Meet the mythmakers of the modern world at Sydney Opera House

July 26th, 2010 Posted by debbiemccalmont in Design Events | Post a Comment »

Celebrate all things graphic at the Opera House over the weekend of the 7th and 8th of August 2010. The GRAPHIC festival features a myriad of events including workshops, films, musical responses to graphic art and stories and a selection of the most exciting computer games from this year’s Sundance Festival for Games.

Highlights include Neil Gaiman reading aloud his previously unreleased story ‘The truth is a cave in the black mountains’, the showing of the the anime classic Akira, complete with a live rescore by Regurgitator and the screening of the winning entry for the GRAPHIC online animation competition.
For further details go to the Sydney Opera House Website

Library User Survey

July 22nd, 2010 Posted by brendall in Library Information | Post a Comment »

The Design Centre Enmore Library’s annual user survey is available online throughout this term. We would like to hear from staff as well as students. The survey will only take a few minutes of your time and will assist us in improving library services.
Just click on the link below:

Design Centre Enmore Library Survey

Sydney Design Festival 31 July to 15 Aug 2010

July 22nd, 2010 Posted by brendall in Design Events | Post a Comment »

This year’s Design Festival starts very soon and for a mere $20 you can buy a Sydney Design Pass which will allow you unlimited daytime access to the Powerhouse Museum events, including Young Blood: Designers Market, described as “a critical launchpad for Australia’s talented young designers”, as well as exhibitions and selected afternoon talks.

Second year Jewellery + Object Design students from Design Centre Enmore are co-ordinating a stall for the sale of new ranges of jewellery and objects, which have been created by selected 2009 graduates from the Advanced Diploma of Jewellery + Object Design.

The theme of the 14th Design Festival ‘Tell us a story’ acknowledges the link between individual stories and design inspiration and creation, its aim is to allow people to connect with design on a personal level.

Sign up for updates and make bookings at:
www.sydneydesign.com.au

Internet Archive Website

July 22nd, 2010 Posted by brendall in Useful Websites | Post a Comment »

The Internet Archive is located at www.archive.org and is a large freely available online library. Its purposes include offering permanent access for researchers, historians, scholars, people with disabilities, and the general public to historical collections that exist in digital format. The Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages , and provides specialized services for adaptive reading and information access for the blind and other persons with disabilities.
The Archive also includes a library which contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download. The Software Archive is designed to preserve and provide access to all kinds of rare or difficult to find, legally downloadable software titles and background information on those titles. The collection includes a broad range of software related materials including shareware, freeware, video news releases about software titles, speed runs of actual software game play, previews and promos for software games, high-score and skill replays of various game genres, and the art of filmmaking with real-time computer game engines.
The Internet Archive Text Archive contains a wide range of fiction, popular books, children’s books, historical texts and academic books.
Check out how honest you are with this instructional film from 1950:
http://www.archive.org/details/HowHones1950

Getty offers free web access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)

June 21st, 2010 Posted by brendall in New Database | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

The Bibliography of the History of Art is available free of charge on the Getty Web site at http://library.getty.edu/bha.

The database can be searched by subject, artist, author, article or journal title, and other parameters. It includes BHA (covering 1990-2007) and the International Bibliography of Art (IBA), covering the years 2008 and part of 2009 as well as the Répertoire de la literature de l’art (RILA) with records covering 1975-1989.

Source: Getty Research Institute (www.getty.edu)

WINTER VACATION HOURS

June 20th, 2010 Posted by brendall in Library Information | Post a Comment »

Monday 28 June – Friday 9 July 2010
9.30 am-4.00 pm

Monday 12 July – Friday 16 July 2010
CLOSED

Regular library hours will be resumed on Monday 19 July 2010.

designinform Research Guides No.1: Internet Sources of Biographical Information

June 6th, 2010 Posted by brendall in New Database, Useful Websites | Read Comments(1) or Post a Reply »

Click on the links in this website:
http://www.designinform.co.uk/links.htm to get free access to websites containing biographical information on designers, architects, craftspeople, painters and sculptors.

The LOOP

May 23rd, 2010 Posted by brendall in New Database | Post a Comment »

The LOOP is an Australian-based job networking and folio building site for creative professionals. Creatives can promote themselves online by creating a free online profile, including portfolio, showreel and resume. The site was launched in November 2009 and is fast becoming a platform for students to showcase their work and connect with industry. Some of Australia’s best companies are already signed up, posting jobs and searching through profiles.
Job Alerts
Simply sign up for a job alert and let the right job come straight to your inbox.
The Loop is located at http://www.theloop.com.au

Art Prize Listing

May 20th, 2010 Posted by brendall in Useful Websites | Post a Comment »

Discovery Media have set up a site listing Australian Art prizes. The site gives a list of art prizes by date, alphabetical by name, lists previous winners and even includes a map of locations of the prizes. There is also a search engine which lists approaching closing dates (up to 90 days before the closing date) by genre. Apart from the usual fine arts prize genres there are a number which would be relevant to DCE staff and students e.g. design, digital and new media, emerging, works on paper, youth, street art, recycled and waste.
To get full access to the site it is necessary to set up an account- but this is easy and free.
It is worth a look.
Site is located at:

http://artprizes.discoverymedia.com.au/

Design Centre Enmore Librarian shines

May 20th, 2010 Posted by brendall in Library Information | Post a Comment »

Design Centre Enmore Librarian, Natalia Michael, was acknowledged recently for her contribution in the development of the new Interior Design Degree course at Enmore. Natalia received a Certificate of Recognition for her involvement in the preparation of extensive bibliographies to support the new course.
Let us give thanks to librarians!