Australian Design Museum
The inaugural Australian Design Museum Exhibition was held earlier this year in Sydney. The exhibition provided a unique opportunity to view and purchase iconic, limited and prototype works by Australian Designers.
Date February to March 2010
Location Shapiro Gallery, Woollahra
Curator Sarah King
Photo by Samantha Parsons includes: Elliot the Bookscreen, Siena the Bookblock Tables, an original ‘Wood Chair’ by Marc Newson (1986) and a ‘Big Held Mobile’ by I design things (2010).
Exhibition Postcard by Mark Gowing
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Tomorrow
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for Tomorrow” (Albert Einstein)
Tomorrow is more than just the day after today. It is the future. This installation took a look at how we as consumers, retailers and designers may address various environmental and social issues as we approach ‘tomorrow’.
A series of rooms were choreographed based on colour and lyrics from songs. Each is a composition of furniture, accessories and found objects including some hand-made pieces from the Studio Sam’s Booksmith Range.
For each product/object a mini autobiography was written to explore their ‘lifecycle’; origin, materiality and outlook for their future. The products came from different generations and had varying degrees of ‘value’. Some were prized for their design, some were respected for their durability, some were treasured as ‘collectables’, some were appreciated for their clever reuse of materials and some were esteemed for their low environmental impact and social responsibility. Visitors were encouraged to engage, discover and reassess the value of things and consider possible new ways of using, collating and enjoying the things they buy and those they already have at home.
Date November 2009 to January 2010
Location Corporate Culture, Brisbane
Curator Samantha Parsons
Photographer Geoffrey Marsh, Pride of Joy Photographics, 0438 455 301
Brisbane Writers Festival
Date September 2009
Location State Library of QLD, Brisbane, Australia
Products on show Elliot the Bookscreen was selected as the backdrop to speakers at the 2009 BWF. Quite a suitable application! Photo adjacent taken on opening night.
Photograph Brisbane Writers Festival
Design Made Trade 2008
Date 17-20 July 2008
Location Royal Exhibition Buildings, Melbourne, Australia
Products exhibited Elliot the Bookscreen, Siena the Bookblock Tables and the Betty Blue Range
Photographers Peter Bennetts (top) and Mat Moore (bottom images)
ExtraOrdinary
ExtraOrdinary: New ways of presenting and understanding contemporary design through the work of Tasmanian and interstate designers. The designers were chosen because of their selection and use of materials and their active re-examination and reordering of the ordinary.
Date May to June 2007
Location Carnegie Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Products exhibited Bookscreens and Floorscape
Other exhibitors Mathew Butler (Zaishu), Zoe MacDonell, Richard Skinner, Sally Brown, Tomoko Taira.
Photographer Peter Whyte
Melbourne a Milano
The City of Melbourne and the National Design Centre selected Bookscreen as one of 11 products to represent Melbourne Design at this significant cultural, business and design mission to Milan
Date February 2007
Location Design Central held at 3rooms Boutique Hotel,10 Corso Como, Milan, Italy
Products exhibited Paul the Bookscreen
Other exhibitors Simone LeAmon, Third Drawer Down, Moth Design, McFarlane Design, S!x, Ryan Whelan, Do It Baby, Ann-Maree Willett, Fashion Incubator and Sonya Pletes
Photographer National Design Centre
Literarte
Literarte: (n) a poetree of flying birds and colourful screens created from recycled books. Part of WOW during the State of Design Festival 2006. The Literate installation was created in collaboration with Russell Bryant who created the sgraffito woodcut artwork and flock of suspended, book sculptures evoking avian flight.
Date October 2006
Location GPO, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Products exhibited Bookscreens (Paul and Brooke)
Other exhibitors as part of WOW: Eness (The Unwired Light Garden), Spacecraft, Zaishu, Lightly, Daniel Barberra, Gregory Bonasera, Cloud Design, Cube Konstrukt, Niche media, Jo Wilson, Nick Rennie, Anthony Dann, Dhiren Bhagwandas and others…
Photographer Peter Bennetts
Illustration, etching and flying books Russell Bryant
Milan Furniture Fair
Floorplay was exhibited on the Stand of DearKids (Italian manufacturer of Childrens Furniture) at the prestigious Milan Furniture Fair
Date April 2006
Location Milan, Italy
Products exhibited Floorplay
Photograph provided by DearKids
Young Designer of Year
Runner up, Sydney Morning Herald Young Designer of the Year
Year 2005
Brief Reuse an everyday product to create something practical and functional for the home
Design Bookscreen
Exhibition Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia
Photographer Samantha Parsons
After Fashion
Exhibition to showcase designs from across Australian, with a focus on a sustainable approach to design and manufacturing of fashion and textile products.
Date March to June 2005
Location National Wool Museum, Geelong, Australia.
Products exhibited Floorscape
Other exhibitors S!x, Gwendollyne, Nicola Cerini, Ilka White and nplus 1
Image City of Greater Geelong Arts Bulletin 118, 17 March 2005
