Seminars and conferences

Twelve years ago Ashton left Sydney to turn his first decade of design practice on its head, with the hope of finding something more than doing work, making money and moving up. Exploring design practice, Ashton has put together a dialogue which investigates change, freedom, curiosity, along with other tall stories, pictures of design outcomes, half baked manifestos, tales of excess and assorted heady exaggerations.

When
Monday 1st August 2011
6pm for 6.30 start

Where
Australian Museum
Entrance in William Street
Corner of College and William St

Tickets
Members $30
Non members $55
Student members $20
Student non members $30

Enquiries – Anita Lyons 9975 4008

To coincide with our exclusive open studio night AGIdeas have developed a multi studio event … to celebrate we have put together a series of bespoke invitations for 16 invitees. To be a part of our night register with the AGIdeas crew at the 2011 AGIdeas website. Thanks again Kristen, Eleni and crew.

If you have one of our invitations please visit our password protected space here, with your password of course.

Visit AGideas here

While most Australians are yet to come to terms with, or show a remote interest its vibrant creative and design culture (there is far too much sport to watch and minerals to dig up for that nonsense), people from places far and wide are actively investigating and seeking out our way of making work.

Behind many of the projects appearing on the website, for that matter behind many design projects on the internet, are endless hours, care and design-nerd-un-billable-love, which often goes unnoticed. All of this effort is made worthwhile, when invitations to share ideas and collaborate come into studio from people and places in different time zones. During May this year we are going to San Francisco to share our creative practice with Gravity Free – Gravity Free is a multidisciplinary design innovation conference.

Thank you to Michael Vanderbyl and Lee Knight for your interest in the studio and its work. All we need to do in the mean is develop a new presentation, that goes beyond a fancy show and tell. Thanks to initiatives like TED and Twitter, audiences can participate in the appraisals and critique… we are sh*tting ourselves.

Visit Gravity Free here

Images courtesy of ICOGRADA Brisbane Design Week and Seesaw Photography.

The last forty-eight went off with it’s normal hitches and triumphs – speakers dropping in and out, rapid email blasts, technical dramas on the night and nerves. In all everything went to plan, our audience left with a smile; all of our speakers did their bit; some were chased off, while others came in on time.

In the last five years with have presented over fifty designers with their brief story to tell. The main purpose of the event was celebrate creativity for its diversity, differences and curious passions of creative people. Shifting the focus from a creative style, a studio, or an individual that happens to be in fashion, or on trend. The project was borne in Melbourne in 2006 and concluded at the ICOGRADA Brisbane Design Week, October 2010.

Our warm thanks goes out to our speakers :

2006 – David Band, Mahon & Band; Steven Cornwell, Cornwell; Adam Gardiner, Qube Konstrukt; Stuart Geddes, Is Not Magazine/Monument Magazine; Ryan Guppy, 21–19; Dominic Hofstede, Hofstede Design; David Lancashire, David Lancashire Design, Amanda Roach, Amanda Roach Design; Tin and Ed, and Dianna Wells, Dianna Wells Design.
2007 – Wendy Ellerton, Hofstede; Kate Hannaford, Moth Design; Shara Henderson;, Soren Luckins from Büro North; Alex Tyers.
2008 – Hired Gun Design, The Surgery, Tank, The Narrows, Is Not Magazine, 21—19, Ziegler Design, Studio Pip and Co. Design by Pidgeon, Studio Round and Paperpoint.
2009 – CO-OP, Alter, ERD, 3 Deep Design, Blenheim Design Partners, Foundry Typography, Design & Visual Dialogue, Langdon Lorriane, South South West, Hi God People, and Oslo Davis
2010 – Laura Cornhill, Studio Binocular; Di Elderton, Argonaut studio; Dominic Forde, Famous Visual Services; Raafat Ishak; Darren Henderson, dirtygood; Aaron Moodie – The People collective; Pete Salmon, Salmon Design; Tim Kentley, XYZ Studios
2010 – Dan Pike, The Letter D; Jason Grant, Inkahoots; Hannah Cutts, Cutts Creative; Gary Wilson, Paperpoint; Simon Mundy, PeptoLab; Dom Bartolo, 21-90; Mimmo Cozzolino and Kevin Finn, Open Manifesto

Thanks to the AGDA council and support team, namely Jen, Brita, Tanja and the volunteers

A big double thanks to the sponsors – Gunn & Taylor, Digital House, RA Printing, Spicers Paperpoint and RMIT University

Like any good idea, after five years and six great events, it seemed timely to move it on, before the idea became tired. We’ll leave forty-eight with this thought – every designer / creative is different – and that is an exciting proposition – thanks for participating in this idea.

See you all at the next manifestation.