Monday 28 September 2015

Beijing Design Week - Australia@BJDW


Beijing Design Week Creative Director Beatrice Leanza at the Australia-China Design Industry Collaboration Forum 


Beijing Design Week Creative Director Beatrice Leanza presentation as part of the Australia-China Design Industry Collaboration Forum - Designing our future through focus, collaboration and leadership.



Friday 25 September 2015

Marc Newson - Beijing Design Week Georg Jensen Teapot


Melbourne Movement President and MADA Monash Art Design and Architecture lecturer Ian Wong and Marc Newson at the launch of the Georg Jensen teapot - Beijing Design Week 2015.


Murray Moss and Marc Newson  - Australia@BJDW


Marc Newson teapot for Georg Jensen launched at Beijing Design Week 2015


Marc Newson@Jensen's Garden - Australia@BJDW program.


Marc Newson teapot for Georg Jensen launched at Beijing Design Week 2015


Marc Newson @ Jensen's Garden panel L-R: Peter Bundgaad Rutashe, Murray Moss, David Chu CEO Georg Jensen and Aric Chen during Beijing Design Week 2015.


Australia@BJDW program - Guests celebrate at Marc Newson @ Jensen's Garden during Beijing Design Week




Australia@BJDW - Marc Newson 


Marc Newson teapot for Georg Jensen launched in Beijing during Beijing Design Week 2015




Marc Newson teapot for Georg Jensen launched in Beijing during Beijing Design Week 2015

Monday 21 September 2015

Beijing Design Week - Australia@BJDW

As part of the first feature of Australian Design at Beijing Design Week, the inaugural Australia-China Design Industry Collaboration Forum provides an opportunity to explore and celebrate design collaboration between Australia and China.

Australia@BJDW
Australia-China Design Industry Collaboration Forum
2pm-5pm
Saturday September 26th 2015
RSVP: hayleyward@dfat.gov.au

Location: TRB Copper
No13 Nafu Hutong, Dongcheng, Beijing
Entrance via TRB - 23 Songzhusi, Shatan Beijie, Beijing China

For directions call +86 1084002232 

Beijing Design Week - Australia@BJDW


Sunday 20 September 2015

Design Icon - Regis glasses from Crown Corning

Today I collected this set of six Crown Corning Pilsners. The iconic Regis range of glasses designed by Edward Kayser used the high speed glass production equipment previously only used to make beer glasses for an entire wine/beer range in the late 1960s. (see previous posts)

This set of Crown Corning Pilsners in original packaging provide a strong link to the history of the Australian innovation to produce wine glasses in one piece using high speed glass production techniques.


Regis glasses designed Australian industrial designer Edward Kayser


Regis range of iconic Australian glassware.


Beijing Design Week - Crafting Connections


2009 - Dr Rohan McNichol


Crafting Connections - Beijing Design Week

Crafting Connections

This diverse exhibition showcases Craft and Design from the Australian National University (ANU), School of Art (SoA). In Australia it has been famously said that the Arts, including Craft and Design, provide “windows into realities under construction”.
The exhibition will showcase the potential of Craft and Design to generate scalable and transferable propositions for our built environments, including for example, methods applicable to the preservation and revitalisation of the Dashilar hutong district. Craft and Design is an enduring international concern and platform for doing the important work of fostering vibrant communities in the post-industrial era. “Crafting Connections” will showcase craft and design approaches that draw on ancient traditions and working methods to propose contemporary solutions for ‘being together’ on this rapidly changing planet. Physically living together is no longer possible in a world centred around digital experience, so ‘being together’ is the only option we have. “Crafting connections” proposes that Craft and Design are the enduring threads capable of binding together our collective futures across cities, across cultures and across time.

This exhibition provides a starting point for dialogue between the craft and design communities in Canberra, Australia and Beijing, China. We come to Beijing with the wish to establish a platform for the exchange of cultural traditions, knowledge, and ideas for our shared future on this planet.

Beijing Design Week - Marc Newson


Beijing Design Week - Marc Newson will feature as part of the Australia at Beijing Design Week program 2015

Ian McArthur - Australia at Beijing Design Week 2015

Beijing Design Week 2015 will feature the MADLAB Workshop by Ian McArthur and ChangLin Fan on September 25th.

Ian was an Australian delegate in 2014 and it is exciting to see the MAD LAB Workshop featured at Beijing Design Week 2015. 


Ian McArthur and ChangLin Fan - MADLAB Workshop Beijing Design Week 2015


Beijing Design Week - Ian McArthur in Beijing


Saturday 19 September 2015

Australia at Beijing Design Week 2015



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Australia@Bjdw



Marc Newson - Beijing Design Week 2015



Ambassador’s welcome



Frances Adamson
Australian Ambassador to China

I’m pleased to welcome our friends in China to the first program of Australian design at Beijing Design
Week. Our feature of exhibitions and events invites you to explore Australian design, fashion, architecture and creativity right here in Beijing, and to be a part of an important exchange of ideas between our two countries.
Australian designers and architects have been working in China for over 20 years, collaborating on projects from landscape design and urban gardens to master planning entire cities. Did you know the Watercube built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics was designed by an Australian architecture firm? With numerous exhibitions being staged across Beijing in addition to talks and workshops, our Australia@BJDW program has something for everyone. Admire leading Australian designer (and designer of the Apple Watch!) Marc Newson’s stunning new teaset created for Georg Jensen, on show at the Beijing Centre for the Arts. Celebrate the Canberra-Beijing sister city relationship by visiting the Australian National University craft and jewellery exhibition “Crafting Connections” exhibiting at Yangmeizhu 59, Dashilar.