Elements & Principles of Design

Elements & principles of design is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"This program explains the elements used in visual design and then explains how these can be arranged and organised using the principles of design.
It draws on real life examples used in 2 dimensional visual communications and designs: poster, information, web and magazines and 3 dimensional: product and built environments. Diverse descriptions of each element and principle using both theoretical and practical explanations are included in this program.
Examples of the impact of the use of the elements and principles including traditional theories and how they are successfully used throughout the evolution of design are provided throughout this presentation." -- back cover

The Disciplinary Frame

The disciplinary frame: photographic truths and the capture of meaning by John Tagg is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

1. The One-Eyed Man and the One-Armed Man: Camera, Culture, and the State
2. The Plane of Decent Seeing: Documentary and the Rhetoric of Recruitment
3. Melancholy Realism: Walker Evan's Resistance to Meaning
4. Running and Dodging, 1943: The Breakup of the Documentary Moment
5. The Pencil of History: Photography, History, Archive
6. A Discourse with Shape of Reason Missing: Art History and the Frame

Art & Australia Vol. 47 No. 1 (Spring 2009)

The latest issue of Art & Australia 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.

*Image courtesy of Art & Australia

Ragtrader (14 August 2009)

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

Contents:

• Why Footwear brand Steve Madden needs to adapt its US-based business strategy.


• What Has prompted a number of fashion retailers to throw caution to the wind and open up international stores.


• Which Aus fashion label is in talks with retail giant Victoria's Secret.

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

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 29th August to Fri 4th September 2009)

• THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: EUROPE - AFTER THE FIRE, EP 6 OF 9

This episode chronicles the state of Europe after WW2: the terrible devastation of French cities and countryside; the signing of the Armistice; the return of Alsace to France; the frictions caused by immigrants from other European countries who flooded France after the war to compensate for all the French dead; the occupation of the Rhineland.
Saturday 29 August 2009 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• GOODBYE REVOLUTION

Goodbye Revolution is the story of acclaimed Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen's journey from the revolutionised China of the 1980's, to the quiet beach town of Bundeena, Australia. The documentary explores the universality of Shen's work and spirit, which has transcended the boundaries of both country and race.
Saturday 29 August 2009 1.55pm
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS MICHAEL PALIN

Michael Palin chats about his favourite works in the Tate Britain gallery, London.
Saturday 29 August 2009 4.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 30 mins

• BIG BLUE BEAR

Big Blue Bear is a program about the creative process, the confluence of art and technology, and about a 40-foot bear coming to be.
Sunday 30 August 2009 4.30pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• NOISE ON SCREEN

A snapshot of twelve talented young Australian artists. Aged 25 and under, these artists live in towns and cities across Australia and they make all kinds of art. From "propaganda" films and comic fashion to furniture design and polaroid postcards, young Australian artists are exploring new and diverse ways of using art to make sense of the world.
Tuesday 1 September 2009 2.50am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 35 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors highlights the latest contemporary creations from a new generation of inventors, innovators and designers. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: surgeon and inventor Professor Fiona Wood, agricultural scientist Chris Russell, and designer Alison Page.
Wednesday 2 September 2009 8.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• WORLD'S GREENEST HOMES: EP 7 OF 13

Emmanuel Belliveau looks at a glamorous L.A. home with a two-storey lobby; romance novelist Stephanie Laurens's off-grid Aussie hideaway; an energy-efficient Texas home; and a fairytale English family cottage.
Thursday 3 September 2009 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

Communication Arts (July/August 2009)

The latest issue of Communication Arts has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. This issue is the Illustration Annual. If you would like me to email you the contents page please let me know.

Metropolis (July/August 2009)

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

md 8 (2009)

The latest issue of md 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.

Best Business Practices for Photographers

Best business practices for photographers by John Harrington is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Part I Nuts and Bolts of Your Business

• Chapter 1 You Are a Business - Now Let's Get to Work!
• Chapter 2 Professional Equipment for Professional Photographers
• Chapter 3 Planning and Logistics: Why a Thirty-Minute Shoot Can Take Three Days to Plan

Part II Financial and Personnel Considerations

• Chapter 4 Working with Assistants, Employees, and Contractors: The Pitfalls and Benefits
• Chapter 5 Pricing Your Work to Stay in Business
• Chapter 6 Overhead: Why What You Charge a Client Must Be More Than You Paid for It
• Chapter 7 Who's Paying Your Salary and 401K
• Chapter 8 Insurance: Why It's Not Just Health-Related, and How You Should Protect Yourself
• Chapter 9 Accounting: How We Do It Ourselves and What We Turn Over to an Accountant

Part III Legal Issues

• Chapter 10 Contracts for Editorial Clients
• Chapter 11 Contracts for Corporate and Commercial Clients
• Chapter 12 Contracts for Weddings and Rites of Passage
• Chapter 13 Negotiations: Signing Up or Saying No
• Chapter 14 Protecting Your Work: How and Why
• Chapter 15 The Realities of an Infringement: Copyrights and Federal Court
• Chapter 16 Handling a Breach of Contract: Small Claims and Civil Court
• Chapter 17 Resolving Slow- and Non-Paying Clients
• Chapter 18 Letters, Letters, Letters: Writing Like a Professional Can Solve Many Problems
• Chapter 19 Attorneys: When You Need Them, They're Your Best Friend (or at Least Your Advocate)

Part IV Storage and Archiving

• Chapter 20 Office and On-Location Systems: Redundancy and Security Beget Peace of Mind
• Chapter 21 Digital and Analog Asset Management: Leveraging Your Images to Their Maximum Potential
• Chapter 22 Stock Solutions: Charting Your Own Course without the Need for a "Big Fish" Agency

Part V The Human Aspect

• Chapter 23 Care and Feeding of Clients (Hint: It's Not about Starbucks and a Fast-Food Burger)
• Chapter 24 Education, an Ongoing and Critical Practice: Don't Rest on Your Laurels
• Chapter 25 Striking a Balance between Photography and Family: How What Your Love to Do Can Coexist with Your Spouse, Children, Parents, and Siblings if You Just Think a Little about It
• Chapter 26 Charity, Community, and Your Colleagues: Giving Back Is Good Karma

Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright: the buildings ; photographs by Alan Weintraub and text by Alan Hess with contributions by David G. De Long and Kathryn Smith is an new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings for the City By Alan Hess
• Reshaping Urban Landscapes By David G. De Long
• Frank Lloyd Wright: Selected Plans By Kathryn Smith
• The Buildings -- Unity Temple 1904 -- Taliesin North 1911, 1914-25 -- A. D. German Warehouse 1915 -- S. C. Johnson & Son Administration Building 1936 -- Taliesin West 1937 -- Florida Southern College 1937-54 -- Kansas City Community Christian Church 1940 -- Unitarian Meeting House 1947 -- V. C. Morris Gift Shop 1948 -- Price Tower 1952 -- Anderton Court 1952 -- Beth Sholom Synagogue 1954 -- Kalita Humphreys Theatre 1955 -- Karl Kundert Medical Clinic 1955 -- Kenneth L. Meyers Medical Clinic 1956 -- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1956 -- R. W. Lindholm Service Station 1956 -- Marin County Civic Center 1957 -- Juvenile Cultural Study Center 1957 -- Pilgrim Congregational Church 1958 -- Grady Gammage Memorial Auditorium 1959
• Buildings List
• Endnotes
• Bibliography
• Index

Design Management

Design management: managing design strategy, process and implementation by Kathryn Best is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction -- How to get the most out of this book
Context -- What is Design Management? -- Why is Design Management Important? -- The Design Management Timeline

PART ONE: Managing the Design Strategy

• KNOWLEDGE -- Identifying Opportunities for Design -- Understanding the Audience and Market -- Interpreting Client and Customer Needs -- Auditing the Use of Design -- Establishing the Design Strategy -- Promoting and Selling the Design Strategy -- Planning for Long-term Growth
• PRACTICE -- Case Study: The Argus®3 Thermal-imaging Camera -- Case Study: Camper -- Interview: Dr. Chris H. Luebkeman, Arup Group -- Interview: Darryl Feldman, Yahoo
• KEY SKILLS -- Managing Client Relations -- Guiding Design Decisions -- Developing Good Working Relationships -- Verbal Communication

PART TWO: Managing the Design Process

• KNOWLEDGE -- Giving Form to Business Strategy -- Increasing Awareness with Design -- Expressing the Brand Through Design -- Initiating Design Projects -- Design Methods -- Design Processes -- Competitive Advantage Through Design
• PRACTICE -- Case Study: Kajima Design Europe for JVC -- Case Study: The Honda Zoomer -- Interview: Mat Hunter, IDEO Europe -- Interview: Brian Smith, FeONIC Plc.
• KEY SKILLS -- Managing Creative Teams -- Facilitating the Design Process -- Developing Collaborative Cultures -- Visual Communication

PART THREE: Managing the Design Implementation

• KNOWLEDGE -- The Project Management Process -- Project Management in Practice -- Social and Environmental Responsibilities -- Design Policies, Procedures and Guidelines -- Translating Global Design into Local Design -- Measuring the Success of Design -- Reviewing and Revising the Design Strategy
• PRACTICE -- Case Study: FooGo/The Formation -- Case Study: The Silken Group -- Interview: Colum Lowe, NHS (UK) -- Interview: Lynne Elvins, A420
• KEY SKILLS -- Management and Leadership -- Leading and Advocating Design -- Written Communication

Appendix -- 18 Views on Design Management -- Further Resources -- Glossary -- Index -- Additional Credits -- Acknowledgements

The Printed Picture

The printed picture by Richard Benson is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Foreword Glenn D. Lowry and Peter Galassi
Introduction
1. Relief printing Woodcut, metal type, and wood engraving.
2. Intaglio and planographic printing Engraving, etching, mezzotint and lithography.
3. Color printing Hand coloring and multiple-impression color.
4. Bits and pieces Modern art prints, oddities, and photographic precursors.
5. Early photography in silver Daguerrotypes, early silver paper processes and tintypes.
6. Non-silver processes Carbon, blueprint, platinum, and a couple of others.
7. Modern photography Developint-out gelatin silver printing.
8. Color notes Primary colors and neutrality.
9. Color photography Separation-based processes and chromogenic prints.
10. Photography in ink: relief and intaglio printing The letterpress halftone and gravure printing.
11. Photography in ink: planographic printing Collotype and photo offset lithography.
12. Digital processes Binary issues, inkjet, dye sublimation, and digital C-prints.
13. Where do we go from here? Some questions about the future.
A glossary of terms
Index
Acknowledgements

Vanity Fair Portraits

Vanity Fair portraits : a century of iconic images by Graydon Carter and the editors of Vanity Fair is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Foreword Graydon Carter
• Divine Decadence Christopher Hitchens
• The Portrait Photograph in the Modern Age Terence Pepper
• A New Magazine for a New Age David Friend
• The Portraits 1913-2008
• Contributors to the Jazz Age Vanity Fair, 1913-36
• Twenty-Five Things You Didn't Know About the Jazz Age Vanity Fair, 1913-36
• Vanity Fair Cover Subjects, 1983-2008
• Our Office: A Hate Song - An Intimate Glimpse of Vanity Fair - En Famille Dorothy Parker
• Picture Credits
• Bibliography
• Index

Creating The Breakthrough Portfolio

Creating the breakthrough portfolio: strategies for managing a successful career by Ken Thurlbeck is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Getting Started -- You might be one in a million, I was -- The reason behind the breakthough portfolio -- You are creative, right? -- If your portfolio stands out, so do you -- Getting the work you want -- The breakthrough portfolio strategy -- The don'ts -- The dos -- In summary -- Your assignment

Chapter 2. Creating Your Vision -- Stop and take a deep breath, this is where your vision takes form -- Brand is experience -- What are your defining attributes, do you have any and why exactly do you need defining attributes -- We are what we do -- Defining your vision -- Okay, it's time to roll up your sleeves -- Creating the vision statement -- Making your choice -- Brand attributes -- Time to review -- Testing your results -- I thought this was about creating a portfolio? -- A swipe or aspirational portfolio and what can you gain by making one -- Here's how it's done -- What makes you, you

Chapter 3. The Professional Portfolio -- Picky, picky, picky, and you should be too -- Decisions, decisions, decisions; what fun! -- Buying a book off the shelf -- A tour through a custom portfolio manufacturer -- And, in summary -- Your assignment

Chapter 4. Making the Portfolio -- You will be judged on every choice you make -- What tools do you need to assemble your portfolio -- Mounting work -- The leave behind CD/DVD -- A few other presentation scenarios -- Creating pages for a portfolio -- And now the outside -- Dare to be great

Chapter 5. Marketing -- The follow through -- Networking and Marketing -- Being the "IT" girl, or boy or woman or man -- There are only 5 people in your business -- How to present a portfolio -- Marketing yourself

Chapter 6. The Career Path -- The path to a great career -- Do your homework first -- Assignment

Chapter 7. The Digital Portfolio -- The online portfolio and other digital portfolios -- What makes a great site

Train Your Gaze

Train your gaze: a practical and theoretical introduction to portrait photography by Roswell Angier is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

1. About Looking


2. Self-Portrait/No Face


3. People at the Margin: the Edge of the Frame


4. Behavior in the Moment: Picturing Eventfulness


5. You Spy: Voyeurism and Surveillance


6. Portrait, Mirror, Masquerade


7. Confrontation: Looking Through the Bull's Eye


8. Out of Focus: the Disappearing Subject


9. Darkness


10. Flash!


11. Figures in a Landscape: Tableaux


12. Commentary: Digital Personae

Appendices

a) Cameras and Camera Controls: Some Differences Between Film and Digital Image Formation

b) Exposure and Metering: The Gray Scale, Color Film, and Digital Files

c) Using Flash

Graphics Explained

Graphics explained by Michael Evamy is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. The cover description says "7 Top Designers, 7 Briefs, 49 Solutions ... In Their Own Words".

Contents:

Chapter 1: The New Client -- Browns Design: Hiscox -- Coast: Dockers San Francisco -- Mario Eskenazi: Sociedad Estatal para el Desarrollo del Diseño y la Innovación (DDI) -- Inkahoots: Department of Emergency Services, Queensland -- Kinetic: Wong Coco Pte Ltd. -- Milkxhake: Ruggero Baldasso Architects (RBA) -- Number 17: The Zinc Building, Manhattan

Chapter 2: The Good Cause -- Browns Design: The Climate Group -- Coast: Eurodad -- Mario Eskenazi: Fundación Lilian Thuram (FLT) -- Inkahoots: Memefest -- Kinetic: Center for Promoting Alternatives to Violence (PAVe) -- Milkxhake: Hug&kiss -- Number 17: The National September 11 Memoriall and Museum at the World Trade Center

Chapter 3: The Wide Open Brief -- Browns Design: Howard Smith Paper -- Coast: British American Tobacco -- Mario Eskenazi: Grupo Tragaluz -- Inkahoots: The State Library of Queensland, Brisbane -- Kinetic: Self-initiated refillable packaging -- Milkxhake: Hong Kong Designers Association -- Number 17: Very Short List

Chapter 4: Repeat Business -- Browns Design: Invesco Perpetual and Invesco Ltd. -- Coast: Wolubilis Theater, Brussels -- Mario Eskenazi: Grup Banc Sabadell -- Inkahoots: Needle and Syringe Program Division of Queensland Health -- Kinetic: Lorgan's The Retro Store -- Milkxhake: Microwave International New Media Arts Festival -- Number 17: River to River Festival

Chapter 5: Low Budget -- Browns Design: Paul Davis -- Coast: Modo Bruxellae -- Mario Eskenazi: Fundació Sida i Societat (SiS) -- Inkahoots: The Museum of Brisbane -- Kinetic: Time of Rebirth CD packaging -- Milkxhake: The Very First Magazine -- Number 17: Self-promotional Christmas holiday gifts

Chapter 6: New Territory -- Browns Design: David Stewart -- Coast: "Building(s) for Europe" exhibition -- Mario Eskenazi: Barcelona Forum Complex signage -- Inkahoots: Fundamental Sounds -- Kinetic: Woof! Love -- Milkxhake: 3030: New Graphic Design in China -- Number 17: Homemade Baby

Chapter 7: The Rush Job -- Browns Design: Dries van Noten -- Coast: Death Disco CD packaging -- Mario Eskenazi: Asterisco book series -- Kinetic: Zuji.com.sg -- Inkahoots: AustLit -- Milkxhake: October Contemporary -- Number 17: Saturday Night Live

Women

Women : Japanese portrait tradition is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 22nd August to Fri 28th August 2009)

• BROKEN COLUMN

This is a look at the effect contemporary art has on a community. British sculptor, Antony Gormley installs a project involving the placing of hundreds of rusty iron figures at strategic points around a small town in Norway.
Saturday 22 August 2009 2.25pm (Eastern States, 1.55pm SA & NT, 12.25pm WA)
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 35 mins

• THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: THE CIVILIANS' STORY - EP 5 OF 9

This episode records the suffering of the French civilian population during World War 2 - captured in unique colour photographs by Albert Kahn's photographers.
Saturday 22 August 2009 3.00pm (Eastern States, 2.30pm SA & NT, 1pm WA)
SBS ONE Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ARTISTS AT WORK - JON CATTAPAN

Over the last 30 years, Jon Cattapan has established a reputation as one of Australia's most significant and prolific painters. Often described as 'the poet of the floating metropolis', much of Cattapan's work responds to the notion of what it means to be a human being in the 21st century urban environment.
Tuesday 25 August 2009 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (PG)
Duration: 30 mins

• BUILDINGS THAT SHAPED BRITAIN: THE MODERN AGE - EP 8 OF 8

Historian Simon Thurley concludes this fascinating series with a look at 20th century architecture. The horrors of World War I stimulated a design revolution that turned its back on history and tradition and went instead for simplicity and functionality. The modernists 'intellectualised' building, indicating that if you lived in a house like this, your life would be better.
Tuesday 25 August 2009 11.00am
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt) *Final*
Duration: 50 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors is home to the brightest breakthroughs in technology, innovation and invention. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: designer Alison Page, surgeon and inventor Fiona Wood, and futurist and author Mark Pesce.
Wednesday 26 August 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• WORLD'S GREENEST HOMES: EP 6 OF 13

Emmanuel Belliveau looks at a Chicago home featuring an underground cooling system; a modern retreat north of Sydney; a Texas dream home remodelled to create a luxurious green oasis; an accordion house featuring a giant outdoor bathtub.
Thursday 27 August 2009 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: (G)
Duration: 55 mins

Fashion News Vol. 145 (July 2009)

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

Voyage to the American Stonehenge

Voyage to the American Stonehenge is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"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 influetial 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 kilometers on the other side of Lake Titicaca, the second larges lake in South America. How could these multi-ton stones possibly have made their way to Tiwanaku?" -- back cover

Wilma Tabacco

Wilma Tabacco : Flights of fantasy is a catalogue from an exhibition held at the Niagara Galleries in Melbourne from 29 April - 30 May 2009.

British Drawings and Watercolours

British drawings and watercolours 1890-1940 : 20 January to 6 March 1982 is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. It includes works by:


Adrian Allinson (1890-1959) -- Maxwell Ashby Armfield (1881-1972) -- Lawrence Atkinson (1873-1931) -- Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) -- Vanessa Bell (1879-1961) -- Robert Polhill Bevan (1865-1925) -- David Bomberg (1890-1957) -- Edward Burra (1905-1976) -- Dora Carrington (1893-1932) -- Charles Condor (1868-1909) -- Jessica Dismorr (1885-1939) -- Frank Dobson (1886-1963) -- Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) -- Roger Fry (1866-1934) -- Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) -- Mark Gertler (1891-1939) -- Eric Gill (1882-1940) -- Harold Gilman (1876-1919) -- Charles Ginner (1878-1952) -- Spencer Frederick Gore (1878-1914) -- Sylvia Gosse (1881-1968) -- Duncan Grant (1885-1978) -- James Dickson Innes (1887-1914) -- Augustus John (1878-1961) -- Gwen John (1876-1939) -- David Jones (1895-1974) -- Henry Lamb (1883-1960) -- Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) -- John Nash (1893-1977) -- Paul Nash (1889-1946) -- C R W Nevinson (1889-1946) -- William Nicholson (1872-1949) -- Lucien Pissarro (1863-1944) -- James Pryde (1866-1941) -- William Rothenstein (1872-1945) -- Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) -- William Roberts (1895-1980) -- Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) -- Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) -- Edward Wadsworth (1889-1949) -- James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) -- Ethelbert White (1891-1972)

Notable Acquisitions

Notable acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago is a new publication that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• African and Amerindian Art
• American Art
• Architecture and Design
• Asian Art
• Contemporary Art
• European Decoratives
• Medieval Through Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Photography
• Prints and Drawings
• Textiles

Digital Photography + Design (August/September 2009)

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

The Glamour Game

The Glamour Game is a new DVD that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

This two-part documentary is a revealing and entertaining look at the changing face of beauty and fashion in Australia, focusing on the beloved beauty pageant and the exciting face pace world of the fashion parade. By exploring the dazzling history of the Miss Australia Quest and the emergence of our vibrant fashion industry, The Glamour Game, details how Australia has moved from its colonial past, to a strong and distinctive national identity. This exciting series uses never-before-seen archival footage, intimate stories from those who were there, and follows young hopefuls competing for a coveted place in today's beauty pageants and fashion world.

Episode One - The Pageant
Beauty pageants are back and the mother of them all was the original Miss Australia Quest. This episode features interviews with former Miss Australia's, from the 1927 winner, to the most remembered -Tania Verstak, who caused a controversy for being the first Non-Anglo Australian to be awarded the coveted title. The Pageant highlights how we now celebrate this cultural fusion with a behind the scenes look at contestants preparing to compete for the crown of Miss India Australia.

Episode Two - The Parade
The Parade is a colourful and stylish look at fashion in Australia, from the arrival of Dior's "new look" to today. What was once considered second rate, Australian fashion is now heralded on the world stage with a new breed of cutting edge designers. The Parade uses archived footage of Australian designers and fashion of yesterday whilst documenting the journey of four young design students as they prepare to debut their individual collections at the prestigious International Fashion Week in Sydney.

Hats

Hats : an anthology by Stephen Jones is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Foreword John Galliano
Introduction Oriole Cullen
A Personal View Stephen Jones

Inspiration
Cecil Beaton and the V&A

Creation
The Hatbox

The Salon
The Turban

The Client

Milliners' Biographies
Notes
Further Reading
Museum Collections
Acknowledgements
Picture Credits
Index

Visual Research Methods

Visual research methods : image, society, and representation edited by Gregory C. Stanczak is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Images, Methodologies, and Generating Social Knowledge Gregory C. Stanczak
2. Observing Culture and Social Life: Documentary Photography, Fieldwork, and Social Research Jon Wagner
3. All Photos Lie: Images as Data Barry M. Goldstein
4. Capturing the Visual Traces of Historical Change: The Internet Mission Photography Archive Jon Miller
5. The Failure of "The President's Choice" Erina Duganne
6. Using Photography in Studies of Immigrant Communities: Reflecting Across Projects and Populations Steven J. Gold
7. Inner-City Children in Sharper Focus: Sociology of Childhood and Photo Elicitation Interviews Marisol Clark-Ibáñez
8. When Words Art Not Enough: Eliciting Children's Experience of Buddhist Monastic Life Through Photographs Jeffrey Samuels
9. Signs of Resistance: Marking Public Space Through a Renewed Cultural Activism Emmanuel A. David
10. Performances, Confessions, and Identities: Using Video Diaries to Research Sexualities Ruth Holliday
11. The Symbolism of Video: Exploring Migrant Mothers' Experiences Yolanda Hernandez-Albujar
12. Website Design: The Precarious Blend of Narrative, Aesthetics, and Social Theory Stephen Papson, Robert Goldman, and Noah Kersey

Aida Tomescu

Aida Tomescu: Campi Flegrei is a catalogue from an exhibition held at the Liverpool Street Gallery from 18 August - 13 September 2007. This book is now available for loan.

nocturne

nocturne: images of night and darkness from colonial to contemporary is a catalogue from an exhibition held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 23 April - 16 June 2002. This item is now available for loan.

The Satirical Eye

The satirical eye : comedy and critique from Hogarth to Daumier is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan. This book is based on an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Victoria from 27 February to 26 July 2009.

http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au

Monument (August/September 2009)

The latest issue of Monument 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.

Ragtrader (31st July 2009)

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

Contents include:

• What New tactics designer labels are employing to get rid of excess stock.
• Why Herringbone is set to open more stores.
• How retailer ignorance of new IR laws could cost the industry thousands.

Architects & Copyright

Architects & copyright: a practical guide is a new publication by the Australian Copyright Council that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

1. About this guide
2. Copyright protection for architectural works
3. Who owns copyright?
4. Dealing with copyright in architectural materials
5. Infringement of copyright
6. Moral rights
7. Protecting your copyright & moral rights
8. A copyright compliant workplace
9. Endnotes

Trends (Apartment & Living) - Volume 25 No. 9

The latest issue of Trends 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 (Sat 8th August to Fri 14th August 2009)

• THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF ALBERT KAHN: EUROPE ON THE BRINK - EP 3 OF 9

The Archive of the Planet was the brainchild of the millionaire French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn. Between 1908 and 1930, he used his vast personal fortune to generate what is now generally acknowledged to be the most important collection of early colour photographs in the world.
Saturday 8 August 2009 3.00pm (Eastern States, 2.30pm SA & NT, 1pm WA)
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 60 mins

• CHINA'S ART AVANT-GARDE: THE FUTURE IS NOW - EP 3 OF 4

The third episode features Liu Xiaodong, a 45-year-old painter, who is one of the most successful artists in China today. His paintings sell for several million dollars. Liu Xiaodong is considered the leading 'New Generation' figurative painter in China. The documentary follows him to the Gobi Desert where he painted his ten-metre-long, monumental landscape painting, Qinghai-Tibet Railway.
Saturday 8 August 2009 4.00pm (Eastern States, 3.30pm SA & NT, 2pm WA)
SBS ONE Rating: (G, WS, Rpt)
Duration: 30 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION: USA

The Yucca Valley, California, is the site for the latest in Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers' series of earth sculptures. There he builds his Rhythms of Life sculpture and one based on local American Indian designs.
Sunday 9 August 2009 9.30pm
ABC2 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 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 12 August 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• WORLD'S GREENEST HOMES: EP 4 OF 13

Emmanuel Belliveau visits a steel and glass dream house minutes from the White House, an ocean-side home on Mexico's Baja peninsula, storm-proof town homes, and an energy efficient home outside Melbourne.
Thursday 13 August 2009 6.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 55 mins

Still Life and Special Effects Photography

Still life and special effects photography: a guide to professional lighting techniques by Roger Hicks and Frances Schultz is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• How To Use This Book
• Glossary of Lighting Terms
• Section One: Still Life
• Chapter One: Inspired By Objects
• Chapter Two: Deceptive Simplicity
• Chapter Three: Found Images and Abstractions
• Chapter Four: Form, Colour and Texture
• Chapter Five: Still Life with Food
• Chapter Six: Commercial Considerations
• Chapter Seven: Exploring Concepts
• Section Two: Special Effects
• Chapter Eight: Lighting Sequences
• Chapter Nine: Photographic Superimposition
• Chapter Ten: Materials and Techniques
• Chapter Eleven: Sets and Models
• Chapter Twelve: Artwork
• Chapter Thirteen: Electronic Image Manipulation
• Chapter Fourteen: The Unexpected
• Directory of Photographers
• Acknowledgements

Photopedia

Photopedia: the ultimate digital photography resource by Michael Miller is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Part 1. Understanding Digital Photography
1. How Digital Photography Works -- 2. The Digital Darkroom
Part 2. Digital Camera Essentials
3. Choosing a Digital Camera -- 4. Operating a Point-and-Shoot Camera -- 5. Operating a Digital SLR Camera
Part 3. Digital Camera Accessories
6. Choosing Camera Accessories -- 7. Managing Batteries and Storage -- 8. Using Different Lenses -- 9. Using Filters
Part 4. Photography Essentials
10. Composition -- 11. Lighting and Flash -- 12. Color -- 13. Exposure -- 14. Focus and Depth of Field
Part 5. Transferring and Managing Photos
15. Storing and Managing Photos on Your PC -- 16. Scanning Print Photos and Slides
Part 6. Digital Photo Editing
17. Choosing Photo Editing Software -- 18. Essential Photo Editing Techniques -- 19. Touching Up and Editing Your Photos
Part 7. Digital Photography Techniques
20. Portrait Photography -- 21. Candid Photography -- 22. Travel and Vacation Photography -- 23. Landscape and Nature Photography -- 24. Sports and Action Photography -- 25. Still Life Photography -- 26. Macro Photography -- 27. Black-and-White Photography -- 28. Special Shooting Conditions
Part 8. Photo Printing and Sharing
29. Printing Your Photos -- 30. Sharing Photos Online

Space Planning Basics

Space planning basics by Mark Karlen (3rd edition) is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

• Preface A Personal Introduction.
• Introduction How to Read and Use This Book.
• Chapter 1 Planning Methodology -- Defining Terms and Intent -- The Synthesis Gap -- The Design Program -- Criteria Matrix -- Prototypical Plan Sketches -- Completing the Criteria Matrix -- Relationship Diagrams -- A Final Note on Planning Methodology
• Chapter 2 The First Planning Steps: Bubble Diagrams and Block Plans -- Bubble Diagramming -- Space Planning Exercises -- Block Planning
• Chapter 3 Small and Dimensionally Demanding Spaces -- Human Factors -- Barrier-Free Design Standards -- The Three-Dimensional Reality -- Chapter 4 The Building Shell and Major Systems -- The Building Shell -- Plumbing Systems -- Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) Systems
• Chapter 5 Important Influencing Factors -- Building Codes -- Lighting Design -- Acoustical Planning -- Planning Rules of Thumb -- Flexibility/Multiuse -- Furniture -- Spatial Quality -- Interior Design Specialties
• Chapter 6 Developing a Rough Floor Plan -- Getting Started -- Construction Reality -- Start with Plumbing -- Major Spaces Next -- Circulation Studies -- Basic Room Allocations -- Furniture and Equipment -- Storage and Filing -- Spatial Quality -- Review --Revisions
• Chapter 7 Refining the Solution -- Refining the Rough Plan -- The Preliminary Floor Plan -- Drawing Quality and Techniques
• Chapter 8 Developing Skills Beyond the Basic Level -- Basic Implications -- Programs Within Programs -- Open Plan/Systems Furniture -- The Speculative Office Building -- Future Expansion -- Planning New Buildings -- A Final Note

Stair Design Basics:

• Section 1: Stair Design
• Section 2: Codes/Dimensions/Configurations
• Section 3: Stair Design Case Studies - Phase I
• Section 4: Stair Design Case Studies - Phase II

Appendix: Design Programs and Building Shells -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Recommended Reading -- Index

Home Delivery

Home delivery: fabricating the modern dwelling by Barry Bergdoll and Peter Christensen is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Foreword Glenn D. Lowry
• Introduction Barry Bergdoll
• Home Delivery: Viscidities of a Modernist Dream from Taylorized Serial Production to Digital Customization Barry Bergdoll
• Scandinavia: Prefabrication as a Model of Society Rasmus Wærn
• Postulating the Potential of Prefab: The Case of Japan Ken Tadashi Oshima
• Projects -- Manning Portable Colonial Cottage for Emigrants -- Balloon Frame -- Single Pour Concrete System -- Sears Catalogue Homes -- American System-Built Houses -- Maison Dom-ino -- Erector Set -- Lincoln Logs (Version 1) -- Baukasten -- Dymaxion House -- Copper Houses -- LEGO -- Keck Crystal House -- Good Housekeeping Stran-Steel House -- Jacobs House -- Quonset Hut -- Packaged House/General Panel System -- Yankee Portables -- Plas-2-Point House -- Wichita House -- Case Study House No. 8 -- Unité d’Habitation -- Khrushchovkas -- Westchester Two-Bedroom Model House -- Maison Tropicale -- Meudon Houses -- All Plastic House -- Plattenbau -- Plug-In City -- Habitat '67 -- Asbestos Cement Housing Module -- Living Pod -- Maciunas Prefabricated Building System -- Stadt Ragnitz -- Metastadt-Bausystem -- Stelco Catalogue Housing -- Futuro House -- Nakagin Capsule Tower -- Zip-Up Enclosures Nos. 1 and 2 -- Moduli 225 -- Oriental Masonic Gardens -- Ramot Housing -- Gen-An (Fantasy Villa) -- Almere House -- Yacht House -- Kim House -- Container House and Primitive Huts -- Great Hanshin Earthquake Community Shelter -- Touch House -- Embryological House -- M-Vironments/M-House -- MUJI House -- Maquiladora -- Migrating Formations -- Flatform -- Vector Wall -- Water Block House Fragments
• Commissioned Projects -- micro compact home -- Digitally Fabricated Housing for New Orleans -- BURST*008 -- SYSTEM3 -- Cellophane House
• Chronology -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgements -- Trustees

Photographic Possibilities

Photographic possibilities: the expressive use of equipment, ideas, materials, and processes by Robert Hirch (3rd edition) is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Essential Moments in Photographic Printmaking -- The Language of Photography -- Concepts and Technology Affecting Photographic Printmaking -- Extending Photographic Boundaries -- Electronic Imaging: New Ways of Seeing -- Possessing a Sense of History

Chapter 2. Predarkroom Actions: Imaginative Thinking and Personal Safety -- Establishing a Personal Creation Process -- Photographic Origins -- Thinking within a System -- Purposes of Photography -- Essential Safety Guidelines -- Contact Allergies, Chemical Sensitivities and Poison Control -- Disposing of Chemistry -- Darkroom Ventilation -- Water for Photographic Processes

Chapter 3. Image Capture: Special-Use Films, Processing and Digital Negative Making -- Film and the Photographer -- General Film Processing Procedures -- Infrared Black-and-White Films -- Heightening Grain and Contrast -- Ultra-Fine Grain Black-and-White Film: Ilford Pan F Plus -- High-Contrast Litho Films -- Orthochromatic Film -- Paper Negatives and Positives: Contemporary Calotypes -- Reversing Black-and-White Film -- Instant Positive and Negative Film -- Film for Classic Cameras -- Processing Black-and-White Film for Permanence -- Digital Negative Making: An Overview -- Scanners

Chapter 4. Formulas of One's Own -- Prepared Formulas or Mixing Your Own -- Basic Equipment -- Chemicals -- Preparing Formulas -- US Customary Weights and Metric Equivalents

Chapter 5. Black-and-White Film Developers -- What Happens to Silver-Based Films During Exposure and Processing? -- Image Characteristics of Film -- Components and Characteristics of Black-and-White Developers -- Basic Developer Types -- Postdevelopment Procedures -- Film Developer Formulas and their Applications -- Is All this Necessary?

Chapter 6. Analog Fine Printmaking: Equipment, Materials, and Processes -- The Analog Fine Printmaking Process -- Printing Equipment -- Standard Printing Materials -- Print Finishing -- Special Printing Materials -- Processing Prints for Permanence

Chapter 7. Black-and-White Paper Developers -- Paper Developer and Developing-out Paper -- Components of Black-and-White Silver Print Developers -- Additional Processing Factors -- Controlling Contrast During Development -- Matching Developer and Paper -- Developer Applications and Characteristics -- Other Paper Developer Formulas

Chapter 8. Toning for Visual Effects -- Processing Controls -- Basic Types of Toners -- Processing Prints to be Toned -- General Working Procedures for Toners -- Brown Toners -- Blue Toners -- Red Toners -- Green Toners -- Toning Variations

Chapter 9. Special Cameras and Equipment -- What Is a Camera? -- The Pinhole Camera -- Custom Cameras -- Plastic Cameras -- Disposable Cameras -- Changing the Angle of View -- Panoramic Cameras -- Sequence Cameras -- Obsolete Special-use Cameras -- Stereoscopic Photography -- Stroboscopic Photography -- Underwater Equipment and Protection

Chapter 10. Historic and Alternative Processes: Beauty, Imagination and Inventiveness -- Paper and the Image Viewing Experience -- Exposure -- Salt Prints -- Cyanotype Process -- Ambrotype Process: Wet-plate Collodion Positives on Glass -- Kallitype and Vandyke Brownprint Processes -- Chrysotype Process -- Platinum and Palladium Processes -- Gum Bichromate Process -- The Bromoil Process -- Gumoil -- Mordançage -- Lith Printing -- Electrostatic Processes: Copy Machines

Chapter 11. Transforming Photographic Concepts: Expanding the Lexicon -- Hand-Altered Work -- Photograms -- Chemigram -- Cliché-verre -- Extended Camera Exposures -- Postcamera Techniques: in Search of Time -- Multiple-Exposure Methods -- Fabrication: Happenings for the Camera -- Composite Variations -- Processing Manipulation: Reticulation -- Hand-Coloring -- Airbrushing -- Transfers and Stencils -- Cross-Processing: Slides as Negatives -- Pictures From a Screen

Fundamentals of Photography

Fundamentals of photography: the essential handbook for both digital and film cameras by Tom Ang is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• WHAT IS PHOTOGRAPHY? -- What is photography -- The imaging process -- Image quality -- Digital principles -- Work flow -- The uses of photography -- Eye and camera compared -- Visual perception -- Composition -- Guiding the eye -- Analysis: Composing with lines
• FUNDAMENTALS OF LIGHT -- Types of light sources -- Properties of light -- The quality of light -- Contrast -- Basic photometry -- Light and exposure -- Exposure and development -- The spectrum -- Recording color -- Color
• THE CAMERA -- Camera controls -- Camera construction -- Viewfinder cameras -- SLR cameras -- Electronic-viewfinder cameras -- Medium-format cameras -- Manual focusing -- Autofocusing -- How focusing systems work -- Short shutter times -- Long shutter times -- How the shutter works -- Depth of field -- Lens aperture -- Aperture effects -- Digital camera features -- Exposure measurement -- Stabilizing the camera -- Photography equipment
• CAPTURING LIGHT -- Film and sensor -- Types of film: black and white -- Capturing color -- Color films: transparency -- Color films: print -- Film formats and applications -- Medium and large formats -- Exposure metering -- Metering techniques -- Digital image capture -- Working in low light -- Digital color capture -- Working with sensor formats
• USING THE LENS -- The photographic lens -- Handling lenses -- Lens specifications -- Zoom lenses -- Normal to wide zooms -- Long zooms -- Lens formulae -- Wide-angle lenses -- Normal lenses -- Aberrations -- Macro lenses -- Medium-long focal length -- Analysis: Working with lenses -- Very long lenses -- Specialist lenses -- Image clarity -- Optimizing lens performance -- Light-adjusting filters -- Special effects and correction filters -- Camera movements -- Analysis: Working with movement -- Panoramic photography -- Photography in challenging conditions
• MANIPULATING LIGHT -- Principles of lighting -- Creating the studio -- Analysis: Working with multiple light sources -- Light modifiers -- Lighting setups -- Actinic light and exposure -- Portable flash -- Using electronic flash
• WORKING WITH COLOR -- Color and vision -- Composing with color -- Color saturation -- Color recording -- Reduced color contrast -- Analysis: Working with color -- Mixed lighting and mixed whites -- Color palettes -- Digital color -- Color management -- Color settings -- Input and output
• PROCESSING THE IMAGE -- Processing the image -- Black-and-white film development -- Developers and other chemicals -- Sensitometry -- Color processing -- In-camera processing -- Raw processing -- Image proportions -- File types and uses -- Image work flow -- Image shape -- File size -- Image levels -- Controlling image tonality -- Burning and dodging -- Analysis: Burning and dodging -- Color balancing -- Color-to-mono conversion -- Cloning, duplicating, healing -- Masks and selections -- Layers -- Layer blend modes -- Darkroom effects -- Basic image sharpening -- Adaptive sharpening
• DIGITIZING THE IMAGE -- From analog to digital -- Types of scanners -- Scanner features -- Scanning work flow -- Advanced scanning -- Image management
• OUTPUTTING THE IMAGE -- Principles of enlargement -- Darkroom equipment -- Black-and-white printing -- Variable-contrast printing and toning -- Color printing methods -- Digital output -- Digital printing -- Archival issues -- Presenting your images -- Displaying your images -- Pictures on the web
• REFERENCES -- Diagnosing film and processing defects -- Compendium of filter effects -- Picture editing -- Copyright FAQ -- Glossary -- Websites and further reading

Elle Decoration (August 2009)

The latest issue of Elle Decoration 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.

Wallpaper* (August 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 pages.

Domus No. 927 (July/August 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.

Practices of Looking

Practices of Looking: an introduction to visual culture by Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• CHAPTER 1: IMAGES, POWER, AND POLITICS
  Representation -- The Myth of Photographic Truth -- Images and Ideology -- How We Negotiate the Meaning of Images -- The Value of Images -- Image Icons
• CHAPTER 2: VIEWERS MAKE MEANING
  Producers' Intended Meanings -- Aesthetics and Taste -- Collecting, Display, and Institutional Critique -- Reading Images as Ideological Subjects -- Encoding and Decoding -- Reception and the Audience -- Appropriation and Cultural Production -- Re-appropriation and Counter-Bricolage
• CHAPTER 3: MODERNITY: SPECTATORSHIP, POWER, AND KNOWLEDGE
  The Subject in Modernity -- Spectatorship -- Discourse and Power -- The Gaze and the Other -- The Gaze in Psychoanalysis -- Gender and the Gaze -- Changing Concepts of the Gaze
• CHAPTER 4: REALISM AND PERSPECTIVE: FROM RENAISSANCE PAINTING TO DIGITAL MEDIA
  Visual Codes and Historical Meaning -- Questions of Realism -- The History of Perspective
  Perspective and the Body -- The Camera Obscura -- Challenges to Perspective -- Perspective in Digital Media
• CHAPTER 5: VISUAL TECHNOLOGIES, IMAGE REPRODUCTION, AND THE COPY
  Visual Technologies -- Motion and Sequence -- Image Reproduction: The Copy -- Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction -- The Politics of Reproducibility -- Copies, Ownership, and Copyright -- Reproduction and the Digital Image
• CHAPTER 6: MEDIA IN EVERYDAY LIFE
  The Masses and Mass Media -- Media Forms -- Broadcast, Narrowcast, and Webcast Media -- The History of Mass Media Critiques -- Media and Democratic Potential -- Media and the Public Sphere -- National and Global Media Events -- Contemporary Media and Image Flows
• CHAPTER 7: ADVERTISING, CONSUMER CULTURES, AND DESIRE
  Consumer Societies -- Envy, Desire, and Belonging -- Commodity Culture and Commodity Fetishism -- Brands and Their Meanings -- The Marketing of Coolness -- Anti-ads and Culture Jamming
• CHAPTER 8: POSTMODERNISM, INDIE MEDIA, AND POPULAR CULTURE
  Postmodernism and its Visual Cultures -- Addressing the Postmodern Subject -- Reflexivity and Postmodern Identity -- Pastiche, Parody, and the Remake -- Indie Media and Postmodern Approaches to the Market -- Postmodern Space, Geography, and the Built Environment
• CHAPTER 9: SCIENTIFIC LOOKING, LOOKING AT SCIENCE
  The Theater of Science -- Images as Evidence: Cataloguing the Body -- Imaging the Body's Interior: Biomedical Personhood -- Vision and Truth -- Imaging Genetics -- The Digital Body -- Visualizing Pharmaceuticals
• CHAPTER 10: THE GLOBAL FLOW OF VISUAL CULTURE
  The Global Subject and the Global Gaze -- Cultural Imperialism -- Global Branding
  Concepts of Globalization -- Visuality and Global Media Flow -- Indigenous and Diasporic Media -- Borders and Franchises: Art and the Global
• Glossary
• Acknowledgments
• Illustration

Current

Current: contemporary art from Australia and New Zealand is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Against the Current / Justin Paton
• The Creation of Contemporary Australian Art / Nick Waterlow OAM
• Current Fragments / Victoria Lynn
• Looking Both Ways: Reflections on Portraiture / Rachel Kent
• Points of Convergence: Indigenous Curators Explore the Question of Contemporary Within Aboriginal Art / Brenda L. Croft, Stephen Cilcrist, Bruce McLean and Keith Munro, moderated by Margaret Farmer
• Hello Darkness: New Zealand Gothic / Robert Leonard
• Artists
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements

Exhibition Design

Exhibition Design by David Dernie is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

Part 1 Approaches

• Chapter 1 Narrative Space
• Ford Journey Zone, Millennium Dome, London, UK, Imagination, 2000
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 1993
• The British Galleries, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK, Casson Mann, 2001
• Frank Gehry, Architect, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, Frank O. Gehry Associates, 2001
• Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, Ireland, Imagination and Robinson Keefe Devane, 2000
• Expedition Titanic, Hamburg, Germany, Atelier Brückner with Götz, Schulz, Haas - Architekten, 1997
• Chapter 2 Performative Space
• Ericsson, CeBIT, London, UK, Imagination, 2001
• Eureka Our Global Garden, Eureka! The Museum for Children, Halifax, UK, Imagination, 2002
• Orange Imaginarium, Explore At-Bristol, Bristol, UK, Imagination, 2002
• Hall of the Universe, Hall of Planet Earth, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 2000
• Energy Gallery, Science Museum, London, UK, Casson Mann, 2004
• Olympic Rendezvous @ Samsung, Salt Lake City, USA, Imagination (USA), Inc., 2002
• Les Immatériaux, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France, Jean-François Lyotard and Thierry Chaput, 1985
• Chapter 3 Simulated Experience
• Theatre for Lucent Centre of Excellence, Nuremburg, Germany, MET Studio Design, 2001
• Wired Worlds, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, UK, MET Studio Design, 2000
• Jean Nouvel, Pompidou Centre, Paris, France, Jean Nouvel, 2001-2002
• The Weather Project, Tate Modern, London, UK, Olafur Eliasson, 2003-2004
• The Samsung Experience, Time Warner Center, New York, USA, Imagination (USA), Inc., 2004
• Hall of Biodiversity, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 1998
• Stuttgart in the Second World War, Stuttgart, Germany, hg merz architekten, 1988-1989
• Eyes, Lies and Illusions, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Christophe Gérrard, Critical Space, 2004-2005

Part 2 Techniques

• Chapter 4 Displays
• Art of the Motorcycle, Guggenheim Museum New York/Bilbao/Las Vegas, Frank O. Gehry Associates, 1998-2002
• Dia:Beacon, Riggio Galleries, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, USA, Dia Art Foundation and Robert Irwin, 2003
• American Folk Art Museum, New York, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 2001
• Wellcome Wing, Science Museum, London, UK, Casson Mann, 2000
• Crimes Against Humanity, Imperial War Museum, London, UK, Casson Mann, 2002
• The Rise of the Picture Press, Institute of Contemporary Photography, New York, USA, Julie Ault and Martin Beck, 2000
• Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Jardin des Plantes, Paris, France, Chemtov and Huidobro, 1994
• Addressing the Century: 100 Years of Art and Fashion, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, Zaha Hadid Architects, 1997-1998
• Chapter 5 Lighting
• Light Show, Tate Modern, London, UK, Imagination, 2000
• Brazil: Body and Soul, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA, Jean Nouvel, 2001-2002
• Steuben Flagship Store, New York, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 2000
• Giorgio Armani, Guggenheim New York, USA/Bilbao, Spain, Robert Wilson, 2000-2001
• Siteco, Light and Building Fair, Frankfurt, Germany, Atelier Brückner, 2000, 2002
• Halls of Vertebrate Evolution, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA, Ralph Appelbaum Associates, 1996
• Chapter 6 Communication, Colour & Graphics
• Outdoor Systems, Indoor Distribution, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, Julie Ault and Martin Beck, 2000
• Experience Music Project, Seattle, USA, Frank O. Gehry Associates, 2000
• Samsung Brand Showcase, Moscow, Russia, Imagination (USA), Inc., 2003
• Museum for Communication, Berlin, Germany, hg merz architekten, 1997-2000
• Power Up, Reassembled, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA, Julie Ault, 2000
• Sparking Reaction, Sellafield Visitor Centre, Cumbria, UK, Casson Mann, 2002

Contemporary Textiles

Contemporary textiles: the fabric of fine art is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Contents:

• everything is the stuff of art / Jann Haworth
• note from the editor / Nadine Monem
• contemporary textiles: the art fabric / Janis Jeffries
• DRAWINGS / Andrea Dezsö -- Annie Whiles -- Jessica Rankin -- Karen Reimer -- Lisa Solomon -- Rachel Coleman -- Orly Cogan -- Satoru Aoyama -- Bente Sætrang -- Tucker Schwarz -- Tilleke Schwarz -- Sybille Hotz
• PAINTINGS / Steve MacDonald -- Berend Strik -- Cosima von Bonin -- Devorah Sperber -- Elaine Reichek -- Ghada Amer -- Gillian Cooper -- Monika Auch -- Janis Jefferies -- Kent Henricksen -- Lara Schnitger -- Lia Cook -- Maria E Piñeres -- Nava Lubelski -- Rosemarie Trockel -- Silja Puranen -- Tracey Emin -- Wendy Huhn
• SCULPTURES / Annet Couwenberg -- Annette Messager -- Benji Whalen -- Guerra de la Paz -- Gyöngy Laky -- Janet Cooper -- Janet Echelman -- Jann Haworth -- Dave Cole -- Laura Ford -- Lucy + Jorge Orta -- Susan Taber Avila -- Mark Newport -- Matthew Barney -- Mike Kelley -- Nick Cave -- Paddy Hartley -- Magdalena Abakanowicz
• SPACES / Christo and Jeanne-Claude -- Craig Fisher -- Freddie Robins -- Laura Vickerson -- Seamus McGuinness -- Mary Tuma -- Susie MacMurray -- Jennifer Angus -- Yinka Shonibare
• artist biographies
• acknowledgements