The 2010 Perth International Arts Festival includes a wide variety of events. Artists from Perth and the Great Southern play a special part in the festival, bringing a unique voice to the celebration through theatre, visual art, food, film and crochet!

Two giant digital origami tigers playfully celebrate Chinese New Year on the forecourt of Customs House, Sydney from 11 February –14 March 2010.The crouching digital tigers combine ancient lantern making methods withcutting edge digital design and fabrication technology, bringing east andwest together through tradition and innovation.

The big cats are a collaboration between multinational architecturalpractice Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) and Customs House to mark the lunar year of the tiger and raise awareness about the endangered status of tigers.

I have just finished an exhausting day in Brisbane at the Adobe Refresh Road show. As a designer and regular user of Adobe products, it was a great opportunity for designers and developers to rub shoulders and try to see things from each other’s point of view. As presenter Mark Schultz pointed out “no one is ever trained to use Facebook. Designers and developers need to work together to make the user experience intuitive”. Read the rest of the Refresh article by Dominique Falla →

Thanks to all that attended this year’s Friends of the Federation Party at theclub and helped make it such a big success!

Below are a few photos of the event, and we would like to again thank all the artists for participating and the sponsors who came through with the goods, we hope everyone who attended enjoyed themselves and we are looking forward to the next event! Check some of the Photos below →

Instead of giving up former editors of I.D. Magazine have created a wonderful new project; Sight Unseen that is definitely worth checking out.

Sight Unseen takes readers inside the worlds of design, art, fashion, food, photography, and other creative disciplines. Through revealing interviews, first-person accounts, and behind-the-scenes documentation of process, Sight Unseen uncovers the stories, inspirations, and obsessions of people who love to make things.

Defining the essence of Australia’s skateboard culture, TIC TACO : A photographic exhibition by Justin Barnwell, officially kick-starts a week of skateboard mayhem at Beach Burrito, Bondi Beach, with the exhibition opening from 6pm on Wednesday 17th February and will be on display until Sunday 28th February, 2010.

This exhibition taking place from the 24th of to the 7th of March is curated by Sarah King. It toys with the concept of a museum store selling Australian only design, which does not really have a museum attached to it, yet presents the work in a museum like context. It aims to encompass as much good Australian design as possible, across all levels of production, from handmade work to pieces in production by local and European manufacturers – and cover all types of design; furniture, objects, graphics, architecture, craft, etc.

The first solo exhibition by ‘Ears’ @ Oh Really Gallery that includes a collection of sketches, photos and paintings made by Ears.

OPENING: 6-9PM THURSDAY 25TH FEB.
55 enmore road,
Newtown, Sydney

www.earstotheground.net

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Lang Leav has launched her lastest hand crafted masterpiece Charlies Widow

“Charlie’s Widow continues the story of Akina, who once crept into the pristine world of fairytales and nursery rhymes, leaving behind a devastating trail of destruction. After years of plotting and scheming, she is set to invade Charlie’s chocolate factory, turning sweet-as-cotton-candy girls into bloodthirsty, button-hungry villains- before setting them on a murderous rampage!”

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