Recently recorded Powerhouse Museum lectures and events

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d factory
Monthly design talks from fashion, interiors and architecture to innovations and new media, d factory brings together industry insiders, designers, journalists, students and all lovers of great design. more...

Free radicals: a new kind of debate
A series of sustainability talks held once a month, at the Powerhouse Museum, designed to ignite fresh debate on issues that will affect our future.
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Matali Crasset: hospitality, generosity, technology
Recorded 17 August 2006
A former protégé of Philippe Starck, Crasset now runs her own highly successful studio, a multidisciplinary practice with a mix of industrial, furniture, graphic, interior and exhibition design. Crasset’s recent major commissions include the HI Hotel in Nice and temporary accommodation for the Stedelijk Museum in Den Bosch.
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Is there an Australian gambling aesthetic?
The gambling design industry
Recorded August 2005
In this thought-provoking talk, Dr Charles Pickett, Powerhouse curator of Australian history and society, ranges broadly over considerations of architecture and design, Sydney and Las Vegas, the personalities, the past and present of gambling, racing, casinos, clubs and, of course, poker machines.
listen to recorded talk (mp3 13.84mb, 29.5 minutes)

Art of logo design & visual identity
Saturday 20 August 2005
As part of Sydney Design 05
Sydney-based graphic designer Mark Gowing talks about the conception and design of corporate logos and branding. You will find it useful to look at Mark's website at www.markgowing.com while you are listening to the audio, so that you can see examples of the work he is talking about.
listen to recorded talk (mp3 23mb, 1 hour)

Podcasting - the end of radio?
Sunday 14 August 2005
As part of Sydney Design 05
Vaughan Healey and Angus Kingston (Radio National) discuss how current developments in Pod casting are transforming radio as we know it.
listen to recorded talk (mp3 21mb, 1 hour)

Music industry aesthetics: sound vs image
Saturday 13 August 2005
As part of Sydney Design 05
Ruby Grennan and Tom Ellard discuss the role of design and aesthetics in marketing the music industry.
listen to recorded talk (mp3 28mb, 1 hour)

Weta Workshop Lecture
Sunday 27 February 2005
Richard Taylor and partner Tania Rodger head New Zealand’s Weta Workshop, one of the film industry’s biggest special effects companies. In collaboration with director Peter Jackson, Weta Workshop was the creative force behind the hugely successful The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.

Weta created the special make-up effects and prosthetics, miniatures, armour and weaponry, and provided the design, fabrication and on-set operation of the creatures that featured throughout the films, along with the full range of digital services from simple compositing through to animation of fully computer generated creatures.

Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger talked about their special effects journey from the beginnings of Weta to their worldwide success and recognition with The Lord of the Rings films.

The Hot Glass Roadshow
The Hot Glass Roadshow from The Corning Museum of Glass, NY USA featured a unique, mobile, state-of-the-art glassmaking studio. Visitors were able to watch as the glassblowers transform molten glass into works of art.
The Hot Glass Roadshow was presented by The Corning Museum of Glass, NY USA in partnership with the Powerhouse Museum. Sponsored by Sydney College of the Arts, BOC Gases, Scotts Transport Mt Gambier, Woodrow Kilns and Ausglass.
Friday 11 March – Sunday 13 March 2005.

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