Articles tagged ‘Design’.
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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Working patterns are constantly evolving. We gradually spend more time in our working environments, and this in turn means that we often need to make ...
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By Tracy Petrucci What happens after you die? You become a tree, of course. Spanish designer Martín Azúa has designed an urn that not only biodegr...
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Australia has a strong international reputation in media arts. This success has often been attributed to the collaborative nature of the industry as a...
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Philippe Starck and Magis have created Zartan, a chair range made from ’liquid wood’. The new technology uses wood powder (derived from d...
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Werner Aisslinger, hemp chair; sneak preview from Milan design week April 2011 at Ventura Lambrate in the exhibition ‘poetry happens’ Lo...
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Watching the construction at Southern Cross Station over the years I’ve been curious about this building. An article on Designboom explains it a...
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M55: the beast hybrid electric bike In the hybrid bicycle, a sensor monitored drive system automatically optimizes the power input of the motor relat...
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The digital revolution has triggered a wild proliferation of video games, but what of the revolution in biotechnology? Does it have the potential to s...
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‘House design offers immense scope for making positive change in our lives. If we ask ourselves the right questions about how we want to live an...
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By Tim Preston What is Australian design? Is it any different to design in other countries? Interviews with Australia’s leading designers and de...
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By Tim Preston Industrial designers Manu Rapoport and Martín Sabattini from Designo Patagonia are making products with local materials and craftsmans...
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There are printers that can build up solid objects from a computer (digital) model, an evolution of the rapid prototyping machines that produce plasti...
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Sydney based photographer Rod Owen has a new site up. Click the surfer to check it out. Melbourne artist Bern Emmerichs is moving back to central Vic...
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Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American engineer, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. Fuller pub...
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If we can stay true to the original intention of the machine age – to minimise human suffering, or ardor – and add the goal of increasing ...
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What do you think? Follow the link below to a quick online survey of your opinions on the new police station design. Click here to take survey For det...
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By Tim Preston Repair, reuse – some cultures, through need, can keep an object or product going for many years, or evolve it into something else use...
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