Podcasts: the new direction in museum experience

Attracting a new generation of museum visitor including those who can relate to the technology, those who feel comfortable experimenting with it and those who want to make their own museum critique, podcasting is on it’s way to becoming the alternative audio guide.

A tour can be downloaded from a home computer directly to an iPod or MP3 and taken to the Museum to be listened to while viewing an exhibition at leisure. Offering discounted entries to visitors using the technology, museums are laying the stones for a secure future attracting the new generation of technology users.

Esa Jaske Gallery

Chippendale is the place to spot the up and coming galleries. Esa Jaske Gallery is currently exhibiting two fabulous exhibitions, Species, by Joachim Froese and Parapraxes, by Eva Marosy-Weide.

Queensland design awards

Entries are now open for the Queensland Design Awards 2006 – Queensland’s largest multidisciplinary design awards program, presented by the Design Institute of Australia, Queensland Branch and Resene. The competition is open to Queensland designers and design students. An exciting new addition to the program is the POL Oxygen and Arts Queensland Designer of the Year Award.

Entries close 4pm March 9, 2006.

The QLD Design Awards are sponsored by POL Oxygen magazine and O2+ Design Directory.

Via POL Oxygen

Paul Wrigley @ Barry Keldoulis

Be seen @ Gallery Barry Keldoulis, one of the fastest growing contemporary galleries in Sydney. After having started in Chippendale, Sydney, the gallery has moved to the coverted Danks St complex – prime commercial gallery space – which stages some of the biggest simultaneous launch nights. Not only will you see good art but its also great if you’re into people watching.

Les especies mes perilloses del mediterrani – best poster ever!

In my opinion this is one of the best poster designs I’ve seen. Designed to get the beaches cleaned up in Spain the poster depicts each species under threat of extinction using rubbish regularly found on the beaches. It’s amazing how simple yet beautifully crafted each image of sea life is and how instantly recognisable they are using just a few visual cues. As they say it’s what you leave out that completes its beauty hence making it so poignant. Putting this aside I hope this campaign is a successful one and achieves it’s objective.

Via Blog dels Ambinautes

dfactory

Last week I attended the regular Powerhouse Museum Event, dfactory, an event that has been growing in popularity and supported by a loyal audience of students and industry professionals.

Q-Drum

The burden of fetching water in developing or third world countries is invariably over long distances by cumbersome and far too often, unhygienic means. Now there is a solution. The Q-Drum solves the problem.

Autoban in Istanbul

Autoban is a line of two designers from Istanbul, Seyhan Ozdemir and Sefer Caglar, who do wonderful things with flat plains. They debuted at this year’s 100% Design fair in London with Bergere. The design maintains a traditional high back and closed sides of the classical French armchair but introduces a modern angularity with minimal padding and colour schemes. The proportions are archetypal and retain an angularity and contemporary simplicity of form. Bergere, whilst giving a minimal and utilitarian impression looks very much like the packaging or a box. It is the interior that invites you to lounge and become a part of the more recognisable aspect of sitting.

Sexing up the lookout

As described by Wallpaper, this is an extraordinary structure and unique in the world of lookout design. Designed by architects Todd Saunders and Tommie Wilhelmsen, the lookout was the winning entry in a 2002 design competition held by Norway’s Highway Department.

By Design on the ABC

The ABC’s Radio National has introduced a program about the way we visually shape our world.

Called ‘By Design’, the show looks at architecture and material culture and the politics of the built environment and design through the prism of our daily lives. It will explore how design – the way things look, feel and function – reflects social change and what the decisions we make as consumers of architecture and everyday objects tell us about who we are.