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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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, … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Melbourne school of fine woodworking
Melbourne School of Fine Woodworking – Home melbourne school of fine woodworking (msfw) is a not for profit organisation located at Box Hill in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs. We provide ongoing daytime and evening tutor groups, specialist workshops and project based … Continue reading
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