tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45330069886564155972024-03-22T11:22:25.775+13:00Provocative MaterialsUnitec BDVA Contemporary CraftUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-69296780355197209072010-03-10T22:20:00.003+13:002010-03-10T22:29:39.429+13:00Mr Price<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdVgbyvJElYrZ56dmx5tC_3Vgno0x-KrXh_w_xlY2Umsj8tzzrQ2GRYcI-6-HLq4Pw0FHl8Rd3VSu9dpRfJqQAEw8YUdLXCGMwxBEuhtgpqBHCeNhqMMWmVZK8-t1bayCHrdJg_jk7Gs8/s1600-h/Artic_Ken+Price.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 256px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdVgbyvJElYrZ56dmx5tC_3Vgno0x-KrXh_w_xlY2Umsj8tzzrQ2GRYcI-6-HLq4Pw0FHl8Rd3VSu9dpRfJqQAEw8YUdLXCGMwxBEuhtgpqBHCeNhqMMWmVZK8-t1bayCHrdJg_jk7Gs8/s320/Artic_Ken+Price.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446934601850029890" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/design/07price.html"></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/arts/design/07price.html" style="text-decoration: none;">The Blobs, they aren’t talkin . . .</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-562280291436026992010-03-10T21:46:00.017+13:002010-03-12T16:15:33.189+13:00Hats<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphensg19Y7ICj-MIY-D1LRM8yGIG2frSm-Tml18Jxh_0WNCEcN2rI3u-bMecU_OMgvQtzxL0T9gNwentLqNvKv5sF59DtIfdU7-Ak7se1OU-1BBuMRCL1UAM9zU5dGRvaHeTRi8CG77Oe0/s1600-h/5a_Commee+des+Gar%C3%A7on_sml.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 210px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihyphenhyphensg19Y7ICj-MIY-D1LRM8yGIG2frSm-Tml18Jxh_0WNCEcN2rI3u-bMecU_OMgvQtzxL0T9gNwentLqNvKv5sF59DtIfdU7-Ak7se1OU-1BBuMRCL1UAM9zU5dGRvaHeTRi8CG77Oe0/s320/5a_Commee+des+Gar%C3%A7on_sml.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446925294755746402" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/a-farewell-to-britains-most-stylish-street-1918791.html"></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/a-farewell-to-britains-most-stylish-street-1918791.html">End of an era, in the crown of a hat . . .</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-53656956678890002622008-03-13T10:52:00.012+13:002008-03-13T11:55:16.940+13:00Designing Critical Design<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tFqBX2qTiC31o5xzCQefQrO054HzpAYC9VbYLPYAO3bZzFcSfrAcy-Z4ctoYAmYSyxLfFxV9otg3ZrikB2D8oN39xproyyjqkb25HtQoS7ZsR76fRaougg5XyLdQ6cpgHeDNdXTSKVY/s1600-h/faq.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tFqBX2qTiC31o5xzCQefQrO054HzpAYC9VbYLPYAO3bZzFcSfrAcy-Z4ctoYAmYSyxLfFxV9otg3ZrikB2D8oN39xproyyjqkb25HtQoS7ZsR76fRaougg5XyLdQ6cpgHeDNdXTSKVY/s320/faq.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5176992367793546594" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Design writer and researcher, <a href="http://www.designobserver.com/archives/032924.html#more" target="_blank">Alice Twemlow</a>, has written recently on the motivations of a number of contemporary designers – Jurgen Bey, Martí Guixé and Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby – whom she has loosely refered to under the alias of <span style="font-style: italic;">Critical Design</span>. The purpose of which, is not to perform a function in the conventional sense (such as a product or a source of information) but rather, designs that are intended to be provocations or hypotheses through which their authors can study the interactions and responses of the people who use them.<br /><br />“<a href="http://www.z33.be/index.asp?page=detailproject%7Csub=67&lang=en" target="_blank">Critical Design</a>, as outlined by its key proponents, the interactive designers and educators Dunne & Raby, is design that, through its form, can question and challenge industrial agendas; embody alternative social, cultural, technical or economic values; and act as a prop to stimulate debate and discussion amongst the public, designers and industry.”<br /><br />Read the FAQ <a href="http://www.z33.be/debat/files/dunnerabyfaq.pdf" target="_blank">here</a> . . .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-63927284807804117582008-02-24T20:52:00.010+13:002008-02-24T22:06:30.353+13:00People and Places: 2008<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeA7fRcIQKm3mzpseU4Q2e_MXtIFDMXGmAJtemyWeoF2-SDb88laGCDyLpnV-Ah2NoO5w7d2ogaJFDpq7c6rSKXdn9pl7r6ILrD7QdYu6ekzJZS53umHC69ZRV45GmDhrVIVmB-eWAAg/s1600-h/areta.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVeA7fRcIQKm3mzpseU4Q2e_MXtIFDMXGmAJtemyWeoF2-SDb88laGCDyLpnV-Ah2NoO5w7d2ogaJFDpq7c6rSKXdn9pl7r6ILrD7QdYu6ekzJZS53umHC69ZRV45GmDhrVIVmB-eWAAg/s320/areta.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170469669615653682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span>Haere rā (albeit for a year) to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Areta Wilkinson</span> who is taking sabbatical for 2008.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Richard Fahey</span> has taken on the Programme Directorship of the School’s Masters in Design (by project) and therefore largely hung up his saddle and spurs in terms of direct input into the 3D programme. However, see below.<br /><br />We are very please to have <span style="font-weight: bold;">Jacqui Chan </span>and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Zak Kinnaird</span> joining as specialist drawing tutors for Semester 1, 2008. While most of you are familiar with Jacqui and her practice, Zak is new to Unitec NZ, teaching in 2007 at the Architecture and Design Schools of Victoria University in Wellington, and a graduate of the capital’s prestigious Industrial Design degree programme.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dr Isacc Flitta</span>, lately of the UK, has joined the Bachelor of Product Design team and will be acting as the Programme Director until <span style="font-weight: bold;">Martin Boult</span> returns in Semester 2, from a teaching exchange in Ireland.<br /><br />It is planned that <span style="font-weight: bold;">Warwick Freeman</span>, 2002 NZ Art Laureate, will be joining the Jewellery and Object major as a part-time tutor.<br /><br />The newly revised and rewritten Certificate in Design & Visual Art will be sharing the Bldg 76 environment with the directorship of the programme being jointly shared by <span style="font-weight: bold;">Toni McKinnon</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Paul Woodruff</span>e. With an increase in numbers, expect a higher profile for certificate this year, with expansion into territories used previously by first year students.<br /><br />A small number of Painting year 3 & 4 students who are developing their practice in either a scupltural or installation mode have been invited to move their studios into what is now known as the Scuplture Studio. If there are any Year 3 or 4 Object ir Jewellery students who would wish to contemplate the same move, please contact <span style="font-weight: bold;">Kim</span> or <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pauline</span>.<br /><br />You will notice that there has been some re-arrangement or equipment amongst the workshops and a change of nomenclature. For the record:<br />Assembly Barn becomes the Light Wood Machine Workshop (along with the Roland CNC lathe),<br />Wood Barn becomes the Heavy Wood Machine Workshop,<br />Light barn becomes the Sculpture Studio,<br />Metal Barn becomes the Metal and Plastics Workshop,<br />Ceramics & Glass Workshop remains the same.<br /><br />The School of Design Masters by Project Programme has taken up residency in the old Diploma wing (Bdlg 77), with a number of graduate s<span style="font-weight: bold;">tudents taking advantage of the residential studio space afforded. Programme Director Richard Fahey’s</span> office is Room 077-1002.<br /><br />After an extended period of absence, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cris de Groot’s</span> Hothouse makes an re-apprearence on the Bldg 76 radar by reoccupying Bldg 78 after its post-pyrotechnic makeover. Welcome back! If any Year 4 students are curious about applying to take a place in the Hothouse for Semester 1 of 2008, please contact either Cris or Kim, asap.<br /><br />The a1 Lasercutter is still to be housed up in the Architecture wing of Bldg 1 with Design School technician, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Harry Redward</span>, driving one day a week (day to be confirmed), otherwise contact <span style="font-weight: bold;">Brett Orams</span>, the School of Architecture technician. See L<span style="font-weight: bold;">iz Halford</span>, BDes Admin Assistant to set up your Papercut account.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-57072929985354603832008-02-24T13:15:00.018+13:002008-02-24T20:39:06.707+13:00Rewind 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxxB_vXZa1fn29qNhZyiE3V0yPXnlsoHVL9cpvxvBMVx26CdMIVnCBHS1UStSPUxIi1h-lVv0stuLMzVpTfcwLBajUWkGvYUF6c_H5bhZ9Qf1vEv55ho1Zwvc6YjxZSTRJ_tZG76pDgU/s1600-h/guy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpxxB_vXZa1fn29qNhZyiE3V0yPXnlsoHVL9cpvxvBMVx26CdMIVnCBHS1UStSPUxIi1h-lVv0stuLMzVpTfcwLBajUWkGvYUF6c_H5bhZ9Qf1vEv55ho1Zwvc6YjxZSTRJ_tZG76pDgU/s320/guy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170355595284271874" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Walking in light</span><br /><a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/show.php?documentCode=1144" target="_blank">Best in Show</a>, the annual survey of emerging craft and design practitioners took place at Objectspace over February. Four Unitec Jewellery and Object graduates had their final year projects curated into the high profile showcase of graduate work. The programme is very proud of <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?documentCode=1184" target="_blank">Scott Facer</a>, <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?documentCode=1186" target="_blank">Guy Hohman</a>n, <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?pageNumber=14" target="_blank">Nikki Partridge</a> and <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?documentCode=1180" target="_blank">Jaime Turnball</a> achievements, and wishes them well for the future.<br />Check out the work by Unitec Product students <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?documentCode=1183" target="_blank">Emilia Carallero</a> and <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/works.php?documentCode=1182" target="_blank">Antony Clark</a> as well.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2t2wO5Lkx72mLbSqNpjqLZRV7kR9dzvw3QptmUtgW4ydjlazggPXM7nMzFwFxVBqIal-MGpnZhQcXL3CCGIXUOicSCbwvB0ml_vOL7ZDXgA2vgXJ7dxFnh4w-2JrVHoDBTUX3wCkCyA/s1600-h/jacqui.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ2t2wO5Lkx72mLbSqNpjqLZRV7kR9dzvw3QptmUtgW4ydjlazggPXM7nMzFwFxVBqIal-MGpnZhQcXL3CCGIXUOicSCbwvB0ml_vOL7ZDXgA2vgXJ7dxFnh4w-2JrVHoDBTUX3wCkCyA/s320/jacqui.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170354134995391218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2007 Dowse Scholarship success</span><br />Jeweller and architect, Jacqui Chan took out the Dowse New Zealand Student Craft & Design Award 2007, with <span style="font-style: italic;">Chinkeha</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Rupture|disruption|upheaval: volcanic jewellery</span> – two brooches made of a combination of traditional and non-traditional materials that reflected issues of identity, tension, challenge and ‘wonderland’.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Suite 6 </span><br />The 2007 Graduate show was a great hit and widely attended, with the Object zone of control appearing to party longest and hardest, and with style. A big shoutout to all those who volunteered their time and expertise (you know who you are), and a big pat on the back to the Suite 6 crew.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-11871249330098228672008-02-24T13:14:00.002+13:002008-02-24T22:05:31.282+13:00A Sample of Staff-werk from 2007<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2Rq9qc4-P3muZJVSZyvnn0qYMuzVHhT_24jJtDM4dPijwYNro_kVElrq7y7ilU3S85WKp8qEW1udtllA5wdvZ_fcJb9tbsmWk7x5YoyQRxONyH4hllrgOzCHUO9BSBxxVdnbX7q2cSI/s1600-h/quartz.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2Rq9qc4-P3muZJVSZyvnn0qYMuzVHhT_24jJtDM4dPijwYNro_kVElrq7y7ilU3S85WKp8qEW1udtllA5wdvZ_fcJb9tbsmWk7x5YoyQRxONyH4hllrgOzCHUO9BSBxxVdnbX7q2cSI/s320/quartz.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5170445506129646370" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><br />Ilse-Marie Erl and Simon Gamble staked out the window at Objectpace with <span style="font-style: italic;">Momento</span>, (also shown at Snowhite Gallery) as well as having their work curated into the sprawling end-of-season show, <a href="http://www.objectspace.org.nz/programme/show.php?documentCode=1080" target="_blank"><span style="font-style: italic;">Small Wonders: 7 Installations By 7 Curators</span></a>.<br /><br />Alan Preston’s contemporary jewellery practice was recognised with a wide-ranging retrospective exhibition, <span style="font-style: italic;">Alan Preston: Made in Aotearoa</span> at the The New Dowse early in 2007.<br /><br />Pauline Bern exhibited widely in 2007, notably in a group show at <a href="http://www.fingers.co.nz/exhibitors/group07_permit1.htm" target="_blank">Fingers</a> that marked the Permit Jewellery symposium held at MIT, along with the many practitioners she has taught or mentored.<br /><br />Areta Wilkinson was selected as one of nine New Zealand and 30 international artists selected to participate in <a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.aucklandtriennial.com/artists/wilkinson.asp" target="_blank">Turbulence: the 3rd Auckland Triennial</a> from 9 March to 4 June 2007. Areta Wilkinson will be taking a sabbatical in 2008.<br /><br />Kim Meek exhibited a survey of his drawing practice in a show entitled Towards an Ornamental Ecology 2004–2007 at Snowhite, and has work on pubic view in <span style="font-style: italic;">Misty Frequencies</span>, curated by Carl Chitham at the Whakatane Museum & Gallery.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-57136331915630632052007-06-24T11:25:00.000+12:002007-06-25T08:51:18.450+12:00Winter break<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJGBLUtT-ZBEnZGikBcWytwGwQDj7vmSe0fvF4o61775lOhizM4ua5qPAiwCgHw7LN2Lpz7lDM_KhvCYYXzE4KQugGFhl5fzzd-zf0srIAKaVI0zrbUHEEh_cgU62pr21R6OMD8YC3mo/s1600-h/mask-web.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisJGBLUtT-ZBEnZGikBcWytwGwQDj7vmSe0fvF4o61775lOhizM4ua5qPAiwCgHw7LN2Lpz7lDM_KhvCYYXzE4KQugGFhl5fzzd-zf0srIAKaVI0zrbUHEEh_cgU62pr21R6OMD8YC3mo/s320/mask-web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5079424882937099026" border="0" /></a><br /><br />During the holiday break you may be interested in keeping you hand, head and eye in designer|maker mode by taking a look a range of competitions open to design and visual art students.<br /><br />First up, <a href="http://www.dowse.org.nz/" target="_blank">TheNewDowse</a> Friends Student Craft/Design Award open to all students enrolled in a tertiary level art, craft, design programme, find out more <a href="http://www.dowse.org.nz/about/Awards/student.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />Next, ‘Second Time Around: A Competition for Art Work made from Found and Re-Cycled Materials’. For entry forms and more information please contact the Mairangi Arts Centre at PO Box 65 121 Mairangi Bay, or phone 4782237 to request entry form.<br /><br />Going global, consider the international design competition, <a href="http://www.kyoto-seika.ac.jp/cumulus/eng/07_callfor/07_callfor.html" target="_blank">‘Design for Happiness’</a>, organised in association with the Cumulus Kyoto 2008 International Design Conference. This competition is open to students of Cumulus the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media of which the Unitec School of Design is a member.<br /><br />Finally, check out the <a href="http://www.muji.net/award/index.html#en" target="_blank">Muji Award 02</a> International Design Competition with it’s theme exploring the notion of ‘Reinvention’.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-76611820851191228072007-05-02T15:02:00.000+12:002007-05-07T08:21:23.143+12:00Sarah Munro | 3d Munch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zTg_r4sBJuCNL5C77xlCpN7WKQYGjlkqHijKDGBHEbIJtZr8XDA3ldG8O2KCwd0uFx6hp36ek1uxYbixRlkwpPQETABUbZsEtK4RJ4UCrJLTBnVKfxwo0MZHyclV3W8Bhyphenhyphen1UmqZi9Fc/s1600-h/sm.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2zTg_r4sBJuCNL5C77xlCpN7WKQYGjlkqHijKDGBHEbIJtZr8XDA3ldG8O2KCwd0uFx6hp36ek1uxYbixRlkwpPQETABUbZsEtK4RJ4UCrJLTBnVKfxwo0MZHyclV3W8Bhyphenhyphen1UmqZi9Fc/s320/sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5059801061505530978" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Join the 3D Munch crowd this Monday 7 May, 12pm in the 3d Seminar Room, to meet with Sarah Munro who will be talking about her experience as the 2006 Frances Hodgkins Fellow, an art residency based at the University of Otago in Dunedin. Sarah is a multi media artist who completed her doctorate in Fine Arts from Elam, at the University of Auckland in 2005.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-3090753489842483042007-04-19T11:23:00.000+12:002007-04-30T15:36:07.323+12:00Best in Show<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5RxYlY_GIRJ4mnhBZ1YQdxXBaxwSHmf6XA_pYq0_xC4HBhLxj526BGDwY18iUMFvQbXmq1iw9aSSrKN7yV58BVNuSo1GV70khYxJ1dCLO_NsYV50FThnPw_whdwr1zI1ouaDmsUoLiU/s1600-h/bestinshow.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf5RxYlY_GIRJ4mnhBZ1YQdxXBaxwSHmf6XA_pYq0_xC4HBhLxj526BGDwY18iUMFvQbXmq1iw9aSSrKN7yV58BVNuSo1GV70khYxJ1dCLO_NsYV50FThnPw_whdwr1zI1ouaDmsUoLiU/s320/bestinshow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5054921518019983330" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Untitled </span></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Jasmine Clark, </span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Untitled </span></span><span style="font-size:78%;">Rachel Bell, <span style="font-style: italic;">Oh, it's just a pattern</span> Kate Barton<br /><br /></span>If you haven’t already done so, make time to visit Objectspace to check out the round-up of selected work by object graduates from all over the country. Best in Show for 2007 features work from three Unitec Bachelor of Design 3D majors, Kate Barton, Rachel Bell and Jasmine Clark. Objectspaces’s third annual curated survey of emerging designer|makers is an important component of the centres role in fostering innovative craft and design.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-30508360036412459212007-03-22T10:58:00.000+12:002007-03-23T11:05:18.656+12:00Web trawler<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnyWnf91k8ySnwJqWcOlEx3eBUk4JfSX0eSimuJ9_MBqeuZdHuKD6cqnhkgv0r_l7R5DH1xpL425C2NXyuPUaGS8XXjaw60CrdR7ViUHeoTIxZCANrEHgKVrqfpr8jgFwjqgbYQa9_8Us/s1600-h/do_nothing_mc.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044547097542169186" style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnyWnf91k8ySnwJqWcOlEx3eBUk4JfSX0eSimuJ9_MBqeuZdHuKD6cqnhkgv0r_l7R5DH1xpL425C2NXyuPUaGS8XXjaw60CrdR7ViUHeoTIxZCANrEHgKVrqfpr8jgFwjqgbYQa9_8Us/s320/do_nothing_mc.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Solar-do-nothing Machine</span>, Eames Studio, 1957</span><br /><br />With an eye on a number of Object studio engagements and finger on the mouse button, I’ve taken the liberty – and will do so on a regular basis – of linking to a selection of websites with content that is germane to some of your current projects, see if you can call them . . .<br /><br />Cast-off with <a href="http://www.madmuseum.org/site/c.drKLI1PIIqE/b.1506945/k.3AD7/Radical_Lace__Subversive_Knitting.htm" target="_blank">Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting</a> at the Museum of Arts & Design (used to be the American Craft Museum) in New York.<br /><br />Move on through to <a href="http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/garaicoa.php" target="_blank">Carlos Garaicoa</a> at the ICA, Philidelphia (also on show at Turbulence, the 3rd Auckland Triennial, in the New Gallery), then hang a right and look in at <a href="http://www.icaphila.org/exhibitions/cherubini.php" target="_blank">Nicole Cherubini</a> as well.<br /><br />Read <a href="http://www.strangeharvest.com/mt/archive/reviews/the_matt_and_ron_show.php" target="_blank">The Matt & Ron Show</a> written by Sam Jacob of Strange Harvest, then check his practice at <a href="http://www.fashionarchitecturetaste.com/about.html" target="_blank">FAT</a>, (Fashion, Architecture, Taste).<br /><br />And finally, DIY joy at <a href="http://www.foldschool.com/" target="_blank">foldschool</a>, with a collection of corrugated-cardboard furniture designs for children, freely available for download from Swiss-based designer, Nicola Enrico Stäubli.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-38867283032294690732007-03-22T10:17:00.000+12:002007-03-22T13:52:40.543+12:00Danny Rowlandson | 3d Munch<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYyHaFxja32SLeO_L-rGHqQ76037XUTiE2dvQIlrgX9odEf2os6uK-VObHjSJsEDw4tJFoLRbZfjwM6HAc0GhdkxST59gYmugZCy9fQrXFejrA6eq5c3RYb0S4ew7gdwaLpItE_A0wbVU/s1600-h/Zen.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYyHaFxja32SLeO_L-rGHqQ76037XUTiE2dvQIlrgX9odEf2os6uK-VObHjSJsEDw4tJFoLRbZfjwM6HAc0GhdkxST59gYmugZCy9fQrXFejrA6eq5c3RYb0S4ew7gdwaLpItE_A0wbVU/s320/Zen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5044557237959955058" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Kizaemon Ido teabowl</span>, Korea, Yi dynasty (16th century)</span><br /><br />A reminder that Danny Rowlandson, School of Design Ceramics and Glass lecturer, is presenting a seminar, ‘Japanese Ceramics & Zen Philosophy’, this coming Monday 26 March from 12.00–1pm, in the 3d Seminar room on the first floor of Bldg 76 (Rm 076-2069). This presentation is the second BDes 3d Munch lecture for the 2007 season. Please join us and feel free to bring your lunch.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-60848404335476719952007-03-16T10:30:00.000+13:002007-03-22T13:07:20.518+12:00Craftwerk 17.03.07<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOK814dAINfIumV8oCzlCPBpiFxba4F69DDsSSp-5JpGvzqagB4Qfdhn9PeMG4Gp0NuaMOzQmKaUvWmDcid4llC_HoXBw5NCL8lKH9-LfKTwQhI9tVGpGrWtYejoEDxxHWq3_c__-tyo/s1600-h/craftwerk.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042266972774122290" style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFOK814dAINfIumV8oCzlCPBpiFxba4F69DDsSSp-5JpGvzqagB4Qfdhn9PeMG4Gp0NuaMOzQmKaUvWmDcid4llC_HoXBw5NCL8lKH9-LfKTwQhI9tVGpGrWtYejoEDxxHWq3_c__-tyo/s320/craftwerk.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br />As part of the AK07 programme, the first <a href="http://www.craftwerk.co.nz/fullMENU.htm"target="_blank">Craftwerk</a> event for 2007 will take place in the famed Spiegeltent, a hand-built and sewn structure built in 1920, and used since then as a unique venue for festivals around the world. The Spiegeltent is situated at the AK07 Festival Hub – RED SQUARE @ Britomart.<br /><br />Providing a showcase for young and emerging creatives who distribute select ranges of handmade objects, independently produced publications and music. Alongside the craft, art, zine and music stalls Craftwerk also features live, local music: The Gladeyes, Artisan Guns, Bear Cat and Teacups will all be performing.<br /><br />Items for sale cover anything from soft toys to laser cut jewellery to zines and comics, screen-printed stationery, hand-painted wood badges, limited edition 7"s, hand sculpted buttons, perspex lockets, hand-printed tshirts, arcade game appliqued cushions and bags, plastic cast brooches, framed hand embroideries, paintings and more . . .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-78332093060325598042007-03-15T10:13:00.000+13:002007-03-15T10:24:07.366+13:00Recuerdos de Mexico!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifxX-GOZqbHaQbr9Gkky8-0GREQNAyR-yz1dHlrvZJ72IS0Z5BtNJGFtT7OKaaEcHELqSiAoAbP9OciPqLCVfZBh9CogunWtAsqckJGMP9tQZx2J5sOKBEmH1tdbr40cQyHlXQMnVQUvw/s1600-h/cihuateteo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifxX-GOZqbHaQbr9Gkky8-0GREQNAyR-yz1dHlrvZJ72IS0Z5BtNJGFtT7OKaaEcHELqSiAoAbP9OciPqLCVfZBh9CogunWtAsqckJGMP9tQZx2J5sOKBEmH1tdbr40cQyHlXQMnVQUvw/s320/cihuateteo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041891803085849378" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Cihuateteo</span>, Margarita Fick, (papel recortado, detail)</span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><br />An intimate collection of Mexican votive objects and emphemera has been installed in Pitch Black (the re-branded Bldg 76 exhibition space) by jeweller, Ilse-Marie Erl, who travelled throughout the region on sabatical in 2004. Don’t miss – exhibition closes Friday 23 March.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-86242620570928174852007-03-13T15:09:00.000+13:002007-03-16T10:43:43.448+13:00The PM Hit List<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc69vsDbK5fBgp90NoMnOZXtrNPWimj6H5QesVaG_h7CYDXImHUG6e9YbwD8lQMQg4xysj3EfQlvALgIz3YxIJ0NHCPPzm2IDm2O1Zn5kXV9EMJEDqQffeAv7mlaVCl0Ul2-VHx6xS0y0/s1600-h/hella_Groove-&-Long-Neck-Bo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc69vsDbK5fBgp90NoMnOZXtrNPWimj6H5QesVaG_h7CYDXImHUG6e9YbwD8lQMQg4xysj3EfQlvALgIz3YxIJ0NHCPPzm2IDm2O1Zn5kXV9EMJEDqQffeAv7mlaVCl0Ul2-VHx6xS0y0/s320/hella_Groove-&-Long-Neck-Bo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041235270090015458" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:78%;" >Groove & Long neck bottles </span><span style="font-size:78%;">Hella Jongerius </span><span style="font-size:78%;">2000</span><br /><br />Over to you right, you’ll see I’ve added a side-bar, in which a list of Provocative Material exemplars from the field contemporary Object practice beginning to take shape. While these designer/makers span a diverse field of engagement, they share a common, questioning criticality within their practices – characterised by experimentation, intervention, collaboration, not to mention a dose of good humour.<br /><br />Allow yourself the time to investigate this quartet of Flash-driven sites, laden with rich content and intriguing interfaces, framed by a range of aesthetic and social contexts.<br /><br />Closer to home, please take a look at <a href="http://www.freestyledesign.info/" target="_blank">Freestyle</a>, a current online exhibition showcasing emerging and established designer/makers in Australia.<br /><br />For those of you who are finding a need for an antidote to all this ‘clean-living’ – try a little sex and death, mixed with a dose of black humour at <a href="http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/041/evil.htm" target="_blank">Design is Evil</a>, courtesy of Icon magazine.<br /><br />Finally, a downloadable <a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/16/783763/BDes%20Object%20timetable%202007.pdf">BDes Object timetable</a><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/16/783763/BDes%20Object%20timetable%202007.pdf"> </a>in pdf format, giving a sense of all students schedules, on a single a4 sheet, has been added to the Studio Materials sidebar for your edification. If anyone spots an error, please come back to me.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-60430642919118412792007-03-08T11:06:00.000+13:002007-03-08T11:25:44.124+13:00Inaugral 3D Munch!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhugCj3_Qb3lofd8-F3Suu517M-5glGtn4VY6d9rEz4fINhtRcISlFCjln8CF6rqL0D0Yn9gxQyZ9nHSoRKHLedY5y84xJ8hKqEaUwfpVj90Jyq6v_uiTYParSXsFIf1vgnLM_SfhJXoQI/s1600-h/IMG_4546_rotated_lo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhugCj3_Qb3lofd8-F3Suu517M-5glGtn4VY6d9rEz4fINhtRcISlFCjln8CF6rqL0D0Yn9gxQyZ9nHSoRKHLedY5y84xJ8hKqEaUwfpVj90Jyq6v_uiTYParSXsFIf1vgnLM_SfhJXoQI/s320/IMG_4546_rotated_lo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039311321926258946" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Albino Wood in Blue Ribbons</em> (detail) Yasmin Dubrau 2007</span><br /><br />The artist, Yasmin Dubrau, will launch the 2007 3D Munch seminar series with a floor talk in Snowhite gallery, on Monday 12 March, starting at 12pm. Please take the time to join in with other 3D major students and support this essential collegial project. See you there!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-79881447225917160412007-02-28T16:35:00.000+13:002007-03-04T17:45:14.756+13:00Getting into shape<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzWre-m3Q7RNbkkfSMN42rY6Bi3OJ-LgHuJ6qeZgaacC0dQw2zwuid9OYpZbGEAe7XLTs-XaZ4wUQy2ra-i9qUCbSCyeBkTPMD92xTl1t7eubmMr5pnLktrLPWv0ehppbDfWwucjc0D0/s1600-h/vegas_web.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGzWre-m3Q7RNbkkfSMN42rY6Bi3OJ-LgHuJ6qeZgaacC0dQw2zwuid9OYpZbGEAe7XLTs-XaZ4wUQy2ra-i9qUCbSCyeBkTPMD92xTl1t7eubmMr5pnLktrLPWv0ehppbDfWwucjc0D0/s320/vegas_web.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037925416551910674" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Now we’re through Orientation for 2007, have spent some time getting to know our Jewellery colleagues, found studios and received the first briefs for the year, it’s time get into shape for the coming semester.<br /><br />Given the profound change in the constituency of BDes Object staff and students, the pathway, in order to prosper, will need to anticipate, reconfigure and occupy the critical space between product, sculpture, jewellery & interior design.<br /><br />Logically and traditionally, the materials and technologies that have been called to account – and continue to be – are wide ranging: ceramics, glass, wood, metals, plastics, resin, weaving, textile, fibre.<br /><br />An essential focus of your engagement within the Object programme will be conceiving and composing a valid, desirable, sustainable blueprint for designermakers, that will be encouraged and supported by community and stakeholders alike.<br /><br />We, and I mean that in the collegial ‘we’, are in the business of training as designermakers, and we will need to be seen to practice and engage in the physical world of materials and the production of objects, afresh.<br /><br />To maintain craft practice and engage with newly (re-) configured complexities/possibilities in the applied and digital arts, the pathway will need to critically, honourably and realistically establish a domain of which it is proud to be the inhabitant.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4533006988656415597.post-23491185857715993152007-02-17T18:05:00.001+13:002007-02-28T16:59:49.404+13:00Tableau Vivant<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cJornSoEg3P4PVHfVRF4v_t978IVl74D_Wiz0HlXCED_tev0xfdn83CpeWtuZYY8-6QYyR-iDGSwEeBmVutPp2sMjmv-QXkVTXdSeauI5GW95BCuLCfT6TnttHGyTVjXG-DOuI7H-q4/s1600-h/wallpaper_vinette.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5032667244726856002" style="cursor: pointer;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2cJornSoEg3P4PVHfVRF4v_t978IVl74D_Wiz0HlXCED_tev0xfdn83CpeWtuZYY8-6QYyR-iDGSwEeBmVutPp2sMjmv-QXkVTXdSeauI5GW95BCuLCfT6TnttHGyTVjXG-DOuI7H-q4/s320/wallpaper_vinette.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><em>Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique</em> 1804 (detail) by Dufour <span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:78%;"></span><br />Welcome to the Object pathway for 2007, please find your schedule for week one of the academic year plus a copy of the <em>3D Tableau</em> brief for download, if required.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/16/783763/Orientation%202007.pdf" target="_blank">Orientation 2007.pdf</a><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/16/783763/2007%203D%20group%20project%20final.doc" target="_blank">2007 3D group project.doc</a><br /><br />Some of you may have missed the mini-presentation I gave on Wednesday morning, that briefly showcased the work of Jeff Wall, Boyd Webb and the Dynamo-ville collective. Three examples of practice that offer an introductory range of approaches to the notion of <em>tableau vivant</em>. Have a look at the pdf if you missed it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/16/783763/Tableau%20Vivant.pdf" title="Tableau Vivant.pdf"> Tableau Vivant.pdf </a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com