Triangular Design Manifesto

While I don't use the word designer to describe myself, I like this, see no.2
Thank you Conceptual Devices

00_ Design should not be based on formal principles – but always on an idea of society.
01_ Designed forms represent possible social orders and a lot of their contradictions.
02_ Design is everything. Anything could be designed. Everyone is a designer.
03_ Design allows social innovations. Often it is not made by designers.
04_ Design has not scale. It could be small and have great impact.
05_ Design is not an innocent practice. Designers are wicked.
06_ Design should engage people and interact with them.
07_ Design is an interdisciplinary applied science.
08_ Design produces visual consciousness.
09_ Design is a triangular manifesto.
10_ Design makes you smile.
11_ This is the top.
12_ Enjoy!

kicked into touch

Phew.  Back from the whirlwind of a Sydney visit, full of wonderful people and galleries.  Overall we were really happy with the show and its reception. 

It is hard to believe that it is in it's final days today.

The show might be coming to an end, but Raewyn Walsh has been keeping the blog evolving with featured artists: whose pictures are all remarkably indicative of their personalities.

We have had some good attention from the blog community:

melbourne jeweller

bijou 

kit and caboodle

strobed

and we even subliminally infiltrated our own show: subliminal infiltration 

Lisa Walker at Objectspace

Objectspace window will host Lisa Walker 6 November - 15 December 2010

Here is how Objectspace is billing the show:

This installation presents a selection of recent neck pieces by Lisa Walker, each of which utilises a range of materials from New Zealand collected by Walker when she returned home from Munich last December after 14 years abroad. The construction of the neck pieces resembles that of contemporary Polynesian lei, where the designs frequently draw upon found materials, both natural and manufactured, in 
bright colours and textures.

Announcing Touch, Pause, Engage

Touch, Pause, Engage is an introductory snapshot of contemporary jewellery from Aotearoa, New Zealand for the Australian community.  Known primarily as the call the referee shouts before two rugby teams lock into a scrum, in this context Touch, Pause, Engage becomes a call to look fully and interact with jewellery as you see it.

And so, this innovative jewellery showcase is designed to reset the trans-Tasman rivalry between our rugby-loving brothers and sisters, and to build new jewellery relationships. The show will be hung at the Keeper Gallery, at the Gaffa Art Complex in Sydney, and will run from 21 October – 2 November 2010.  Opening night, October 21st will also mark the release of an accompanying publication.

The initiative of Kristin D’Agostino and Raewyn Walsh, Touch, Pause, Engage, has invited a diverse team of fifteen New Zealand jewellers to submit inventive and inspired works.  Although many of the makers’ practices focus on different issues and are expressed in a wide range of forms, the side is fit and game ready.  The roster is comprised of talented individuals with varying skills, strengths, and experience but who all make a target of pushing the experimental aspects of their jewellery practice.

-Kristin and Raewyn

Jewellery events in Auckland

 

Back in Auckland just in the nick of time and ready to jump back into the buslting jewellery world. 

Craig McIntosh @Fingers - October 4th

Amanda Game @Objectspace lecture series - October 6th

Cheryl Sills and Mia Straka  @ Royal - October 8th

Artist Alliance Workshop Day - October 9th

Peter Deckers and Nadene Carr @ Masteworks - October 13th

Broach of the Month Club/Masterworks Dinner  - October 13th

Peter Deckers Floor Talk @ Masteworks - October 14th