adams AM, Director of City Design and Projects at the City of Melbourne will discuss the art of urban choreography, and how good design has been key to Melbourne’s urban development, in a public lecture at ACCA on 20 June, 2016. In this lecture, part of ACCA’s ongoing…
A re-evaluation of a seminal work on urban density is examined by MSD scholars, practitioners and students, generating surprising connections and insights about Melbourne and its urban development, the graphic representation of information and relationships, and the social dimension of urban policy. In the 1990s The University of Melbourne was…
Open House Melbourne is opening the doors to more buildings across Melbourne than ever before. The Open House Melbourne Weekend takes place on 30 and 31 July this year and offers an expanded footprint beyond the central city and into metropolitan Melbourne. In addition to the weekend, Open House Melbourne…
Founded in 2010, the new Authentic Design Alliance (ADA) program launches on May 28 as an education platform supporting original design. With their industry partners – collectively they aim for better IP protection for designers, advocating for greater awareness about how fake designs damage the future of our creative industries….
Australia is one of the most urbanised nations on the planet, with over 80% of people living in cities. Urban resilience is a massive challenge. Today’s under-35s, Gen Y and Z, are disproportionately disadvantaged by rapid urban growth – from housing affordability to poor transport connectivity, lack of or privatisation…
Finders Keepers design market returns to sunny Brisbane this 2nd and 3rd July. Presenting another carefully curated line-up at The Old Museum in Bowen Hills, you can head straight from the poll booths to the Finders Keepers markets to catch Australian designers on their rise to fame. Consistently presenting a…
Catalan designer Martí Guixé, acclaimed as the ‘father of food design’, will present his first major Australian exhibition Fake Food Park: Martí Guixé for Kids at NGV International from 11 June 2016. Guixé, who is renowned for his playful and experimental approach to food and its design, has previously developed…
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