This month’s dfactory

        

Arcade Fire: neighbourhood #1, Tunnels

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You’ll like this

Especially if you love the song

It’s a really Great song

And I made this for my Drawing Class

What a great idea for a school project.  If only we had the chance to do such fun things when I was at school.  I hope you enjoy both the song (which happens to be one of my favourites from Arcade Fire, an indie Canadian band) and the illustration.   I thought it was so good I’m prepared to forgive it’s blurriness and I love the flashback scenes at the end.

Who you going to call for the latest in anything - the blogsphere

Do you want to know what’s hip?

Do you want to know what’s cool?

Do you know what’s going on round town and what people are doing, saying, wearing?

Did you know the jumpsuit is way cool?

How about mixing and matching your prints, stripes and colours?

These could be, are and will be the latest fads and trends being worn, right now. If you wait for these trends and ideas to hit the magazines, catwalks and fashion stores you’re already out of date! So where do you get them - on-line of course.

London design Festival

Well it’s on again and becoming larger and better each year - the London Design Festival.

As stated in the Art Daily

In February 2006 London was measured as the world’s favourite brand city, according to the latest Anholt-GMI City Brands Index Survey. Its creative industries are the envy of the world and its award winning designers and architects are in more demand than ever. As London becomes more accessible through the Eurostar terminal and Heathrow’s Terminal 5, and we look towards the Olympics and other destination events, London’s position as the world’s most creative city looks secure.

It is obvious the London Design Festival has become

El Ultimo Grito

EUG at the Valencia Fair is responsible for these wonderful pieces meticulously wrapped in colourful tape titled the ‘Tape Chair” of course. These pieces started their less animate lives as foam mattresses, folded and then distorted and shaped to an inch of their lives until they found this new life and purpose. They look fantastic and have me wondering what type of tape will work best to come up with something like this and whether you can you sit on it without breaking the seal? Some of you may take on the challenge.

via Pol Oxygen

ABR, Maria USB + Salon NUDE at the Valencia design fair 2006

This brand new Spanish furniture “publisher” ABR is setting its sights on Spain’s plethora of youthful design talent. They do not manufacturer the products themselves but rather search out the most suitable producer for each project. Whether that be Spain, China or anywhere in the world. Their first introductions are ‘Maria USB’ by Luis Eslava a USB device in the shape of the Virgin Mary (“Virgin of Memory”) with LED lights that flash when info is being transferred.

Via Pol Oxygen

Freestyle: new Australian design for living

Berbnabeifreeman, Ema Pendant

This exhibition brings together the work of 40 Australian designers to the Museum of Victoria

The line-up will include homewares by Jon Goulder, lighting by bernabeifreeman, furniture by Charles Wilson, textiles by cloth, jewellery by Dinosaur Designs, personal accessories by Crumpler, and fashion by Easton Pearson and Akira Isogawa.

Charles Wilson, Rina Bernabei and Kelly Freeman are also featured as three of the finalists in the Bombay Sapphire Design Discovery Award Exhibition, taking place at Object Gallery until 5 November.

Other Histories: Guan Wei’s fable for a contemporary world

Guan Wei, creates another History for the Powerhouse Museum based on evidence inspired by Gavin Menzies’ controversial book 1421: the year China discovered the world.

In the book Menzies evidences Chinese antiquities, including an ancient navigation map, a compass, and a number of objects found in different countries that are said to have been connected with Zheng He’s voyages (1405-33). These objects also include a figurine of the Chinese God of Longevity, unearthed in Darwin in 1879 and now in the collection of the Powerhouse Museum. An object of much academic debate.

Geodesic crystal formations, sheets of metal and glass collide with the world as we know it!

AGO north facade - east and west views

Toronto is determined to prove culture can drive the economic and social growth of communities through a concentration of construction and makeover projects across a number of sites in the city including Canada’s National Ballet School, the Canadian Opera Company, Ontario College of Art & Design, Art Gallery of Ontario and Royal Ontario Museum to name five of eleven major projects.

The most notable and spectacular of these projects are perhaps the AGO, Gehry Partners LLP, and the the ROM, by the Studio of Daniel Libeskind in a joint venture with Bregman + Hamann Architects. Both projects seem to be striving to out do one another in a battle of metal and glass to soon become branded architectural icons of the city’s future.

Metali Crasset: a world of possibilities

Metali Crasset with Detail of Phytolab, 2002 + Beijing apartment design for the first Chinese capital’s Architectural Biennal, 2004

We have been very fortunate in Sydney to have recently also hosted designer Matali Crasset for the Sydney Design Program as key International speaker.

Here follows an excerpt of an interview with Lily Katakouzinos.