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How are smart businesses going green?
Free Radicals - Thursday 8 March, 2007
This month we ask what businesses should be doing in terms of their sustainability commitments. Derek Williamson from the Powerhouse Museum leads a discussion with Alexandra Matyear, Whitcher Matyear Architects; Michael Bown, project manager Amcor; Tone Wheeler, architect, Environa Studio, and Tony Stapledon, Director, Stapledon and Co.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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(mp3 28mb, 1 hour)
Diana Simmonds, Editor, Sydney Alumni Magazine
Diana, Queen of Hearts: 10 years on
30 September
Diana Simmondsis a writer and journalist who while living in London found
herself sharing tips on household cleansers with a tall, shy teenager from
the flat upstairs. Two years later, the teenager turned into Princess Diana
and a year after that, was the subject of Princess Di: the National Dish
(the making of a media superstar), the first ever book about the girl who
became an international phenomenon. It was written by Diana Simmonds
and ten years ago, she sadly recorded the end of the relationship in Diana
the Hunted. Meanwhile, Diana Simmonds had become one of Sydney’s
best-known and most respected arts critics and commentators. She currently
edits SAM – the Sydney University Alumni Magazine and
www.stagenoise.com – the dedicated arts website.
Design Quarter talk - Paul Keating
23 May 2007
The Honourable Paul Keating was on the jury that selected the winning design for the redevelopment of East Darling Harbour. In this lecture he presents his unique perspective on the selection process, the outcome, and the impact that the development of this historic foreshore will have.
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Design Quarter talk: Caravana
28 March 2007
Cathy Braid and Kirsten Ainsworth tell the story of their renowned fashion label, Caravana. This inspiring duo has been working with women’s groups in countries where work options for women barely exist. Now over 500 artisans in Central Asia work for Caravana applying traditional techniques to highly sought-after contemporary garments.
Tom Dixon: Making it
18 October 2006
In Sydney to announce the winner of the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award, celebrated British designer Tom Dixon talks about 'making it' as a designer. Dixon presents an honest account of the ups and downs of being an untrained designer who still feels that he is at the beginning of what could turn out to be a rather interesting career!
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Matali Crasset: hospitality, generosity, technology
Sydney Design 06 keynote lecture
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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Gift of the garb: Japanese fashion
6 May 2009
Dr Sherman in conversation with Powerhouse Museum Senior Curator Claire Roberts as they discuss her philosophy of acquiring and retiring garments and her longstanding appreciation of Japanese fashion.
Stepping Out, Three Centuries of Shoes
Louise Mitchell, former Curator, Decorative Arts and Design and Author of the book Stepping Out, Three Centuries of Shoes
17 September 2008
To complement the relaunch of the Museum’s publication Stepping out: three centuries of shoes, this illustrated talk examines shoes from the collection dating from the 1700s to today. Feet haven’t changed much over the centuries but shoes certainly have. Find out how the Museum’s extraordinary shoe collection reveals foot fetishes and fantasies as well as changes in fashion, society and shoe making.
Does originality still exist?
Birgit Lohmann
17 August 2008
This is a question often asked of Birgit Lohmann, CEO and editor-in-chief of the international online design publication designboom. In this talk Lohmann searches for an answer by drawing on her experiences working in a transcultural context and organising international design competitions. Born in Hamburg, Germany, Lohmann studied industrial design in Florence before moving to Milan, where she has lived and worked, since 1987. She has worked as a designer and product development manager for Achille Castiglioni, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari and Renzo Piano, a design historian for justice departments and auction houses, and a researcher and lecturer in universities. In 1999 she co-founded designboom, where she is currently editor-in-chief, head of educational programming and curator for international exhibitions.
Workshopping Design
13 August 2008
Donald Corey sheds light on the process of Product Design: describing how product ideas are born, refined, tested, patented, and brought to market. Hel explores where designers get inspiration and how seemly meaningless images or occurrences later help shape products. Also discussed will be WORKSHOPPED's role in bringing Australian design to the attention of the local and international general public and getting Australian design from prototype to production and the retail market.
Seidler’s first studio
Penelope Seidler in conversation with fellow architects Colin Griffiths, Professors James Weirick and Philip Goad
In 1948 Harry Seidler arrived in Sydney, from America where he had been schooled by Bauhaus luminaries in exile, Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and Josef Albers. His first studio at Point Piper which is recreated in Modern Times reveals aspects of these cosmopolitan origins. Join Penelope Seidler, architect, Harry Seidler & Associates, who lived for the first year of their marriage in the Point Piper studio, in conversation with Colin Griffiths who spent his first 3 decades of architectural practice working as Harry Seidler’s right hand man beginning in the Point Piper studio. They will be joined by architectural historians Professor James Weirick, UNSW, a world authority on Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin and Professor Philip Goad, University of Melbourne, co-editor of both Modernism & Australia: Documents on Art, Design and Architecture 1917-1967 and Modern times: The untold history of Modernism in Australia.
Exploring the Unseen Milky Way
Dr Naomi McClure-Griffiths (CSIRO Australia Telescope National Facility)
May 2008
The great band of stars stretching across the sky every night is made up of stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. But there is much more to the Milky Way than meets the eye! The space between the stars is filled with gas, with temperatures ranging from near absolute zero to more than a million degrees and moving at speeds of up to a million kilometres per hour. This dynamic gas is the soup from which stars are formed. Dr McClure-Griffiths will take us on a guided tour of the Milky Way as seen in gas by the Parkes Radio Telescope (The Dish). Dr McClure-Griffiths was the recipient of the Powerhouse Wizard 2007 award sponsored by Wizard Home Loans.
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Heard it through the grapevine
29 November 2007
Features the collaborative efforts of tertiary design students and industry practitioners, as they respond to a real brief set by AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association), focusing on wine label design and packaging.
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Design Quarter talk – Ron Arad
29 October
A central figure in contemporary design, the Israeli-born, London based designer and architect Ron Arad gave an illustrated talk at the Powerhouse Museum while in town to present the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award.
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