Sarah Munro | 3d Munch

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.

Best in Show

Untitled Jasmine Clark, Untitled Rachel Bell, Oh, it's just a pattern Kate Barton

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.

Web trawler

Solar-do-nothing Machine, Eames Studio, 1957

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 . . .

Cast-off with Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting at the Museum of Arts & Design (used to be the American Craft Museum) in New York.

Move on through to Carlos Garaicoa 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 Nicole Cherubini as well.

Read The Matt & Ron Show written by Sam Jacob of Strange Harvest, then check his practice at FAT, (Fashion, Architecture, Taste).

And finally, DIY joy at foldschool, with a collection of corrugated-cardboard furniture designs for children, freely available for download from Swiss-based designer, Nicola Enrico Stäubli.