Industrial Design Melbourne

This year, like every year at this time, a whole bunch of design students will leave university to enter the profession. And as with this time every year the prospect of making a living from design is scary!
So I said to myself I would do something about it. But what?
I could visualize projects – write [...]

In the recession

Barry Katz – writing in ARCADE says:
But what of the legions of unemployed designers? Happily, in a truly restorative world there would also be more design. A lot more of it. But design of a different sort, practiced by a new breed of designer according to principles now only dimly perceived.
The first new design specialty [...]

who do I want to be as a professional?

Tales from an Unemployed Interior Designer

Now I’m faced with yet another problem (in addition to all those associated with searching for a new position in this economy); if my job is not coming back in any way, shape or form… then what do I want to do and who do I want to [...]

on Design Forums

Why has the level of discussion in “design forums” degenerated so quickly? Maybe because they’re not populated by “designers.” Greenfield explains …
A List Apart: Articles: The Bathing Ape Has No Clothes (and other notes on the distinction between style and design)

I admit it: I’m one of those poor souls who likes to indulge [...]

Stimulus Program For Unemployed Designers

Job Stimulus Program For Unemployed Designers – jobs.roanoke.com

With unemployment at a 25-year high, and an estimated 3.3 million jobs lost in the last five months, a leading design software company has created its own stimulus package-providing unemployed engineers and designers with the opportunity to learn valuable new career skills.
The program gives [...]

Don’t give in to shamefaced cringing and glum, hand-wringing humility

Product Panic: 2009

In 2009 you might be unemployed, like those moguls at the top of the financial food chain, so it’s necessary to look busy, preferably at some advanced and exotic activity. Don’t give in to shamefaced cringing and glum, hand-wringing humility. You’ll be getting plenty of humiliation from crazed market forces, which [...]

Unemployed Print Designers

This is a story about adapting to change. What is ID today – you may well ask.
An Open Letter to Unemployed Print Designers | Chopped Fresh
Poor, poor little print designer. You have been working exclusively in Quark, InDesign and Illustrator for the last ten years, and you haven’t bothered to advance your skillset to accommodate [...]

Fit for work?

I was looking up ‘unemployed designers’ and came across this.
Unemployed Anonymous – Support group for recently graduated industrial designers | LinkedIn

Unemployed Anonymous is a ’support group’ created for and by recently graduated industrial designers from the TU Delft, but hey! we’re all ears for anyone out there who can give a hand or [...]

Tamil and Australian aboriginal languages

I sat and watched Ten Canoes the other day. The language in it sounded like Tamil. Which was a surprise. Just like years ago I realised that Japanese and Tamil words were interchangeable in a sentence. So I went looking for research where others may have found this too. I came across this:
Perhaps most similar [...]

AIATSIS

About AIATSIS
The Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) is the world’s premier institution for information and research about the cultures and lifestyles of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, past and present.

National Archives link

Muslim Journeys
From the Afghan camel drivers who helped open the continent’s vast interior, to the Turkish families who answered a call for willing workers in the 1970s, Muslims have contributed much to Australian life. They journeyed to an unfamiliar land, bravely seeking opportunities in a culture inclined to view them with suspicion. Some, like the [...]

Reconciliation Australia

Who is RA? – Reconciliation Australia
Reconciliation Australia is an independent, not-for-profit organisation that was established in 2000 by the former Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation. We are the peak national organisation building and promoting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians for the wellbeing of the nation.

January 26, 1938

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Blog psipunk

Future Transportation -
You don’t stand gawking at a taxi, unless it’s an Enzo, but the Mazda Taxi concept could make you stare every time you see it. The concept, developed as a taxi, keeps the specific requirements of the vehicle in mind. The first thing that comes out is, that the ways of approach to [...]

Sketch for a Course

Design and the Indigenous: Exploring contemporary Aboriginal Australia
The title took some constructing – but I am happy with this, and the fact that the title does not commit to a position or angle.
The next task is to establish the need for this exploration. I began an exploration titled ‘Great Civilizations’ in 2005. The idea at [...]

MacIntyre on Windschuttle

Posted to mark the reading of History Wars!Stuart Macintyre | Reviewing the History Wars | Labour History, 85 | The History Cooperative
He misreads those whom he castigates. Windschuttle repeatedly alleges that Reynolds and Ryan sought to depict the frontier as a place of indiscriminate white killing. Yet Reynolds was principally interested in the Aboriginal [...]

Chatwin’s Songlines

I post this as a marker for having read Chatwin’s Songlines.Book Review – Songlines – [1989] AboriginalLB 12; 2(36)pg19
All of Australia when viewed from the standpoint of a songline is a sacred site. How does one sort out the western legal ramifications of such a concept? How does one reconcile two such different cultural concepts [...]

Week 3

This is week 3 of my immersion into the area of the Indigenous. I had made a call some time ago till 3 weeks ago that I could transfer my discourse of ‘the other’ from India into that of comprehending the indigenous in Australia. Three weeks ago I had a meeting which sowed seeds of [...]

The problem with the iphone

The iphone is popular, attractive and with its apple istore provides a convenient way to release software to the user. With all these strong points, it is easy to see why many people choose to use it as a basis for their design. However if you plan to use Bluetooth there are a few important [...]