Articles tagged ‘Design’.
Warning: this is one of those feel-good stories–and a very good one at that. The town of Cardigan, in Wales, was the centre of jean-making for y...
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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are proud to be jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 25 Februar...
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Castlemaine Independent: available on iPhone/Smartphones. Simply go to your App store and grab a free RSS reader (for iPhones – ‘Free RSS ...
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It’s Valentines Day on Tuesday and CI is offering a great new competition! It’s called: An outbreak of lerve. (All right, it’s a bit...
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Council has recently concluded hosting five community information sessions about the proposed indoor aquatic and leisure centre. The information sessi...
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By Tim Preston Three new trends in product design show how the process of creating new products is shifting. As the previous CAD revolution (Computer ...
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It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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Despite widespread opposition, Council is pursuing its indoor pool option at the Western Reserve. This week Council has presented a concept design aft...
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By Tim Preston The link below will take you to Bret Victor’s brief rant on interaction design (the design of how we physically work with technol...
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By Andrew McKenna I was in a dilemma. I needed some timber to build a retaining wall in the back yard. I considered the possibilities: old redgum slee...
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The Bendigo Sustainability Group held the 2011 Inaugural Bendigo Sustainability Awards on Friday night, and Castlemaine’s usethings received Hig...
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Polish designer Bashko Trybek’s ‘serpent’, a modular shelving system that uses four vivid zigzagging rods as support for wooden pla...
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Mount Alexander Sustainability Group (MASG) and Council are jointly hosting a sustainable house tour in Castlemaine on Saturday 15 October. The tour...
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For our readers using ipads we’ve added a button on the bottom of the mobile site to switch back to standard website mode. Steve’s pretty ...
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A new joint venture between Blade Electric Vehicles, DLG Battery Limited and IRES Asia Pacific Pty Ltd is bringing 100 new hi-tech jobs to Castlemain...
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A new book - Permaculture Pioneers – will be launched on Saturday 17 September 10-4pm at Winters Flat PS. Central Victoria has always been one of ...
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RMIT Architecture+Philosophy 2011 Program 7pm Friday September 16th RMIT Building 8, Level 11 360 Swanston Street Melbourne Peter Cowman on ‘Living ...
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“My work here is done” – Steve Jobs on discovering CI has reformatted its mobile device rendering to allow easy viewing from all mob...
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By Tim Preston. Body Conscious Design, a lecture by Dr Galen Cranz at the School for F.M. Alexander Studies in Melbourne recently confirmed for me cha...
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Last night at Zinc in Federation Square Lifehouse Design won the state-wide 10 Star Challenge run by the Building Designers Association of Victoria (...
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Castlemaine Community House has issued its first program since moving the office to the Faulder Watson Hall at 210 Barker Street, Castlemaine. In addi...
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Chairs are physiological disasters… the human body is just not made to sit for long periods. Anyone with a bad back will know the pressure on th...
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By Tim Preston The concept of concentrating the many household cleaning fluids has been around for a while – who wants to ship water? A few prod...
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Victoria University trade students are building transportable wooden homes for customers who haul them to every corner of the state as granny flats, b...
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A collaboration between local designers Lifehouse Design, architects Crosby Architects, and energy rater Lewin Consulting, has reaped first-round acco...
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Built for the Bush: The green architecture of rural Australia is a travelling exhibition by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. Simple, energy-efficient...
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Castlemaine manufacturer Ron D Swan has developed a new design for a laptop sleeve. By Tim Preston The impetus for this design innovation, as with all...
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From June 29–July 3, Melbourne’s Fed Square will be transformed by some of Victoria’s most gifted regional artists and their communities. As par...
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By Tim Preston Castlemaine-based sustainable architects Lifehouse Design recently launched their ‘LiFEHOUSES’ concept – a modular ho...
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A new style of bike helmet designed by Anirudha Rao uses a waterproof cardboard matrix as the lining. This design is stronger and lighter than polyst...
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By David Woodgrove Get your ass on an Alien! While the rest of the world has been asleep at the wheel on climate change, usethings has been working ti...
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