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Fiona Hall – Big Game Hunting

May 7, ’13 2:40 PM

Pan troglodytes / chimpanzee 2012
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.

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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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

Claude MONET
French 1840–1926
Waterlilies, evening effect (Nymphéas, effet du soir) (1897)
oil on canvas
73.0 x 100.0 cm
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Gift of Michel Monet, 1966 (inv. 5167)
© Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, © Bridgeman-Giraudon / Presse

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.

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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Craft announces a trio of new exhibitions opening in May

Apr 11, ’13 10:30 AM

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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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

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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Jeff Wall Photographs at the National Gallery of Victoria

Feb 12, ’13 9:44 AM

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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Everyday Ambitions

Jan 24, ’13 9:48 AM

Mecca Cosmetica x Vogue Beauty Elections Campaign Catalogue

Everyday Ambitions is a Melbourne based studio with a simple, personalised approach to graphic design services. Since launching in late 2010, the studio has worked with large and small brands including Mecca Cosmetica,
Kit Cosmetics, Incu, Portmans, Kookai, Lee and Wrangler.

Everyday Ambitions help clients tell their stories in ways that are appropriate
to their brand and their customers. They are inspired by the creative challenge
of projects that work across a wide range of mediums; from large scale environmental graphics to printed matter, publications and packaging.
While they are passionate about typography, colour, pattern, and image making, the focus is always on producing designs that work for their clients rather than expressing a house style.

Mecca Cosmetica Holiday Window

Mecca Cosmetica Holiday Packaging

Mecca Cosmetica Holiday: Graphic Design, Windows, Packaging,
In Store Graphics
This intricately layered graphic was designed to create a magical, spellbound feeling inside Mecca Cosmetica stores during Christmas. The window was produced using a combination of printed graphic, silver and holographic vinyl decal. Each of the 22 stores had a unique version of the graphic. The graphic was then applied to a variety of promotional collateral including in store signage, custom produced bags and hang tags. – EA

Becko Identity + Slip Case

Becko Packaging Inserts

Becko: Identity, Packaging
This logo was designed to graphically represent the ‘magic’ mechanism holding the notes inside the flip wallet. The Tyvek slip case packaging was used to protect the product in transit and look good on the store shelf. – EA

See more here
Get in touch with Everyday Ambitions

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Signature Style at Craft

Jan 24, ’13 9:15 AM

Collaborations in Contemporary Jewellery Craft’s Signature Style Exhibition

Opens – 7 March 2013
Exhibition – 8 March to 20 April 2013

Signature Style is a major group exhibition exploring models of collaborative practice in contemporary jewellery. It features work by 24 of Melbourne’s most exciting artists and jewellery practitioners.

Signature Style will be a significant addition to the emerging discourse around collaboration and contemporary craft.

Accompanying the exhibition is a limited edition catalogue profiling the artists’ collaborative processes and working methods. This exhibition will tour Victoria in 2013 – 2014 in partnership with NETS Victoria.

Artists
Nicholas Bastin & Matthew Dux / Dan Bell, Bianca Hester, Charlie Sofo, Nathan Gray, Christopher LG Hill, Liang Luscombe & Oliver van der Lugt / Tessa Blazey & Alexi Freeman / Michaela Bruton & Kane Ikin / Milly Flemming & Dani Maugeri / Natalia Milosz-Piekarska & Katherine Doube / Nina Oikawa & Bridget Bodenham / Meredith Turnbull & Manon van Kouswijk / Karla Way & Dylan Martorell / Katherine Wheeler & Polly van der Glas

More info at Craft

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Sugar Mountain 2013 – Hamishi

Jan 9, ’13 4:07 PM

Melbourne artist HAMISHI expresses oxymoronic statements through painting, illustration, installation, video, and social media art. We had a quick chat about his practice, and his upcoming collaboration with musician and sound artist Henry Finn Madin (The Harpoons) at Sugar Mountain 2013 >

DG – Do you have a specific process to your work: rituals, or routines? The content of your work has a feeling of an intuitive moment, or perhaps a subconscious image – do you work with an idea already prepared or are the forms created directly onto paper as they come to you?
Hamishi – I definitely don’t have a set in stone routine however I’d say the notion of process is vital to my work. Before starting a work I pull all my will together to figure out a process that will lead me to my final product. A lot of my works operated as a diary of the time spent on the work; in those works it’s a push pull, add subtract to chronicle a hyperhonest soliloquy intimate thoughts and the progression/resolution of those thoughts. I’m moving towards some paintings that i’ve already mapped out the exact compositions and colours on the computer, it’s just a matter of being able to perfectly reproduce it by hand. The compositions are super cold and digital, i’m finding it super interesting to reproduce detached images with a very delicate intimate application.
It’s a cool contrast.

DG – You have worked across a number of different mediums and via varying methods: installation, illustration, painting, video. What kind of work do you most enjoy doing?
Hamishi – The history and physical process of painting is ultra romantic, I can’t imagine myself giving up on it. Having said that my subject matter usurps the medium, I just pick the medium that works best with the visceral image and context I want to propose. Painting is hard and a lot of the time I hate it because it (the medium) buckles under it’s loaded history, takes strenuous time and focus, and is less relevant than ever but thats the challenge that keeps me interested. Enjoyment doesn’t always equal enjoyment, I’m into delayed gratification.

DG – Could you tell us about your upcoming collaboration with musician and sound artist Henry Finn Madin at Sugar Mountain 2013?
Hamishi – “If you throw something into a river: it immediately disappears, but it’s in there and it changes the volume of the river, depending on how many objects are thrown in”. An image has weight, it is not a representation of reality but it’s own reality entirely. More images exist right now than ever before. Living with social media the viewer, as a river, will absorb an almost infinite mass of realities every day and that viewer is left perpetually flooding.

More about Hamishi here
Get your tickets to Sugar Mountain here

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Sugar Mountain 2013 – Visual Arts Program & Satellite Events

Nov 16, ’12 3:24 PM

Sugar Mountain will be held over multiple days in January 2013, with the main event taking place at The Forum Theatre on Saturday 19 January. The Festival will also utilise Rooftop Bar, Polyester Records, Schoolhouse Studios, Lamington Drive, Chapter House Lane, Abbotsford Convent and The Bottom End to showcase an impressive array of local and international creative talent.

Sugar Mountain celebrates creativity across multiple platforms, presenting engaging performances in intriguing spaces.

Music acts Dirty Projectors, ESG, Peanut Butter Wolf, Action Bronson, Boomgates, Brothers Hand Mirror, Collarbones, Forces x Antony Hamilton, HTRK, Hunx and His Punx, Jonti, Kirin J Callinan x Kris Moyes, Laurel Halo, Lower Plenty, Naysayer and Gilsun and Woods have already been announced for the 2013 Sugar Mountain Festival.
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VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM

Curated by artist and festival Creative Director Pete Keen, Sugar Mountain’s visual arts line-up showcases a selection of truly talented local and international art makers. In 2013, Sugar Mountain explores the union and juxtaposition of light and movement. Entitled A Light, Bend & Stretch, the visual arts programming is a salute to local visionaries using light as tool within their creative practice, and their relationships with choreographed dance and movement, interactive installation and live musical performance.

The following artists have been commissioned to exhibit at the Sugar Mountain Festival in January 2013:

Australian-born director and producer KRIS MOYES is best known for his innovative music videos, which he has made for the likes of The Presets, The Softlightes, Wolfmother and Sia. In early 2012, Moyes and Sydney musician Kirin J Callinan had a meeting of minds which spawned one of the most arresting music video clips to come out of Australia, ever.  Enigmatic performer and strange fellow KIRIN J CALLINAN and acclaimed sociopathic director Kris Moyes reunite for their collaborative live debut at Sugar Mountain.

Melbourne artist HAMISHI is a conflict of ideas and is obsessed with topical viscerally. His practice spans painting, illustration, installation, video, and social media art to stupidly try express oxymoronic statements. His illustrative work has been praised by Juxtapoz, FecalFace and other hip websites providing him with a warm validation that is slowly wearing thin. At Sugar Mountain 2013, Hamishi will collaborate with musician and sound artist HENRY FINN MADIN (The Harpoons).

ANTONY HAMILTON is one of Australia’s foremost independent contemporary choreographers. His work defies categorisation, and unhinges the traditional cultural narrative of western dance as an art form. He has created choreographic works for The Lyon Opera Ballet, Australian Dance Theatre, Chunky Move, Dancenorth, LINK, The Victorian College of the Arts, Stompin and Rogue. At Sugar Mountain 2013, Hamilton will collaborate with Melbourne-based synth outfit FORCES. The result? Another ‘must see’ one-off performance, curated just for Sugar Mountain.

As one half of clothing label and publisher PAM and the driving force behind art/music super group The Changes, MISHA HOLLENBACH has exhibited nationally and internationally, touring Italy during Milan Design Week, at such venues as Mu Gallery, Eindhoven; V1 Gallery, Copenhagen; Alleged Gallery, New York; Colette, Paris; and Deitch Projects, New York. His practice explores methods of merging contemporary culture with tribalism. Working across the mediums of collage, screenprinting, sculpture and installation, his work is often driven by carnal desire, and a return to the basics/basis of human existence: evidenced by his yoga/sex collages, or exploration of abject bodily functions. Hollenbach will take over the Mezzanine Stage at Sugar Mountain 2013, with what is bound to be an awe inspiring environment and situational kook-out by another of Melbourne’s most profound artisans.

KIT WEBSTER has gained worldwide recognition for his enigmatic audiovisual installations. Ranging from site-specific projections to digital sculptures, his works utilise precision programming and visualisation techniques to create captivating and immersive environments that challenge our sensory perceptions. By continually pushing the boundaries of technology and art, Webster is unafraid to present highly experimental concepts designed to expose the potential for the creation of a new audiovisual aesthetic. After rave reviews at Sugar Mountain 2011 and 2012, Webster returns to Sugar Mountain 2013 to provide the visual splendour and an evolving on-stage environment for ACTION BRONSON and DIRTY PROJECTORS.

MARKUS HOFKO (GER/NZ) has been working independently as a designer for local and international clients in the fields of art, culture, music and advertising. He creates designs, videos and conceptual photos for Wired magazine, Adidas, Diesel, Becks, VW, Atlantic Magazine and more. Markus’ expertise covers photography, video, installation and sound. His ongoing eagerness for new creative expressions is reflected in his diverse collaborations with artists from different fields and led to a variety of interdisciplinary performances and stage productions. Hofko will provide the interactive live projections for acts ESG and WOODS at
Sugar Mountain 2013.

Melbourne-based artist KEITH DEVERELL works with economic visual and aural languages to create ultra slow portraits of people using video, sound, photography, film, found objects and installation. Deverell focuses on the seemingly ordinary and mundane, drawing attention to the depth of the spaces in between. Keith Deverell has been invited back to further develop his work on Grace Note, the film project in which Deverell turns his lens to Australia’s most idiosyncratic musicians, previously seen at Sugar Mountain 2012. Sugar Mountain 2013 will feature a collection of new artisans for Deverell to direct his lens towards. We, the viewer, will be introduced to an exquisite focus on figurative sound play via local classical musicians and ‘noise artists’.

Emerging multidisciplinary visual artist THOMAS RUSSELL works with visual projection in performance, video art and installation. With an integration of lo-fi and new technologies, Russell’s artwork creates an organic, flowing visual experience that invites an audience into the now. At Sugar Mountain 2013, Thomas will exhibit You Are Environment, an interactive video feedback installation. The work reflects exploration of Zen philosophy and ideas on human consciousness and its relationship to nature.

PHANTôSCOPIA present an extra-sensory exploration of human perception and phantasmagoria in a panoramic audio-visual display. Phantôscopia takes participants through a sonic storm and induced magnetic sleep, to project and explore the shadowy landscapes of the mind. Starring Midnight Juggernauts front-man Vincent Vendetta, and you, Phantôscopia is an immersive show, blending new technology and occult philosophy into a unique and transcendent performance.

With a myriad of cassette and record designs, some for his own band Woods, and a book out on Not Not Fun Records, JEREMY EARL‘s distinctive ink-drawings and collages are free-form and nostalgic, full of remnants of psychedelia, abstract folk aesthetics, and found photographs.

Tickets for the 2013 Sugar Mountain Festival are on sale now via The Forum Box Office, Ticketmaster and Polyester Records.
Buy tickets
www.sugarmountainfestival.com

SATELLITE EVENT PROGRAM
Complementing the Sugar Mountain Festival will be seven inspiring satellite events, spanning film screenings, Q&As, exhibitions and art installations, presented by a group of forward thinking contemporary artists.

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Thursday 17 January – Phil Elverum Exhibition – Chapter House Lane
Beyond the music of Mount Eerie comes a collection of photography
by Phil Elverum.
Launch: Thursday 17 January at 6pm.
Duration: Thursday 17 January – Sunday 3 February.
FREE ENTRY
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Friday 18 January – Many Many Exhibition Launch – Lamington Drive
A creative collaboration between architectural designer Stephanie Poole and publisher Rachel Elliot-Jones. ‘POOL’ explores the liquid landscape
and the effect it has on optics and movement, as a result of its optical and physical density.
Launch: Friday 18 January at 6pm.
Duration: Friday 18 January – Saturday 26 January.
FREE ENTRY
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Sunday 20 January – Stones Throw’s night of music video – Rooftop Bar
With Peanut Butter Wolf (Q&A) and Jonti (DJ set) plus special guests to be announced
Stones Throw mastermind Peanut Butter Wolf talks about the music videos that have inspired him, past and present. Followed by DJ sets by Jonti, Stones Throw’s only Australian signing, and special guests.
Sunday 20 January at 6pm
FREE ENTRY
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Monday 21 January – Jeremy Earl Exhibition Launch – Polyester Records
An exhibition of new and old works by Woods frontman Jeremy Earl.
Launch: 6pm Monday 21 January at 6.00pm. Exhibition runs from Monday 21 January – Tuesday 29 January.
FREE ENTRY
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Sunday 27 January – Beg, Scream and Shout! Film Festival – Shadow Electric at The Abbotsford Convent
Beg, Scream and Shout! began in 2009, showcasing independent, DIY and experimental films by Melbourne artists. Shadow Electric will be open to the public at 3pm for table tennis, food vans, drinks and DJs. Films begin at dusk, to be followed by a panel discussion on DIY filmmaking.
Sunday 27 January, 3pm – 12am
Two sessions: 3pm (free entry) and 6.30pm (Ticketed $10/$15)
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Sunday 27 January – Boiler Room TV Live from Sugar Mountain – The Bottom End
Boiler Room TV, the international internet underground party phenomenon will host a special one-off show at The Bottom End. Boiler Room will bring the Sugar Mountain Festival into the living rooms of discerning dance music lovers worldwide and showcase the talented array of local producers that Australia has to offer.
9pm
Tickets: $20
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Monday 28 January – Bangin Aus Day BBQ – Schoolhouse Studios
Following the success of last year’s Australia Day Bonanza, Sugar Mountain are proud to present another round of music and merriment, this time in the lush surrounds of the Schoolhouse Studios. Featuring Thee Oh Sees, Dick Diver, Scotdrakula + DJs + BBQ + more.
2 – 6pm
Tickets: TBA

www.sugarmountainfestival.com

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Craft Hatch – September 2012

Aug 10, ’12 12:28 PM

IMAGES Top: Jewellery by Sarah Crowley, Alessia Pegoli and Karina Piper; baskets by Vicki Penguin; bags by Mattt. Middle: jewellery by CatRabbit; bangles by Hellkat Designs; ceramics by Bridget Salter. Bottom: Stationery design by Beckie & Olive; designs by Gently Unfurling Sneak; ceramics
by Shiko.

Craft Hatch
Craft’s quarterly market for young, student and emerging craft makers and artists is back at 1000 £ Bend.

11am to 4pm, Saturday 1 September 2012
At 1000 £ Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St Melbourne

Craft Hatch is Craft’s quarterly ‘incubator’ market showcasing the work of student and emerging designers. The market is a unique opportunity for anyone to purchase the freshest, hand-made products direct from the designer, including home wares, jewellery, clothing, accessories, stationery and more.

More at Craft

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DESIGN:MADE:TRADE

Jul 18, ’12 4:54 PM

DESIGN:MADE:TRADE
19 – 22 July
Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne

Featuring over 90 exhibitors presenting their innovative works covering: product design, graphic design, textiles, software, lighting, furniture, fashion, landscape design, accessories and handmade objects.

Visitors can add to their experience through a number of seminars and programs. The event also acts as a platform to help build business partnerships, by bringing together a diverse range of design disciplines, it also gives professional and emerging designers the chance for profile elevation.

DESIGN:MADE:TRADE is now in its fifth year of presenting the very best
of Australian design: comprising of a two day trade fair, two day public consumer fair.

Alison Jackson (Gold and Silversmith)
Anton Gerner and Caja (Furniture Design)
Design Island
Designed in Brunswick (Fashion & Textiles)
Dorothy and Evelyn (Product Design)
Hasa Design (Product Design)
Illuminiglass
Ink & Spindle (Fashion & Textiles)
Jam Factory
Kambamboo (Fashion & Textiles)
New Model Beauty Queen (Fashion & Textiles)
The Dharma Door (Fashion & Textiles)
Uimi (Fashion & Textiles)
Ute (Product Design)
Zefyr (Jewellery Design)
+more

See the full exhibitor list here

designmadetrade.com.au

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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents Game Masters

Jun 25, ’12 4:42 PM

Masanobu Endō, Xevious, 1982

28 June – 28 October 2012

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents Game Masters, as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2012.

Game Master‘s will be showcasing over 125 playable videogames. The work of leading local and international videogame designers from the arcade era through to the latest console and mobile game technology.

Halfbrick, Fruit Ninja, 2010

The exhibition also profiles over 30 game designers: including well-known international, independent and Australian game designers. We’ll get to see the different aspects of the creative process of what goes into the design of each game, including: rare concept artwork, newly commissioned interviews and playable games.

Yuji Naka and the Sonic Team, Sonic Generations, 2011

Designers include: Masanobu Endō (JPN, Xevious, 1982), Toru Iwatani (JPN, Pac-Man, 1980), Eugene Jarvis (USA, Defender, 1980), Konami (JPN, Scramble, 1981), Ed Logg (USA, Asteroids, 1979), Tomohiro Nishikado (JPN, Space Invaders, 1978), Taito (JPN, Elevator Action, 1983), Tim Skelly (USA, Rip-Off, 1980) and Dave Theurer (USA, Missile Command, 1980).

Blizzard Entertainment, WoW

Leading contemporary designers featured in-depth include Blizzard Entertainment (USA, World of Warcraft, 2004), Paulina Bozek (UK/CAN, SingStar, 2004), Hideo Kojima (JPN, METAL GEAR SOLID, 1998), Tetsuya Mizuguchi (JPN, Child of Eden, 2011), Peter Molyneux OBE (UK, Populous, 1989, Dungeon Keeper series, Fable series), Yuji Naka and the Sonic Team (JPN, Sonic the Hedgehog, 1991), Nintendo (JPN, Super Mario Bros, 1985, The Legend of Zelda, 1986), Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy (USA, Rock Band, 2007), Tim Schafer (USA, Psychonauts, 2005), Warren Spector (USA, Disney’s Epic Mickey, 2010), Yu Suzuki (JPN, Hang On, 1983), TT Games (UK, LEGO Star Wars: The Videogame, 2005), Fumito Ueda (JPN, Ico, 2001, Shadow of the Colossus, 2005) and Will Wright (USA, SimCity, 1989).

Hideo Kojima, Metal Gear Solid 4, 2008

More information at ACMI
Tickets here

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The Melbourne Design Market

Jun 25, ’12 4:30 PM

The Melbourne Design Market will be returning on Sunday July 29, from 10am to 5pm, at the Federation Square undercover car park (Level 3, Fed Square, cnr Flinders St and Swanston St, Melbourne). Entry is free.

For the first market of 2012, a number of new and innovative stallholders will join the Melbourne Design Market family, delivering a curated mix of eclectic homewares and fashions, innovative ideas and products.

More information here

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Media Lab Melbourne

May 29, ’12 12:18 PM

The Mediated Body Of Plants

Media Lab Melbourne offers intensive workshops, lectures, exhibition opportunities, local and international networking, plus skill sharing between artists, designers, scientists, couturiers, performers, players, crafters and creatives.

New technologies and electronic media are likely to provide both the causes and solutions to our problems of the future. Understanding their relation to people and culture will be vital for a successful, modern society. As technologies are increasingly absorbed into the fabric of everyday life, the imperative for creative thinkers to address the technological influx from a critical perspective will become paramount.

Unconstrained Sprint

The Sprints: the events where the the ideas come to life: 8 days of production + 1 day exhibition.

The sprint will begin with a presentation of the theme and of each selected project. Sprints will run over two weekends and the week in between. On the final Sunday each project will be presented and the outcomes discussed. All projects will be documented on the Media Lab Melbourne site. We are open to all manner of collaborations.
Having an enormous lab in the heart of Collingwood with an ever growing number of facilities including laser cutter, 3D printer, 3D scanner, industrial sewing facility, sound booths, electronics and all manner of tools to work with metals and wood.

Unconstrained Sprint

Media Lab Melbourne was founded by Pierre Proske, Tim Devine and
Jesse Stevens.
More information here

SPRINT #4 ANTISCREEN
21-29 July

Media Lab Melbourne will be leading an intensive 9 day workshop on unconventional, novel and subverted light imagery techniques. We are looking to break out of the constraints that conventional screens and classic aspect ratio framing bind us. Projection is light transformed into meaning – this is the baseline we will be working from. Unusual projection masks, pinhole cameras, shadow plays, projection mappings, alternative light displays – we are open to any projects within the scope of our proposal. The final day of the Sprint will involve a showcase of projects developed during the period.

Applicants from diverse creative and technical backgrounds are welcome
as usual.

The Antiscreen sprint will be held between the 21st-29th July, and will launch on Saturday the 21st July at 10:30am.

The venue for the event will be Seventh Gallery – 155 Gertrude Street, Fitzroy.

Click here to apply

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Peaches + Keen at Craft Victoria, Flinders Lane

Apr 11, ’12 4:19 PM

Photo by Beth Wilkinson

A new Window Space exhibition at Craft by two inner-city creatives

Peaches + Keen’s The Hanging Garden
In the Craft’s Window Space
31 Finders Lane, Melbourne
On display until 5 May 2012

The Hanging Garden is Peaches + Keen’s new work exploring different methods of bringing colour, joy and leafy delights into the living space. The exhibition features hand-detailed prints suspended beside objects for the home, as well as limited edition books and of course a variety of bright and colourful hanging plants.

Peaches + Keen is Lily Daley, a graphic designer, and Lucy Hearn, a gold and silversmith. When they are not lusting over plants at Garden World, Lily and Lucy combine their names, skills, and love of all things bold and bright into the creation of tactile, one-off items that make people smile.

www.peachesandkeen.com
www.craftvic.org.au

Gallery & Shop
Open Monday to Saturday 10am-5pm
31 Flinders Lane
Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia

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