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  • Angie Réhe brings Patsyfox to Guildford Lane for L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

    Patsy Fox 2010

    As part of the 2010 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival, the gallery will host an array of fashion-related works from some of Melbourne’s most talented artists, designers and photographers.

    Angie Réhe has been working in the fashion industry since graduating in the late eighties. After years of travelling the world and designing for some of Australia’s favourite fashion brands, she now mixes freelance design and illustration with lecturing, web-based reporting for essential fashion industry news site WGSN.com, maintaining her illustrated blog www.patsyfox.com, and designing cards and stationery.

    Angie’s illustrations will appear during Melbourne’s Fashion Festival at Guildford Lane Gallery against a backdrop of fashion events such as forums and launches, and alongside the work of industry contemporaries. Including portraits of the fashionable, the famous and the just plain fabulous, her work will be on display from the 10th – 21st March 2010, with an opening event to be held on the 11th.

    New for 2010 and launching during LMFF at the gallery is The Patsyfox Drawing Salon, evening classes in fashion illustration for both beginners and advanced.

    Illustrator and designer Angie Réhe brings the beautiful work of her alias, blogger Patsyfox, to Guildford Lane Gallery this March.
    www.patsyfox.com
    www.guildfordlanegallery.org
    www.lmff.com.au


    GUILDFORD LANE GALLERY
    20-24 Guildford Lane, Melbourne 3000 Australia
    PO Box 12179 a’Beckett St., Melbourne 3008
    Ph 61 3 9642 0042 Mobile 0422 442 363

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  • #Melbourne Laneway Commissions for 2010

    CALL FOR PUBLIC ART SUBMISSIONS

    The City of Melbourne continues its successful annual Laneway Commissions. They are seeking innovative proposals from artists or group of artists which respond to Melbourne’s distinct urban setting.

    Deadline: 22 January, 2010

    Artists must obtain a project brief.

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  • Seems legitimate but not sure if it’s what you expect for Xmas. Want a piece of the #Sydney Opera House?

    An international artist-designer-author is selling Sydney’s Opera House. If you want an actual piece of it, click on this website.

    www.globalicons.com.au

    ..what a totally wild and beautiful trash-to-treasure story: Early one morning in 2005, a Sydney couple, Paul and Kristina, noticed a newspaper headline outlining major reconstruction going on at the Sydney Opera House.

    Immediately, Paul went down to the Opera House and asked the construction crew what was happening with the leftovers from the renovation. Nothing! The rejected panels were on their way to the tip. So he returned the next day with a big truck and an even bigger crane – ready to relocate and recycle the Sydney Opera House!

    www.SoulofSydney.com

    #weirdshitigotforxmas.

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  • New York, Threading the Needle, The Future of Fashion Design Conference

    NFashion Research Institute invites you to attend Threading the Needle: The Future of Fashion Design, the first virtual world-based fashion design conference in history.

    Fashion design is changing rapidly in response to many factors. The recent economic collapse, coupled with a coming petroleum crisis and a wave of new technologies with a global emphasis have sent ripples through the industry. Young designers and design students are faced with an array of choices for their careers, many of which weren’t even an option a few years ago.

    Threading the Needle gathers eight fashion industry thought leaders to present their views on a range of topics designed to help a global audience of new designers and fashion designers ‘thread their needle’ and launch their careers. And as anyone who has ever had hand sewn a hem knows, there is a trick to threading a needle.

    Join in on Thursday, December 3rd from 8 am – 5 pm EDT at this free conference for fashion design students and new designers.
    Details, etc: at Shengri La Fashion Institute Blog

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  • Robogals, engaging girls in robotics.

    Robogals Inc. is a not-for-profit organization, which aims to increase the number of girls undertaking science, engineering and technology courses at university. Robogals does this by engaging girls in robotics from a young age in a way that is fun and educational. The volunteer university students are trained in LEGO robotics and then visit schools to teach LEGO robotics to the students.

    Robogals was founded in July 2008, and within three weeks, had enlisted the help of 80 university students. Within the next 2.5 months, Robogals taught over 120 girls from 7 schools in the state of Victoria, Australia. Since the founder moved to London, she has set it up in the United Kingdom, while the organisation has been successfully continued in Victoria, Australia, supported by the University of Melbourne and its students.

    This organization has an international reach, operating in Australia and the United Kingdom.

    Robogals

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  • Call For Entries. Australian Positive Poster Design Competition

    View job:A Call For Entries - 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

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  • 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

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  • Cityoneminutes.org

    Interested in learning what people across the other side of the globe are up to right now? If you’re answering a big phat resounding yes, then point your perky browser to cityoneminute.org:

    “In City One Minutes life in each city is divided into 24 one minute portraits, each depicting one hour of the day.  Every film is a personal impression of the city in which the artist lives or in which he is staying. On cityoneminutes.org you can browse through time and place in a number of ways. For example:  Follow the life in Beijing throughout 24 hours; explore life in each city between 5 and 6 in the morning; watch all the films in a mosaic of cities.”

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  • DIY Project: Window Films

    “…using contact paper and a white paint pen, i’ve created some decorative window films that are easy to change, replace, move, etc. if you don’t feel super comfortable with your drawing skills, you can easily print out images or text and trace them onto the contact paper…

    What You’ll Need:
    1. contact paper, clear (this is for lining drawers, you can find it at hardware or drug stores)
    2. ruler
    3. scissors or exacto
    4. paint pen
    5. tape…”

    For the complete instructions and examples, visit Design Sponge.

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  • A bespoke season of film dedicated to Marc Jacobs at ACMI

    Drag queens, porn stars, washed-up rock stars, A-list fashion personnel and D-list celebrities - Marc Jacobs has a coterie of followers that hang onto him tightly, despite his insistence that he’s not cool. The designer who brought grunge to the catwalk is celebrating 25 years in the fashion biz, and continues to successfully operate mostly on intuition, Moxie soft drink and a dose of self-induced terror.

    To applaud the man behind the superbrand ACMI has hooked up with Melbourne Spring Fashion Week 2009 to weave together Marc Jacobs on Film,  dedicated to the designer’s career, creations and collaborations. The season kicks off with the Australian premiere of Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton. Director Loïc Prigent turns his camera lens towards the designer extraordinaire and Creative Director of luxury fashion house Louis Vuitton just in time for the birth of the handbag to beat all handbags – made up entirely of earlier Vuitton handbags!

    The four screenings of this film will be introduced by festival guest Bryanboy who came to notoriety for his cybermusings on all things fashion. The internationally-adored superblogger is here to brag about the ‘BB Bag’ created in his honour for the Fall 2008-09 Collection by Marc Jacobs.

    Saturday 29 August – Sunday 6 September 2009
    Full $13 Concession $10
    3 Session Package: Full $30 Concession $24

    Full film program at ACMI.

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