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‘Being a graphic designer gets you used to rejection of your brilliance. So it’s good practice for dating.’
Heather Phillips
KNOG Gator 605, a high powered cycling light
Catalyst
People's Choice Credit Union
Design Clarity
Airdrop Irrigation
Ed Linacre
Surfboards by Peter Walker
Artwork by Quentin Gore and Stephen Bowers
PEGS Junior School
DIA Practice Member: McBride Charles Ryan
Crown Metropol
Bates Smart
Prints
Kate Ward
Cirrus
Christina Fogale
'Strada', three piece alloy wheel design
ROH Wheels
Posted Monday, 30 January 2012
Focusing on the user rather than technology is the key to good product design.
If you’ve ever had the dubious pleasure of trying to navigate your way through a website that has truckloads of bells and whistles but nothing that is intuitive or of any real design substance, chances are you’re dealing with a site that has been driven initially by a programmer, not a designer.
In other words, the needs of the user have been sublimated to the requirements of the technology.
Posted 6 Feb 2012
Community cooker wins inaugural World Design Impact Prize.
Posted 6 Feb 2012
DIA member exhibits in Korea.
Posted 5 Feb 2012
Gold medal winner of 2012 American Institute of Architects awards upends convention.
Posted 5 Feb 2012
Marc Newson’s new Pentax camera design doesn’t click with everybody.
Posted 1 Feb 2012
Furniture company maps children’s brainwaves to create spectacular textile patterns.
Posted 31 Jan 2012
$11m refit for Australia’s controversial National Museum.
Posted 30 Jan 2012
Design journal questions the effectiveness of ‘progressive design’.
Posted 25 Jan 2012
Posted 25 Jan 2012
HASSELL again ranked top architectural practice in Australasia.
Posted 25 Jan 2012
Plans unveiled for new £80m Design Museum in London.
Engaging with design.
The Design Gallery, located adjacent to the DIA National Office in Collins Street, Melbourne, is currently planning its 2012 exhibition schedule.
Some space is available for DIA members, other designers, design-related companies and institutions to promote their design work, products or services in the Design Gallery.
The Gallery is a specialised, small-space gallery ideal for exhibiting a range of design projects across multiple disciplines, including experimental, conceptual and unbuilt design.
For more information, visit here or contact Katherine Sip on 1300 888 056 or gallery@design.org.au
APSDA 2012 General Assembly in India, this February.
The 2012 General Assembly of APSDA (Asia Pacific Space Designer’s Association) will be held this February in the seaside town of Goa, India.
Organised by the Indian Institute of Interior Designers (IIID), the event promises to be an interesting experience with a range of speakers drawn from APSDA's fourteen member organisations, amongst others.
The DIA is closely involved with helping APSDA further its aim of raising the profile of Interior Design throughout the East Asian, Southeast Asian, and Oceania regions, helping to run the APSDA website with financial assistance from major sponsor designEX.
Registration details for the General Assembly in Goa here at the APSDA website.
(Image courtesy of www.apsda.net)