Object's Audio Design Museum has launched in Melbourne!
Design tours are now available for free download as podcasts for iPods, iPhones and mp3 players from www.audiodesignmuseum.com
Each podcast is narrated with personal anecdotes and stories from 100 local designers and include supporting maps and imagery.
Further tours to come in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane!
July 27 - October 10
Commencing late July, Object will play host to the Spring Series - 14 exciting new projects, marking a new phase in our programming schedule.
For 10 weeks, the Spring Series will platform diverse and experimental activity that will replace Object's regular program of exhibitions.
Click here to visit our new Spring Series minisite to see what is to come!
Calling all artists, designers, curators, creative thinkers, architects & users of city space. Click here to join the HotHouse and here for more information.
When: Tuesday 10 August
Time: 6.00pm -7.30pm
Where: Target Theatre at the Powerhouse Museum
Object is proudly supporting Smart Design Smart Business, a special event presented by the Creative Industries Innovation Centre and produced by the Powerhouse Museum as part of Sydney Design Festival 2010.
Join us to share the success stories of experiential design firm, E-2 and home-wares and jewellery designers, Dinosaur Designs. These two different businesses will explore how they created, leveraged and monetised their intellectual property.
Find out more here.
Register now to reserve your place at Smart Design Smart Business.
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Saturday 26 June, 2pm - 4pm
Surry Hills Library
In June, alongside the exhibition Mind + Matter: Meditations on Immateriality, which will be on show in Object Gallery, and in partnership with The Australian National University and the Surry Hills Library, Object will host a symposium on current directions in Australia glass. The symposium will reflect on the show and explore the minimalist abstract tendencies that are currently evident in contemporary Australian glass. This trend will also be explored in relation to the wider international context for contemporary glass.
For more information and registration details click here.
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10 April - 30 May 2010
Click here to meet Design Now!'s 2010 Finalists. Visit the Design Now! 2010 minisite where you'll find everything you need to know about this year's exhibition, including the finalists, the judges, the prizes and the winners!
In 2010, the exhibition of 18 finalists will showcase 3 outstanding graduates from each of the following categories;
Design for the built environment / Design for the body / Design for communication / Design for studio production / Design for the home / Design for industry.
Major Sponsor: Living Edge
CDE is a new, open access, peer-reviewed, online journal that interrogates discourses surrounding craft and design practice.
Dr Kevin Murray is guest editor of the third issue of craft + design enquiry e-journal focusing on the carbon issue - sustainability in craft and design. The journal is calling for papers for this issue by 30 June 2010. It will be published in 2011.
Living Edge returns in 2010 as the major sponsor of Design Now, partnering with Object Gallery to recognize and raise the profile of emerging Australian designers.
This year also sees the return of The Living Edge Travelling Scholarship. This prize sends one outstanding entrant to LA, home of the Eames Office for 5 nights.
Living Edge is committed to supporting Australian design, stocking Australian products and fostering the designers of the future.
DEADLINE 30 June 2010
Object Gallery has two key exhibition spaces; the Main Gallery and the Project Space. We invite proposals for consideration in the Project Space; a space ideally suited to solo or small scale group exhibitions by both emerging and established practitioners working across craft and design practice.
We are now accepting proposals for Project Space shows between July 2011 and June 2012.
All submissions should include the following:
12 images of work produced in the last two years
A 2 page (maximum) outline of your proposal
A current CV (1 page maximum)
If you would like any further information please contact Kate Ford, Exhibitions Coordinator k.ford@object.com.au
6 February - 28 March 2010
Object has invited five outstanding designers/design studios from NSW; each working in very different disciplines to respond to a following statement about sustainable design.
The featured studios are:
Digital Eskimo (Strategic Design Agency);
studio one8one7 (Graphic Design);
Lava (Architecture/Interior Design);
Bird Textile (Textiles/Clothing Design); and
Schamburg + Alvisse (Furniture Design).
Please visit our State.Respond. minisite to gain further insight into each of the practices of each designer/design team.
Object: Australian Centre for Craft and Design has announced the 18 finalists for its annual national graduate exhibition Design Now! 2010. This highly anticipated event showcases the outstanding work of 2009 design graduates selected from over 250 nominees across Australia.
Click here to find out who are the 18 finalists for 2010.
Prizes will be awarded in association with Design Now! 2010 (details to be released March 2010).
Design Now! 2010 will run from 10 April - 30 May 2010 in Object's Main Gallery.
Image: Michaela Bruton, Vol 1.1, 1.0 (detail), 2009. Photo: Jeremy Dillon
