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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Design and the Indigenous

Its been a few months since my participation in that forum where I got introduced to the Indigenous in design and architecture. My first impulse was to go off and literally consider a ‘design school’ for the indigenous. This is something that Alison Page is championing – so I could join in that effort. I [...]

Global warming isn’t real, says Senator Fielding

This is from the Age paper. Looks like the emissions trading scheme is dead!Or some political points are being made.
Global warming isn’t real, says Senator Fielding
Family First Senator Steve Fielding has made up his mind on global warming – there’s not enough evidence that it’s real.
After talks with the Government and top scientists, Senator Fielding, [...]