Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

May 7, ’13 2:40 PM

Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

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Equatorial Africa, IUCN threat status: endangered
Belgian military, camouflage jacket (worn in Belgian Congo), wire, aluminium, plastic, nails, Blackberry, glass beads
48 x 72 x 115 cm
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney

Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting
28 March – 21 July 2013
Heide Museum of Modern Art

Heide Museum of Modern Art presents Big Game Hunting, a major exhibition
of recent works by one of Australia’s most prominent contemporary artists: Fiona Hall. The exhibition is the first survey of Hall’s work in Melbourne since 1994, and also marks the Australian premiere of Fall Prey, an installation she created for the prestigious world art event dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel, Germany in 2012.

Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

Ailuropoda melanoleuca / giant panda 2012
China, IUCN threat status: endangered
Chinese military camouflage trousers, wire, plastic, dominoes, US dollars, light globes, electric plugs
20 x 20 x 20 cm
Courtesy the artist and Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney
Fiona Hall: Big Game Hunting
Installation View, Heide Museum of Modern Art
Photograph: John Brash

Fiona Hall works with a broad range of media, creating pieces which transform mundane man-made materials into organic forms with both contemporary and historical resonances.

Also included in the exhibition is an installation of innovatively re-designed beehives produced for the 2010 Biennale of Sydney and a suite of large etchings celebrating the flora and fauna of Arnhem Land.

Heide Museum of Modern Art
7 Templestowe Road
Bulleen, VIC 3105

More information at heide.com.au

Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 10am-5pm. Closed Mondays.
Museum Admission: Adult $14, Senior $12, Concession $10
Gardens & Sculpture Park: FREE

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OZ Graphix 9

May 7, ’13 2:28 PM

Now Available at the DG Online Store

OZ Graphix 9, this print edition of our (almost) annual showcase of creativity from top Australian studios is packed with a wide range of graphics: graphic design, branding, packaging, photography, web design, and illustration.

Cover price:  $17.73 ($19.50 with gst).

A showcase of top-shelf creativity from Australian studios.

The Studios: 10FOLD – Alive Mobile – Aslan Design & Graphics – Beattie Vass Design – Bird – Blick Creative – Bonsai Media – brandculture – Canvas Group – Copirite – Cream Studios – Cutts Creative – Design Identity – Eleven Eleven Design – Eleven Media – End of Work – Fatfish – Fresco Creative – George Moussa – Ident – Image Bound – Juuce Creative – Kindred Studio – Latitude Group – Leading Edge Web – Liquorice Studio – Malvolio – Night & Day Communications – Organ Studio – Overall Picture – Paper Monkey – Percept Brand Design  – Peter Clarke Photography – PIC Illustration – Poppen Designs – Racket – Saunders Design Group – Seamer Design – Seesaw – SO branddesign – Sprout Creative – Stuart McLachlan Illustration – Studio Teepee – Sydney Branding Services – Taybian Marketing & Design – The Famous Group Pty Ltd – The Fox And King – Universal Favourite
112pp, 300 x 235mm, matt laminated soft cover, full-colour throughout, 
highly illustrated.
ISBN: 978-1-921587-13-9
Print edition: $17.73 ($19.50 inc. GST) plus p&p.
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Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris at the NGV

Apr 24, ’13 2:39 PM

Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
National Gallery of Victoria
10 May until 8 September 2013

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Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris will feature more than sixty works devoted to Claude Monet’s iconic garden at Giverny.

The exhibition traces the evolution of these garden motifs over a period of twenty years, revealing the transition of Monet’s purely Impressionist style to the more personal pictorial idiom that he adopted in later life.

NGV Director, Tony Ellwood, said the exhibition would feature Monet’s most well-known works, from a stunning suite of enormous waterlilies paintings to his iconic garden motifs, as well as some rarely seen late paintings.

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Claude MONET
French 1840–1926
Waterlilies (Nymphéas) (1916–19)
oil on canvas
150.0 x 197.0 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5164)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse 

“Monet’s Garden is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to experience the world of Monet and the garden that became his lifelong obsession. We are thrilled to collaborate with the Musée Marmottan, home to one of the largest collections of works by Monet in the world, to bring these masterpieces to Melbourne for the first time,” said Mr Ellwood.

The exhibition is organised by the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris in association with the National Gallery of Victoria and Art Exhibitions Australia.

More information at the National Gallery of Victoria.

Monet’s Garden: The Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
National Gallery of Victoria
10 May until 8 September 2013
Admission fees apply. Tickets now on sale.

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Yuko Shimizu

Apr 23, ’13 10:45 AM

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Yuko Shimizu
Illustration where traditional Japanese prints meet surreal comic art.

Yuko Shimizu’s work is a combination of traditional Japanese graphic prints mixed with surreal comic art. Her technique results in some beautifully executed and alluring scenes: where she draws her basic forms and figures with Japanese calligraphy brushes and later digitally supplements them with additional colors and backgrounds.

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This collection explores the relationship between East and West present in her work: American pop and Japanese comic culture are brought together to display science-fiction fantasies and personal creative visions, which are often erotically charged.

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Yuko Shimizu has won numerous international awards and has done commissioned work for the New Yorker, Rolling Stone,SPIN, Playboy, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, Microsoft, Pepsi, VISA, MTV, and the New York Times.

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More information at Gestalten

By: Yuko Shimizu
Release Date: September 2011
Format: 17 x 24 cm
Features: 160 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-387-1
Catalog Price: €19.90 / $30.00 / £17.50

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ADERG Channel

Apr 19, ’13 5:04 PM

The new ADERG Channel is now live at:
www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/aderg

The ADERG Channel is an online extension of the Art & Design Education Resource Guide (ADERG) that offers additional and more frequent opportunities to explore what to study and where to study.
To get on board, all you have to do is sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter here.

Essentially, the ADERG Channel is internet-based contact through newsletters, newsfeeds, articles about current events at universities and colleges, a feast of images, social networking and the provision of various digital versions of the content in the print edition of ADERG.

The ADERG Channel will be most active through the times of the year when students are seeking information about the creative courses on offer at tertiary institutions. Students looking for a course of study, and careers advisers who offer professional advice on such matters, will find the ADERG Channel a valuable resource.

To maximise your search for a creative course of study, simply sign up for the ADERG Channel newsletter. This will ensure you receive all you need to stay in touch and keep up-to-date.

What will you see? Newsfeeds, newsletters, Gallery Packs of graduate work, items of interest from the universities and colleges, lists of Open Days and Graduate Exhibitions, social network contact plus more. Please note that the ADERG Channel is a handy internet communication and not a television network, so it’s always accessible over the internet.

ADERG Channel is now live at:
www.dgdesignnetwork.com.au/aderg

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A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days

Apr 16, ’13 10:30 AM

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A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days
By: Studio 3

What you always wanted to know about graphic design but were afraid to ask.

A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days follows the journey of a boy and his Grandfather who travel through the history of graphic design stopping at the discipline’s milestones along the way.

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Discover the history of graphic design through this illustrated tour, discovering styles including art nouveau, Dada, Bauhaus, and psychedelic to innovators such as William Morris, Jan Tschichold, Saul Bass, and David Carson. Along the way you can also test your knowledge with some fun-filled exercises.

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Full of  humorous narratives displayed through beautiful illustrations, A History of Graphic Design for Rainy Days provides a complete resource for discovering all you need to know about graphic design’s history.

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More information at Gestalten

By: Studio 3
Release Date: October 2011
Format: 16 x 21 cm
Features: 224 pages, full color, hardcover
Language: English
ISBN: 978-3-89955-389-5
Catalog Price: €19.90 / $29.90 / £17.99

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Undercurrent Architects – Archway Studios

Apr 12, ’13 10:30 AM

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Archway Studios is a prototype live‐workspace designed by Undercurrent Architects, which utilises the space in and around a 19th Century rail viaduct in London. Undercurrent Architects aims to adapt these structures, which dominate areas of London, and divide neighbourhoods, by creating a space which has worked with the challenges of its tight surroundings: with the constraints of an inner‐city, industrial site and one which also engages its surroundings.

As one of 10,000 arches that dissect neighbourhoods across London, it is a model that can be adapted for broad community benefit and regeneration.
More information at Undercurrent Architects

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Undercurrent Architects
Project Architect – Didier Ryan
Assistant – Alessandra Giannotti
Eckersley O’Callaghan Engineers
Photography: Candice Lake

> You can find more about Undercurrent Architects project Sydney Studio Roof in DG Magazine 131: Cloud Formation: a forecast of dream shapes

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Craft announces a trio of new exhibitions opening in May

Apr 11, ’13 10:30 AM

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New exhibitions opening in May at Craft:

Exhibition – 3 May to 15 June 2013
At Craft – 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne

GALLERY ONE
Drop Out – Toby Pola

Through the creation of life-size balsa wood carvings, Pola looks at the dark side of suburban Australiana, investigating rituals, obsessions and iconography. – Read more

GALLERY TWO
The Wedding Quilt – Lucas Grogan

With Grogan’s new handmade black and white needlepoint quilt, the audience is invited to slip under the shield-like surface, get into bed, and find their own protected space away from external pressures. - Read more

GALLERY THREE
Glimmer of wild patience – Eddy Carroll

Carroll has created hand-stitched bead and feather soft sculptures based on the Alaskan Skeleton Woman myth relating to the rituals of loss, fear and compassion. – Read more

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2013 Evangelion Art Exhibition

Apr 10, ’13 2:42 PM

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Gold Coat, Sydney & Melbourne
April – June 2013

Madman Entertainment presents, in conjunction with NTV Films, Groundworks and the Japan Foundation Sydney, the 2013 EVANGELION ART EXHIBITION Australian Tour.

With exhibition partners, The Arts Centre Gold Coast and No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, this exclusive exhibition will offer anime/manga, sci-fi and pop culture fans of all ages a unique and extensive insight into how the famed EVANGELION animated films were created – showcasing a collection of original concept and production art, character drawings and other key artefacts that provide a rare and fascinating glimpse at the behind the scenes artistry of Japanese anime film production.

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A variety of rare and valuable EVANGELION books, tapestries and other items will also be on display at the exhibition and a limited selection of EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO merchandise will be available for purchase. (These items were previously only available in Japan in conjunction with the cinema campaign for EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO and are exclusive to the EVANGELION ART EXHIBITION TOUR. ©khara)

Gold Coast
17th April – 5th May
Arts Centre Gold Coast

Sydney
May 10th – May 18th
(Open Monday – Saturdays, 11am-4pm)
Japan Foundation Gallery

Melbourne
May 27th – June 9th
No Vacancy Gallery

More information at Madman: madman.com.au/eva

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Enmeshed by Caroline Phillips, at Craft

Mar 19, ’13 11:15 AM

Enmeshed by Caroline Phillips at Craft

Exhibition – 8 March to 20 April 2013
At Craft – 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne

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Enmeshed by Caroline Phillips displays her ongoing research into minimalism and craft. Phillips’ practice involves the accumulation of bulk materials, knotting, tying, hooking and applying flexible materials to hard surfaces.

The exhibition features the use of interior architecture, decoration and design of gallery surfaces to capture: ‘feminist language of the materiality of space’.

“I am using the architectural space as a material and conceptual metaphor for the human experience. My practice investigates the feminine body in space. Women have historically occupied a range of internal spaces – such as domestic interiors, familial relationships, physical and cultural roles and expectations – and in many cases the feminine has been considered as ‘surface’ (hidden interiority, or passive waiting to be inscribed upon by others ), ‘excess’ (out of control or ornamental) or ‘beautiful’ (idealised or lightweight).”
– Caroline Phillips

At Craft: 31 Flinders Lane Melbourne
> More information at Craft

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MagSpreads

Mar 19, ’13 10:04 AM

MagSpreads – Editorial Design and Magazine Layout Inspiration
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MagSpreads is dedicated to showcasing editorial design, as well as the process behind it. Covering all aspects  of the publishing industry, MagSpreads provides a place where the editorial design community can keep up-to-date with the latest industry trends and discover new projects.

If you’re looking for inspiration, insight or just want to have a browse through all things editorial design: MagSpreads provides a great resource.

> Have a look here

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Top Arts 2013

Mar 14, ’13 9:39 AM

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NGV Studio at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia
21 March – 7 July 2013
FREE 

Top Arts 2013 presents 43 young artists exemplary work, covering: painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, multimedia, textiles and installation. From an initial selection of over 3,000 works and through a rigorous selection process and short listing procedure, VCE Art and Studio Arts students from government, Catholic and independent schools from across Victoria are represented.

A range of informative and interactive programs will run throughout Top Arts 2013, including children’s labels in the exhibition, introductory talks by exhibiting artists and student and teacher professional learning programs. More information here.

Top Arts 2013 is a VCE Season of Excellence event.

More info at the NGV here >

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Top Designs 2013

Mar 14, ’13 9:38 AM

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Melbourne Museum
16 March – 30 June 2013
Included with Museum entry (Adults $10, students and concessions FREE)

Top Designs 2013 showcases outstanding work from Victoria’s best young emerging designers. Featuring the work of 108 VCE students, including: fashion, graphic design, robotics and more. The students have been chosen from over 1900 applicants, represent state, independent and Catholic schools in both metropolitan and regional areas.

Alongside the exhibition there will be a series of education programs,  developed by Melbourne Museum’s Education and Community Programs department, including introductory talks, forums and professional development sessions for teachers. More information about these programs can be
found here.

Top Designs 2013 is a VCE Season of Excellence event.

More info at Melbourne Museum >

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DG Student Design Competition 2013 – Call for Entries

Feb 14, ’13 7:30 AM

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CALL FOR ENTRIES

THE BRIEF
Design a cover for an imaginary issue of DG magazine with the theme: ‘Images of the Decade’. Trimmed page size: 297mm x 210mm, portrait (A4).

The imaginary issue will have a series of articles on images that are representative of a particular decade. That period may be in the past or future. Not the present.

The cover should therefore include one or more images that typify a particular period. The subject allows for a variety of editorial angles; historical or futuristic.

All entries must use the templates supplied by DGi Media (Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop). Which can be downloaded from here.

The graphics may be illustrative or photographic. In the case of photographs, some third party photographs may be used (as magazines and newspapers do), but in such cases it must be clearly marked on the entry form. If third party images are used, marks will be awarded for an individual’s creative and original use of such images.

It is important that the design is the entrant’s own work. Images may be sourced from third parties but they must not be used “as found”. Entrants should use photo-imaging techniques to create unique cover images.

The subject can be approached from many angles, such as:

Cultural references: News and Current Events; Fashion; Technology; Architecture; Music; Science; Sport; etc.

When the students consider these themes in the context of various decades, there is great scope for innovative solutions.

Here are a few tips to get the students in the right groove:

- A single eye-catching image is better than a jumble of small images.
- Maximise shelf appeal. (Ask yourself: why do most covers avoid brown?)
- Try to convey the visual flavour through the appropriate use of images, colour and texture.
- Avoid visual puns.
- Try to escape from the prison of your own personal interests. Explore! …and, most importantly

- Don’t develop the first idea that comes into your head. Do pencil sketches first. Don’t be afraid to throw away several ideas before you start on the final work.
And don’t forget to include some cover lines.

The CALL FOR ENTRIES can be downloaded here
The TEMPLATES can be downloaded here

Please see the Call for Entries for complete Terms & Conditions

Closing date for entries – 30 April 2013
Competition is open to Australian Tertiary and Secondary School students only
There is no entry fee for the competition

The prizes will be announced at the DG Design Network and via newsletters. You can sign up for newsletters here for notification.

> See the 2012 Gallery here

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Jeff Wall Photographs at the National Gallery of Victoria

Feb 12, ’13 9:44 AM

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Jeff Wall Photographs at the National Gallery of Victoria presents a survey of the work of contemporary Canadian photographer Jeff Wall. Bringing together twenty-six of the artist’s works from the 1970s to the present day.

The exhibition presents the diversity of Jeff Wall’s photographic practice from large scale photographs back lit by light boxes, through to smaller prints.

The exhibition features the major light box transparency works including After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 1999–2000 and the extraordinary, A Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai) 1993.

30 November 2012 – 17 March 2013
Admission fees apply: Adult $15, Concession $12, Child $7.
Ticket entry will also gain access to the Thomas Demand contemporary photographic exhibition at the NGV International.

More information here

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