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life or something like it
i wish i could figure out what has to be done
I visited Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other, at the New Museum in NYC.
SOYA entries closing
Entries close this Wednesday in SOYA for 2010. I’ve already spotted some amazing entries this year, so I’m excited to spend some time working through them with our producers.
How to Apply 2 – Design Symposium 2010
On Friday, I’ll be speaking at
“>“How to Apply 2 – Design Symposium 2010″
Design (Thinking) And Business
A Sydney Design 2010 Event
It’s a great initiative from Billy Blue, an annual opportunity to discuss the future of design, what we should be teaching tomorrow’s designers, and how we can bring art to business and business to art… I’m excited, but also a little terrified, as I am the last speaker of the day and it’s a 25 minute talk.
Walkley Media Conference 2010: What’s the story?
I’m speaking at the Walkley Conference this Wednesday August 11:
PANEL: What is originality?
Time: 4.20 – 5.10
Are there any truly original ideas left in the world? Is originality over-rated? Or does true creativity lie in reinterpreting age-old ideas? With the way that technology and media are moving, when does a mash-up, remix or homage become plagiarism? What are the implications for copyright and intellectual property in a world where anyone and everyone can and will collaborate?
The panel is chaired by Chris Warren, Federal Secretary of the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance, and also includes Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanjin, and journalist Malcolm Knox.
I think my contribution will be to lower the tone and be a bit more pop-cultural… so I’m talking about I Can Haz Cheeseburger. Could be a disaster.
Iron Designer at the Powerhouse Museum
On Friday night I had a lot of fun as one of the judges of Iron Designer at the Powerhouse Museum, as part of Sydney Design 2010.
NYC July 2010
I spent three weeks in Brooklyn/New York City in July [you can check out my trip on Flickr] meeting with great people, sitting in on talks, checking out arts and creative city-building projects, and generally having a very nice time.
I’m hoping to invite some of the people I met to participate in Creative Sydney, and I interviewed others for the new SummerWinter. There’ll be more happening there later this year.
Watch: Creative Sydney on ABC1
Creative Sydney 2010 was a huge success – we were lucky to have close to a hundred inspiring participants, and over 10,000 passionate attendees, over the 20 events of this year’s festival.
Reviews, footage and coverage of the festival are still coming out, and today ABC TV’s Big Ideas program broadcast over an hour from our Creative for a Cause session!
If you missed it, check out iView or watch the video here…
Working on: Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) 2010
The call-out is underway for Australia’s largest (and coolest) creative industries grant and mentorship initiative, SOYA, and I’m in my third year directing the program, which represents Qantas’ commitment to supporting the next generation of talent.
I’m thrilled to be working with the amazing Collider on the campaign – they’re a Sydney-based design and film studio who do incredible things for clients including Sydney Dance Company, MTV, and artists like PVT and Dion Lee. I developed the “Step Up” tagline and Collider CD Andrew van der Westhuyzen came up with a (typically brilliant) off-the-wall design concept – a Russ Goldberg machine that brings the idea of pulling the pieces together, and “stepping up” to the next level, to life.
Check out the video below – could SOYA be the only grants program with a “director’s cut” of the campaign TVC?!
One of the things that sets SOYA apart is the mentorship opportunity, and I’m lucky enough to work with some brilliant, world-leading mentors for 2010:
MARC NEWSON (Design)
NICKY and SIMONE ZIMMERMAN (Fashion)
JAN CHAPMAN (Film)
TONY MOTT (Photography)
LEE GROVES (Music)
ELIZABETH ANN MACGREGOR (Visual Arts)
DEANNE CHEUK (Visual Communication)
If you’re a designer, musician, artist, filmmaker, photographer (or other creative maker), aged under 30 and living in Australia, what are you waiting for? Step up and enter by August 9.
Op-Ed: Building a creative city in SMH
I’ve just had an opinion piece published in today’s Sydney Morning Herald on the idea of creative cities, check it out! I’ll post full text shortly.
Update to: Creative Cities East Asia
I’ve just posted a comprehensive overview of the top 12 entries in the Show Us Your City competition I developed as part of the Creative Cities East Asia project.
We received entries from Australia, China, Indonesia, Korea, New Zealand, The Philippines and Singapore. They took many different forms, from photographic series to short films, blogs and maps, surveys and essays. They’re all extraordinarily personal and offer insights into creative communities at a grass roots level, whether focusing on creative workspaces, industry precincts, transport and development issues or social and cultural connections.
We’ll be announcing the winner shortly. The winner will be travelling to the UK, courtesy of the British Council, and will document a series of programs around the idea of “The Welcoming City” at the London Festival of Architecture 2010.
In other good news, this project has been extended and so I look forward to exploring the creativity of our region through this platform for a few more months…
An overview of twelve outstanding entries in the CCEA Show Us Your City competition
