7/8/2008
Sydney Design 2008
Different venues, Sydney
A 17-day program encompassing exhibitions and events
Welcome to Sydney’s annual festival of design, presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Find out what design means to you through a 17-day program encompassing exhibitions and events at the Museum and satellite venues all over Sydney. Highlights this year include a series of special night openings to ignite the spirit of modernism and complement the new exhibition Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia.
Young Blood: Designers Market is on in tandem with ‘designboom mart’, an international market that brings designers from around the globe to discuss and sell their wares.
To coincide with SD08, the Powerhouse Museum and the British Council with Arts NSW will present the inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship, valued at $18,000, to an emerging local designer. The scholarship has been established to enable a young designer to undertake professional development activities abroad.
The Powerhouse is also proud to co-produce the exhibition Workshopped for the second year. A mainstay in the Sydney Design calendar, Workshopped has been exhibiting new Australian design — from prototypes to production pieces — in high-profile commercial settings for seven years. This year Workshopped returns to Chifley Plaza in the CBD.
Further afield, Sydney Design’s many partners and supporters will present a great program of exhibitions, events, walks and talks at venues all over Sydney.
Workshopped 08, co-presented by the Powerhouse Museum
Workshopped 08 explores the theme ‘Design matters’ by asking participants to consider the questions: ‘What is important about your design? What does it set out to achieve? Where will it find a home? And why does it matter? more
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Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia
Discover how modernism transformed life in Australia across five tumultuous decades from 1917 to 1967. Modern times looks to the city and its skyscrapers, cafes and swimming pools, where modernist ideals of functionalism, internationalism and the healthy body profoundly reshaped Australian culture. more
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Australian International Design Awards
The most outstanding examples of the latest Australian design and innovation from the 2008 Australian International Design Awards are now on display. The Powerhouse Museum’s annual selection from the finalists include a personal tracking device for skiers and snowboarders, a communications device for firefighters, an electronic earplug for communication in loud environments, and a selection of models from the Australian Design Awards – Dyson Student Awards. more
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Points in time: a student typographic project
Inspired by modernist typography, second year graphic design students at Hornsby College of TAFE have created designs for various media including posters, book covers and animation and collaged the work into an iMovie, multimedia environment. more
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Outside the square, inside the box
Curated monthly by A&E Metal Merchants, this showcase in the Powerhouse Museum shop brings to light recent work by contemporary jewellers. For Sydney Design 08, A&E has handed the reigns to jewellery students at Sydney College of the Arts. more
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EyeSaw
In 2006 Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) members proved they don’t always take themselves too seriously by staging an intervention in Omnibus Lane – en route to the Powerhouse Museum – that treated passers-by to a particular graphic design sense of humour – speech bubbles with graphic design gags like ‘Lose dot gain. Ask me how’ and ‘Only designers bleed’ more
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Roma Publications 1998-2008
Founded in 1998 by Dutch graphic designer Roger Willems and artist Mark Manders, the Amsterdam-based Roma Publications is known for the production of autonomous publications in close collaboration with artists, designers, curators, writers and poets. This exhibition focuses on the convergence of art and design through the publication of exhibition catalogues, prints, posters and films. more
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There’s a hole in my bucket
There’s a hole in my bucket invites 20 local designers and 80 members of the public to put their bucket where their mouth is and photograph a part of Sydney, or a part of their everyday lives, that they consider to be badly designed; and every image must contain the ubiquitous yellow bucket. more
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Refashioning the fashion
An exhibition featuring seven contemporary jewellers whose work is at times experimental, confrontational and non-functional. Alice Lang, Tiffany Parbs, Julia de Ville, Leah Heiss, Chelsea Gough, Gabby O’Conner and Melinda Young rebuild, recreate, restore, renovate, remake, reassemble, refashion and re-enact to create works that transcend convention and the body, and take the notion of jewellery to a new level of understanding. more
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How you make it
This exhibition explores the work of eight contemporary fashion designers, who not only create new garment forms and new ways of wearing clothes, they also develop entirely new design systems. Featuring work by Simon Cooper, Paula Dunlop, Ess. Laboratory (Hoshika Oshimi and Tatsuyoshi Kawabata), FORMALLYKNOWNAS (Toby Whittington), Anthea van Kopplen, MATERIALBYPRODUCT (Susan Dimasi and Chantal McDonald), Project (Kara Baker and Shelley Lasica) and S!X (Denise Sprynskij and Peter Boyd). more
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Time capsule
A group of local designers were invited to create new work for this in-store exhibition at Beautiful on the inside in response to the brief: design an object for a time capsule; a piece representative of design today or simply worthy of being immortalised. The designers are Henry Wilson, Matthew Conway, Arthur Koutoulas, Babak Aryaei, Keith Melbourne, Christopher Earl Milbourne, and Lana Alsamir-Diamond. more
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Utility: u-beaut
An annual exhibition of work by Sydney College of the Arts, Object Art & Design students, from undergraduate to postgraduate research candidates. This year’s theme goes local, asking participants to respond to the term ‘u-beaut’ and the idea of an Australian vernacular. more
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Platform
A showcase of the breadth of talent across undergraduate design programs at the University of NSW Faculty of the Built Environment, including architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, landscape architecture and planning. From the large scale to the domestic, Platform depicts the future as seen by young professionals working in Australia and overseas. more
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A digital future for graphic design?
Are pixels destined to supercede paper? Students in the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design (Digital Design) at the Design Centre Enmore go head to head with students in the Advanced Diploma of Graphic Design (Print, Packaging & Publishing) in an exhibition of typography that sets out to ‘visually argue’ the pros and cons of graphically designed communication in a digital age. more
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Architectural excellence in Bangladesh
Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) and Bangladeshi Architects in Australia (BAA), this exhibition showcases architectural projects completed in Bangladesh by prominent local architects, international luminaries including Louis Kahn, Paul Rudolf, Constantinos A. Doxiadis and Stanley Tigerman, as well as selected works by architects and students of Bangladeshi origin living in Australia. more
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Colour in art – Revisiting 1919
In 1919 the Australian painters Roland Wakelin (1887–1971) and Roy de Maistre (1894-1968) held an exhibition titled Colour in Art, using de Maistre’s ‘colour-music’ theory; based on a correlation between musical notes and the colour spectrum. The exhibition was met with criticism from established artistic circles and the two ceased using the theory in their paintings. However, de Maistre went on to successfully apply it to interior decoration. more
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Totalled
Graphic designer Paul McNeil has over 20 years experience on the Sydney scene, designing for film and for companies such as Mambo and Mooks. In this exhibition of sculptures and two-dimensional works, using his trademark palette of red, black and white, McNeil explores the graphic visual language of gangs. more
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The 2008 Sydney teapot show
Ceramic artists from Australia and New Zealand are invited to participate in this annual exhibition, competition and homage to a universally-loved vessel. Rarely will you see so many interpretations of a single, utilitarian object. more
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Lost gardens of Sydney
Sydney’s vast sea of roofs belies its rich legacy of gardens and gardening. In every direction from the city, large estates and gardens have been subdivided and lost to our ever-increasing need for real estate. Lost gardens explores Sydney’s rich and diverse gardening heritage. more
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Rockabilly: living the 50s
Photographer Steven Siewert has spent years documenting Sydney’s rockabillies, a vibrant subculture who live and breathe an era that predates their earliest birthdays. The boys dress for cool with stovepipe jeans and slick quiffs, while the women wear dazzling cocktail frocks by night and colourful vintage dresses by day. more
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Sphere’s of Light
A multi-media work for architectural light, music and multi-channel sound by Mary-Anne Kyriakou, recipient of Peggy Glanville Hicks Composer Fellowship 2008-2009. more
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