Photographer Steven Siewert has spent years documenting Sydney’s rockabillies, a vibrant subculture who live and breathe an era that predates their earliest birthdays. The boys dress for cool with stovepipe jeans and slick quiffs, while the women wear dazzling cocktail frocks by night and colourful vintage dresses by day. more

The most outstanding examples of the latest Australian design and innovation from the 2008 Australian International Design Awards are now on display. The Powerhouse Museum’s annual selection from the finalists include a personal tracking device for skiers and snowboarders, a communications device for firefighters, an electronic earplug for communication in loud environments, and a selection of models from the Australian Design Awards – Dyson Student Awards. more

While Modernism appears old, if not antique, why does it still command a powerful influence on 21st century culture, despite many efforts to herald its demise? Designers, architects and art historians will address this conundrum through first-hand narratives, films and research on inter-disciplinary projects. more

Discover how modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967. Modern times looks to the city and its skyscrapers, cafes and swimming pools, where modernist ideals of functionalism, internationalism and the healthy body profoundly reshaped Australian culture. more

There’s a hole in my bucket invites 20 local designers and 80 members of the public to put their bucket where their mouth is and photograph a part of Sydney, or a part of their everyday lives, that they consider to be badly designed; and every image must contain the ubiquitous yellow bucket. more

Curated monthly by A&E Metal Merchants, this showcase in the Powerhouse Museum shop brings to light recent work by contemporary jewellers. For Sydney Design 08, A&E has handed the reigns to jewellery students at Sydney College of the Arts. more

An annual exhibition of work by Sydney College of the Arts, Object Art & Design students, from undergraduate to postgraduate research candidates. This year’s theme goes local, asking participants to respond to the term ‘u-beaut’ and the idea of an Australian vernacular. more

Ceramic artists from Australia and New Zealand are invited to participate in this annual exhibition, competition and homage to a universally-loved vessel. Rarely will you see so many interpretations of a single, utilitarian object. more

A showcase of the breadth of talent across undergraduate design programs at the University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, including architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, landscape architecture and planning. From the large scale to the domestic, Platform depicts the future as seen by young professionals working in Australia and overseas. more

This exhibition explores the work of eight contemporary fashion designers, who not only create new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes, they also develop entirely new design systems. Featuring work by Simon Cooper, Paula Dunlop, Ess. Laboratory (Hoshika Oshimi and Tatsuyoshi Kawabata), FORMALLYKNOWNAS (Toby Whittington), Anthea van Kopplen, MATERIALBYPRODUCT (Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald), Project (Kara Baker and Shelley Lasica) and S!X (Denise Sprynskij and Peter Boyd). more

An exhibition featuring seven contemporary jewellers whose work is at times experimental, confrontational and non-functional. Alice Lang, Tiffany Parbs, Julia de Ville, Leah Heiss, Chelsea Gough, Gabby O’Conner and Melinda Young rebuild, recreate, restore, renovate, remake, reassemble, refashion and re-enact to create works that transcend convention and the body, and take the notion of jewellery to a new level of understanding. more

A group of local designers were invited to create new work for this in-store exhibition at Beautiful on the inside in response to the brief: design an object for a time capsule; a piece representative of design today or simply worthy of being immortalised. The designers are Henry Wilson, Matthew Conway, Arthur Koutoulas, Babak Aryaei, Keith Melbourne, Christopher Earl Milbourne, and Lana Alsamir-Diamond. more