Call For Entries. Australian Positive Poster Design Competition

Positive Posters is an international poster campaign open to graphic design students and professionals. The project aims to publish positive posters around city walls that will challenge/inspire people to make a positive change in their lives.

The Positive Posters design competition asks students and industry professionals to come up with posters that respond to themes that will hopefully inspire a positive social change in our community.

30 shortlisted entries will be shown in an exhibition at the Rooftop Bar (Curtin House) in November, with the winning entry bill posted with around 1000 prints around Melbourne. This poster will then go on a world tour, through the positive posters network.

This is a great opportunity to gain exposure for young talented designers, as well as allowing them to positively contribute to the current social fabric through their work.

For more information, design requirements and to submit a poster please visit:

www.positive-posters.com

On twitter.com :
www.twitter.com/positiveposters

Applications close: Friday, October 16, 2009

International Design Competition, Think Outside the Parking Box

C A L L – F O R – E N T R I E S
designboom international graphic design competition.
Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world,
to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts.
Free registration required.

In search of cutting edge design to challenge conventional urban parking to be tougher and stylish.

Qashqai is a resilient urban vehicle with distinct style. It is capable to take on whatever the city throws at it – Qashqai is ‘Urbanproof’. We are looking for ideas around Nissan’s tough and stylish Qashqai. Designs may challenge any element of urban parking (underground, exterior, interior, multi-layer, ground level, shape, colors, material, smell, sound, ramps, signage, limits, etc.). Urban parking is in need of a renovation. Ideas must challenge current perceptions of urban parking and offer a tougher, sleeker, or even playful rendering of it.

The urban parking challenge is open to innovative designers with a bold and daring vision. Design is an innovative field with an ever-growing number of mediums to create this parking renovation: graphic, video, urban, industrial, lighting, motion and more.
Ideas may be delivered as videos, objects or illustrations.

More at designboom

Upcoming Deakin 09 event, Social Innovation and Sustainable Living & Global perspectives

The Alfred Deakin Eco-Innovation Lectures, presents leading global innovators who are rethinking the future by embracing the challenge of climate change. The 2009 theme – ‘Climate and Innovation – Building the Low Carbon Economy Now’ – links the inescapable challenge of climate change to the spirit of creativity and innovation.

International design thinker, Ezio Manzini, explores the growing global wave of social innovation. Mr. Manzini will describe the fundamental shift towards a new paradigm of business and lifestyle, grounded in sustainable values underway around us.

Ezio Manzini – Professor Director of Research Politnico di Milano

BMW Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne
Thursday 08 October 2009

More from the Alfred Deakin, Climate and Innovation website

Random Acts of Elevator Music want your building tips…

Random Acts of Elevator Music are preparing their itinerary and plan to bring productivity-raising muzaktronica to as many city office buildings as possible in Sydney and Melbourne.  Let them know if you want to experience these soothing oscillations and melodies in your elevator!

Email cityfreqs@akm.net.au or tweet to twitter.com/cityfreqs and we’ll put your building on our itinerary.  Leave a mobile number or email address and you’ll receive notification of when Random Acts of Elevator Music are about to come your way (and we won’t tell your supervisor that you gave us the inside tip…)

Melbourne office appearances: September 23^rd to October 2^nd

Sydney office appearances: October 5^th to 12^th

Random Acts of Elevator Music are back in 2009, performing live muzaktronica during office hours in buildings throughout the Sydney and Melbourne CBDs, helping to increase productivity in workplaces everywhere.

Random Acts of Elevator Music is the latest project from City Frequencies, a collaboration between Matt Adair and Nick Wilson, who work together on sound projects within the metropolitan environment.

For further information visit:   www.akm.net.au/cityfreqs

Melbourne Fringe Festival, people and walking tours

“People’s Tours”, are a set of unique audio and walking tours of Melbourne’s local history, starting on Saturday 26 September.

For the first time, walking tours are being done “live” as part of the 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival as three walking tours every Sunday of Fringe, and one “sit-down” tour at the launch.

The launch is 7 pm  – 9 pm at Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne on Saturday 26 September and entry is free.

At the launch there’ll be an introduction to the “People’s Tour” project, an overview of the 13 tours done so far, and then to kick it off, Tour #1 Irine Vela of The Habibis tours the hits, failures and challenges of her life as a working musician in Melbourne.

We’ll visit Irine when she first became entranced with Cat Stevens and his music, and her excitement of hearing the Bouzoukis in his song Ruby My Love. We’ll hear the first song Irine wrote as a bitter sixteen year old, One day I’ll Kill Myself, and follow her life’s journey as she discovers that choosing a life in the arts transgresses a taboo for a Greek-Albanian girl.

And if you can’t make it, you could put on your walking shoes and explore the lesser known histories of Carlton, Brunswick or the Maribyrnong River…

Tour #2 Stencil artist Tom Sevil (Civilian) takes us off the beaten latte track of Lygon Street and into its back alleys to find remnant political graffiti and street art from the 70s to 2009. Sunday 27 September, 1 pm – 2.30 pm. Meet at Readings Bookshop, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton. Find out more…

Tour #3 Making Modern Melbourne author Jenny Lee explores the long history of a short river, the Maribyrnong, in a tour that covers the indigenous history of the area, the old explosives factory, and the river’s changing landscape to the current McMansion invasion. Sunday 4 October, 3 pm – 4.30 pm. Meet at Lily Street Park, Essendon West. Find out more..

Tour #4 Activist and author Iain McIntyre takes us back in time to Brunswick in the Great Depression, when thousands of Melburnians thrown out of their homes. Tour the sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest anti-eviction battles (now the sites of some of Melbourne’s fiercest real estate battles). Sunday 11 October, 1 pm – 2.30 pm. Meet at Brunswick Town Hall, 233 Sydney Road, Brunswick. Find out more…

Walking tour tickets are $10, pre-sold only and available at Melbourne Fringe Festival website: People’s Tours. The sit-down launch (Tour #1) is free.

The tours are co-produced by 3CR Community Radio and Jane Curtis, and funded by the Local History grant program of the Office of Public Records.

People’s Tours co-producer http://peoplestour.net

FULL TILT at the Arts Centre presents CANDY BOWERS in Who’s That Chik?

Tickled Pink in association with the Breast Cancer Network Australia

From 7 – 31 October 2009, Tickled Pink will be hosted at Artereal Gallery in Rozelle (Australia) to support Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) – the peak national organisation representing Australians personally affected by breast cancer.

The director, staff and artists from Artereal Gallery and the broader arts community have come together to organise the Tickled Pink fundraising event, which is an exhibition of work by 25 of Australia’s finest contemporary artists.

Opening night pink drinks with the artists and tasty pink treats will be served on Wed Oct 7 from 6 – 8 pm.

The art work exhibited includes sculptures, works on paper, oil paintings, photographs and mixed media works made specifically for the exhibition by leading local and interstate artists such as Kate Rhode, Claude Jones, Damian Dillon, Andrew Lavery, Christine Polowyj , Cecilia Fogelberg, Glen Henderson, Sarah Parker, Anne MacDonald, Sylvia Schwenk, Ruth Hassall, Nola Diamantopoulos and Cash Brown.

Nola Diamantopoulos has generously donated her time and expertise to hold workshops for women living with breast cancer to explore their journeys through art making and meditation. Some of these works will also be exhibited, and we gratefully acknowledge Tilly’s Art Supplies for donating the workshop materials.

Money raised from the sale of artworks and activities during the event will directly assist BCNA to continue its work ensuring Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer have the very best information, treatment and support possible.

This includes the distribution of the My Journey Kit, a free comprehensive information resource for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. BCNA works to ensure that women diagnosed with breast cancer, and their families, receive the very best treatment, care and support possible – no matter who they are, or where they live.

BCNA acknowledges the tremendous efforts of Artereal Gallery, Art Almanac, Tilly’s Art and Office Supplies, Darling Park Wines, The Art Scene and the artists in supporting our work, and encourages the local community to participate and help to make a difference to women and their families.

Artereal Gallery
Street:  747 Darling Street
Rozelle, NSW Australia

Opens: 6pm. Wednesday, October 7, 2009

#The Yes Men. #Age of Stupid. Climate Action Week in New York.

If you live in New York, please visit http://newyorkbigevent.com/ to sign up for some GIANT, extremely FUN, potentially WORLD-FIXING shenanigans on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. (Even if you don’t, you can sign up to participate in The Yes Men’s  “digital fun squad” by clicking the option on your profile.)

Everyone who shows up Monday morning will get a FREE GIFT you can SHOCK your friends with for years. Even just a few minutes Monday morning will help. Sign up now! http://newyorkbigevent.com/

The Yes Men can’t tell you much about what they”ll be doing, as the element of surprise here are crucial. But they can tell you that it’ll be huge and absurdly fun, and when a hundred world honchos meet the next morning to discuss climate change at the UN, you may have helped set the tone for progress.

Then, that evening (Monday, Sept. 21), we’ll unwind from the action by dressing up in our very best, er, suits and heading to the global mega-premiere of climate blockbuster The Age of Stupid (http://www.ageofstupid.net/). (LA Times: “Think An Inconvenient Truth, but with a personality”)

The premiere will be linked by satellite to 444 cinemas across America and 300 more worldwide,with special guests Kofi Annan, Radiohead’s Thom Yorke (singing live), Gillian Anderson, Heather Graham, Moby, James Hansen, Mary Robinson, and the film’s star Pete Postlethwaite.

The Sept. 21 events (http://newyorkbigevent.com/ and Age of Stupid premiere) are part of Climate Action Week in New York. A good way to warm up is to join an “international photo opportunity” coordinated by Oxfam on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 20 in Central Park: the Human Countdown.

TINT, call for Interactive Art

TINT, an artist run initiative which provides a platform for open discourse, experimentation and display of digital/analog hybrid art form, is looking for artists, curators and academics with an interest in cross disciplinary art that merges with technology and science.

Deadline: 30 September

For more information go to www.tintarts.org

LAND. Ulf Langheinrich. Digital Illusion part of the Brisbane Festival

A SENSORY JOURNEY COMES TO AUSTRALIA

LAND is a triple-screen digital landscape rendered solely out of two algorithms that create pure noise. Through its sheer immensity and use of pulsing repetition it induces a changed state of consciousness, or, as the artist puts it, “an altered state of reality”.

LAND, which debuted at the 2008 Liverpool Biennial (UK), continues the German artist’s exploration into sensory immersive environments, at the core of his recent artistic research into the nature of digital illusion.

15 September – 1 October
The Block
Cnr Kelvin Grove Road and Musk Avenue, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Australia

For more details, see description on QUT website