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Introducing our new media partner dmzine - design management online
dmzine is Australia's only online source of design management resources. It's not the type of content you will find in management books or university courses – it's a collection of articles based on 30 years experience running a design business in Australia. Every article directly relates to managing a design practice.
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South Australian Architecture Awards honour renowned leader and emerging talent
Adrian Evans has been recognised with the Sir James Irwin President's Prize at the Australian Institute of Architects' 2013 South Australian Architecture Awards announced on Friday 14 June. 'This year I have chosen to award an individual who I believe has not only made outstanding contributions to architecture in South Australia but also exemplifies many of the qualities that define an architect,' South Australian President Steve Grieve commented.
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Top honour goes to shimmering research hub in South Australian Architecture Awards
Twenty of South Australia's best architectural projects, from a strong field of forty-three, have been recognised at the Australian Institute of Architects' 2013 South Australian Architecture Awards announced tonight at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre. The state's highest honour, the Jack McConnell Award for Public Architecture, once again went to a leading university research building with BVN Donovan Hill and Hames Sharley (architects in association) taking out the award for The Braggs, University of Adelaide. This new research facility for photonics and advanced sensing symbolically represents its internal function through an external crystalline form that shimmers through its reflection and refraction of light throughout the day.
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Craft Punk: Warm-up! Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 June
Craft Punk is suggesting some crafty ways you can warm-up this winter. Book a workshop lead by an industry expert and learn how to create a quirky tea-cosy, coffee plunger cosy or hat from industrially knitted off-cuts. Kill the chill as you learn some very useful carpentry skills and create a funky coat rack. Join our free drop-in session and make a knitted scarf to beat the winter blues. Craft Punk is all about giving you the tools to take making into your own hands!
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Ken Cato awarded AO
The Design Foundation is proud to announce that our founder and Chairman, Ken Cato AO received an Officer of the Order of Australia in the Queen's Birthday Honours List on Monday 10th of June. This honour was awarded' for distinguished service to the graphic design profession as a practitioner,
and through education and development roles both nationally and internationally'.
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CITY DESIGN AWARDS
Design is culture and commerce in action, the City Design Awards programs celebrate brilliant design in local markets. Established in Melbourne in 2009, the City Design Awards has evolved into a leading crowd marketing platform for the design sector.
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Mobile Monday Sydney
3rd June 2013 , at 7:00 PM
The City Hotel - Level 1 - 347 Kent St - Sydney, NSW 2000
Shane Williamson: Update on the Mobile Ecosystem
Tim Parsons: The Future of Video
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Mobile Monday Melbourne
June 24th from 6pm
Level 1, The European Bier Cafe
Speakers: TBA
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DESIGN ANNUAL
The Design Annual 2013 edition will be a 660+ book featuring the best of design in Australia with a first distribution run of 10,000 copies.
The annual will include features of all winners across the design100 awards programs with listings of finalists and shortlisted entries.
Distribution of the design annual will be include the top 1000 CEOs and managers in Australia.
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REA Group: When we entered the awards, our realestate.com.au mobile apps had been downloaded over 1.2 million times (now over 2 million!) and our latest updates had received great feedback from consumers. The awards were an opportunity for our apps to be recognised by the people who use them as well as the broader mobile industry. As you can imagine, we were pretty chuffed to win a Mobie and kudos goes to our project team who created the winning iPhone and iPad universal app.
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