Sydney Design Festival 2009 - August 1 to 16, 2009

2010 PROGRAM AND WEBSITE COMING SOON!

kathleene — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:55:03 +0000

We are hard at work on the Sydney Design 2010 program and website, and both will be online by the end of June.

Now in its 14th year, Sydney Design’s dynamic city-wide program in 2010 is packed with more than 70 events and activities, exploring the theme ‘tell us a story’. Hear talks, go on tours and enrol in workshops as well as:

See a stunning fashion photography exhibition Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography, and the inspiring 2010 Australian International Design Awards exhibition.
Browse Young Blood: Designer Markets and designboom mart on Friday 13, Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 August.
For the first time, join a fun weekend of design-related activities for children and families on Saturday 31 July and Sunday 1 August.

SHOWCASE YOUR DESIGNS AT YOUNG BLOOD

kathleene — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:32:01 +0000

Applications are now open for designers to showcase their products at the popular Young Blood: Designers Market (13, 14 and 15 August 2010). Young Blood is a great launch pad, offering designers a high profile, respected platform to promote and sell their products and services. Young Blood was launched in 2005 during Sydney Design festival and has since grown into a regular, curated event that is part of the museum’s commitment to foster and promote Australian design. Being selected for the market gives stallholders access to industry, media and commercial contacts, as well as thousands of design-savvy shoppers.Young Blood: Designers Markets will be a highlight of Sydney Design 2010.

Applications close on 30 June 2010, apply now

SYDNEY DESIGN 2010

belindah — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 04:31:31 +0000

Sydney Design 2010
14th International Design Festival
31 July – 15 August

Now in its 14th year, Sydney Design’s dynamic city-wide program in 2010 is packed with more than 70 events and activities, exploring the theme ‘tell us a story’.

Subscribe in the box on the right and we’ll let you know when the full 2010 program is released!

A wealth of stories will be enjoyed in the Museum’s key festival exhibition titled Creating the look: Benini and fashion photography featuring Bruno and Hazel Benini’s elegantly crafted fashion photographs. The Melbourne-based fashion photographer and his wife combined careful styling, composition and design to create some of Australia’s most memorable fashion images.

Subscribe to the Sydney Design enews for more program announcements and festival news.

Young Blood Designers Market at Sydney Design

BOOST YOUR DESIGN CAREER

belindah — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:40:51 +0000

Entries are open for the 2010 Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship: a grant of $18,000.
The scholarship allows an emerging designer from NSW to take their career to the next level with a program of professional development overseas.

For more information or to apply, go to the Powerhouse Museum’s D’Hub dhub.org

Applications close 19 May 2010. APPLY NOW

Last year’s winner was jewellery and object designer Liesl Hazelton: “The Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship has provided me the platform to exhibit in New York; backstrap weave in the heart of Guatemala; compete in the 2009 Design Olympiad, Seoul; and connect with design pioneers in the United Kingdom. Opportunities otherwise unobtainable!” Read more about Liesl’s experience

The Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship is presented by the Powerhouse Museum and Arts NSW in partnership with the British Council.

CHRISTMAS SHOPPING IN STYLE AT YOUNG BLOOD

belindah — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:18:00 +0000

Start your Christmas shopping in style at Young Blood: Designers Market, now located in the new market area in the Museum’s lower courtyard, Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 November 2009, 10am – 5pm. Entry is $5 per person and includes Museum admission (free for Powerhouse members). 10am–5pm. Book now Find that perfect gift and buy directly from from designers around the country of original product, fashion, furniture, jewellery, graphic, landscape or lighting design. This market you can also get creative yourself with a hands-on workshop with guest designers. Tickets are on sale now!

28 NOVEMBER 2009, 10.00am–5.00pm
29 NOVEMBER 2009, 10.00am-5.00pm
COST: $5 (includes Museum admission) book online now
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO

Shop in style for Christmas at Young Blood

CONTRIBUTE TO FLICKR

kathleene — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:41 +0000

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An apology from the Powerhouse Museum

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:41:38 +0000

I want to offer an apology to the many people disappointed by the experience of visiting this year’s markets. On Friday night we experienced unprecedented numbers, far exceeding those of previous years. Whilst this says something exciting about interest in the work of our young designers, our capacity to respond fell well short of what visitors expect of the Powerhouse.

This in no way reflects on the stallholders and their products. The crowds in the market space did not allow for a pleasant experience, and it became necessary to turn visitors away in order to maintain a reasonable level of visitor safety. Whilst not excusing this, we had chosen this year to relocate the market indoors, and to also feature the new Artefact H10515 installation. The space allocated to the market proved inadequate, and our crowd control planning did not match the overwhelming response.

For this we offer our apologies. We are reviewing all aspects of our planning and presentation of the Young Blood event to ensure the Christmas market on 28 November has a range of quality products and is a satisfying experience for visitors.

Please consider completing our customer survey for Sydney Design 09.

Dawn Casey

MENU AT EAT GREEN DESIGN

kathleene — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:25:57 +0000

Meals at Eat Green Design are served on platters, at the communal 40-seat table, and are designed to be shared. The menu has been devised by Jared ingersoll of Danks Street Depot, and features seasonal and ethical produce.

BREAKFAST OR BRUNCH

> Slow cooked broccoli, creamed eggs, chives, goat’s fetta, parsley
> Polenta porridge, rhubarb compote, warm milk
> Winter fruits
> Sourdough toast and house made jam

Organic fruit juice
Freshly pressed coffee, selection of teas

DINNER

> Sourdough with Lakelands organic, biodynamic new season olive oil
> Seasonal baby vegetables with chopped lemon sauce
> Sauté of mushrooms with fetta finished with croutons
> Blood orange and fennel salad
> Spiced roasted duck with quince and roasted celeriac
> Radicchio salad with crispy onions, pecorino, parsley and vinegar
> Olive oil polenta cake with spiced cumquat and cream

Drinks include:
> DogRidge THE PUP Sauvignon blanc
> DogRidge THE PUP Shiraz
> Orange juice
> Sparkling mineral water
> Assorted soft drinks
> Freshly pressed coffee, selection of teas

BOOK ONLINE

MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

EAT GREEN DESIGN 9 AUGUST 2009

kathleene — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 06:26:15 +0000

Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.

Brunch, 9.30am (bookings essential): With Jared Ingersoll, Chef/Director Danks Street Depot, and Hannah Tribe, Director Tribe Studio Architects. Ingersoll devised the menu for Eat Green Design, and Tribe designed the temporary restaurant.

Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Tom Barker.

Jared Ingersoll trained as a chef in London at renowned restaurants such as Mezzo, Hilaire and The Square. After travelling to Sydney, he became head chef at Bayswater Brasserie and in 2002 opened his own cafe and cocktail bar, Danks Street Depot, in Waterloo. Later this year, Danks Street Depot will launch at the Sydney International Airport. Ingersoll is committed to ethical and sustainable food principles, representing the restaurant industry on the Nature Conservation Council’s ‘Nice Choice’ sustainable seafood project.

Hannah Tribe founded Tribe Studio in 2003, a Sydney-based architect firm, that designs beautiful houses, interiors, retail spaces and public buildings. Environmental sustainability is seamlessly integrated into the design process. Hannah Tribe studied architecture at Cornell University, USA, and Sydney University, graduating with First Class (Hons) and the University Medal. In 2008, the firm won the AA Award for Unbuilt Architecture for an urban design and residential masterplan scheme. Tribe is also a painter, exhibiting in Sydney.

Tom Barker spent more than 20 years in the UK working on world-acclaimed creative projects, including the London Eye ferris wheel, the sustainable Greenwich Millennium Village, and a Turner Prize shortlisted interactive artwork with Langlands & Bell. Qualified in design, architecture and engineering, he moved to Sydney in 2008 to help develop sustainable affordable housing. Barker is currently a professor at the University of Technology in Sydney and a visiting professor to RMIT University’s Design Institute in Melbourne.

BOOK TICKETS

MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

EAT GREEN DESIGN 2 AUGUST 2009

kathleene — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 05:09:03 +0000

Challenge your perceptions of sustainability through this unique creative platform and restaurant.

Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Eckhard Kemmerer and Paula Rogers.

Paula Rogers, Managing Director The Fair-trading Company, is a strong advocate of improved working conditions for overseas workers in developing countries. She has 25 years experience in international trade of consumer goods, servicing the USA, Europe and Australia markets. While worked in Hong Kong (1995 to 2003), Rogers managed the social compliance of 6,000 factories in over 80 countries worldwide, for some of the world’s largest international retailers. She sits on the Executive Board of the Fair Trade Association of Australia and New Zealand (FTAANZ).

Eckhard Kemmerer is a scientist and marketing executive with 20 years’ management experience in consumer and business products and services. He now runs the innovation consultancy, Apogee International, and has developed his LifeArt Enviroboard coffins. Manufactured using fibres recovered from recycled cardboard boxes and sugarcane waste, the coffins use cornstarch glue to make them strong and lightweight. “By using less material to make our product,” explains Kemmerer, “we have set the benchmark for emissions from cremations.”

MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION