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Design is on the money
While few have the luxury of taking money for granted, how many of us think about the design that goes into the banknotes you hand over at each purchase?  More

Innovation leader backs design
Why design? George Pappas, Chairman of the Committee for Melbourne, has joined the growing number of Victorian leaders recognising the essential role of design in a company’s ability to innovate and respond to change.  More

Springboard — Entrepreneurship for Australian designers
Springboard is a mentoring program that will enable Australia’s most promising furniture, accessories and homewares designers to develop their professional careers in local and international markets.  More

State of Design 2008
The State of Design Festival is Victoria’s peak design event. The Festival will cover many cross-disciplinary design agendas relating to the profession of design and the marketplace that it provides to.  More

Premier's Design Awards 2008
The Premier’s Design Awards recognises excellence in the realm of design practice in Victoria and communicates the value of good design to a broad public and business audience both locally and internationally.  More

Shanghai Design Biennale — September 2008
The Victorian Government is seeking expressions of interest from Victorian design firms to take part in an Industry Capability Mission to the Shanghai Design Biennale in September 2008.  More

Design Gets Down to Business
AGIdeas ‘Advantage’ Business Breakfast presented case studies and guest speakers that articulated the tangible benefits good design can offer to business, building links between design and business communities.  More

Jeremy Moon — AGIdeas Review
At just 25 years of age, Jeremy Moon founded the company that has become New Zealand’s leading outdoor clothing producer and exporter.  More

Richard Seymour — AGIdeas Review
Richard Seymour is one of Europe’s best-known product designers. Founding their award-winning design consultancy in 1984, Seymour and partner Dick Powell have built Seymour Powell into one of the most powerful ‘change engines’ in the design business.  More

Professor Min Wang — AGIdeas Review
Professor Min Wang is Dean of the School of Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), one of China’s most prestigious art schools and is Design Director for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Committee.  More

Calling all writers...
Design Victoria is seeking to establish a pool of writers that will work on a casual basis to write content for our website and other media - for more details and to apply please read on.  More

Energise Enterprise 2008
Victoria’s Small Business Festival comprises an extensive program of events throughout metropolitan and regional Victoria aimed at providing inspiration, ideas and information on how to start or grow a business.  More

Melbourne Spring Fashion Week Breakfast Series
Learn what it takes to create and forge a relationship between your customers and your brand – from the temptation and seduction of courting, through to love and marriage, and how to ward off separation.  More

Energise Enterprise 2009
Over 400 business events throughout Victoria during August!  More

Coming Soon - The Case for Export How to Kit
As part of the development of this exciting new resource we welcome your feedback. Please take a few minutes to complete this online survey to go into the draw to win a $50 voucher from Metropolis Bookstore.  More

Melbourne Spring Fashion Week
Design Victoria is pleased to announce its partnership with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week.  More

New Retail Report
Although Melbourne is well-known as a shopping destination with its winding laneways and charming arcades, speakers at Design Victoria’s recent seminar shared fresh insight into some of the innovative retail experiences on offer in Melbourne and overseas.  More

Education Survey
Design Victoria is calling on students to participate in an important study on design education in Victoria.  More

Design Challenge — bushfire solutions
RMIT Design Research Institute invites you to contribute your creative thinking to the urgent and topical issue of bushfire events.  More

Fast Starters — Fostering Design & Innovation
To tap into the mindset of the top 100 Fast Growth Start Up companies, download Professor Kosmas Smyrnios’ research paper “2008 Fast Starters: Adoption of and barriers to the Application of Design”.  More

agIdeas 2009
Now in its 19th year, agIdeas is a major event on the design calendar, attracting a sell-out audience from the design and business community and the general public from across Australia and beyond.  More

State of Design 2009
State of Design is pleased to announce Festival dates for the next three years. Mark your diary for an annual winter design celebration: 15-25 July 2009, 14-24 July 2010, 20-30 July 2011.  More

Beware Free Riders
As a graphic designer, you expect to be paid for the work you do for clients and agencies. Payment disputes often arise when copyright and written contracts are afterthoughts to a design project. It pays to understand and protect your rights by acting early.  More

Eco-Design for Designers
Eco-design is not a future phenomenon - it is here now. The eco-design seminars and workshop series imparts strategies for the effective integration of environmental considerations into design and manufacturing. Register now!  More

The Business of Eco-Design
Sustainability is the key driving force transforming the global design and manufacturing landscape. The eco-design series addresses the fundamental issues of what sustainable design encompasses and identifies the driving forces behind this major market shift. Register now!  More

Springboard
Seventeen Australian designers across numerous design fields have been selected for Stage Two of the Springboard: Entrepreneurship for Designers program.  More

Find your way to 'To Three'
What do you get when you put an environmental graphic designer together with a feast of rich, international case studies?  More

2008 Premier's Design Awards Virtual Pavillion
Set up in the ‘virtual’ space on your computer, the amazing ‘Virtual Pavilion’ will guide you through the award winning entries of the prestigious Premier’s Design Marks as part of the State of Design Festival 2008.  More