Fashioning Now looks at ways in which clothing is produced, used and discarded. Through a dynamic array of fashion garments, textile objects, photography, illustration and time-base media, Fashioning Now highlights the diversity of sustainable options being explored by designers, researchers and manufacturers, while predicting possible scenarios for a future fashion industry. (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…)
The beating heart of Sydney Design 09, this unique creative platform and temporary restaurant explores sustainable practice in design. It’s a place to meet; it’s a specially-designed and built venue inside the Museum for talks, events, products, ideas as well as a cup of coffee or a delicious meal.
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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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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Like to play somebody you couldn’t possibly be in the real world? Create an alternative personality or persona? Become your own alter ego? This exhibition invites designers across various disciplines to create an alter ego as a means to push boundaries, explore ideas and create works that they may never have dared to if they were creating as “themselves”.
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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…)
An exhibition of contemporary rugs designed by the third year Textile Design student finalists from the University of NSW’s College of Fine Arts for the 2009 Rug Up design competition. These outstanding pieces were manufactured in collaboration with Designer Rugs.
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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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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…)
A powerful juxtaposition of colour and patterns, this display showcases over 40 Macedonian aprons from the Illawarra region, traditionally used for weddings, other special occasions and everyday use. The design of the aprons will be highlighted alongside historic images and women’s stories.
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Featuring a range of classic plastic designs by 20 international designers that include Ron Arad, Denis Satachiara, Christophe Pillet, Tokujin Yoshioka, Alberto Meda and Roldolfo Dordino Form Function Fabulous is a retrospective look at the last ten years of plastic design.
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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…)
Cueva and Pagan create wearable forms in silver and gold inspired by man-made architectural structures. (more…)
Along with completed contemporary furniture and objects in a workshop environment, see works in progress and take the opportunity to speak to designer/makers about their influences and methods. Splinter Workshop – Design in Action in an experiential event that connects visitors with the designers, makers, design process, the craft, materials and the completed pieces.
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