These pages provide a platform for academics, design and industry leaders to raise key issues and topics for debate. Discussion will canvas issues facing design, industry and policy makers in areas such as use of design and design and sustainability, design and the economy and community wellbeing.
Design Talks
The online forum to discuss the research report Designing Our Future has now closed. Read what interested parties had to say about the findings.
More Commercialisation Australia
The new Commercialisation Australia program offers hope and help for organisations trying to develop innovative new products, processes and services.
More Design for Everyone 2010
The State of Design Festival is seeking expressions of interest for events to be included in the 2010 Design for Everyone program.
More A Sprinkling Of Grants Wisdom
Intent on growing her fashion design business, fashion designer and entrepreneur Sprinkle applied for a grant through the Textile Clothing and Footwear Small Business Program.
More A Year In Design
A Year In Design, the official 2009 Australian International Design Awards Yearbook is now available.
More Etienne Mineur
French graphic designer Étienne Mineur has developed websites for top fashion houses Issey Miyake and Chanel.
More Make Design Key
Successful companies use design to create great products, distinguish themselves from rivals and build loyalty and credibility.
More Get Me Out Of Here!
There is plenty of support to help designers get export plans off the ground (and overseas!)
More The Silver Bullet
Companies that are succeeding on a global level are putting design at the centre of everything they do.
More So Suite
AGDA’s new blog encourages design comment and review and gives graphic designers an opportunity to share their thoughts.
More Amanda Levete
Amanda Levete has galvanized an international reputation as an architect at the vanguard of practice and research.
More Sustainable Shopping
A unique shopping trolley design may be the solution that ensures reusable bags are truly green.
More Shanghai World Expo 2010
Australia’s $83 million pavilion at Shanghai World Expo 2010 provides local businesses with exciting opportunities.
More For Alessi
Thousands of designers from all over the world compete for the opportunity of designing for Alessi.
More Protect Your Assets
A recent high profile court case highlights the importance of IP protection for Australian designers.
More Design in Turbulent Times
Companies looking to beat the global economic downturn and improve their financial health could benefit from design.
More Design and SEO
So you think you’ve got a well-designed website? Brilliant graphics and a cool bit of Flash. Big deal. Unless it appears on page one of a Google search, it doesn’t mean a thing.
More Design Driven
A threefold multidisciplinary model of design - inventor/entrepreneur, professor, and practitioner, Tom Barker is an exemplar of practice what you preach.
More Creating Sustainable Business
Businesses that include measures to meet ecological concerns in their planning are finding that they not only sleep better for it, but that clients have more reasons to choose their offerings.
More Creating Master Minds
From the multi-layered artworld of Fluxus to the strata of design research, Professor Ken Friedman’s contribution to the knowledge economy is globally renowned.
More Design Thinking
Design-led thinking can transform the way businesses develop products and services. Tim Brown explains how increasingly more companies are embracing design for competitive advantage
More Guerilla Warfare
As the senior visual designer and concept artist at Amsterdam-based game development studio Guerrilla Games, Roland Ijzermans maps parallel universes and charts visually arresting cinematic backdrops.
More The Real McCoy vs. Copy Cat Acts
Take your pre-existing ideas about intellectual property protection out of the too hard basket. You can protect your designs if you know what you’re doing – and you do it right first time around.
More How Ab Sees Design
Whether through nature or nurture, design is certainly elemental in Ab Rogers’ stock in trade.
More Dressed for Success
You’ve registered a trade mark so you’re covered if a competitor copies your creative ideas and designs, right? Not necessarily. Have you thought about registering your designs? And what about patent protection and copyright?
More Ahead of the Games
In the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games all eyes are focused on Beijing, and the visual identities devised and designed by Professor Min Wang, and his team.
More The Changing Face of Retail
Within an architectural and design context, the Melbourne Retail Strategy seeks to establish partnerships to explore opportunities to create retail-driven landmarks within the city.
More Trevor Choy — IP Case Study
It isn't easy to hang on to copyright ownership - clients will often insist that it is given immediately to them for free. In the last 14 years that Trevor Choy has been involved with the design community, he has worked with designers on a few strategies that can sometimes help a designer retain copyright.
More SeyMour Ideas
Behind the expansive, original thinking and creative ingenuity of Richard Seymour is a profound design common sensibility.
More Culture Klatsch
Still fuelled by the feather-ruffling politics, creativity and collaborative adrenaline of its core members, multidisciplinary pioneers Chicks on Speed, take their self-proclaimed ‘project’ to new highs.
More Growth by Design
Find out the seven key design applications featured in BRW 2008 Fast Starters Flagship Edition from interviewing the 100 fastest growing start-up companies.
More Ideas to Inc.
The award-winning business Cato Purnell Partners has experienced extraordinary success with offices in four continents around the world. Regardless of culture or context, it seems that design distinction speaks a universal language.
More Law and Design: Do you use protection?
Trevor Choy, a Leading Lawyer for Australian Intellectual Property, presents us with a current example of some of the challenges faced in protecting corporate identities.
More Championing Design — Sir George Cox
When Britain’s Treasury commissioned Sir George Cox to lead an examination into creativity in business, it did not anticipate the findings the crusading knight would ultimately table.
More PIQET
Victorian innovation is providing designers around the world with a tool to inform their decisions on packaging.
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