How We Create

Hack Design: Henry Wilson on the ‘A-joint’

contributor:
Ben Morgan

date posted:
29-Nov-2011

tags:
Industrial Design,Product Design,Furniture Design,Furniture,Casting,Timber,Metal

Who would have thought that designing a DIY table and bench system would create such a stir? Well, Henry Wilson (http://henrywilson.com.au/) was betting on it. The ‘A-joint’, by the young Sydney-based designer, is a cleverly simple metal bracket that can be combined with standard cut..

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Plastic Fantastic

contributor:
Nick Lord

date posted:
29-Nov-2011

tags:
Industrial Design,Product Design,3D Modeling and CAD,Fabrication,Plastics,Tool making,Engineering,Drafting,Commercial

From its humble beginnings some 24 years ago as a plastic componentry machinist, Alternative Engineering Concepts (AEC) (http://www.alternativeengineering.com.au/) has grown into a comprehensive machining facility that today boasts 36 employees and offers a long list of services across a wide ra..

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Maison & Objet - COUPLICITE’

contributor:
Laura Wakelam

date posted:
28-Oct-2011

tags:
Product Design,Furniture Design,Interior Design,Interaction Design,Plastics,Composites,Textiles and Fabrics

Each year the organisers of SAFI commission some of the most influential designers and thinkers of our time to project onto the Maison & Objet stage their concepts of what trends and factors will influence the future of design by way of collective product installations. Among roughly half a..

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MAISON & OBJET - IN CONVERSATION WITH MUD AUSTRALIA

contributor:
Laura Wakelam

date posted:
07-Nov-2011

tags:
Product Design,Composites

Mud Australia was one of two Australian companies exhibiting at Maison & Objet; a Sydney based homeware design Company founded in 1994 by Shirley Simpson. Appealing to the French’s high regard of artisanship, each product in Mud Australia’s porcelain range is made entirely by han..

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HIGHLIGHTS OF MAISON & OBJET

contributor:
Laura Wakelam

date posted:
24-Oct-2011

tags:
Industrial Design,Product Design,Lighting Design,Furniture Design

Paris is the birthplace of Haute Couture, but also of fine craftsmanship and design, from Charlotte Perriand to Jean-Michel Frank, Phillippe Starck to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullect, Paris has been at the forefront of international design and artisanship. Hosted twice every year is the &lsq..

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HOW WE CREATE 2011: THE MACHINE IS SWITCHED ON AT DISTRICT 1

contributor:
Laura Wakelam

date posted:
02-Sep-2011

tags:
Industrial Design,Product Design,Lighting Design,Furniture Design,Packaging Design,Education,Student,Rapid prototyping,Rotational Moulding,Furniture,Fabrication,Plastics,Product Development

+Friday was a night of epic proportions as How We Create celebrated their second year of Saturday In Design participation. After our experiential installation last year which attracted many to pause and reflect on the mood-setting beauty of resolved design, at this years’ SID we recalled ..

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