Projects

Ben Eltham argues that the popularity of craft in Australia is at odds with the decision to de-fund Craft Australia. […]

Crafts Council UK report Craft in an Age of Change, which looks at how craft fits within the creative economy, and the future prospects of the hand made. […]

Emerging Australian industrial designers usually have to make their own designs or forge relationships with small-scale, local manufacturers. […]

Ideas of the Handmade: Histories and Theories of Making is a one-day seminar devoted to craft. It will bring together a variety of craft-related research and researchers in order to investigate and champion the importance of craft, an area largely marginalised in design history and yet vital to contemporary and historical design culture in terms of practice, […]

This exhibition will signify the merging of New World and Old World methods to include "future tradition" products created through collaboration with well-known designers, producers and leading brands. The project represents a new world of Japanese craftsmanship and a movement to introduce the arts and crafts of the 21st century. […]

Designers are renowned for their incredible capacity to reach across a wide range of disciplines to inform their own practice. Today in Design/Art, design engineer Emile de Visscher looks at philosophy for inspiration, and dexterously lays out for us how a four-decade-old French classic, Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition, can help understand contemp […]

Emmanuel Cooper, 1938-2012 […]

curated by beijing design week's creative director aric chen, 'silent heroes: objects, as told by zhou xun' takes everyday objects as a point of departure for a reflection on the value of day-to-day life. […]