The Fundamentals of Graphic Design

The Fundamentals of Graphic Design by Gavin Ambrose + Paul Harris is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:
Graphic design as a discipline:
What is graphic design? -- What is a graphic designer? -- Group structures and working methods -- Graphic design today
Influences and creative elements:
Graphic design: art or craft? -- Industrialisation -- Technology -- Typography -- Consumerism -- Identity and branding -- Social responsibility -- Modernism and postmodernism -- Nostalgia and rhetoric -- Semiotics -- Vernacular
The graphic design process:
The brief -- Articulating design -- Sources of inspiration -- Design as problem solving -- Creative thinking -- Wit and humour -- Layers of meaning -- Development and experimentation -- Art direction -- Prototyping -- Commissioning art
Delivering the message:
Print -- Direct mail -- Information design -- Packaging -- Screen design -- Environmental design Procuring work:
Self-promotion -- Portfolios
The production process:
Basic tools -- Specialist colour -- File formats -- Print finishing

Graphis Photography Annual (2009)

The new edition of the Graphis Photography Annual has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. This annual features the best photography in the areas of advertising, architecture, automotive, beauty/fashion, digital, flora, food & beverage, interiors, journalism, landscape, nudes, portraits, products, sports, still life and wildlife.

Ragtrader (24 April 2009)

The latest issue of Ragtrader has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

• Why Australian businesses should be concerned about Fiji
• How RAFW organisers have turned the global credit crunch to their favour
• What The former owners of Monti learned from the collapse

For more information check out the website:

http://www.ragtrader.com.au/index.cfm

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 2nd May to Fri 8th May 2009)

• LOOKING FOR MR GILL

In 1907 Eric Gill, maverick genius of the Arts and Crafts movement, set up home in Ditchling's High Street. It was the start of an extraordinary adventure that helped shape the artistic character of the departed century. It certainly had a profound effect on Ditchling. 'Looking for Mr Gill' is a personal journey by resident film maker Luke Holland, a journey in search of Eric Gill's Ditchling legacy.
Saturday 2 May 2009 2.05pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

• MICHELANGELO REVEALED

A restorer working on a Michelangelo sculpture uncovers evidence showing that the official artist of the Vatican and the Catholic Church, was, during the period of the Inquisition, flirting with Protestantism. Michelangelo belonged to a secret fraternity that was active in trying to avoid a schism in the Catholic and Protestant Churches. All of his friends who were pushing for reforms within the church were subsequently put to death by the Inquisition. Michelangelo however, being too important for the Catholic Church's own propaganda, was spared.
Saturday 2 May 2009 3.00pm
SBS Rating: (WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• AUGUSTE RODIN: SCULPTOR

This program explores the life and works of artist and sculptor, Auguste Rodin.
Saturday 2 May 2009 4.00pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE ART LIFE: ALWAYS BUSY DYING - EP 3 OF 3

The final in a three part series investigating contemporary Australian art. Presented by Andrew Frost.
Sunday 3 May 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt) *Final*
Duration: 30 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Sunday 3 May 2009 1.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 2 - EP 8 OF 10

Honest, funny and revealing, The Gruen Transfer, a runaway hit in 2008, is about how advertising works and how it works on us. It lifts the bonnet on the carefully constructed and manufactured messages that surround us all. Examining the best and worst of advertising, acknowledging the art and science involved, The Gruen Transfer brings some of the pointiest and most creative minds in the ad industry together to discuss the power of persuasion.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (HD)
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has the previous season of this series available for loan.

• RIZE

A documentary by renowned photographer and video clip maker David LaChapelle, which demonstrates the rise of 'clowning' and 'krumping', a startling new hip-hop dance subculture, which has grown beneath the mass-media's radar.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 9.30pm
ABC2 Rating: (M)
Duration: 85 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases the best new Australian inventions from the innovative to the inspirational, the weird and the wonderful. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, science broadcaster Bernie Hobbs, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth.
Wednesday 6 May 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: MIDLOTHIAN

When Pru and Richard Irvine come across a plot of land in the middle of the breathtakingly beautiful Midlothian countryside, they seize the opportunity to build a bespoke family home. However, the plot of land, an old industrial site complete with lime kilns, comes with a condition. They can build on it only if they become custodians of the kilns and, more importantly, that the house they build blends in with the landscape. It's a huge challenge and Pru and Richard want to build an uncompromisingly modern and moreover, large box of a house. It's just as likely to be a blot on the landscape as it is an enhancement.
Thursday 7 May 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan.

Australian Photography (May 2009)

The latest issue of Australian Photography has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Art & Australia - Vol. 46 No. 3 (Autumn 2009)

The latest issue of Art & Australia has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. You can also view the website here:

http://www.artandaustralia.com.au/default.asp

image courtesy Art & Australia

Japan Architect - No. 73 (Spring 2009)

The latest issue of the Japan Architect has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. You can also view the contents here:

http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/2maga/ja/ja_frame.html

md : moebel interior design - No. 4 (2009)

The latest issue of md: moebel interior design has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 25th April to Fri 1st May 2009)

• RIVIERA COCKTAIL: EDWARD QUINN, PHOTOGRAPHER, NICE

A biography of celebrity photographer Edward Quinn, an Irishman who made his name on the French Riviera photographing film stars at the Cannes Film Festival in the 1950s and 1960s.
Sunday 26 April 2009 2.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins

• THE ART LIFE: MILLIONS OF IMAGES - EP 2 OF 3

We examine the influence of advertising, media and art on our lives and talk to some artists who take these ideas as the background of their work.
Sunday 26 April 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ANATOMY - MUSCLE, EP 3 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. Muscle is an intimate film about the extremes of strength and frailty in the human body. For Simon Yates, Jo Lancaster and Mozes, the three members of nomadic performance troupe Acrobat, the body is everything.
Tuesday 28 April 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M) *Final*
Duration: 30 mins

• TALES FROM A SUITCASE: GEORGE GITTOES

This episode centres on George Gittoes, one of the most important and influential artists in Australia today, whose profound interest in the effect of war and civil conflict has led him to trouble spots all over the world.
Wednesday 29 April 2009 2.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors showcases bright minds from across the country as they discover ingenious solutions to the problems of our lives. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: agricultural scientist - Chris Russell, materials engineer - Veena Sahajwalla, and designer - Alison Page.
Wednesday 29 April 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: MONMOUTH

Inspired by their love of the past, gothic architecture and horror movies, Jo and Shaun Bennett decide to build an Addams Family-style house, complete with stained glass window, huge stone fireplace and a massive oak staircase adorned with gargoyles. They plan to do all of this on just 400,000 pounds including buying their block of land.
Thursday 30 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

The Architectural Review (March 2009)

The latest issue of the Architectural Review has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

View:
Mies van der Rohe Award; Kenneth Browne remembered

Comment:
Kieran Long previews next month's relaunched AR

Buildings:
University building, Milan, Italy - GRAFTON ARCHITECTS
Car museum, Stuttgart, Germany - DELUGAN MEISSL ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS
Applied arts centre, Ruthin, North Wales - SERGISON BATES
British High Commission, Colombo, Sri Lanka - RICHARD MURPHY ARCHITECTS
Winery, Peñafiel, Castilla y Léon, Spain - ROGERS STIRK HARBOUR + PARTNERS
Boathouse, Fuβach, Austria - BAUMSCLAGER EBERLE

Process:
Sanjeev Shankar's New Delhi art installation

House:
Jouse, Sanjkik, Taiwan - C-LABORATORY

Reviews:
Jewish cemeteries; James Gowan; Arts & Architecture reprint; Meili and Peter monograph
Palladio at the Royal Academy; Sutherland Lyall's valedictory Browser

Delight
Freeze Alaska - exploring the hyperborean existence

Communication Arts - Vol. 51 No. 1 (March/April 2009)

The latest issue of Communication Arts has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Features:
Communication Arts at 50 by Patrick Coyne - How a sideline business became the largest journal of visual communications. / Herman Miller, Inc. and Steve Frykholm by Ellen Shapiro - American design icons in Zeeland, Michigan. / Harry Chester by Art Chantry - The forgotten creator of cheezy monster type. / Timeline - A 50-year overview of design and advertising and their relationship to politics and culture. / Milton Glaser by Cathie Bleck - A conversation with design’s unstoppable statesman. / Fifty Years of TV Graphics by Angelynn Grant - On-screen graphics have come a long way. / Tim Mantoani by Anne Telford - This San Diego photographer uses a disappearing medium to document the masters of photography. / Fifty Years of International Coverage - A look at creative work from around the world. / Ad Campaign for CA - Goodby, Berlin & Silverstein’s 1987 ad campaign for CA is still funny 22 years later. / Visual Communications Genealogy - A visual map of creative mentorship. / Exhibit by Jean A. Coyne - The latest and best in visual communication from here and abroad.

Fresh:
Noumeda Carbone - Layers of line, color and light infuse the work of this illustrator in Florence, Italy. / Steven Wohlwender - Facial expression and body language play prominent roles in the work of this San Francisco photographer. / egg - Passion for sustainability runs deep at this Seattle agency.

Columns:
Web Watch - The Brooklyn Academy of Music integrates online content, and three design history sites. / Design Issues - DK Holland and others reflect on 50 years of change. / Emerging Media - Sam McMillan asks forecaster Paul Saffo, "What lies ahead for designers?" / Advertising - Ernie Schenck on how Peggy Olson found the future of advertising. / Design Culture - Wendy Richmond reminds us to use everything. / Typography - Allan Haley asks top typeface designers, “What’s new?” / Business - RitaSue Siegel’s history of the communication design business. / Environment - Phil Hamlett on what designers expect from sustainablility (and vice-versa). / Opinion/Commentary - Kathleen Maher explores technology’s impact on visual communications. / Design Trends - Socially-conscious design is on the rise.

Fashion Theory - Vol. 13 No. 1 (2009)

The latest issue of Fashion Theory has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Letter from the Editor / Valerie Steele -- Between Studio and Catwalk - Artists in Fashion Magazines / Antje Krause-Wahl -- Pollock in Vogue: American Fashion and Avant-garde Art in Cecil Beaton's 1951 Photographs / Änne Söll -- The Velvet Touch: Fashion, Furniture, and the Fabric of the Interior / Freyja Hartzell -- The Myth of Street Style / Sophie Woodward -- Exhibition Review Genio y Figura. La influencia de la cultura española en la moda / Ana Cabrera and Lesley Miller -- Exhibition Review Dior: The New Look / Gillion Carrara -- Book Review Fusionable Cheongsam / Yueh-Siang Chang -- Book Review Fatto in Italia: La cultura Made in Italy (1960-2000) dopoguerra agli anni Settanta / Simona Segre Reinach

Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture

Integrated design in contemporary architecture by Kiel Moe is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre.

Contents:

U.S. Federal Building San Francisco, California Morphosis -- Manitoba Hydro Downtown Office Project Winnipeg, Manitoba Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects -- The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park New York, New York Cook + Fox Architects -- Lovejoy Building Portland, Oregon Opsis Architecture -- 290 Mulberry New York, New York S H o P Architects -- The Clarence Kingston, Ontario Behnisch Architects and Next Phase Studios -- 557/559 Boston, Massachusetts Utile -- D D B C Model Residence One Tucson, Arizona D D B C : John Folan & Mary Hardin -- ecoMOD Charlottesville, Virginia University of Virginia School of Architecture/John Quale -- Chicago Residence Chicago, Illinois Wheeler Kearns Architects -- New Residence at the Swiss Embassy Washington, D.C. Steven Holl Architects and Rüssli Architekten -- Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Colorado Adjaye Associates -- North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, North Carolina Thomas Phifer and Partners -- The Glass Pavilion at the Toledo Museum of Art Toledo, Ohio Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa: S A N A A -- Crown Hall Renovation, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, Illinois Krueck & Sexton Architects -- Lavin-Bernick Centre for University Life Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana V J A A -- Seminar II Building at the Evergreen State College Olympia, Washington Mahlum Architects -- Milton Academy Science Building Milton, Massachusetts The Rose + Guggenheimer Studio -- Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building 2 Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona richärd + bauer -- University of Arizona College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Tucson, Arizona Jones Studio -- Sidwell Friends School, Middle School Renovation and Addition Washington D.C. KieranTimberlake Associates -- Technology Access Foundation White Center, Lakewood, Washington MillerHull Partnership -- Artists for Humanity EpiCenter Boston, Massachusetts Arrowstreet -- Pittsburgh Glass Center Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Davis Gardner Gannon Pope Architecture with Bruce Lindsey -- Gleneagles Community Center West Vancouver, British Columbia Patkau Architects -- Water + Life Museums Hemet, California Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build -- U.S. Border Patrol Station Murrieta, California Garrison Architects -- Fire Station 10 Seattle, Washington Weinstein AU Architects and Urban Designers

William Kentridge

William Kentridge: telegrams from the nose: films, sculpture, drawings, tapestry, etchings is a catalogue from an exhibition held at the Annandale Galleries from 11 June-19 July 2008.

You can view further information about this exhibition here:

http://www.annandalegalleries.com.au/htmlpages/artists_bio.php?artistID=34

Fast Fashion

Fast fashion is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Cotton Processing

Cotton processing: spinning, knitting, dyeing, cutting is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Clothing Design & Manufacture

Clothing design & manufacture: how clothes are designed, manufactured and sold is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Nylon, Fibre to Fabric

Nylon, fibre to fabric: how nylon is spun and woven is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

The Men's Fashion Reader

The men's fashion reader / edited by Peter McNeil and Vicki Karaminas is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Introduction: The Field of Men's Fashion
Part 1: A History of Men's Fashion Section
Introduction 1. From Black in Spain to Black in Shakespeare, John Harvey -- 2. The Three Piece Suit, David Kuchta -- 3. Macaroni Masculinities, Peter McNeil -- 4. Thomas Carlyle and 'Sartor Restartus', Michael Carter -- 5. Dandyism, Visual Games and the Strategies of Representation, Olga Vainshtein -- 6. A Tale of Three Louis: Ambiguity, Masculinity and the Bowtie, Rob Shields -- 7. Uniforms and the Creation of Ideal Masculinity, Elizabeth Hackspiel-Mikosch -- 8. Better and Brighter Clothes: The Men's Dress Reform Party, Barbara Burman -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 2: Masculinity and Sexuality Section
Introduction -- 9. California Casual: Lifestyle Marketing and Men's Leisure Wear, 1930-1960, William R. Scott -- 10. 'His Clothes': Fashionable Gay Masculinity and the Shopping Experience, London, 1950s-1970s, Clare Lomas -- 11. Uber Men: Fashionable Heroics and Masculine Style, Vicki Karaminas -- 12. The Italian Job: Football, Fashion and That Sarong, Stella Bruzzi -- 13. From Catwalk to Catalogue: Male Models, Masculinity and Identity, Joanne Entwistle -- 14. The Transvestite Continuum: Liberace-Valentino-Elvis, Marjorie Garber -- 15. Dragging It Up and Down: The Glamorised Male Body, Mark Simpson -- 16. Class, Race and Masculinity: The Superfly, The McDaddy and The Rapper, Del LaGrace Volcano and Judith Halberstam -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 3: Icons: The Evolution of Men's Wear Section
Introduction -- 17. The Genesis of the Suit, Anne Hollander -- 18. The Reinvention of Tailoring, Michael Zakim -- 19. The Japanese Suit and Modernity, Toby Slade -- 20. Clothes and the Modern Man in 1930s Oxford, Laura Ugolini -- 21. A Note: A Charismatic Art: The Balance of Ingratiation and Outrage in Contemporary Fashion, Richard Martin -- 22. Modern Masculinity and the Rise of School Uniforms, Jennifer Craik -- 23. Texas Livestock Auctions: A Folklife Ethnography, George A. Boeck, Jr -- 24. American Denim: Blue Jeans and Their Multiple Layers of Meaning, Beverley Gordon -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 4: Subculture Section
Introduction -- 25. The Zoot Suit: Its History and Influence, Holly Alford -- 26. Back to Africa: Reggae and Rastafarianism, Dick Hebdige -- 27. Cultural Responses to the Teds, Tony Jefferson -- 28. Rock, Fashion and Performativity, Noel McLaughlin -- 29. The Warhol Look, Mark Francis and Margery King -- 30. 'Macho Man': Clones and the Development of the Masculine Stereotype, Shaun Cole -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Part 5: Consuming and Creating Style Section
Introduction -- 31. Fashion and the Man: From Suburb to City Street. The Spaces of Masculine Consumption 1870-1914, Christopher Breward -- 32. Fashioning the Playboy: Messages of Style and Masculinity in the Pages of Playboy Magazine, 1953-1963, Becky Conekin -- 33. 'It was Style with a Capital 'S'': Versions of Being Male Presented at the Beautillion Ball, Annette Lynch -- 34. New Men and New Markets, Frank Mort -- 35. Consuming Masculinities: Style, Content and Men's Magazines, Tim Edwards -- Annotated Guide to Further Reading
Conclusion

Printwork

Printwork: capture the best publication and promotion is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Print is Having a Relationship -- Works -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements

Visual Merchandising

Visual merchandising: window and in-store displays for retail by Tony Morgan is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Preface -- 1. The History of Visual Merchandising -- 2. The Role of A Visual Merchandiser -- 3. Store Design -- 4. Windows -- 5. In-Store Visual Merchandising -- 6. Mannequins -- 7. The Visual Merchandiser’s Studio -- Lighting Chart -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Picture Credits and Acknowledgements

Kitchen Design

Detail in contemporary kitchen design by Virginia McLeod is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Introduction -- 1. Stone Kitchens -- 2. Timber Kitchens -- 3. Steel Kitchens -- Contact Details and Credits

Interiors

Interiors: the home since 1700 by Steven Parissien is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

You can view the contents below:

Introduction -- 1. The Wind of Change -- 2. Anglo-Saxon Rectitude -- 3. Expanding Horizons -- 4. Principles and Proportion -- 5. The Democratic Interior -- 6. Backwards and Forwards -- 7. The Colour of Industry -- 8. Mammon Confronted -- 9. Clean and Bright -- 10. Form and Function -- 11. Safety First -- 12. Embracing the Machine -- 13. One Foot in the Past -- 14. Technology Harnessed? -- Index -- Select Bibliography -- Picture Credits -- Acknowledgements

AIGA : Professional Practices in Graphic Design

AIGA: professional practices in graphic design - 2nd edition is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

See below for the contents:

PART 1 RELATIONSHIPS
1. Short History and the Longer View - Milton Glaser -- 2. Standards of Professional Practices - Richard Grefé -- 3. How Clients Want to Be Treated - David C. Baker -- 4. Marketing the Design Firm - Maria Piscopo -- 5. Negotiating: Lessons From a Caveman - Ed Gold -- 6. The Process of Setting Fees - Eva Doman Bruck -- 7. Standard Form of Agreement for Design Services - Jim Faris and Shel Perkins -- 8. Hidden Intellectual Property Hazards in Web Design - Don Brunsten -- 9. Payment Strategies - Emily Ruth Cohen -- 10. Discount Requests and Retainer Agreements - Cameron Foote -- 11. Finding the Perfect Job - Michael Jefferson -- 12. The Design Firm and Its Employees - Roz and Jessica Goldfarb -- 13. Managing Creatives - Steve Liska -- 14. The Design Firm and Its Suppliers - Don Sparkman -- 15. Print Design and Environmental Responsibility - Don Carli

PART 2 MANAGEMENT
16. Legal Structures for the Design Firm - Leonard D. DuBoff -- 17. Principles of Design Firm Management - Shel Perkins -- 18. Transition 167 - Colin Forbes -- 19. Principles of Managing the Corporate Design Department - Peter L. Phillips -- 20. Large Project Management - Eva Doman Bruck -- 21. Successful Creative Briefs: Linking Business Objectives and Creative Strategies - Emily Ruth Cohen -- 22. Sales Tax - Daniel Abraham and Marci Barbey -- 23. Insurance Basics for the Designer - Ray and Scott Taylor -- 24. Managing Health and Safety in the Design Studio - Monona Rossol

PART 3 RIGHTS
25. Copyright and Licensing - Tad Crawford -- 26. Infringement, Influence, and Plagiarism - Tad Crawford and Steven Heller -- 27. Understanding Permissions - Lee Wilson -- 28. Web Design Contracts and Issues - Don Brunsten -- 29. Other People’s Trademarks - Lee Wilson -- 30. Trademarks and Trade Dress - Leonard D. DuBoff -- 31. Trademarks in Cyberspace - Lee Wilson -- 32. Use of Fonts - Allan Haley

Resources Organizations for Graphic Designers -- Emily Ruth Cohen Selected Bibliography -- AIGA Standards Richard Grefé An Endnote

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 18th April to Fri 24th April 2009)

• HELVETICA

A film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture looking at the proliferation of one typeface (which celebrated its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. An exploration of urban spaces in major cities and the type that inhabits them, and a fluid discussion with renowned designers about their work, the creative process, and the choices and aesthetics behind their use of type.
Saturday 18 April 2009 1.00pm
SBS Rating: (M, L, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this film available for loan on DVD

• REMBRANDT'S J'ACCUSE...!

Painter and celebrated film director Peter Greenaway's fierce criticism of today's visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt's The Nightwatch.
Saturday 18 April 2009 2.55pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 95 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: BORN IN THIS SKIN

Vernon Ah Kee is a portraitist, graphic and video artist. In 2009 Ah Kee will become one of a select group of Australians whose work will be displayed on the most important visual arts stage in the world, the Venice Biennale.
Sunday 19 April 2009 1.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• ANTARCTIC OASIS: A HAUNTING JOURNEY

Tells the story of a trip to South Georgia Island by four Australian artists, who sailed in a yacht from South America to paint and photograph the island and its wildlife.
Sunday 19 April 2009 4.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: THE ART LIFE - OUT THERE, EP 1 OF 3

The Art Life started life as a blog - www.artlife.blogspot.com and was written by a group of anonymous artists and writers. The blog was launched into the virtual world of the web in 2004 and quickly gained notoriety in art circles for its candid views, enthusiastic support for artists and galleries, and its healthy disdain for the crusty establishment art critics of the old media. The Art Life's readership grew steadily from just a few hundred hits a month to thousands a week. The Art Life is presented by Andrew Frost, the editor and co-founder of The Art Life's blog and who is a middle-aged white guy in a suit who adores banging on about art.
Sunday 19 April 2009 7.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: DAVID FRAZER - EP 3 OF 3

David Frazer is a Melbourne-based artist who specialises in various age-old forms of printmaking such as wood carving and etching. With imagination and wit, Frazer's work is imbued with images of nostalgia, love and longing; but always invested with optimism and his signature wry humour.
Sunday 19 April 2009 10.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ANATOMY - HEART, EP 2 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. The second film in the series, Heart, examines what makes a muse. Traditionally thought of as a woman who is the artistic inspiration of the male, what happens when both parties of the relationship are artists and both are women? KABOOM!
Tuesday 21 April 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE TRUE LEGEND OF THE EIFFEL TOWER

The True Legend of the Eiffel Tower is a docu-drama that chronicles the life of Gustave Eiffel, and is the epic story of the Eiffel Tower, one of the most visited monuments in the world. It covers the construction of the tower, Eiffel's efforts to have the Tower used for wireless telegraphy so it would not be torn down, and his failure on the Panama Canal project. The film sticks mostly to facts -"two-and-a-half million rivets, half of which are assembled in the workshop, will support the structure" - revealed in narration and through the daily newspaper articles.
Wednesday 22 April 2009 1.00pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 105 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors brings you the latest from the world of Australian invention. As we go through life encountering problems great and small, the inventors of Australia are thinking to themselves, "there must be a better way"... Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: engineer James Bradfield Moody, designer Alison Page, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth.
Wednesday 22 April 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: BRISTOL

Martin Pease is a successful commercial architect, used to designing large scale prestigious offices and high profile projects including Los Angeles' Getty Centre. However, he's about to embark on a much more personal project - a one-off customised house for his family.
Thursday 23 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan on DVD

• PAPER DOLLS: AUSTRALIAN PIN-UPS OF WORLD WAR TWO

Australia during the Second World War is usually pictured as austere, a time of rations and perseverance. Women from this time are often portrayed as domesticated or working for the war effort. Sexuality was dangerous and mentioned only in reference to the allure of the visiting American soldiers. Fashion was negated for the khaki greens and greys of uniforms. This documentary delves into the dark of war and shows how the pinup girls of the time were pictures of hope, of a better time and of people's longing for fun.
Friday 24 April 2009 7.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 65 mins

• PUNK: ATTITUDE

Director Don Letts' documentary Punk: Attitude takes viewers down anti-establishment memory road to examine the politics, fashion, and music of the punk pop culture trend. The program features interviews and shares performance footage from a variety of famous musical acts including Black Flag, Jello Biafra, Legs McNeil, The Ramones, and proto-punks The Stooges and New York Dolls.
Friday 24 April 2009 10.30pm
ABC2 Rating: (MA, L, D, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 95 mins

Wallpaper* (April 2009)

The latest issue of Wallpaper* has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. If you would like the contents page to be emailed to you please let me know.

Ragtrader (10 April 2009)

The latest issue of Ragtrader has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. It includes:

• Why Versace has returned from the dead.
• Who has claimed retailing has changed for ever?
• Why Daniel Avakian is smiling.

Digital Photography + Design (April/May 2009)

The latest issue of Digital Photography + Design has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Artscape

We have just received a new DVD about the glass artist Tom Moore. Artscape: Tom Moore Glassorama! is now available for loan in the Learning Centre.

The Australian Financial Review - Fashion Special

The April 2009 issue of The Australian Financial Review Magazine is a Fashion issue. It has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Uomo Collezioni - No. 67 (Autumn/Winter 2009-2010)

The latest issue of Uomo Collezioni has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Communication Arts (January/Feburary 2009)

The latest issue of Communication Arts has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Collezioni - No. 133 (Spring/Summer 2009)

The latest issue of Collezioni has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

The Hat Magazine - Issue 40 (Jan/Feb/March 2009)

The latest issue of The Hat Magazine has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

http://www.thehatmagazine.com/index.html

Freeze Frame

Freeze Frame is the website for Historic Polar Images, 1845-1982 from the Scott Polar Research Institute. Here is a summary from the website:

"The Scott Polar Research Institute in the University of Cambridge holds a world-class collection of photographic negatives illustrating polar exploration from the nineteenth century onwards. Freeze Frame is the result of a two-year digitisation project that brings together photographs from both Arctic and Antarctic expeditions. Here you can discover the polar regions through the eyes of those explorers and scientists who dared to go into the last great wildernesses on earth."

Scott Polar Research Institute 2009, Freeze Frame, viewed 4 April 2009, <http://www.freezeframe.ac.uk/home/home>

Architecture Australia - Vol. 98 No. 2 (March/April 2009)

The latest issue of Architecture Australia has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Ragtrader (27 March 2009)

The latest issue of Ragtrader has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Some of the contents include:

• Why fabric price hikes aren't all bad


• What Herringbone has learned from its troubles


• How Seafolly is chasing down the copycats

Australian Photography (April 2009)

The latest issue of Australian Photography has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Architectural Review Australia - No. 109 (April/May 2009)

The latest issue of Architectural Review Australia has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th April to Fri 10th April 2009)

• THE VICTORY OF CEZANNE

For the 100th anniversary of Cezanne's death, this documentary explores how his artistic work went largely unnoticed during his lifetime but shot to fame and value after his death.
Saturday 4 April 2009 3.25pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS,Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• SUNDAY ARTS

This week Sunday Arts focuses on the visual arts: Fenella Kernebone looks at the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition on new Australian drawing; and we feature artists Peter Alwast and Sydney Ball.
Sunday 5 April 2009 5.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 2 - EP 4 OF 10

Honest, funny and revealing, The Gruen Transfer, a runaway hit in 2008, is about how advertising works and how it works on us. It lifts the bonnet on the carefully constructed and manufactured messages that surround us all. Examining the best and worst of advertising, acknowledging the art and science involved, The Gruen Transfer brings some of the pointiest and most creative minds in the ad industry together to discuss the power of persuasion.
Wednesday 8 April 2009 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (HD)
Duration: 30 mins

• JUST TO GET A REP

More than 30 years ago, the youth of New York's neglected neighbourhoods started spray-painting their names on subway trains. Here is the true story of aerosol art as told by its pioneers, and today's innovators.
Wednesday 8 April 2009 9.20pm
ABC2 Rating: (M)
Duration: 55 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: CHELTENHAM

In this episode Kevin meets Tim and Zoe Bawtree who live in an elegant Regency house in Cheltenham, UK. But lovely as it is, the four storey house is expensive to run. With the aim of becoming mortgage free, Tim and Zoe decide to sell their house and build an ultra modern, low maintenance house in their large back garden. However, the garden is surrounded by grade two listed houses and, because of height restrictions, Tim and Zoe are forced to build 60 per cent of their new home underground. This doesn't deter them, neither do the 90 objections to their planning application from the neighbours.
Thursday 9 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this program available for loan

• DAVID OGILVY: THE FIRST MAD MAN

In the week prior to the SBS series premiere of the stylish cult hit Mad Men, the network will screen the documentary David Ogilvy: The First Mad Man. David Ogilvy is a man famous for leading a revolution in advertising, feeding dreams and shaping aspirations with famous campaigns, slogans and jingles. After an erratic education, a spell at Oxford and a year in France working as an apprentice chef, Ogilvy started selling cooking stoves door to door in Scotland. Although a natural salesman, Ogilvy turned his back on the profession at the end of World War Two, and retreated to the Amish community in Pennsylvania. Paradoxically, it was during this period that Ogilvy began to think about starting a career in Advertising.
Thursday 9 April 2009 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• VOYAGE TO THE AMERICAN STONEHENGE

In the magnificently stark landscape of the Bolivian highlands lies Tiwanaku, a 2,000 year old city that was home to one of the most influential civilizations in pre-Inca South America. Scattered throughout this remarkable metropolis are huge temples, pyramids and delicately carved monoliths constructed from colossal slabs of stone. But Tiwanaku's beauty comes with an equally beguiling mystery. The nearest quarry that could have produced the city's rocks lies some 40 kilometres on the other side of Lake Titicaca, the second largest lake in South America. How could these multi-ton stones possibly have made their way to Tiwanaku?
Thursday 9 April 2009 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 60 mins

• UNFOLDING FLORENCE

Acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of flamboyant Australian design pioneer Florence Broadhurst in the feature-length documentary Unfolding Florence which had it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Featuring interviews with Maggie Tabberer, fashion designer Akira Isogawa and Florence Broadhurst's son Robert Lloyd-Lewis, Unfolding Florence also includes dramatised sequences.
Friday 10 April 2009 8.00pm
SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 90 mins
*The Learning Centre has this available for loan

The Annenberg Space for Photography

If you are looking for photographic inspiration you may want to head to the Annenberg Space for Photography website and check out work by L.A. based photographers.

http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/index.asp

Elle Decoration - No. 200 (April 2009)

The latest issue of Elle Decoration has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Aperture - Issue no. 194 (Spring 2009)

The latest issue of Aperture has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Here are the features from the contents page:

• Portfolio - Sally Mann: Untitled. A selection from Mann's latest family-focused project: intimate photographs of her husband Larry.
• On Location - Jiang Jian: Memory and History by Vicki Goldberg. Chinese photographer Jiang's work highlights life in his native Henan Province.
• Essay - Thresholds of a Coming Community: Photography and Human Rights by Anthony Downey. Downey discusses photographs that explore the stateless condition of the dispossessed.
• Witness - Intended Consequences: Rwandan Children Born of Rape by Jonathan Torovnik. Stories of horror, survival, and motherhood after Rwanda's 1994 genocide.
• Work and Process - Pertti Kekarainen: The Sensation of Seeing by Lyle Rexer. A look at the Finnish photographer's unsettling and playful near-abstract images.
• Mixing the Media - Look Close: The Scrapbooks of Dan Eldon and Candy Jernigan by Jessica Helfand. Helfand explores the inventive scrapbooks of two artists who died tragically young.
• Archive - William van der Weyde and the American Morality Place by Michael Lesy. An introduction to the curious work of this little-known early-twentieth-century photographer.
• Photographer's Project - Lise Sarfati: She by Sandra Phillips. A selection from Sarfati's latest body of work, focused on the complex relations among four women.