DQ33 has hit the news stands – be sure to get your copy for all the latest parties, products, projects and people, including the Top Ten Forces and Faces of Australian & New Zealand Design.
April 1st, 2009
This month we bring you a very special issue of Design Quarterly, looking at the freshest and most outstanding talent on the scene today.
Meet Chris Doyle (pictured above), a Sydney graphic designer who received an Australian Graphic Design Association Award for developing his very on personal style guidelines (download here: 1.4MB).
Chris is one of our 2009 Top Ten Forces and Faces of Australian and New Zealand Design. Join him along with nine other amazing individuals to discover the highly conceptual, imaginative and industry-leading ideas coming out of the next generation of designers.
Take a trip to New York where Zaha Hadid seduces viewers with her provocative and seductive sculptures and installations. If you’re looking for something a little closer to home, stop over in Adelaide where technology, textiles and design intersect to create a unique sensory experience for the user.
In this issue we also look at the state of copyright and the economy, finding out how to combat copy-cats, protect your creative and boost your business sense.
Last but never least is our ever boisterous parties section, transporting you back to some the most outlandish, colourful, glamorous and outgoing events this side of the century.
DQ is a unique Australian design publication that goes behind the scenes of the global design industry. It chats with the personalities, visits the exhibitions, and parties with the people. From this dynamic viewpoint, DQ offers inspiration and ideas, and is an indispensable guide to what is happening in design right now.
(61 2) 9368 0150
dq@indesign.com.au
designquarterly.com.au
INDESIGN is on instagram
Follow @indesignlive
A searchable and comprehensive guide for specifying leading products and their suppliers
Keep up to date with the latest and greatest from our industry BFF's!
The Geelong College’s Sport and Wellbeing Centre ‘Belerren’ designed by Wardle is designed around bringing in natural light. But Shade Factor’s job was to help modulate and precisely control it for the most important competitive moments.
In the second instalment of our performance seating three-parter, we turn to DKO’s Michael Drescher and Jacob Olsen to peek behind Sayl’s confident architectural form and explore the ideas of inclusivity, adaptability and freedom to move as hallmarks of what sitting your best actually means.
In the first instalment of our three-part series exploring what it means to sit your best, we pose the question to Gray Puksand’s Dale O’Brien, who discusses the importance of ease and majority rule when it comes to sitting and reveals why specifying a task chair is not unlike choosing a Volvo.
In the last instalment of our three-part performance seating series, Alex Bain from Architectus explains why sitting well shouldn’t feel like sitting at all and explores an unexpected success metric of the hybrid workplace: the grounding power of emotional support.
Are you heading over to Hong Kong for the Business of Design Week this December? Here’s a quick wrap of what you can expect to see and hear this year.
The Melbourne Rectangular Stadium (also known as the Melbourne Soccer Stadium) is an outdoor sporting stadium officially named AAMI Park during its sponsorship deal with AAMI insurance.
The internet never sleeps! Here's the stuff you might have missed
The decision isn’t really about budget. It comes down to who designs the kitchen, who builds it, and whether those are the same people installing it in your home.
Designed by Billard Leece Partnership, the Wattle Building brings expanded clinical services together with a more legible, family-centred experience of hospital care.
A recent Design Talk Series event presented by Royal Oak Floors saw Melbourne-based interior designer, and founder and principal of Mim Design, Miriam Fanning in live conversation with our editor.
Scheduled to open later this year on the banks of the Parramatta River, the 30,000-square-metre Powerhouse museum — designed by Moreau Kusunoki in collaboration with Genton — represents a major shift in the geography of Sydney’s cultural infrastructure.