Can you feel it? It's coming. Design lovers from all over the country are hopping from foot to foot with excitement at the moment - like children on a politically correct, religiously non descript holiday eve … but with way more thick rimmed glasses. Why, I hear you ask? The
State of Design Festival starts this week. That's why.
State of Design is, as the name suggests, a statewide design festival which has a little something for everyone. An initiative of the Victorian government, SOD will host over 100 interactive events, exhibitions, workshops and talks from 15 – 25 July. The Festival holds four major programs in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, focused around the 2009 theme ‘Sampling the Future’: Design Capital business program, Design For Everyone public and cultural program, Design:Made:Trade industry program, and the biennial Premier’s Design Awards (next held in 2010).
Either way, design is the name of the game in Melbourne for the next few weeks, and you’d better prepare, because with so much on, it’s going to be tough to get to even half of the cool things that are happening in this fair city.
So whether you’re keen to catch a lecture from design industry heavy hitters like Cool Hunting’s Tim Yu or if a workshop on sustainable fashion design is more your speed, may we suggest you pop over to the
State of Design website and plan your festival. It’s going to be a cracker, any way you slice it.
A few of our festival picks:
LightCycle
Dates: Friday 17-26 July
COST: Free – all welcome
VENUE: Guildford Lane Gallery
20-24 Guildford Lane
Melbourne
Portable Film Festival
Dates: 15 – 25 July
COST: Free
VENUE The Big Screen
Federation Square,
online at
portablefilm
Festival.com and
various events
in Bendigo
THIS IS NOT A DESIGN MARKET
Dates: Sunday 19 July
Times: 10am–5pm
COST: Free
VENUE: The Factory
500 LaTrobe Street
Melbourne
Australian Perspectives : Kings Way : The
Beginnings of Australian Graffiti
Dates: Saturday 18 July
Times: 6pm
COST: Free
VENUE: ACMI Function Space
Federation Square
Melbourne