Ahh adolescence, the budding spring of adulthood! The flowering of love and awareness… of incest, masturbation, child abuse, bondage, unplanned pregnancy, rape, abortion and suicide. Those were the days.
This is the teenage experience in late-nineteenth century small-town Germany, or is it the teenage experience in 2010 emo, punked-out Sydney? Or is it just a good excuse to sing a song… eh hem …
Spring Awakening is the rock musical theatre adaptation of Frühlings Erwachen a play written by Frank Wedekind in 1891. Widely slammed by German public and oft banned, Wedekind’s masterpiece was sub-titled A Children’s Tragedy and points an accusatory finger at the oppressive social climate of the time giving rise to a simmering, sexual and violent confusion in young people. Ultimately this tension yields appalling tragedy and a heartbreaking end for the misguided adolescent characters. Read the rest of the Spring Awakening review →
March 6 to 27th
Robert Bader, Karen Paris, Sam Evans, Ruben H Bermudez
Opening Night Sat 6th March 6 to 8pm
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Johnny Romeo is an Australian born painter. His work is critically acclaimed in its attempt to represent a visual type of poetic and rhythmic blending of word, symbol and image. Read about You’ll Never Take Me Alive! The Ned Kelly Hero Series by Johnny Romeo →
In recent years, Sustainable Design has moved past its pop-culture status to form a key requirement of any good design process. So, it’s only fitting that the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) devotes one of its most prestigious awards to fostering Sustainable Design practices in the region’s emerging designers. Read all about the Australasian Student Design Awards →
26.02.10. filed under General.
Toast Print, the first Australian online platform connecting commercial printers and designer print buyers, is officially launched today. The web startup, founded by web savvy brothers Jonathan and Andrew Chak, offers designers a web application to streamline the process of finding the right printer, better organize print jobs, as well as easily compare printers and quotations. Toast Print draws on Web2.0 community concepts where designers are encouraged to provide feedback and ratings that contribute towards the merit of printers they have done business with.
Read all about Toast Print →
26.02.10. filed under General.
“While all us otaku try to draw like Japanese anime, the Japanese try to draw like Syd Mead.” anime.com
Syd Mead is regarded as the greatest concept designer of the 20th century. He is the visionary artist behind some of the most iconic, and inspirational, science fiction movies of this era including BLADE RUNNER, TRON, STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE, ALIENS and 2010.
Read all about Syd Meads tour downunda! →
Thanks to our friends at Hoyts, Design Federation is giving our readers the chance to win 1 of 5 doubles to see the new film Separation City.
Separation City is a bittersweet comedy drama about falling out of love for the very first time. A painful lesson about how unrequited love lasts forever and while requited love comes with a use-by date. A story about courtship, mateship and jumping ship. A film for anyone who has ever been in a relationship and woken up beside someone they once adored beyond measure and thought even fleetingly, is this it? Enter the Competition →
25.02.10. filed under Giveaways.
The team at Eskimo showed they could handle the heat when asked to participate in a calendar entitled Coroborree 2010, created by Landor.
The brief was to create an image that numerically depicts one month of the year. With their month being November, Eskimo teamed up with photographer David McKelvey and created a pair of Pirelli-esque pins (“Legs 11”) to reinforce the 11th month. Read more about Eskimos Legs 11 →
25.02.10. filed under Photography.
