Wiltshire Staysharp Knife designed by industrial designer Peter Bayly.
The history and practice of Industrial Design in Victoria Australia is my research interest and this blog include posts related to this interest as well as my practice as a designer and design educator.
Showing posts with label 01_ORANGE Exhibition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 01_ORANGE Exhibition. Show all posts
Sunday, 20 November 2011
ORANGE Exhibition - Extended to November 25th
ORANGE - Living in the 70s has been invited to remain at the Design Gallery for an extended period and will now close on November 25th.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
Sun setting on ORANGE
The evening burst of ORANGE before sunset signals the end of another day. ORANGE - Living in the 70s has had it's time in the sun and will close soon. Design Gallery Oct 6th-28th. Don't miss this unique opportunity to view the iconic Featherston Stem chair and archive drawing.
ORANGE - Living in the 70s curator Ian Wong with the iconic Featherston Stem chair and archive drawing.
Sunday, 23 October 2011
The designers - ORANGE Exhibition
Orange celebrates the careers of local designers; Richard Carlson, Phillip Zmood, Lionel Suttie, Tony Wolfenden, Peter Bayly, Barry Hudson, Geoff Fitzpatrick, Mary Featherston, Grant Featherston, Charles Furey, Gary Emery, Paul Taylor, Kjell Grant, Robert Pataki, Richard Henderson, Adam Cornish, Brian Davis, and Gerry Mussett. In additiopn to these individuals many projects represent the work of design studios and design teams including the studios of GM Holden and Ford Australia.
Thursday, 20 October 2011
Launch with LaunchPad
LaunchPad by Sprocket allows controlled access to ORANGE blog posts for more details on objects on display in the exhibition. Sprocket CEO and Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame member Gerry Mussett is represented in the exhibition.
Sprocket LaunchPad at ORANGE exhibition Design Gallery, Oct 6th-28th
ORANGE Floor Talk
Savoy crackers, Skyhooks music and 1970s TV commercials added to the atmosphere at the well attended floor talk at ORANGE by curator Ian Wong.
Curator Ian Wong presents a brief floor talk at ORANGE exhibition at the Design Gallery
70s inspired food.
Monday, 17 October 2011
Floor talk - Orange exhibition
Extended public visiting hours until 7.30pm and a brief floor talk by curator Ian Wong at 6.30pm will be presented this Wednesday evening October 19th as part of the current Design Gallery exhibition "ORANGE". All welcome.
ORANGE - October 6th - 28th
Design Gallery
10am-4pm Monday-Friday
Design Institute of Australia
Level 1 - 175 Collins Street
Thursday, 13 October 2011
ORANGE - Design Gallery Design Institute of Australia
"ORANGE" currently on show at the Design Gallery features the Grant and Mary Featherston Stem chair, the Aloha chair by Kjell Grant, the Studio K Lamp by Planet and more than forty products designed in Melbourne.
Aloha and Stem chairs feature in "ORANGE" exhibition curated by Ian Wong.
ORANGE - October 6th - 28th
Design Gallery
10am-4pm Monday-Friday
Design Institute of Australia
Level 1 - 175 Collins Street
Saturday, 8 October 2011
Planet Lamp - Australian design icon
Always the collector, but this week a burnt orange Australian design classic available in time to be a part of the "ORANGE" exhibition had my name on it. It is in excellent condition, a handy local pickup from a very passionate mid century enthusiast living just a stones throw from the Chancellor and Patrick Iggulden House. The Iggulden House was the home of the John Iggulden, the brother of the Studio K lamp designer Bill Iggulton. Bill lived in Balcombe Park Lane in Beaumaris. The Studio K task lamp featured in the exhibition STILL09.
Studio K task lamp is an Australian design icon designed in 1962 by Bill Iggulden for his company Planet Lighting.
Chancellor and Patrick - Iggulden House Wells Road Beaumaris 1957-58.
Image copyright SLV
Thursday, 6 October 2011
Orange - Design Gallery Exhibition
Orange exhibition - October 6th - 28th
Design Gallery
10am-4pm Monday-Friday
Level 1 - 175 Collins Street
The Skyhooks debut album ‘Living in the Seventies’, released in October 1974, declared loud and clear that it was a great time to live in Melbourne. Home Beautiful magazine declared with its April 1973 cover that the colour orange was “in” and homes from Balwyn to Beaumaris made the dream a reality. 'Orange' is an exhibition currently being shown at the Design Gallery in Collins Street, home of the Design Institute of Australia (DIA).
Home Beatiful magazine cover April 1973 featuring Featherson Stem chairs by Aristoc.
The seventies was about bright colours as designers grasped the opportunity provided by developments in plastics to mould solid colours in exciting space age materials. Manufacturers looking for innovation and award-winning design, employed on staff or as consultants the emerging crop of professional designers from local universities. Like we have recognised the members of Skyhooks, these once young and influential designers are now recognised for their contribution to our culture, many as Hall of Fame members of the Design Institute of Australia.
Curated by Ian Wong and drawing from his private collection of Australian-designed products, the exhibition is a rich nostalgic journey as we return to objects familiar from our own past. “Built in 1971 our family home had orange vinyl chairs, orange floral curtains and my bedroom had a bright orange nylex clothes bin,” said curator Ian Wong. “The Holden Sandman and Wiltshire Staysharp knives are Victorian designed classics from this period.”'Orange' also includes a few earlier vintage pieces and some more recent examples of local designers’ use of orange.
Products featured include the Wiltshire Staysharp Knife, Holden Sandman, BX Plastics Bickie Bins, original $20 note, Décor egg cups, measuring cups and stacking kitchen canisters, Willow coolers, Bessemer dinner sets, Nylex kitchen tidy, Kambrook powerboards, and the Prince Phillip Prize winning GE kettle. A star of the show is a rare public outing for the iconic Aristoc Stem chair by Grant and Mary Featherston which was featured on the Home Beautiful cover and is provided courtesy of Gordon Mather Industries.
Aristoc Stem chair designed by Grant and Mary Featherston 1968
Designers represented include Grant and Mary Featherston, Phillip Zmood, Richard Carlson, Tony Wolfenden, Brian Davis, Charles Furey, Garry Emery, Gordon Andrews, Lionel Suttie, Peter Bayly, Kjell Grant, Geoff Fitzpatrick, Barry Hudson, Richard Henderson, and the design studios at Holden and Ford Australia.
Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame member Phillip Zmood concept sketch for the Holden LX Torana hatchback and advertising image.
Torana LX Hatchback brochure image.
'Orange' is now on until October 28th at the
Design Gallery
Design Institute of Australia
10am-4pm Monday-Friday
Level 1
175 Collins Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Tel: 1300 888 056
Tel: +61 3 9662 2345 (intl)
Email: admin@design.org.au
www.design.org.au
Curator
Ian Wong
M 0409554964
ian.wong@rmit.edu.au
Click this link to see more "Orange" posts
Nylex Vynaprufe - Geoff Fitzpatrick
Archive material from RMIT interior design alumnus and Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame member Geoff Fitzpatrick will feature in the exhibition ORANGE curated by Ian Wong which will open to the public this Friday.
Design Institute of Australia Hall of Fame designer Geoff Fitzpatrick and Katherine Sip at ORANGE exhibition.
Detail of poster advertisement for Nylex Vynaprufe awning material.
One of a series of presentation panels from the personal archive of Geoff Fitzpatick FDIA.
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