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EAT GREEN DESIGN 12 AUGUST 2009

kathleene — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:56:41 +0000

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

Dinner, 6pm (bookings essential): IMPORTANCE OF CREATIVE THINKING Liane Rossler, Co-founder, designer and director Dinosaur Designs; Phil Stubbs, Producer The Environment Show; Dave Gravina, Director Digital Eskimo; John Eusson, Director Eusson Consulting (MC).

Daily Designer, 12.00pm (free with Museum admission): Cindy Lee-Davies, Kate Mitchell and Katherine Brickman.

MORE ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Liane Rossler is a co-founder, designer and director of Dinosaur Designs, which began in 1985. While the design house operates locally, it also exports worldwide. Supporting environmentally sustainable initiatives, Dinosaur Designs takes responsibility for their environmental footprint. Rossler has been trained by Al Gore as a Climate Project ambassador, and gives talks to the design and architecture community. She’s also a co-founder of the Sydney-based social group, GreenUps, and an ambassador for the 1 Million Women campaign.

Phil Stubbs is an environmental journalist, airing stories on radio 2SER and producing The Environment Show podcast which launched in 2008. The other hat Stubbs wears is as a lecturer in media, working in the School of Communication Arts at the University of Western Sydney. Here, his research and consultancy work is in the use of new media to promote sustainable development. He is one of the founding committee members of GreenUps, a leading green social network based in Sydney.

David Gravina is the founder and creative director of Digital Eskimo. He established this agency in 2001 to create social change using sustainability principles along with the power of design and digital technologies. The agency has developed design strategies for companies as large as Telstra Bigpond and as small as independent media outlets such as newmatilda.com. Highlights have included award-winning campaigns for Your Rights at Work, and projects for Amnesty International and the Sydney Symphony.

John Eussen has been a leader in the textiles and interiors industry for more than 20 years, specialising in sustainable and environmentally friendly decor. He worked in high-profile management roles before leaving the corporate world to pursue his penchant for interiors. His passion for a sustainable future has since led him into a raft of inspired roles, from being an Al Gore Ambassador for the Climate Change Project to working as a consultant for global sustainability conferences.

Cindy-Lee Davies is the designer behind Melbourne-based design house, Lightly, which opened in 2005. Now consisting of over 70 products, Davies takes inspiration from romance, nostalgia and domesticity. Lightly ranges include lace- and doily-inspired bowls, a chandelier made from prismatic plastic, and Chrysalis butterflies made from recycled saucers and crockery. Lightly also has a sustainable range called dEco, which consists of recycled cork tableware and the Paperback storage unit made from recycled cardboard.

Greedy Hen is an art collective and studio, housing the collaborative works of illustrators and art directors Katherine Brickman and Kate Mitchell. Greedy Hen devises projects intent on creating images alluding to a playful black humour, unwritten fables, or off-kilter sinister elements. Clients include Advanced Alternative Media Promo in New York, Frankie and Russh magazines and Third Drawer Down, as well as exhibiting works in Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art and the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

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MORE ABOUT EAT GREEN DESIGN

POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
BREAKFAST: $66 PER PERSON
DINNER (INCLUDES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES): $110 PER PERSON
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

EAT GREEN DESIGN DAILY DESIGNER TALKS

kathleene — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:39:26 +0000

Hear inspiring designers speak each day at Eat Green Design, a unique creative platform and restaurant inside the Powerhouse. Daily designer talks are FREE with Museum admission, no bookings required.

Saturday 1 August, 2.30pm free with Museum admission: David Trubridge, furniture and lighting designer.

Sunday 2 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Eckard Kemmerer, Executive Director, Apogee International and Paula Rogers, Managing Director The Fair-trading Company.

Monday 3 August 2009, 12pm free with Museum admission: Arthur Koutoulas, Director Arthur Koutoulas Design.

Tuesday 4 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Nicholas Karlovasitis and Sarah Gibson, Creative Directors Design By Then.

Wednesday 5 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Richard Francis-Jones, fjmt.

Thursday 6 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Claire Morris, Creative Director Apple and Bee.

Friday 7 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Michael Alvisse and Mark Schamburg, Directors Schamburg and Alvisse.

Saturday 8 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Oliver Smith, silversmith and designer.

Sunday 9 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Tom Barker, Unversity of Technology Sydney.

Monday 10 August 2009, 12pm, free with Museum admission: Julie Paterson, Design Director Cloth Fabrics.

Tuesday 11 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Kent Gration, Director/ designer Wambamboo.

Wednesday 12 August 2009, 2pm, free with Museum admission: Cindy-Lee Davies, Director Lightly; Kate Mitchell and Katherine Brickman, Directors Greedy Hen.

For more information visit www.eatgreendesign.com

1–12 AUGUST 2009
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
DAILY DESIGNER TALKS ARE FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION
BREAKFAST: $66 PER PERSON
DINNER (INCLUDES ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES): $110 PER PERSON
BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR BREAKFASTS AND DINNERS

FASHIONING NOW: CHANGING THE WAY WE MAKE AND USE CLOTHES

Robert Swieca — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:50:15 +0000

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.

Curated by Alison Gwilt and Timo Rissanen from University of Technology Sydney including Romance was Born, Alex Martin, Jennifer Shellard, Bijan Sheikhlary, Helen Storey, Issey Miyake (garment loaned by Dr Gene Sherman), The Perfect T-shirt and The Local Wisdom project by Dr Kate Fletcher

28 JULY-28 AUGUST 2009, MON-FRI 12NOON-6.00pm
UTS GALLERY, LEVEL 4, 702 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE ADMISSION

FESTIVAL PASS

kathleene — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:34:14 +0000

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.
Includes:
• Unlimited general Powerhouse Museum admission (1–16 August)
• Entry to Play Late (6–9pm, 7 August)
• Entry to Young Blood: Designers Markets (6–9pm, 14 August & 10am–5pm, 15 August)

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ARTEFACT H10515

belindah — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:52:04 +0000

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. Walsh’s artificial life form is designed to disrupt and expand our expectations of a museum – as well evoke intrigue, contemplation and delight.
OPENING IN AUGUST
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS

belindah — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:55:14 +0000

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.

The Australian International Design Awards are an important measure of design innovation in this country and proof that a better solution emerges when you apply a stringent design process.

FROM 1 AUGUST 2009, 10.00am – 5.00pm
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION

INTENSIVE SHOEMAKING COURSE

belindah — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 00:13:13 +0000

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.

3-7 and 10-14 August 2009, 10.00am-4.00pm
ANDREW MCDONALD SHOEMAKERS
58 WILLIAM STREET
PADDINGTON
COST: $2200 (LIMITED TO 1 PARTICIPANT PER CLASS)
BOOKINGS: 02 9358 6793
WWW.ANDREWMCDONALD.COM.AU

WORKSHOPPED 09

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:35:14 +0000

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’.

Established in 2001, Workshopped remains committed to assisting designers in the difficult process of taking a new product design from prototype to production and maintaining successful commercial relationships with industry and the marketplace. Designers exhibiting at WORKSHOPPED 09 include Tomek Archer, Charles Wilson, Gary Galego, David Knott and collaborators Ueno Fukutoshi and Akira Isogawa.

5–15 AUGUST 2009, MON – FRI 9.30am – 6.00pm, SAT 9.30am – 4pm
CHIFLEY PLAZA
29/2 CHIFLEY SQUARE, SYDNEY
FREE ADMISSION
WORKSHOPPED.COM.AU

SUSTAIN ME: CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:35:11 +0000

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. Exhibitors include David Trubridge, Green Life 21 project (designs by Yoshikazu Hasegawa and Prue Venerables), Elliat Rich Steven Harrison, Luisa Cevese: RIEDIZIONI, Instyle Contract Textiles, Mark Vaarwerk, Andrew Maynard Architects and Julie Paterson: clothfabric.

30 JULY- 22 AUGUST 2009, 10am to 5.00pm (CLOSED SUNDAYS)
IVAN DOUGHERTY GALLERY
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF NSW
CNR OF SELWYN STREET AND ALBION AVENUE
PADDINGTON

CULTURAL DESIGN: DAVID TRUBRIDGE
New Zealand designer David Trubridge addresses how ecodesign (however worthy) is not enough unless it also addresses some form of cultural/spiritual nourishment. Says Trubridge: “Design is looking for new meaning and relevance. In the past all cultures were defined and expressed by their artifacts and art… we too could find cultural and spiritual nourishment from long lasting objects and this may reduce the never-fulfilled craving for consumer goods.”

1 AUGUST, 12 noon
COFA LECTURE THEATRE, EG02
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
GREENS ROAD
PADDINGTON

MATT HUYNH, COMIC CREATOR AND ILLUSTRATOR

belindah — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:19:49 +0000

Matt Huynh shares some of the lessons learnt and inspiration taken from being exposed to some of his greatest artistic influences in the comic world. He will talk about how this experience is shaping his future aspirations for a local comics identity, readership and authorship. Matt Huynh was recipient of the 2008 Design NSW Travelling Scholarhip. Matt used the scholarship to take an intensive creative retreat in Britain and in New York where he was an intern under illustrator Jillian Tamaki, teachers Jessica Abel and Matt Madden and publishers RAW Books where he attended studio visits by some of contemporary comics most exciting innovators.

12 AUGUST 2009, 12.30pm-1.15pm
POWERHOUSE MUSEUM
500 HARRIS STREET, ULTIMO
FREE WITH MUSEUM ADMISSION