Articles tagged ‘Design’.
By Meg Sattler Most of us don’t spend a whole lot of time contemplating or discussing our underwear. For Kathryn McAllister, founder of Wonderpants,...
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By Elke Johnson Last July I went to Arnhem Land to do traditional basket weaving workshops with Aboriginal women. The community was called Mapuru. It ...
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Art in celebration of the living spirit. Moolana Yakama: Line Up includes… Smoking Ceremony: Ron Murrary (WambaWamba) and Rickie Nelson (JarraJarr...
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By Meg Sattler Castlemaine artist Bernadette Kalotas has a DIY approach to life. “If I’d like to have something, I try to make it,” she says. ...
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A revolutionary source of funding is growing in the fertile technosphere of the internet and is now coming to Castlemaine. CI met with Mez Woodward re...
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Pathological consumption has become so normalised that we scarcely notice it. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 11 December 2012 There’...
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By Hannah Kacir On the 20th of October, over 25 students and two teachers from Castlemaine Secondary College travelled to Melbourne to compete in the...
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Article on user centered design (UCD) by John Wood on core77 looks at UCD as a limited model for design that is implicit in cultural, financial and e...
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The cloud and smart phones mean more servers using more energy – see the infographic from Samsung below and read more on Treehugger....
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On Sunday 9th September 69 volunteers, 69 bicycles, 60 cars and one bus gathered in Canberra to recreate a world-renowned photograph taken more than ...
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This device combines CNC (computer numerical control) with a hand held router to over come the scale limits on CNC machining – that is the mater...
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Imagine learning the essentials of eco-building and how to produce your own organic food – FREE! Thanks to a new volunteer initiative entitled &...
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Seventy years ago the Grampians were visible on the horizon from Point Cook, but now you can’t see them from a plane taking off at Tullamarine. Clea...
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A new design for wind generation from Saphon in Tunisia claims to be more efficient and less expensive to build. Inspired by sailboats and using hy...
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Find out the issues and what’s in store when ‘Smart’ Meters are switched on at an information stall at Wesley Hill Market Castlemai...
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The Mount Alexander Branch of the National Trust of Australia (Vic) has said the Old Castlemaine Gaol is significant to the Castlemaine landscape, an...
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German makeover of a concrete rail overpass and ode to the mighty Lego. See more at Designboom....
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The classifieds software we use recently had an upgrade with significant structural change. Since then we have had a number of people who couldn’...
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Another study explores how bad sitting is for you. This US study looks at sedentary work and watching TV and quantifies the risks of reduced lifespa...
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Life cycle analysis looks at the impacts of a product or service from raw materials through manufacturing, distribution, use and finally disposal. Ley...
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By Tim Preston. Imagine a chair that is very comfortable, light, strong, made with renewable materials, and has a highly evolved design- a chair that ...
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Chris Rieger from Brisbane has combined two technologies for this project, the wireless power transfer is pretty impressive. Check out Chris’s w...
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No more hot mug marks on your furniture. Originally made for his own use and now funded by Kickstarter to go onto production. See the full story on ...
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Designed by PoChih Lai, this skate board can travel down stairs. It’s worth a look at the website to see the prototypes and design evolution tha...
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Will it be the next big thing? Tata Motors of India thinks so. What will the oil companies do to stop it? It is an auto engine that runs on air. T...
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From Leigh Hammerton, Murtoa This shed, built in 1941, is the largest rustically-built structure in the world at 300 m long and 20 m high. It is curr...
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By Lizzie Geddes The Castlemaine Quirk is a series where readers are challenged to guess the where, what and why of the content in a photo. Extravagan...
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Stephen won the public architecture category for the Alice Springs Steiner School. Thirteen projects were submitted to the Australian Institute of Ar...
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Mount Alexander Shire Council has appointed Haskell Architects to design the Newstead Recreation Reserve Sporting Pavilion. The project budget for the...
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