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Design Tasmania

Locality: Launceston, Tasmania

Phone: +61 3 6331 5506

Address: Corner of Tamar and Brisbane Streets 7250 Launceston, TAS, Australia

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23.01.2022 Curator Ian Wong interviews Mary Featherston about iconic Australian design touching on the history of manufacture as well as key innovations and techniques employed with Grant Featherston on creating design icons in furniture. Video by Ian Wong and Tim Isaacson for Design Tasmania, Robin Boyd Foundation and Monash University.

21.01.2022 Design Tasmania’s retail outlet is taking a pause. Design Tasmania’s galleries will remain open from Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm and on Sundays 11am-4pm. We would like to thank our community in advance for your patience as we take a break from retail operations. Updates on our relaunch, scheduled for late 2020 will be broadcast on our socials and website. To stay up to date please sign up for our mailing list via our website.... designtasmania.com.au

21.01.2022 Through the picture window in the park room by @make_stuff_happen #snow

19.01.2022 Design Tasmania in the #snow

18.01.2022 Simon's path to a life in design began in childhood with earnestly engineered flying machines launched from the family carport roof. Flight continues to inspire Simon in his 'Clipped Wing' range. Watch now to find out more about the enigmatic Tasmanian designer.

16.01.2022 WOMEN IN DESIGN | ANITA DINEEN Anita’s curiosity & sensitivity is channelled into her whimsical creations of jewellery and sculptural homewares. The essence of her Tasmanian landscape has served as a soulful foundation, infusing her work with a strong narrative base that bridges function & form. This, coupled with her thoughtful choice of material and meticulous craftwork, elevates everyday objects to resonate on an emotional level with the user. Anita has received signific...ant recognition through exhibitions, awards and local & international media. Most notably, winning the Inaugural Alessi + Vogue Living Design Award and the 2015 New York City Design Prize for homewares. ‘Design makes me tick and good or bad, I see it in almost everything. Be it mechanics or Marmalade, it’s the fine tolerances of quality and aesthetic that can make something ordinary extraordinary.’ Anita Dineen - Maker of Minor Marvels

14.01.2022 DESIGN TASMANIA IS REOPENING - https://mailchi.mp/designtasmania.com/communication-4989406

14.01.2022 Mary Featherston on design and manufacture in Australia, innovation, modernism and collaborating with Grant Featherston. Video by Ian Wong and Tim Isaacson.

13.01.2022 Welcome back to Design Tasmania. We're open with our Wood Collection on view across Price Hall and Gallery Book a timed tour today via:... designtas.info/timedtix

12.01.2022 Hi! Internet friends> I am excited to share with you that we will be running a #workshop once a month!! This is an opportunity to #share some of the #skills w...ith the people of the #island. Come hang out, there’s been some interesting #commisions in the works too! . We will be alternating the intro into #knife making and #toolmaking workshops during the winter months. 4 people per session > more info via the links in the bio-> thanks for checking it out @pete_mattila_ #studio #tasmania #artist #maker #skills See more

12.01.2022 WOMEN IN DESIGN | MEGAN PERKINS Megan is a Tasmanian born and based creative with over 13 years of industry experience. Most notably as Lead Designer and Art Director for DarkLab, responsible for the Dark Mofo festival brand identity since its inception (2013-2019) along with leading the inhouse team in the delivery of brand positioning and communications for In The Hanging Gardens, Altar, Mona’s Macquarie Point Plan and the Odeon Theatre. At the beginning of 2020 she branche...d out to expand her independent creative practice. Megan prides herself on developing innovative solutions and delivering high-quality outcomes. She specialises in brand identity and campaign strategy and communications with cut-through and effectiveness in the real world. She takes a research based, collaborative approach, working closely with clients to help define who they are and get to their core narratives and business philosophy. Megan assembles purpose-built teams of specialist individuals to best suit the client needs and delivers seamless solutions across all platforms including print, digital and experiential. She is interested in the power of design to unify communities and communicate a sense of place. Her design and jewellery practice explores universal themes with a distinctly Tasmanian voice and innovative approach to material and method. Megan sits on the board of Directors for Design Tasmania and Good Grief studios. Recognition for her practice includes four 2017 Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) Awards, the 2019 Grand Dieman for Brand Identity and the 2016 Tasmanian Design Award. Much of my work draws from psychology, symbolism and the unconscious. I feel my way to solutions that have a universal appeal, grounded by local understanding. I think designers play an important role in distilling sense of place and unifying communities."

11.01.2022 The Tasmanian Table event in the Tasmanian Salon for Denfair 2.0 by Design Tasmania. Photo by Melanie Kate Photography

09.01.2022 Voting is now open for the 2020 Bell Bay Aluminium People's Choice Award. To have your say in who should win the $3,000 prize, simply click on the link below and select the work you like the most from this year’s finalists.

08.01.2022 ICONIC Australian Design @ DESIGN TASMANIA Mary Featherston and Simon Ancher interviews to be released to close the exhibition. https://mailchi.mp/designtasmania.com/communication-4989314

07.01.2022 WATCH NOW Mary Featherston on ICONIC Australian Design via designtas.info/iconicshow Curator Ian Wong interviews Mary Featherston about iconic Australian design touching on the history of manufacture as well as key innovations and techniques employed with Grant Featherston on creating design icons in furniture.... Video by Ian Wong and Tim Isaacson for Design Tasmania, Robin Boyd Foundation and Monash University. #ispyid #iconicaustraliandesign #designtasmania #industrialdesign #australianmanufacture #monashada #australiandesign #iconicdesign #design #mod #modfurniture #retrofurniture #featherston #featherstonchair #designhistory #robinboydfoundation

06.01.2022 ICONIC AUSTRALIAN DESIGN AT DESIGN TASMANIA ONLINE EXHIBITION Design Tasmania is pleased to present ICONIC Australian Design curated by Ian Wong featuring over 100 products designed in Australia. From world-first innovation such as the Kambrook powerboard to household favourites like the Nylex Esky and highlights such as Grant and Mary Featherston’s Sound Chair: our daily lives are powered by the outputs of industrial design. Presented in Partnership with... Monash University | Design Institute of Australia | Robin Boyd Foundation Pictured: Numero furniture for Uniroyal by Grant and Mary Featherston. Image courtesy Ian Wong Collection.

05.01.2022 "Design Tasmania’s unique creative gallery space speaks as a collective voice for the passionate designers, makers and artisans across the Design Island. The Tasmanian Salon closes the gap between our southern-most state and world at large in a time of COVID-19 by bringing the show to life online. Co-Curator and Executive Director Claire Beale says, there’s something about the landscape here that connects designers and makers to nature in their practice, as you look around... the salon you can see references to shark eggs, marsupial mice, lines of gum trees and even bushfires. This connection to place sees fiercely modern design aesthetics express an experience of nature." Find the full article in the latest issue of The Local Project, available for purchase at LUC.

05.01.2022 WOMEN IN DESIGN | LAURA MCCUSKER Laura has been building furniture professionally for over 20 years. She is a classically trained fine woodworker and cabinet maker with experience in boat building, fit outs and traditional freestanding pieces. Yes, she is female and yes, she still manages all this blokey stuff whilst looking elegant and sophisticated. Mostly. Good design, for me, exists in the overlap between art, craft and the trades. ... It needs to perform its function well, bring pleasure to the end user and be ethically made. I used to think good design was to be found mostly in the cannon of Internationalist modernity, Prouve, Eames, Corbusier ... big men with big names, but this classical style has become so ubiquitous, everything ends up looking the same. The vernacular has been lost along with the mark of the human hand. I think that the centuries-old artisanal crafts still have validity, and even more so in the current climate. The older I get, the more I come to realise that good design is often found where objects are produced in quantity, by hand by anonymous makers, often relatively inexpensive, used by the masses, functional in everyday life and representative of the region in which they were produced. That's what design means to me. Laura McCusker Furniture Designer and Maker

02.01.2022 WATCH NOW Simon Ancher on ICONIC Australian Australian Design designtas.info/iconicshow Simon's path to a life in design began in childhood with earnestly engineered flying machines launched from the family carport roof. Flight continues to inspire Simon in his 'Clipped Wing' range. Watch now to find out more about the enigmatic Tasmanian designer.... #iconicaustraliandesign #designicons #simonancher

02.01.2022 A public memorial service to honour our founder, the late Gary Cleveland (19302020) will be held at Design Tasmania on Thursday, November 19th between 2pm and 4pm. A commemorative service will take place in our Gary Cleveland Galleries with tea, coffee and light refreshments to be served following, in the adjoining Price Hall. This service is open to the public by the reservation of complimentary Memorial Service tickets to ensure COVID Safe capacity compliance. Seating is a...vailable for invited guests as well as limited seating available for ticketed guests from the public. The presentation will also be available via livestream, with a recording available to watch at a later date via our archives. Design Tasmania will be closed to the public on Thursday 19th November. Memorial Service ticket holders will be invited at 2pm to enter via the Tamar Street entrance. RSVP by the 9th of November via: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/public-memorial-for-gary-cl

01.01.2022 WOMEN IN DESIGN | EMMA BUGG In the year 2000, Emma Bugg undertook her Bachelor's degree in fine art at Hunter Street fresh out of college. Majoring in sculpture, she never quite figured out what she was doing there but found it to be an excellent foundation for understanding art history and concept development. After a few years of leaving her home island of Tasmania to work and travel, it all came together when she returned to study Silversmithing and Jewellery design at Pol...ytechnic in 2009. In 2010, she approached Handmark gallery in second year of study and was offered an exhibition that year. Launching from this, her career has prospered, going on to have work at Design Tasmania, the MONA collection and exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her work has been shortlisted in several prestigious national art and jewellery awards. Emma's arts practice is multi-faceted, with a distinction between high end exhibition work and production pieces. The material that captivates her is concrete, creating jewellery that embodies a gentle strength and subverts perception of a utilitarian material. Conceptually, her practice focuses on remembering. Connection to place and spirit are common themes which run throughout her work, with pieces containing fragments of places or cremated ashes to create something permanent from something that no longer exists. She has also produced commissioned pieces that incorporate secret codes. "There's an undeniable alchemy that happens in the design and creation of jewellery. I'll always remember the first time I made a ring. I love the transformation that takes place when you manipulate and apply fire to metal. Something magical happens when the solder flows, connecting two ends and transforming it into to an object that can signify so much. My favourite jobs are those which involve working with clients to tease out an idea, going from concept to meaningful object." Emma Bugg Concrete Jewellery