Watch / hear the presentations of a great range of speakers and presenters at TEDx Sydney, including designers, engineers, artists, performers and more.
Watch TEDxSydney live on YouTube from 8.30am to 6.30pm
More information at TEDxSydney.com
If you would like to borrow a book from another TAFE library, you can now submit your details online. Just go to the inter-library loan subject guide, ensure that you have selected the Design Centre tab, then complete the short form with your details and those of the item you would like to borrow and we will do the rest. We will let you know when the item is ready for collection.
At an event during the Sydney Writers’ Festival, the Australian Publishers’ Association announced some of the winners of their 60th annual Book Design Awards:
Best Designed Cover of the Year: The Art of Pasta (Penguin) Designer – Daniel New
Best Designed Book of the Year: Love Lace: Powerhouse Museum International Lace Award [exhibition catalogue] (Powerhouse Publishing) Designer - Toko
Best Designed Children’s Book Cover of the Year: August (Text Publishing) Designer – WH Chong
Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book: Alaska (Penguin) Designer – Allison Colpoys
Young Designer of the Year: Hannah Robinson, Sydney
The full list of books nominated for the above, and several other, design categories, are listed on the APA website.
Love Lace is in the Design Centre Library collection and is currently on display.
Let’s face it, who doesn’t? Sony Australia is giving you the chance to turn back time and relive the experience and retake your photo with its ‘No more bad photos: Cyber-shot HX20′ photography competition. All you need to do is go to the Sony Australia Facebook page and upload your photo along with 25 words describing the photo, and why you would like to re-shoot it, to be in the running.
The Art Gallery of New South Wales is celebrating its redesigned Australian galleries with a programme of FREE events.
Over 60 events including performances, workshops, films, family activities and talks reveal the astonishing diversity of art born from our distinctive Australian culture and landscape.
Families can explore the new galleries with a limited-edition children’s activity booklet (only available on the Open Weekend), or by joining the Gallery character, Gert by Sea, on a tour.
Go to the Art Gallery homepage to check out the events on offer this weekend.
Charles Meere Australian beach pattern 1940 (detail), Art Gallery of New South Wales © Charles Meere Estate
The National Gallery of Victoria is currently showing the highly anticipated contemporary exhibition, Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery.
Unexpected Pleasures displays over 200 works by important Australian and international contemporary jewellers who have pushed conceptual and material boundaries within their practices.
This Design Museum, London exhibition is curated by Guest Curator and Melbourne jeweller Susan Cohn, and is complemented by a selection of NGV Collection works and private loans.
The exhibition explores the essential meanings of jewellery, bypassing traditional perceptions and instead tracing the radical experiments of contemporary jewellers who have challenged the conventions of jewellery design.
The exhibition is curated through a number of themes: Worn Out – celebrating the experience of wearing jewellery; Linking Links – looking at the ways in which ‘meaning’ and narratives are invested and expressed through sub-themes such as Social Expressions and Creative Systems, and; A Fine Line – offering insight into the origins of contemporary jewellery today, highlighting key instigators of the Contemporary Jewellery Movement that started in the late 1970s.
Each theme within the exhibition provides an outline of current thinking and offers a unique view on how people use and interact with objects, through which design and production processes come to light. Photography in this context becomes a vital instrument for expressing the ‘wearability’ and the performative aspects of jewellery, and a selection of photographic works are also included in the exhibition.
Unexpected Pleasures: The Art and Design of Contemporary Jewellery will be on display at NGV International, St Kilda Road from 21 April 2012 – 26 August 2012. Open Wed–Mon, 10am–5pm. Entry is FREE.
And an opportunity to kickstart (or inspire) your career with a prestigious Adobe® Design Achievement Award? The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards give students and teachers the opportunity to showcase their talent and design skills in individual and group projects created using Adobe software. The competition is open to the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists, as well as teachers who have created a design for the purpose of teaching any of those subjects, from the world’s top institutions of higher education.
Both individuals and groups may enter up to three unique projects in the following categories during the entire duration of the contest.
Interactive Media: Browser-Based Design, Non-Browser Based Design, Application Development, Mobile Design, Game Design, Installation Design, Innovation in Interactive Media in Education
Video and Motion: Animation, Live Action, Motion Graphics, Innovation in Video and Motion in Education
Traditional Media: Illustration, Packaging, Photography, Print Communications, Innovation in Traditional Media in Education
You have until the 22nd of June 2012 to submit your entries at www.adobeawards.com/us/. You can download free fully functional trial versions of Adobe software for creating entries.
Vivid Sydney is entering its fourth year on a high, after its inclusion in the list of top 10 ideas festivals in the world by the UK’s Guardian newspaper. In addition to the hugely popular light installations and projections it features performances from local and international musicians at Sydney Opera House as part of Vivid Live. Artists include Florence and the Machine with the Ceremonial Orchestra and Danish band, Efterklang with Sydney Symphony.
Plus this year it includes Vivid Ideas Exchange at the MCA featuring public talks and debates from leading global creative thinkers including Chad Dickerson, CEO of Etsy, the online craft market and The Gold Medal address by Lawrence Nield. The Gold Medal is the highest honour given by the Australian Institute of Architects to one of its members, in recognition of distinguished service to the profession and to architecture. The 2012 recipient of the award is Sydney based architect Lawrence Nield. Lawrence Nield’s career combines prolific and continued output of significant architectural and urban design projects, services to the Australian Institute of Architects, and academic and teaching achievements, which include a distinguished list of writings and publications.
The website www.vividsydney.com features a handy planner to ensure you don’t miss out on any of your favourite events.
Vivid Sydney 2011 Unfamiliar Customs photo David Clare
The Garage Sale Trail is about sustainability, community & creativity. It’s a organisational framework that enables the peer-to-peer exchange of assets, resources and money on a hyper local level but with national scale.
Garage Sale Trail is a platform for anyone who wants to make some money or raise money for a cause and for anyone who wants to connect with their community. That’s makers & creators, local business, households, cultural institutions, charities and community groups.
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