3 February 2010 – Sydney Design 2010 is seeking event submissions to be part of the 14th international design festival program running 31 July to 15 August.
Organisations, groups, individuals and businesses engaged in design and the creative industries are invited to submit their expression of interest to be part of the program by 26 February. The festival invites submissions across a range of design disciplines and programs including exhibitions, workshops, talks, forums or symposiums, industry events, installations, interventions, digital and web projects, children’s programs, markets and competitions.
The Sydney Design 2010 festival program will stimulate and create conversation around design linked by the theme Tell us a story. This year’s festival pays homage to the diversity of stories that inform the work of so many designers.
“Human ingenuity and storytelling go hand-in-hand. Designers as storytellers is not a new idea – whether through complex layering or explicit narratives, stories inform the inspiration and the design process and offer opportunities for us to engage and interact with design on a more personal level,” says Lily Katakouzinos, Sydney Design Festival Manager.
A wealth of stories will be enjoyed in the Museum’s key festival exhibition titled Creating the look: fashion, fantasy, fiction 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.
Other festival highlights at the Powerhouse Museum this year will include the popular Young Blood: Designers Market, as well as local speakers and an international guest, tours and workshops.
Sydney Design program participants are invited to submit their events which explore different ways of telling a story, whether it fact or fiction, abstract or linear, or by using unexpected spaces, innovations in new media or creating new collaborations. Events and projects which are multi-disciplinary, participatory and use multi-platforms are highly encouraged.
All applications will be considered for an exciting, diverse and accessible festival.
For more information about the festival and to download the expression of interest application form, visit sydneydesign.com.au.
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Media contact:
Belinda Humphery, Media & Marketing, Powerhouse Museum
Tel: 02 9217 0551
Email: belindah@phm.gov.au
