Make the most of Sydney Design 09 with a Festival Pass.
SYDNEY DESIGN 09 FESTIVAL PASS ($16)
Visit the Powerhouse Museum as many times as you would like during the Festival, including entry to the late night event, Play Late, on 7 August and Young Blood: Designers Markets on 14 and 15 August 2009. (more…)
Artefact H10515 is a life form that lives in a large display case. It moves, it breathes and it feeds on digital sources within and beyond the walls of the museum. Artefact H10515 is the creation of Craig Walsh, a leading Australian media artist with an international reputation for creating innovative and thought-provoking work. (more…)
See the Powerhouse Museum’s selection from this year’s finalists in the Australian International Design Awards. This year designs are as diverse as a battery-heated wetsuit, foldable commuter bike, sleep disorder testing device and transportable sink.
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A five-day closely directed learning experience, focusing students on applying the techniques and skills necessary to design and make one pair of custom shoes. The course covers pattern making/design, cutting clicking patterns and leather, upper stitching, lasting and finishing. All the steps required for making your own custom shoe.
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Showcasing a stellar range of Australian furniture, lighting and product design conceived by emerging young designers, Workshopped 09 focuses on the work of designers that are ‘creating the future, inspiring, enhancing and making a difference’.
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The word “sustainability” is in danger of losing its tangible value and status as a universal catch-cry from chronic over use. Sustain me: contemporary design explores the conventional role design and designers play in creating and developing a deeper understanding of sustainability. (more…)
Glenn Murcutt’s groundbreaking designs are internationally recognised as being at the very forefront of contemporary architecture. His work is celebrated for its sustainability, harmony with the natural world, and resonance and unity with Australia’s diverse climate and topography.
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An exhibition of final-year Enmore Design Centre work highlighting the innovative and sustainable design solutions of signage. Students were asked to produce designs using non-renewable resources that were found, recycled or included the transformation of raw material (more…)
The Interactivation Studio is a research laboratory for the design, investigation, invention and development of new ways of interacting with electronic technology. It is a flexible infrastructure which can be rearranged to suit a number of uses – from workshop, class room, test lab, exhibition space (more…)
Immerse yourself in the inspiring world of some of Australia’s most innovative and cutting edge designers and makers on this tour of Sydney’s burgeoning design culture. Discover innovative furniture, ceramics, glass, jewellery and interior design; meet artists, curators and retailers and experience Surry Hills’ cafes and galleries.
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Via hand and machine knitting (re) skin: contemporary knitting explores and questions the concept of contemporary knitting as fashion or art, and interrogates the notion of “deconstruction” by looking past the traditional knitted coverings for the body.
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In association with the Fink: Fostering Design exhibition six designers/ design entrepreneurs have 10 minutes each to give a rapid-fire illustrated talk about their experiences of manufacturing and marketing in Australia. The talks will be followed by an open discussion and drinks in the gallery. (more…)
A retrospective exhibition of some of the most outstanding and endearing products developed by celebrated Australian design company FINK + Co. Established in 1994 by Robert Foster, the company has played a critical role in promoting Australian design and nurturing Australian designers. (more…)
Untouchable presents the work of staff from the Object Art and Design Studios of Sydney College of the Arts. It showcases the artists’ diverse approaches. As for its tongue-in-cheek title: What else do you call an exhibition to accompany Unwearable and Unbearable?
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Unbearable challenges assumptions that art objects should be tasteful, aesthetically pleasing, understandable, accessible and physically manageable. The works ask you to address these expectations and consider other possibilities.
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Why would a jeweller choose such a confrontational title for an exhibition of work from the last 15 years as Unwearable? It’s a provocation. Those familiar with New Zealand’s Lisa Walker’s work won’t be surprised. The very best jewellery in her exhibition aggressively challenges us on a material, conceptual and practical level. Curated by Damian Skinner.
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Transclimatic demonstrates how climate change drives us to address new objectives: explore new places, set new design strategies, use new techniques or develop new technologies via a multi‐disciplinary design exhibition. It showcases selected works of emerging or established artists, design practices and architects worldwide.
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Digital modelling and digital fabrication are wonderful things but how toxic are 3D printers and how much gas is given off while laser cutting a piece of plywood? What are the environmental impacts of these Ultra_Fab tectonics? University of Sydney architecture staff and students demonstrate the creative potential – and the impact – of digital fabrication at the Ultra_Fab pavilion.
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Self-described as that “tasty something more”, Extra Cheeese is an innovative collective aimed at breaking down the distinctions between artists and designers. It’s a community where ideas and practices are shared and the similarities and differences between the two creative disciplines are celebrated and appreciated rather than find themselves divided into two separate camps. (more…)
Peta Kruger’s works re-imagine the past as a grander more complicated version of what might have been.
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Design + Wood 2009 features the work of established and emerging designer/makers who focus on contemporary design while retaining the tradition of workshop-based production. It showcases the beauty and diversity of Australian native timbers and is a rare opportunity to view handcrafted studio furniture seldom exhibited outside specialist and studio galleries.
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An invitational exhibition of teapots of every persuasion – from the exquisite and the elegant, to the functional and the purely decorative, to the whimsical and the bizarre – The Sydney Teapot Show has been held for around 20 years at The Inner City Clayworkers Gallery in Glebe and showcases local, interstate and the occasional international design.
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See the very best budding product design talent in the country – finalists in the highly-competitive Launch Pad program. Launch Pad is designed to foster relationships between emerging Australian designers and industry professionals. It aims to help develop early stage prototypes into market-ready products. Finalists are selected by an elite international panel of design industry professionals. The two-week exhibition culminates at Saturday in Design, an event attracting over 7000 design professionals.
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Coloured Bodies is an extraordinary exhibition of abstract geometric paintings and digital prints that symbolically depict human DNA – the blueprint for life. Judith Duquemin’s work is algorithmic reconstructions of red, yellow, blue and green striped colour fields to represent Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine – the constituents of DNA.
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Exploring the domestic and the mundane and discovering the fantastic, Domestic Abyss takes life’s everyday rituals and questions and illuminates them via a diverse and accomplished group of artists. Alexandra Chambers was a finalist in Ranamok Glass Prize; Ellen Kent – finding inspiration during an internship in Indonesia – draws on cultural difference and exchange and Laura Stekovic pushes the boundaries of the psychological with her digital art, printmaking, photomedia and public art.
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We’re in the middle of the biggest resurgence in knitting since the 1970s. In Denmark they knitted a tank, in Mexico they knitted a bus and in Sydney guerrilla knitter Denise Litchfield has organised that Taylor Square’s historic public amenities be covered in knitted pieces. (more…)
EyeSaw is an exhibition by graphic designers about graphic design. It’s a visual feast of ideas calculated to bring the discipline of graphic design into sharp relief. The exhibition’s mantra is the designer’s desire to explain to a world – where visual communication in myriad forms is omnipresent – precisely what it is they do and what its benefits are.
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The Curtain Gown is a signature work by Melbourne fashion phenomenon MATERIALBYPRODUCT. Blurring the boundary between fashion and interior design it has been critically acclaimed and widely publicised both here and overseas. (more…)
Two of the hottest names in Japanese architecture, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will give a first-hand glimpse of their architectural aesthetic with their architectural intervention at the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation. (more…)
An exhibition of the 2009 winners of the prestigious NSW Architecture Awards at Sydney’s Centre for Architecture, Potts Point. The exhibition includes winners in the coveted Sulman and Wilkinson Awards – the highest accolades for public and residential architecture in NSW. (more…)
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