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Matty Smith – Winner of 2010 Tasmanian Design Centre Award for Sustainability and Emerging Designer

Jenny Tranter — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 23:30:20 +0000

For all you modernist furniture fans out there who covet various pieces from Eames, Featherston, Parker and others, you are in for a modern day treat. A name you may soon be hearing more of is Matty Smith, who just last month won the 2010 Tasmanian Design Centre Award for Sustainability and Emerging Designer with his quirky take on a cabinet named “shortdivision”.

READ ON to learn more about Matty Smith in his interview with State of Green

The Sustainable Living Festival 2011

Glenn Todd — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:13:54 +0000

February 12, 2011 to February 27, 2011

The Festival’s Big Weekend event at Federation Square in the heart of Melbourne will continue to celebrate the very best examples of ecological and social sustainability. The event will fuse interactive workshops, talks, demonstrations, artworks, exhibits, films and live performances.

In 2010 the Festival attracted over 122,000 visits and engaged with hundreds of organisations and individuals to stage Australia’s largest and oldest sustainability festival.

The Repair Workshops: Expression of Interest for Collaborators (State of Design 2011)

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:10 +0000

The Repair Workshops is a five day collaborative exploration of the concept of ‘repair’. The workshops will be run as part of the 2011 State of Design Festival held in Melbourne in the last week of July. Eco Innovators are currently seeking expressions of interest from artists, designers, scientists and engineers to be involved in this exciting project that has received funding support from the City of Melbourne.

This project will bring together three artists/designers and four scientists/engineers to collaborate on a repair project of their choice. The selected collaborators will create the theme for a repair ‘Hub’ which they will run and where the public will be invited to interact and repair items throughout the course of the festival.

The project will run for 5 days, with the first two days being a closed collaboration between the collaborators which will be followed by open public workshops whereby people can interact with the hubs and bring along their broken items for repair.

We are looking for people who are passionate about collaborating through an innovative examination of the ideas and practicalities of repairing, reimagining and repurposing broken objects, not only in a direct way (re-installing functionality to the design), but also in a conceptual manner – exploring repairing as a way of creating value, functionality and beauty in de-valued broken items.

Selected participants will be awarded $1,000 payment for their contribution to the project. Download the Expression of Interest PDF or go to the website to apply.

Applications due by 5pm 25th February 2011.
The Repair Workshops are an Eco Innovators project.

Native Collection: socially & environmentally considered furniture

Glenn Todd — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 01:00:43 +0000

Australian design business Native, launched in 2009, is a collaboration between designer/ manufacturer Rob Young, and designer, Dhiren Bhagwandas. Their approach is from a socially and environmentally sustainable ethic.

Interview: Loz Aberton of Who Did That

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:55:49 +0000

Who Did That is a creative design business owned and operated by Loz Aberton. Based way out on the Carlton Bluff on the southern coastline of Tasmania, Loz creates the Grandelier lamps made from carbonised bamboo and hoop pine. Read the interview here

Australian Timber Design Awards – Vote for Peoples Choice Award

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:33 +0000

The Australian Timber Design Awards are in its 11th year, and the entrants this year do not disappoint. Designers from around the nation have submitted a wide range of outstanding timber creations for judging by a panel of experts. You have a chance to vote for your favourite creation too in the Peoples Choice Awards.