Picasso

Picasso: rare prints is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Elle Decoration (July 2009)

The latest issue of Elle Decoration has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Fashion News - Vol. 143 (May 2009)

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

Hokusai

Hokusai: "the thirty-six views of Mt. Fuji" by Muneshige Narazaki is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Frank Gehry

Frank Gehry: Toronto edited by Dennis Reid is a book that accompanied an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario, February 18 – May 7, 2006.

Contents:

• Foreword by Matthew Teitelbaum
• Frank Gehry: The Early Years by Gillian MacKay
• A Century of Building the Art Gallery of Ontario by Dennis Reid
• Frank Gehry: Seeing the AGO Again (and Again) by Larry Wayne Richards
• In School with Frank Gehry by George Baird
• Model Employee by An Te Liu
• Object Lessons by Michael Mantzoris
• Refinements in Radical Form-making: The View from within Gehry's Office, 1999-2001 by Tom Bessai
• Contributors

André Kertész

André Kertész : an exhibition of photographs from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris is an accompanying catalogue from an exhibition held in 1979. It is now available for loan.

Mode et Mode (June 2009)

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

Punk

Punk: Attitude is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"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. Punk: Attitude 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. In describing the ascent of punk later in the 1970s, Dead Kennedy's frontman, Jello Biafra talks about how just about every smaller town and city had one guy who was into The Stooges and The Velvet Underground who then moved to the bigger cities, met up with all the other like-minded small-town new arrivals, and started bands. Don Letts, renowned DJ and later member of Big Audio Dynamite, armed with a Super 8 during the heyday of punk, has now taken his footage and made a documentary ably willing to tell the story of how a few guitar chords changed the world. Punk: Attitude is the quintessential walk through music history not appearing on MTV. The Ramones, Television, The Velvet Underground, Black Flag and dozens of other bands were trekking the streets of NYC with a new mantra of DIY. As any music fan knows, the underground movement didn't begin with grunge. It began long before on the stages of The Roxy and CBGBs in the early 1970s. Peppered among the live footage from the 1970s and 1980s are interviews with infamous artists synonymous with what became the Punk scene - Henry Rollins, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon from The Clash, Chrissie Hynde, David Johansen from the New York Dolls, writer Legs McNeil whose Xeroxed newsletter reported on the fray, Howard Devoto of Magazine - the list goes on. The documentary manages to transcend the obvious trappings of mohawks and moshing by bringing in the ethos of fashion, film and hip hop to get at the heart of what was punk. Don Letts was the DJ at the Roxy in London, the club of the infamous "100 days of punk" at which every band in the UK punk scene in its heyday performed. When the Roxy began, there were no punk rock records to play, so he played hardcore reggae and dub and is widely credited for helping bring that influence to UK punk rock. He also had his video camera with him. There are interviews with Jim Jarmusch, Roberta Bayley, Mick Jones and Paul Simonon, Siouxie, Steve Jones, Tommy Ramone, Handsome Dick Manitoba, James Chance, Glenn Branca, and Thurston Moore. (From the US, in English)" -- website

Riviera Cocktail

Riviera Cocktail: Edward Quinn, Photographer, Nice is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"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."

The Architectural Review (June 2009)

The latest issue of The Architectural Review has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Ragtrader (19 June 2009)

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

Contents include:

• How a lack of government funding could spell the end of locally-made shoes.
• Why Diesel Australia has slashed its price points.
• What happened when General Pants turned green.

Domus No. 926 (June 2009)

The latest issue of Domus has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Textile View Magazine - Issue 86 (Summer 2009)

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

Contents:

• Publishers view Life in a time of thrift. The mentality in the UK and USA is almost on a war-footing. Make-do-and-mend, Dig-for-victory. The rush to grow your own vegetables and to sew your work clothes is gathering momentum. Will this new sense of sobriety last and spread?
• Fibres & fabrics Tough times could be doing two things - both discouraging manufacturers from taking the environmental route because of the higher costs of organic raw materials, and encouraging them because of the need to cut costs.
• Capital update Very mixed news. London and New York continue on a downward spiral. Milan is worried about its luxury business forecast to fall 15%, but things in Paris are better than anticipated, while Tokyo, suffering badly continues to open more shops and ever-more interesting restaurants.
• Fashion news Uniqlo's big surge, Jil Sander and a big Chinese deal; Fashionair, ready for take-off?; After the recession, thoughts on the future; Susie Bubble, blogger with influence; Ittierre, survival a priority.
• Fashion accessories It's a very dressed-up season with delicate silk and organza flowers and magnificent plumage set to turn heads. Fancy a day at the races anyone?
• Express fashion Be brave! At a time when it is easy to be focusing on the safe and the timeless, it is also the time to be inspired by the new and the daring.
• Womenswear r-t-w shows A strong woman emerged from the latest winter runways as designers counteracted the uncertainty of the current economical turmoil with a return to a strongly structured silhouette, where it was all power to the shoulder.
• Designer fabric messages It's all about distinguished fabrics that exceed natural boundaries, as the catwalks of Europe and New York revel in a spectacular show of superb cloths.
• New fabric directions A future based not on price alone but choosing with wisdom and longevity in mind. That means Summer 2010, tough as business is, is about a lot more than just black and beige.
• Menswear orientations A sense of orientation is a valuable asset for Summer 2010, a season that is not the easiest to navigate as mills offer 360 degree collections in an effort to satisfy all needs and desires for their customers.
• Womenswear forecast Barbie, celebrating her own 50th anniversary, is a perfect witness to many decades of fashion. Used as a model, we use her as a tribute to our past and a celebration of our future.
• Menswear forecast Let's take a line: a simple and precise line drawn in one gesture, with no hesitation, confident yet supple and refined to that extreme, like the perfect line that characterises iconic objects.
• Knit colours It's all about confindent colour play within clearly defined groups: shadow pale tints sketched with black & white, basic everyday essentials, saturated vegetal brights and sharp cosmic darks.
• Knits & yarns A season that stays principally calm with basics at the core. From this dependable foundation, aim to make the finer more refined and sprinkle on flamboyant touches with technical or experimental aspects.
• Menswear knits It's the same old story - but it's got a new twist; it's a season of cliches - yet it's a season of inventiveness. If anything will get you though, it will be well-considered, creative ideas.
• Knitwear forecast Reflection is our starting point, and it lets us look at mirroring or echoing shapes and forms that inspire the development of new material contrasts.
• Lifestyle -'Make-do-and-mend' We are living in a very frightening, yet prominent era; we are making history. The effects of the global down turn are going to change the way that we live our lives irreversibly, and consumer behaviour is at the forefront of the change.
• The art of living 'Coexistence' is the key and is well interpreted within the theme of space age where sharp geometric shapes are combined with draped, soft materials and sheer fabrics, resulting in a strong and sensuous look.
• Design & lifestyle No more uber-glamour styles! Judging by the Salone del Mobile in Milan, the economic crisis has materialised itself in pared down, thoughtful, pragmatic and functional design.

Aperture (Summer 2009)

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

Contents:

FEATURES

• Portfolio - The Difference a Painter Makes: Edward Hopper and Photography Notes by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Robert Adams -- Hopper's vision and its indelible mark on photography.
• On Location - Daniel and Geo Fuchs: In The Halls of the Sasti by Matthias Harder -- The now-quiet former headquarters of the East German secret police.
• Essay - Gay Men Play: Self-Representation, Sex, and Photography Now by Chris Boot -- Sexual identity explored through the medium of photography and on the Web.
• Archive - Maya Deren: A Life Choreographed for Camera by Mark Alice Durant -- Little-known photographs by the acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker.
• Theme and Variations - The Artist Formerly Known as Fashion Photography by Jason Evans -- Genre-bending photographers who are producing inventive fashion work.
• Mixing the Media - A Look at Look by Mary Panzer -- One of the twentieth century's great picture magazines, brought back to light.
• Portfolio - Suyeon Yun: Homecoming -- A selection from Yun's project on American veterans of current and past wars.
• Dialogue - Don McCullin: Dark Landscapes Interview with Fred Ritchin -- A photographer known for his unflinching visions of conflict and troubles discusses a long career.

• Note
• Contributors
• Reviews - Carlo McCormick on William Eggleston; Susan Morgan on Dialogue Among Giants: Carleton Watkins and the Rise of Photography in California; Brian Dillon on Dayanita Singh; Vicki Goldberg on Miroslav Tichý; Jason Oddy on Shirana Shahbazi
• Books - Why Photography Matters as Art as Never Before: Michael Fried in conversation with James Welling.
• Excerpts
• Festivals - Gerry Badger on the Mois de la Photo, 2008
• Mind's Eye - Max Blagg on Boris Lipnitzki's 1953 portrait of Blaise Cendrars

md: moebel interior design 6 (2009)

The latest issue of md has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Metropolis (May 2009)

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

Contents:

Features
Harvesting the Wind by Suzanne LaBarre. Three young French designers hatch an ingenious plan to use existing infrastructure to create clean energy.
Next Generation Runners-Up by Metropolis staff. This year's competition asked designers to fix our energy addition, and they responded with an impressive range of ideas that take on one of the most pressing issues of our time.
Next Big Thing by Peter Hall. Ross Lovegrove's new series for Artemide is just the latest in the company's 50-year investment in important designers and state-of-the-art research and development.
Making the Cut by Julie Taraska. A breakout effort by two young Salvadoran designers lends fresh flair to Bernhardt Design's Global Edition collection.
Making It Happen by Marc Kristal. By developing their own projects, Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer have succeeded in New York without going through the "right" schools or firms. Now, just as the economy collapses around them, they are completing their first two buildings in Manhattan.
Just One Word: Bioplastics by Mason Currey. As the environmental hazards of plastic become hard to ignore, a new generation of plant-based alternatives is creeping into commercial applications. Now it's time for designers to take them to the next level.
A Perfect Fit by Veronique Vienne. The collaboration between Pierre Paulin and Ligne Roset appears as tight as the famously taut slipcovers of its stylish seats.

Departments
Off the Book New and exclusive on the Web
Contributors
Notes from Metropolis It's not a good idea to ignore what architecture teaches us.
Dialogue Readers' letters, news and a correction.
Observed
--Easing into a house in Hokkaido, Japan
--A forest rises in the New York sky.
--Getting to know APRRO/Maharam and Nike, the dream team
--Graphic designer David Gibson leads the way
--ICFF turns Japanese
--MoMA goes to Brazil./In the kitchen with Duravit/Renzo Piano arrives in Chicago.
--Dieter Rams, documented
America by Karrie Jacobs. Why the great Jenny Holzer is more relevant than ever.
Learning Curve The latest incarnation of the Yale Building Project has students constructing homes for veterans in need.
In Production Mark McKenna's ultra-efficient Element lamp should win over even the fiercest resisters of LED technology.
Materials By coating its designs in liquid polyurethane, the Belgian company SixInch readies them for the outdoors.
Trends Objects and architecture that exploit the fragile beauty of glass.
Productsphere In uncertain times, some manufacturers emphasize subtlety and restraint, whole others offer bursts of optimism.
Bookshelf New and notable books on architecture, landscape, and design history.
Text Message Renny Ramakers talks about first steps, last steps, and thinking in the bathtub.
Reference More information on people, places, and products covered in this issue of Metropolis.
Ben Katchor Indecent Exposure

Communication Arts - Vol. 51 No. 2 (May/June 2009)

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

Contents:

Features
Bruketa&Žinić By Linda Cooper Bowen. In Zagreb, Croatia, cultural zeitgeist and boundless enthusiasm inform the work of this design firm.
Mark Holthusen By Anne Telford. This San Francisco-based photographer brings a truly eclectic background to bear on his work.
David&Goliath By Julie Prendiville Roux. A fearless agency in El Segundo, California, takes on cars, both real and toy, with a sharp wit.
Sam Weber By Rebecca Bedrossian. A Brooklyn illustrator weaves texture and tension into enigmatic dreamscapes.
Exhibit By Jean A. Coyne. The latest and best in visual communication from here and abroad.
Evolution of Interactive Media A sampling of award-winning work and industry milestones from the past fifteen years.

2009 interactive annual
Advertising -- Entertainment -- Experimental/Virtual Community -- Information Design -- Self-Promotion

Fresh
Lorenzo Petrantoni An Italian illustrator with one foot planted firmly in the past and the other stepping into the future.
Fernando Decillis Characters come alive in the work of this Atlanta photographer.
EightHourDay Design is a way of life for this husband-and-wife team in Minneapolis.

Columns
Typography Thomas Phinney's stray thoughts on amateurs vs. professionals, color in books and women in typeface design.
Design Issues John Emerson explores the power of information design.
Design Culture Wendy Richmond advises keeping our creative needs met - in times like these.
Creativity Tiffany Meyers sits down with Lookingglass Theatre to discuss set design.
Opinion/Commentary The workflow model of old is changing at many agencies, according to Joe Shepter.
Advertising Baba Shetty looks at hype-cycle dangers.
WebWatch A redesigned Gallup.com brings the entire brand to one location, and three design sites to bookmark.
Business Settlement on Google Book. Scanning by Tad Crawford.
DesignTrends The 2008-2009 salary survey comparison, and where to find a silver lining.

Departments
Editor's Column -- Contributors -- Book Reviews -- Resources -- Directory -- Index to Interactive Annual 15

The Art Life - Series 1 and 2

The Art Life: series 1 and 2 is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Episodes include:

• The Art Life: Out There - Ep 1 Of 3
  If 95% of Australians live in the suburbs, what influence do the 'burbs have on the artists who live there and the art they make?
  In episode one we examine recent examples of contemporary art made in the shadow of the most politically and philosophically contested landscape in Australia.
  We meet performance artist Rachel Scott, a young artist who makes art about making art in the suburbs; we examine the art, life and legacy of the late painter Howard Arkley, one of the best examples of everything that's good - and bad - about living in the 'burbs; we go over to the dark side with painter Adam Cullen, who shares his uncompromising yet compassionate view of the burbs, his thoughts on the men who killed Anita Cobby and why he decided to paint their portraits; we relax with the melancholy work of Noel McKenna and conclude with the shopping trolley opera photos of Matthew Sleeth.
• The Art Life: Millions Of Images - Ep 2 Of 3
  We are taking a tour through Australian contemporary art.
  In a world full of images, how do Australian artists contend with the influence of media on our lives?
  Do they try to meet the spectacle on its own terms, or do they opt for something else?
  In Millions of Images - Episode 2 of The Art Life - 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.
  We talk to Merilyn Fairskye and look at her hypnotic video works of international airports; discuss the perfection of advertising with Patrina Hicks; meet the cool, ironic yet sincere Darren Sylvester; gaze in wonder at the video art of David Rosetzky and his cast of bemused, befuddled, yet philosophical post-teenagers.
  We then switch gears with artist "TV Moore" and his nightmarish video 'Deadzone' before dropping into the world of the "boarding house aesthetic" as practised by Glenn Sloggett; we take a tour of living rooms around the world via the videos of Emil Goh and end with the seaside imagery of Narelle Autio.
• 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.
• The Art Life - Starry Starry Night, Series 2: Ep 1 Of 3
  What does it mean to be an artist today? What do artists do? And how do ideas about the role of the artist affect the way art is made and seen? These are the questions explored in the second series of The Art Life, an essay-style documentary series about contemporary Australian art, written and presented by Andrew Frost. Featuring interviews with leading contemporary artists and curators, The Art Life is a rich and varied look at the practice of art today.
  Episode one, Starry Starry Night examines the cliched notion of the artist: the doomed genius whose work can only be fully appreciated after his death. Why does this cliche continue to be such a potent idea? And why does expressionism seem to equal sincerity?
  To answer these questions we first meet McLean Edwards who paints hundreds of self-portraits using his life as a source of inspiration. Nell is another artist who paints and uses personal experience as a catalyst for her creativity. But where Edwards's work is steeped in the traditions of Western expressionism, Nell looks to the spirituality of Zen for her eccentric mixture of Aussie suburban rock culture and Buddhism.
  By contrast Tony Schwensen is a performance artist whose work is a politically charged take on Australian culture. While performance art might seem like it's a long way from traditional forms such as painting, Schwensen explains that there's a lot in common with the work of Nell and Edwards.
  Anastasia Klose's videos and photographs mock the role of the artist and the art world. Humorous, self-deprecating and self-aware, Klose ultimately admits that although being an artist is a career choice, it's also a deeply held conviction that making art is worthwhile.
• The Art Life - Who Made Who, Series 2: Ep 2 Of 3
  *Nudity and Coarse Language*
  What does it mean to be an artist today? What do artists do? And how do ideas about the role of the artist affect the way art is made and seen? These are the questions Andrew Frost explores in the second series of The Art Life.
  Part two, Who Made Who, looks at the idea that being an artist is a role that can be taken on like an actor playing a part.
  Featuring interviews with artists who've explored role-playing, we meet the art making group The Kingpins and artists Mark Shorter and Daniel Mudie Cunningham. They explain the intentions of their art and a history that takes in everything from Marcel Duchamp and Barry Humphries, to Norman Gunston and Renny Kodgers.
  Asking if identity has a political meaning too, we meet artists Brook Andrew and Richard Bell who, through their individual works, examine the relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia and the preconceptions of audiences while questioning the very usefulness of challenging identity. Is 'identity art' really the 'white man's burden'?
• The Art Life - Lust For Life, Series 2: Ep 3 Of 3
  What does it mean to be an artist today? What do artists do? And how do ideas about the role of the artist affect the way art is made and seen? These are the questions Andrew Frost explores in the second series of The Art Life.
  The final episode in this series, Lust For Life, looks at contemporary art that engages with political issues on local and international scales. Andrew meets with artists Deborah Kelly, Zanny Begg, Mickie Quick, Nobody and Astra Howard and discovers how their work challenges the conventional barriers between the artist and audience.
  To understand how this sort of art grows from grass roots communities, we look at the history of the collaborative group SquatSpace. While some have argued that this sort of art is new we see a history of alternative art venues that stretches back to 1969 and the Sydney artist commune The Yellow House. We meet Yellow House luminary George Gittoes, an artist who's still working and pushing the boundaries of what it means to be an artist. Through Gittoes's documentaries, paintings, drawings and sketchbooks - and his love of the life and work of Vincent Van Gogh - we discover that the cliches of art have meaning after all.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 27th June to Fri 3rd July 2009)

• PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER

This program explores the life and works of artist, Pieter Bruegel. The documentary reveals how for a long time he was called 'Bruegel the droll', as his paintings made people laugh.
Saturday 27 June 2009 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• VEILED AMBITION

Frida is a young Australian-Lebanese woman with a dream of creating her own fashion empire. When she wins $4000 in a radio competition, Frida opens a shop in Sydney Road in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. Her dream is to create a fashion Mecca for Islamic women. Business in burkas, however, is slow.
Monday 29 June 2009 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: NEWPORT

This week Kevin meets Welsh couple, banker Dean Berry and his PR consultant wife, Sarah. Having moved away to London and carved out successful careers for themselves, they have now returned home 17 years later and bought an 18th century castle perched on a hilltop.
Tuesday 30 June 2009 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas on how to make mulch retrieving easy; working on roofs safe; a water bottle that lasts with minimal impact on the environment.
Tuesday 30 June 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• DAN CRUICKSHANK'S ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE: POWER - EP 6 OF 8

Dan Cruickshank focuses on buildings as gigantic statements of power. The fantasies of dictators, kings, sultans, warriors and the ruling classes are all exposed as he explores the world's palaces of power.
Thursday 2 July 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

• THINKING XXX

Acclaimed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders presents a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his new book of adult film star portraits. This documentary includes footage of the photographer using a large format portrait camera to create the shots in his book, as well as conversations with the actors, who discuss how they began their careers, how being a porn star has changed their lives and how they feel about sex and the industry. In addition, authors, artists and cultural observers - such as Karen Finley, Nancy Friday, Richard Johnson, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Michael Musto, Whitley Strieber, Gore Vidal, John Waters and Faye Wattleton - offer far-ranging, provocative perspectives on porn today, yesterday and tomorrow.
Friday 3 July 2009 10.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (MA, A, N, S, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins

Antarctic Oasis

Antarctic oasis: a haunting journey is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"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." -- back cover

How to Look at a Painting

How to look at a painting by Justin Paton is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

The art room -- Every painting on the planet -- How to be looked at by a painting -- An appointment with the thing -- On going to a museum -- Speaking of art -- Quality time -- Through the viewmaster -- Half a day with the dealers -- Ten good reasons -- One big painting -- How to look at a painting-really -- A small room -- Picture this -- Some books for art lovers

Ragtrader (5 June 2009)

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

• Why fashion designers are seeking second jobs.
• Will Specialty Fashion Group recover from its $16 million theft.
• What a consumer action group is doing to bring about change to our sizing standards.

Digital Photography + Design (June/July 2009)

The latest issue of Digital Photography + Design has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Please let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Television Programs of Interest for the Week to Come (Sat 20th June to Fri 26th June 2009)

• JEAN AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES

This program explores the life and works of artist, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, considered to be one of the greatest neoclassical painters. As a draftsman of the figure, he was unrivalled in his time.
Saturday 20 June 2009 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN SLOVAKIA

Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers' series on geoglyphs takes him to Slovakia where he creates a Celtic horse and, once again, the Rhythms of Life symbol.
Sunday 21 June 2009 10.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: SOMERSET

In the first episode of series seven we meet Ian and Sophie Cooper, a London couple who are passionate about design and who plan to restore a 200-year-old Grade 2 (UK) listed industrial building in an area of outstanding beauty.
Tuesday 23 June 2009 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G) *New Series*
Duration: 55 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, surgeon and inventor Fiona Wood, and designer Alison Page.
Wednesday 24 June 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: EP 3 OF 3

In this final episode we look at the fascinating power of colour: from ancient ritualistic uses of colour through to its use by modern marketeers. Along the way we delve into the work of anthropologists, scientists and designers to explore what is myth and what is truth about the power of colour. How much is known about the hold colour has on us? And how does colour affect us emotionally, physically and mentally?
Wednesday 24 June 2009 8.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS) *Final*
Duration: 60 mins

• DAN CRUICKSHANK'S ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE: CONNECTIONS - EP 5

Dan Cruickshank sets out to discover how people live together across the globe. On his travels to Mumbai, New York, Brazil and Damascus, he encounters vibrant communities and asks why some succeed and others fail.
Thursday 25 June 2009 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

The Elements of Color

The elements of color: a treatise on the color system of Johannes Itten, based on his book The Art of Color edited and with a foreword and evaluation by Faber Birren is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. We have two copies available.

Design Without Boundaries

Design without boundaries: visual communication in transition by Rick Poynor is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Drawing as Design Process

Drawing as design process by Peter Olpe is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

1000 Package Designs

1000 package designs: a comprehensive guide to packing it in is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

• introduction and about the author (beauty)
• awesome! (modern)
• gasp! (playful)
• word! (urban)
• oohlala! (classic)
• wow! (functional)
• neat-o! (vintage)
• index (credits)

Shaping Interior Space

Shaping interior space by Roberto J. Rengel (2nd edition) is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Contents include:

GENERAL PRINCIPLES

• Mastering Interior Design
• People in Buildings
• Interior Place and Its Components
• The Basics of Space

ESTABLISHING THE DESIGN

• Understanding
• Ideation

DEVELOPING THE DESIGN

• Order
• Enrichment
• Expression

COMPLETING THE DESIGN

• Resolution
• Modifiers of Interior Space

The Hat Magazine Issue 41 (April/May/June 2009)

The latest issue of The Hat Magazine has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Please let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Fashion Theory Vol. 13 No. 2 (June 2009)

The latest issue of Fashion Theory has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. This issue focuses on African Fashion/African Style.

Contents:

• Viewing Africa through Fashion / Victoria L. Rovine
• Asante Hightimers and the Fashionable Display of Women's Wealth in Contemporary Ghana / Suzanne Gott
• Conceptions of Identity and Tradition in Highland Malagasy Clothing / Rebecca L. Green
• Making Fashion in the City: A Case Study of Tailors and Designers in Dakar, Senegal / Joanna Grabski
• The Idea of Africa in European High Fashion: Global Dialogues / Kristyne Loughran

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 13th June to Fri 19th June 2009)

• CLAUDE MONET PAINTER

This program explores the life and works of French painter, Claude Monet.
Saturday 13 June 2009 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• TINA BARNEY: SOCIAL STUDIES

An intimate portrait of the American photographer Tina Barney who specialises in photographing the rarefied upper echelons of society, in the US and Europe. Emanating herself from a privileged and moneyed North Eastern background, she is at ease photographing what for others might be intimidating environments, in a quirky and revealing fashion.
Saturday 13 June 2009 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, Rpt)
Duration: 65 mins

• PHARAOH'S REVENGE: EGYPT'S LOST TREASURE

Looks at the debate going on in the great museums of the world about returning smuggled and stolen ancient Egyptian artefacts.
Sunday 14 June 2009 2.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

• SUNDAY ARTS

This week on Sunday Arts we feature documentary photographer Ricky Maynard. Ricky Maynard is an internationally renowned documentary photographer based on Flinders Island, Tasmania. His images are a rare combination of great technical skill and powerful social documentary.
Sunday 14 June 2009 5.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 60 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors brings you the best in new Australian inventions. From exciting innovations to eccentric designs, inventors across the country are working to improve the way we live. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: agricultural scientist Chris Russell, surgeon and inventor Fiona Wood, and inventor and journalist Christine Kininmonth.
Wednesday 17 June 2009 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: EP 2 OF 3

Taking the globe as its canvas, and drawing on science, history, art and other disciplines, this three-part series is a visual exploration of how we view colours, how we make them, and the meanings they hold in our world. This episode focuses on the nature of colour. It draws on the latest science to find out how - and why - humans and other living things view the world in colour. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE)
Wednesday 17 June 2009 8.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• DAN CRUICKSHANK'S ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE: DISASTER - EP 4

Dan explores buildings shaped and forged in the face of adversity, terror and war.
Thursday 18 June 2009 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

Fashion News - Vol. 140 (February 2009)

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

Wallpaper* (June 2009)

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

Domus No. 925 (May 2009)

The latest issue of Domus has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Please let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Selvedge - Issue 28 (May/June 2009)

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

Contents:
INDULGE textiles to buy, collect or simply admire

• The right to relax Treats for a long weekend
• Selvedge drygoods Visit our delightful toy department

INDUSTRY from craft to commerce

• Miscellany Textile terms are woven into our everyday language...
• New boy network Graduates from the Royal College of Art
• Shop talk Joss Graham's storehouse of wonders

ANECDOTE textiles that touch our lives

• To the letter Reports from the East by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
• COVER STORY Bluestockings Made the establishment see red
• Feeling blue Goethe's Young Werther had clothes to die for...

CONCEPT textiles in fine art

• The future perfect Li Edelkoort's high expectations
• Go with the flow Bradley Quinn introduces Florence Manlik
• The writer's craft How Tracy Chevalier spins a yarn

ATTIRE critical reporting of fashion trends

• Birthday girl Designers celebrate as Barbie turns 50

COHABIT stunning interiors beautifully photographed

• COVER STORY An artist's palette The textiles of Charleston Farmhouse

GLOBAL travel destinations and ethnographic textiles

• COVER STORY John Rocha & Ireland A mutual admiration society

INFORM the latest news, reviews and exhibition listings

bias/contributors -- correspondence -- news -- sustain ethical ideas -- how to... bind a book -- readers offers -- preview Dates for your diary -- international listings Exhibition, fairs, events -- read Hats, The Empire's New Clothes -- view Fashioning Felt, Hussein Chalayan, Rozanna Hawksley, Polish Papercuts -- resources

(inside): interior design review - No. 56 (2009)

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

• Gatefold - Footprints
• Contributors
• Event - Zenith Showroom Phoenix From The Fire
• Book - Review 4books
• Event - Footprints Exhibition
• Education - Educate to Innovate?
• Event - AFAR Pop-up shop In a Collaborative Fashion
• Eat - The Diner's Contract
• Eat - Eating designer Design That Goes Inside Your Body
• Eat - Pop-up restaurants in London Dining Guerrilla-style
• Eat - The Sugar Mill Sweet Success
• Eat - Cutler & Co. Cutting-Edge Dining
• Eat - Banq Waves of Grain
• Eat - Pacific Dining Room Grown Up Cool
• Eat - Steel Bar and Grill Soft as Steel
• IDEA09 - Shortlisted Entries Round 02
• (Folio) - Insight - Chef de Maison
• (Folio) - Show
• (Folio) - Intelligence
• Competitions
• Dateline
• Fascinations - Thomas Keller R & R at The French Laundry

Monument No. 91 (June/July 2009)

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

Contents:

• Close-Up: New Brick - The humble brick breaks free from its institutional reputation
• News Site - New products and design events
• Trend Report - Incandescent light bulbs are making way for their environmentally-sound counterparts: LED lights
• Objects - Monument hand picks designs in-store
• Design Profile - New York-based design firm, Commonwealth, unites the handmade with the limitlessness of digital technologies
• Digital Revisited: The New Code - Will the uprise of digital exploration in architecture equal the obsolescence of more conventional tools in the future?
• Architecture Profile - Studio Mumbai work with local craftsmen and young architects to fuel an exchange of knowledge that yields spectacular results
• In Conversation: Tom Wiscombe - Sam Spurr talks to Tom Wiscombe about the theories that form the basis of his highly experimental practice
• New Generation - Monument uncovers ten names to watch in architecture and design today
• Musical Twist - UNStudio's Musical Theatre in Graz features a central twist structure upon which the whole building revolves
• Back to Basics - BASE Architecture layer-up to create a cosy abode in a circa 1923 commercial building in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley
• Raw Theatrics - WOHA's Genexis Theatre in Singapore takes an innovative approach to answering questions of acoustics, functionality and space
• The Space Between - David Boyle's renovation of a Victorian townhouse in Sydney's inner-west is a testament to the continuing need for craftmanship in present architecture
• Sound Design - Smart Design Studio morphs a Sydney heritage-listed warehouse into the new workplace of the Australian Performance Rights Association
• Double Vision - San Francisco-based Faulders Studio and Tokyo-based Studio M use digital technologies to striking effect in their collaboration on Airspace in Tokyo
• Photoessay - Tobias Titz reimagines the great Australian Dream through the lens of a Polaroid 600 Land Camera
• Reading Matter - New book releases
• Site Unseen - Projects on the drawing board
• Last Word - David Neustein discusses the necessity of an architecture that is not only a response to its surroundings, but also a safeguard against it

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 6th June to Fri 12th June 2009)

• THE NEW SHOCK OF THE NEW

Twenty-five years after The Shock of the New, art critic and expatriate Australian Robert Hughes examines the state of art in an age that expects shock and novelty. He begins by querying why contemporary art seldom addresses major events of the day, such as the World Trade Centre collapse.
Saturday 6 June 2009 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, N, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS: DEALING WITH DISASTER

A special episode featuring new ideas on how to design a bushfire smart house; solve a problem before it's a disaster; predict a safer future; and accommodate animals affected by a disaster.
Wednesday 10 June 2009 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: EP 1 OF 3

Cracking the Colour Code, a three part series is an unprecedented global journey to explore the frontiers of how we view colour, make colour and use the power of colour to communicate meaning.
Wednesday 10 June 2009 8.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 60 mins

• DAN CRUICKSHANK'S ADVENTURES IN ARCHITECTURE: PARADISE - EP 3

Dan Cruickshank looks at buildings that evoke the image of paradise across religions and cultures.
Thursday 11 June 2009 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

Australian Photography (June 2009)

The latest issue of Australian Photography has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. Please let me know if you would like me to email you the contents page.

Art & Australia Vol. 46 No. 4 (Winter 2009)

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

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

image courtesy Art & Australia