Occupying a special place in everyone’s diary, the Melbourne Design Market is now held twice a year in July & December. Over 10,000 visitors are drawn to its carpark location at Melbourne’s Federation Square, transformed for each occasion into a design show that features the latest in fashion, homewares, furniture, lighting and much more. There [...]

Design Capital State of Design Festival to explore the future of Victoria’s built environment, mobility systems and digital strategy The 2010 State of Design Festival’s business program, Design Capital, will focus on how three interrelated areas – the built environment, mobility systems and digital strategies, are helping businesses address the big issues they face in [...]

The fifth State of Design Festival is set to Change By Design this year, with new look website and a host of events across Victoria. Held 14 – 25 July, the 2010 Festival presents a broad program of exciting, revealing and informative events under the theme Change by Design. This year’s Festival boasts four major [...]

Semi-Permanent & Dosh Wallets, Sydney, 2010 Semi-Permanent and Dosh Wallets launch search to find the next generation Dosh designer. 12th March 2010: Semi-Permanent, Australia’s leading design festival, has partnered with forward thinking wallet brand, Dosh, to find the next generation Dosh designer. The competition is calling for artists to submit a piece of work which [...]

Semi-Permanent announces second raft of speakers for Sydney conference Semi-Permanent, Australia’s award winning design festival*, is pleased to announce additional speakers to its already awe-inspiring line up. Award winning filmmaker David Michôd, San Francisco based design community Fecal Face and Australia’s own frankie magazine, join this year’s event on the 19 and 20 March. Other [...]

Semi-Permanent, Sydney, 2010 March 2010 sees Australia’s design community come together for the 8th year for Semi-Permanent in Sydney. With a week-long celebration of all things aesthetic, Semi-Permanent goes above and beyond, bringing together the design community across a number of conferences, workshops, exhibitions and after parties. Not to be outdone by last year’s roll [...]

Philippe Starck Designs: LaCie Portable HD Philippe Starck was recently asked by LaCie to design two new external hard drives. They connect via USB and have their own power supply. The desktop model comes in 1TB or 2TB capacities, while the mobile drive holds either 430GB or 500GB. Via TheCoolHunter

Print & File [Members] | Return to DG magazine 131 New resources are now available to designers looking for information on copyright and intellectual property. Graphic Designers & Copyright From the Australian Copyright Council, Graphic Designers & Copyright deals with how copyright affects aspects of design practice such as legal protection for your designs, using [...]

View Article | Visit Website Art Deco: 1910-1939 is a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the significant period in which its glamour and style influenced design worldwide. Direct from London’s famed Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition is staged exclusively at the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV); the fifth exhibition in the extremely popular ‘Melbourne Winter [...]

View Gallery | Visit Website | Print & File [Members] | Return to DG magazine 131 Kate McCurdy Art Deco 1910-1939 Art Deco: 1910-1939 is a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the significant period in which its glamour and style influenced design worldwide. Direct from London’s famed Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the exhibition is staged exclusively [...]

View Article | Visit Website Brittany Veitch is a young artist and toy designer with an eye for the macabre. Recently graduating with first class honours in Industrial Design from RMIT University in Melbourne, as well as having a Diploma of Furnishing, she is a great example of the transdisciplinary practice of many designers today. [...]

View Gallery | Visit Website | Print & File [Members] | Return to DG magazine 130 Brittany Veitch is a young artist and toy designer with an eye for the macabre. Recently graduating with first class honours in Industrial Design from RMIT University in Melbourne, as well as having a Diploma of Furnishing, she is [...]

View Article | Visit Website The Victoria-wide design event, The State of Design Festival kicks off on Wednesday 16 July 2008 with a host of events to appeal to anyone with an interest in design. Under the artistic direction of Ewan McEoin from Studio Propeller (one of the key organisations that make up the State [...]

View Gallery | Visit Website | Print & File [Members] | Return to DG magazine 130 Premier’s Design Awards: Winners announced Wednesday 16 July 2008 Design Capital: Wednesday 16 – Friday 18 July 2008 Design for Everyone: Wednesday 16 – Thursday 24 July 2008 Design:Made:Trade: Thursday 17 – Sunday 20 July The Victoria-wide design event, [...]