Viewpoint #27

The latest issue of Viewpoint is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• The Information: Viewpoint's pick of graphics, technology, retail, design and culture news
• The Analysis: An introduction to DIY
• Yes we can! The DIY movement has moved on from home improvement to encompass technology, distribution and communication methods that, in theory, allow anyone to make anything and bring it to market.  The effect will be profound for consumers and brands alike, says Anna Sansom
• The blueprint home As 3D printing becomes more advanced and accessible, in the not-too-distant future we will see consumers taking the ultimate creative control of the products they consume.  The home will become a mini factory, with domestic 3D printers capable of printing anything from clothing to food.  Viewpoint visualises the potential future of the blueprint home.  By Kate Franklin, with photography by Metz+Racine and props by Peter Cole
• Doing it for themselves From hi-tech hacking to handicrafts, DIY in the 21st century has different meanings for different people.  Liz Hancock identifies today's key DIY groups and explores their implications for business
• Clicks and mortar The people-less purchase is coming soon to a store near you, as consumers become their own sales assistants.  By Duncan Graham-Rowe
• Hack it better Hack it better, or even hack it beautiful, is the modern-day make-do-and-mend mantra.  Discarded or broken items and materials are creatively adapted to enhance functional, aesthetic or emotional appeal.  Viewpoint collates and specially commissions pieces from designers ready to revamp refuse.  By Kate Franklin and Caroline Till, with photography by Victoria Ling
• The Argument: Six trend opinion-formers give their views Small is Beautiful; Closed Wallets, Closed Minds; Tell Us a Story; Eco Equals Ego; Back to the Future; Come Together
• The Vision: A visual essay of ten influential ideas in ten images.  By Kate Franklin and Jacob Strand
• The Features:
• Patriot gains 'Buy local' has long been a mantra for food shopping, but now consumers are applying buy-national thinking to a far wider range of products.  Josh Sims asks whether brands should be waving the flag for the patriotic purchase
• It's the real thing We spend so much time immersed in virtual worlds, there is now a backlash towards reconnecting with the physical.  But real and virtual are far from irreconcilable and the real innovation will take place in the ambiguous territory between the two.  By Mark Hooper
• (R)IP? Received wisdom has it that a brand protects its intellectual property at all costs.  But open-source thinking, the free sharing of concepts, technology and even production methods, might do for the world of things what is successfully achieving in the world of data, explains Daniel Nye Griffiths
• Testing times Challenger culture is raising the bar for personal achievement ever higher, through extreme sports, hobbies and entrepreneurialism.  As pushing the limits becomes the norm, Kevin Braddock asks whether the era of the amateur is over
• The new naive Mixing styles and transcending genres with a childlike disregard for the rules, a new school of illustrators and designers is rediscovering the expressive power of naivety.  The handmade is combined with the digitally designed, the real with the unreal.  Viewpoint introduces its pick of the creatives setting the aesthetic agenda for the coming seasons.  By Kate Franklin and Bianca Wendt
• The Overhaul:
• Knightsbridge over troubled water? When Viewpoint asked young design agency Campaign to rework an existing brand, the choice was Harrods, the most famous and historic shop in Britain.  But just how do you update a retail icon and tourist Mecca?  By Martin Bewick
• The Digest: Snapshots of some big ideas
• Please re-lease me Movies, mansions, mongrels; more and more items can be rented on demand rather than bought outright - which poses a conundrum for anyone trying to sell.  By Gwyneth Holland
• Sales: the final frontier Are designers and business overlooking an enormous opportunity in the developing world? By Clare Dowdy
• Too much, too young The culture of accelerated youth is seeing teens developing a can-do attitude that will have far-reaching consequences for business.  By Jane Kellock
• Location, location, location The property buyer's mantra is set to become social media's new spin for consumers and brands alike.  By Rachel Arthur
• Handbuilt by robots Craft and technology, once polar opposites, are merging.  By Jacob Strand
• The big giveaway Brand philanthropy is taking tentative steps beyond the standard baseline of corporate social responsibility.  By Kevin Braddock
• The ego has landed The 'me generation' has discovered a creative outlet far more fulfilling than micro-stardom.  By Jacob Strand
• The plastic oh-no band Can life after plastic still be fantastic? Maybe, as sugar plastic, liquid wood and ceramic alternatives come to the fore.  By Mark Hooper
• Cut to the chase Could no-nonsense, say-it-like-it-is advertising be the way to reach a new generation of media-savvy consumers? By Mark Tungate
• Community over cash When is a shop not just a shop? When it's a theatre, a club, a lab or a cultural space, a shop as participatory hub for experiences and interactions other than the purely commercial.  By Clare Dowdy
• The Form: Viewpoint's round-up of the current key design aesthetics

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th December to Fri 10th December 2010)

• TIM MARLOW MEETS: PETER BLAKE

Broadcaster and historian Tim Marlow meets Sir Peter Blake, the artist behind The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album cover, at Compton Verney in Warwickshire to discuss the works that have influenced and inspired him.
Saturday 4 December 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: GADGETS - EP 12 OF 13

In a single generation, digital has made redundant every gadget invented since 1950. Where will it end?
Wednesday 8 December 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 25 mins

• INSIDE THE GREAT MAGAZINES: EP 1 OF 3

Intelligent, provocative, glamorous and intriguing, this three-part series points the camera at the inside pages and inner workings of the first international medium. Venture inside the editor's suite and go on location to the interviews and the photo shoots of the greatest magazines in the world.
Wednesday 8 December 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: G CC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

Desktop #266 (November 2010)

The latest issue of Desktop is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

http://www.desktopmag.com.au

Contents:

• UPDATE
• DEBRIEF BOOK - Dalton.
• DEBRIEF POST-PRODUCTION - The Coca-Cola Company.
• CREATE:AWARDS 2010 WRAP-UP All the photos and news from the 2010 Qantm Desktop CREATE:Awards
• TVC DESIGN AS EASY AS XYZ Brendan McKnight hangs out with the XYZ crew to discover the art of creating the perfect TVC.
• PROFILE BANG FOR YOUR BUCK Hugh Edwards finds out why Bang is making some noise in the big wide world of creative.
• PICTURE THIS ONLY HUMAN Jo Spurling speaks with Highlights Photography about the human side of photography.
• PICTURE THIS TROUBLESHOOTER
• COOLSTUFF
• APP DESIGN KEEP ON MOVING Jo Spurling checks out the who, what, where, when and how of app design.
• CENTREFOLD
• WEB CREATIVE INGREDIENTS We should give equal weighting to both tech and creative concepts, writes Stuart Gonsal.
• WEBGUIDE DESTINATIONS.
• STUDIO MADE WITH LOVE Brendan McKnight learns about blood, gore and other fun horror film antics with Wicked of Oz.
• TYPE THIS TIME, IT'S UNIVERSAL Jack Yan speaks to Hasan Aby Afash about designing type in the Arabic language.
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN PORTFOLIO SURVIVAL GUIDE James Earnshaw writes on everything you need to know about creating that perfect portfolio.
• AGIDEAS NEWSTAR COVERING ALL BASES Jo Spurling speaks with Hamish Smyth, winner of the 2009 agIdeas NewStar competition.
• FOREIGN POLICY STUPID IS AS STUPID DOES Jason Little asks: is design making us stupid?
• PRINT LOOKS GOOD, FEELS GOOD Theo Pettaras looks at a few effective options to make your print more engaging.
• DIGITAL UX AUSTRALIA 2010 Neil Simpson reviews UX Australia 2010
• PRODUCT REVIEWS
• REAR VIEW

AGENCYLAND

• ABOUT TOWN NEWS
• VIEWFINDER
• BRIEF ENCOUNTERS THINK BEFORE YOU LEAP Hackett Films for Victoria Police.
• PEER PRESSURE APPLE Z GENERATION Are we too quick to undo our work?
• PROFILE DON'T BE FOOLED Bashful may be the name of this creative agency, but its team sure ain't.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 25th September to Fri 1st October 2010)

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN NEPAL

The Indiana Jones of the art world, Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers, had a vision to create twelve monumental Earth artwork sites around the world. Inspired by the Nazca lines in Peru, these giant rock works are made to be viewed from the air and are large enough to be seen by satellite, 350 km into space. Rogers engages local artisans to build these geoglyphs, which can span vast areas. In this fascinating and groundbreaking adventure/travel documentary, we see how Rogers works in Nepal with local elders to identify their heritage, and recreate the important symbols in stone that carry their stories and their history.
Sunday 26 September 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Stairway to Heaven is the story of an ancient and sublime work of sacred art, whose loss not only shook the art world, but triggered the shocking realisation that traditional Islamic knowledge and skills have all but vanished.
Sunday 26 September 2010 10.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ART NATION

Chris McAuliffe gives his verdict on the annual 'Footy Art Show'; 'Guilty Pleasures' features conductor Richard Gill; and blues and folk singer Jez Mead performs in the studio.
Sunday 26 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: FRUIT PALETTES - EP 4 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 27 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: DESIGNS FOR LIVING - EP 2 OF 5

This episode: Designs for Living, looks at the crisis-stricken decades of the 1920s and 1930s. With the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come, from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and the three-piece lounge suite.
Tuesday 28 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF REVOLUTION - EP 4 OF 7

In the 17th century, the people of Britain learnt to question everything. The result was the Civil War, in which everyone, including artists, had to take sides. But out of it came a re-invented monarchy, a scientific revolution and, ultimately, the great Cathedral of St Paul's.
Tuesday 28 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• STOP. REWIND: HOUSING - EP 2 OF 13

Tonight Stop. Rewind takes a specific look at high tech homes. The 21st century home promised every labour-saving device you could think of - instant buildings, instant meals, instant clean! We had sensors tracking our every move, opening doors, turning on lights, and dimming the sound.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 12 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 30 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 18th September to Fri 24th September 2010)

• THE DESERT CASTLE

A fascinating insight into the work of high level architects combining originality and artistic flair with compromise and hard-headed business abilities.
Saturday 18 September 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN CHINA: EP 4 OF 6

Monumental Vision is an international arts adventure series that follows the adventures of Andrew Rogers, one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors as he works in remote and exotic locations around the world to create monumental 'earth art' called geoglyphs.
Sunday 19 September 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STEALING KLIMT

The story of five paintings by Gustav Klimt, stolen by the Nazis in Vienna during WWII. They had been in the possession of a prominent Jewish family until that time. In 2006, a surviving member won the case for their return.
Sunday 19 September 2010 10.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• MASK AND MEMORY: SIDNEY NOLAN

Mask And Memory is a new documentary about the man many regard as the greatest Australian painter of the 20th century - Sidney Nolan. If all art has a biographical element, this was dramatically true in Nolan's case. Through interviews with friends, contemporaries and witnesses, producer Catherine Hunter reconstructs the intimate relationships that shaped Nolan's life, the women he loved, and who loved him.
Sunday 19 September 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ART NATION

Brisbane Festival Special. Fenella Kernebone meets celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland and checks out Shanghai Lady Killers. Marcus Graham fesses up in Guilty Pleasures and Carry Nation performs in the studio.
Sunday 19 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: FULLY BAKED - EP 3 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 20 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE - EP 1 OF 5

We live in a designed world, made for us, and overseen by a diverse group of specialists that we call designers. This five-part series tell the story of design from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, from the accidental birth of design as a by-product of the 'division of labour' to the central role it now plays as we grapple with issues of over-production, consumption and the environment.
Tuesday 21 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF POWER - EP 3 OF 7

This week we meet the Tudors: from Henry VIII's accession in 1509 to the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII exactly 100 years later. David Dimbleby shows how the Tudors used art as an instrument of power and propaganda. First, Henry VIII and the lavish, gilded tomb in Westminster Abbey he commissioned for his father; the epic Field of Cloth of Gold painting in Hampton Court made to celebrate his diplomatic triumph over the French; and the extraordinary patron-artist relationship he cultivated with Hans Holbein.
Tuesday 21 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• AN ARTIST IN EDEN: THE WORK OF RUTH MADDISON 2000-2005

Ruth Maddison, a photographer, left Melbourne for the small town of Eden. In Eden, Ruth has been photographing the youth and her surroundings and her work methods are dynamic, inspirational and compelling.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 2.25am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: ROBOTS - EP 1 OF 13

Planes, trains, fast cars, high-tech homes, space exploration - Stop. Rewind is a television journey that plots the most innovative 25 years in human history. From the giant leap forward in technology from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, Stop. Rewind explores those ideas, discoveries, breakthroughs, dead-ends and eureka moments that shaped the latter part of the 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 25 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

With the Grand Final just around the corner, tonight is The New Inventors: Semi-Final, hosted by James O'Loghlin. For the past seven years The New Inventors has launched the best and brightest new inventions from across the country, and this year has been no exception.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 11 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS SPECIAL: DESTINATION 2020

ABC TV's The New Inventors tonight dives into the future with a special program: Destination 2020. Following the success of its Saving Water Special earlier this year, The New Inventors again suspends its search for the best invention of the year to gain an illuminating insight into what might be awaiting us in 2020.
Thursday 23 September 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• VIEWS ON VERMEER: 10 SHORT STORIES

Contemporary artists, photographers and opinion leaders unravel the extraordinary and mysterious impact of Johannes Vermeer on our day and age. Features Tom Hunter, Chuck Close, Erwin Olaf and Philip-Lorca diCorcia and many more.
Thursday 23 September 2010 8.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS: GRAND FINAL

The spectacular one-hour Grand Final returns to ABC1 with viewers invited to join The New Inventors team as they celebrate and showcase the best of Australian innovation.
Thursday 23 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE DA VINCI SHROUD

The Shroud of Turin is the Christian world's most famous and sacred relic. For centuries the faithful believed it held the image of Jesus Christ, tortured and crucified: but how it was made has baffled scientists for decades. This film examines the controversial theory that the Turin Shroud is the work of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists who ever lived.
Thursday 23 September 2010 9.30pm
ABC1 Rating: MCC
Duration: 50 mins

Desktop #264 (September 2010)

The latest issue of Desktop is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

http://www.desktopmag.com.au

Contents:

• UPDATE
• DEBRIEF MAGAZINE - Sesame.
• CREATE: SNEAK PEAK Check out a small sample of the entries received in the 2010 Qantm Desktop CREATE:Awards to see what you're really up against!
• TYPOGRAPHY LETTER HEADS Jo Spurling looks at why typography is just so hot right now.
• SEMI-PERMANENT MELBOURNE HEART OF A CONCRETE CITY Jo Spurling speaks with Semi-Permanent guest speaker Claire Martin.
• COOLSTUFF
• PICTURE THIS BE VERY AFRAID The Boogieman is on the prowl... followed closely by Joshua Hoffine and his camera.
• PICTURE THIS TROUBLESHOOTER
• COLOUR THEORY ROYAL BLUE Brendan McKnight grabs his box of crayons and discovers how to be strategic when choosing colours.
• STUDIO INFORMATION OVERLOAD Brendan McKnight speaks with information graphics wizard Patrick Clair.
• WEB NO MORE PENCILS, NO MORE BOOKS! Matthew Magain gives us an insider's look at how to keep up to date with the web.
• WEBGUIDE IN THE 80s
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN THINGS ARE LOOKING UP The definition of 'Optimism' is to expect the best possible outcome, writes Rita Siow of AGDA.
• FOREIGN POLICY I WISH I'D DONE THAT When it comes to design awards, Jason Little explains why it's good to have a somewhat unhealthy obsession.
• PRINT OILS JUST AIN'T OILS In an industry adapting to 'green' practices, the raw materials used are just one part of a complicated process, writes Rod Wade.
• DIGITAL IS THE MOUSE DEAD? Neil Simpson askes Shane Morris of Automatic Studio how the mouse is faring.
• PRODUCT REVIEWS Sony Ericsson X10 / X10 Mini, Talk About Design.
• REARVIEW

AGENCYLAND

• ABOUT TOWN NEWS
• VIEWFINDER
• BRIEF ENCOUNTERS OUR CUP RUNNETH OVER - SBS: More than the World Cup
• PEER PRESSURE RULES OF ENGAGEMENT - When do the concepts and execution behind 'sex sells' cross the line to become simply soft porn?
• PROFILE SHAKEN NOT STIRRED SapientNitro let us in on why they like to shake things up a bit.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th September to Fri 10th September 2010)

• JEAN-SIMEON CHARDIN PAINTER

The largely self-taught Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was one of the greatest French painters of the 18th century. His still life subjects documented the life of the Parisian bourgeoisie.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• QUEENS OF TERROR

The story of the Italian comic book Diabolik and the two middle-class Milanese sisters who created it in the 1960s, the Giussani sisters. Diabolik, a masked anti-hero, a thief and murderer, became the first Italian adult comic book. The program delves into the lives and inspiration of the Giussani sisters through archival footage and modern-day interviews.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PG
Duration: 60 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ARTISTS AT WORK - DEL KATHRYN BARTON

Since winning the 2008 Archibald Prize, Del Kathryn Barton has been one of the most rapidly rising stars in the Australian contemporary art world. Barton's richly colourful and hallucinogenic works offer a complex, often disorienting meditation upon the nature of reality. Barton is a woman on a crusade, to express herself as honestly as she can in her work - a strange and magical world of fecund landscapes populated by hermaphrodites and animal familiars.
Sunday 5 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: MACC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Gippsland Art Gallery's '100 Ways to Ruin a Car' photography exhibition; the visual artists who make up the project Wrongtown; Casey Bennetto features in 'Guilty Pleasures'; and The Wilson Pickers perform.
Sunday 5 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: ON THE MENU - EP 1 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 6 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF CONQUEST - EP 1 OF 7

In this new seven-part series, British commentator and presenter David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through its art and treasure. This first episode begins with the Roman invasion and ends with the Norman Conquest.
Tuesday 7 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 65 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

The Bright Sparks Special brings together some of the most forward thinking young people from around the country to present their fantastic inventions. Judges this week are three previous Bright Sparks inventors.
Wednesday 8 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 9 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 8 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Series 1 & 2 available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: SUSSEX

For ten years Ben Law, a woodsman, fought for and gained planning permission to build a house in the heart of the West Sussex woods where he worked. But there was a condition attached: he could never sell the house, only pass it on to his successor. Ben wanted his home to be totally self-sufficient with no main services, and had decided to build it using only materials from the woods, using techniques pretty similar to those used 1000 years ago.
Thursday 9 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 28th August to Fri 3rd September 2010)

• THE YEAR OF ANISH KAPOOR

Anish Kapoor is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation, known for works of staggering complexity and scale. He now faces his biggest challenge yet as the first living British artist to have a solo show occupying the entire Royal Academy gallery. His response is a series of audacious installations. The program follows him through a period of intense productivity leading up to the show.
Saturday 28 August 2010 3.35pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 55 mins

• THE SOLOMON TREASURES

The Solomon Treasures tells the story of the fascinating investigations into the lucrative trade of fake artefacts that have stained biblical history and the discipline of archaeology. In the last few years biblical history has been turned upside down by a series of scandals. Investigators reveal that some of the most revered objects in Israel, and around the world, are in fact sophisticated fakes. The police suspect it may be the world's biggest ever antiquity fraud.
Sunday 29 August 2010 2.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• ART NATION

Reko Rennie heads to the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards; Jonsi, from band Sigur Ros, talks about his solo album; Liz Ann McGregor and her 'Guilty Pleasure'; and Skipping Girl Vinegar perform.
Sunday 29 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS: SAVING WATER SPECIAL

It's impossible to ignore the fact that Australia is in the middle of a severe water crisis. So this week, The New Inventors will dive into the world of water-saving to look at how Australian inventors are taking action to conserve this precious resource. We also re-visit previous water-saving inventions to see where they have ended up. Plus, we'll expose "The Water Diaries" kept by host James O'Loghlin and the panel to find out who is the most conservative when it comes to water usage.
Monday 30 August 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• BAROQUE: FROM ST PETERS TO ST PAULS - EP 3 OF 3

In the final part of this three-part series Waldemar Januszczak explores the English Baroque. From the Queen's House at Greenwich in London, through Britain's first important painter - William Dobson to the magnetism of Van Dyck.
Tuesday 31 August 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 65 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas on how to provide telecommunications systems where phone infrastructure has been destroyed; secure knots for tying hooks and lures to fishing lines; measure a patient's joint angles to assess their injury.
Wednesday 1 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 8 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 1 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE FORBIDDEN CITY: THE CENTRE OF THE WORLD - EP 1 OF 2

The Forbidden City, the largest palace complex in the world, was built in the Ming Dynasty by Emperor Yongle. Born Zhu Di he became the emperor by usurpation. Worried about his illegitimate position, he decides to move the capital from Nanjing to Beijing and build the Forbidden City, as the symbol of his absolute power.
Thursday 2 September 2010 1.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: KILLEARN

In 2005, Jim Fairfull, a businessman, and his wife Simone set out to build a glass pavilion by a loch in Scotland. Jim was suffering from a stress-related disease and hoped that living in a tranquil setting might cure him of his condition. But there is nothing tranquil about the process of building, and with such a beautiful location it was a challenge to find a design that would do it justice and appease the local planners. But Jim and Simone managed to come up with a design that kept everyone happy.
Thursday 2 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 21st August to Fri 27th August 2010)

• 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 21 August 2010 2.55pm (Eastern States & WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: SYSTEMS - SERIES 5, EP 4 OF 4

Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realise projects both vast in scope and beyond comprehension. Features the artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja and Allan McCollum.
Saturday 21 August 2010 3.25pm (Eastern States & WA, 2.55pm SA & NT)
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*WS
Duration: 65 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LIGHT ART - KEITH SONNIER, IM KOSMOS DER FARBEN

The art of minimalist, performance, video and light artist, American Keith Sonnier.
Sunday 22 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• A THOUSAND ENCORES: THE BALLETS RUSSES IN AUSTRALIA

One hundred years ago Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes in Paris. Seventy years ago this company was to change Australia forever. A Thousand Encores is the story of how the greatest ballet company of the 20th century - the celebrated Ballets Russes - came to Australia and awoke a nation, transforming the cultural landscape of the conservative 1930s, leaving a rich legacy that lasts to this day.
Sunday 22 August 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND - EP 2 OF 2

The second and final part in the story of Ricky Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer, driven by a need to reveal his people's true history.
Sunday 22 August 2010 1.20am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Hot young stage actor Ewan Leslie profiled as he prepares for his latest role as Josef K in Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' at Melbourne's Malthouse, and the Valentino retrospective at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art is reviewed.
Sunday 22 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• CARAVAGGIO

Angelo Longoni's sumptuous two-part series looks at the rise and fall of Michelangelo Merisi, later known as the controversial artist Caravaggio. A violent genius and womaniser, he defied the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance through his paintings of the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
Sunday 22 August 2010 10.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: M, A, N, S *Final*WS
Duration: 115 mins

• BAROQUE: FROM ST PETERS TO ST PAULS - EP 2 OF 3

Continuing this spectacular three-part series, this week we move on from Italy to continue our lesson in Baroque, as UK art critic Waldemar Januszczak takes us on a tour of the best examples of Baroque to be found, and tells the best stories behind those works.
Tuesday 24 August 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• HOT DOCS: AMERICAN SPLENDOR

This multi-award winning film is an original mix of fiction and reality that illuminates the life of comic book hero Harvey Pekar. While at a garage sale Harvey meets underground comic writer Robert Crumb, a meeting which ultimately leads Harvey to making his first efforts at comic-writing. Recognising Harvey's gift for smart observations about the trials and tribulations of life, Crumb decides to illustrate for him.
Tuesday 24 August 2010 10.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: M, L, ACC WS Rpt
Duration: 110 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas on electric motors for bicycles; ensuring your solos are heard when busking; how to tackle the serious problem of diesel particles in confined spaces.
Wednesday 25 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 7 OF 12

On this week's show - How Do You Sell? - the panel talks about milk; and on Ad Crunch - Carlton Draught Beer. On The Pitch - Victorian Youngbloods go head to head with NSW Youngbloods to sell conscription.
Wednesday 25 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Series 1 and 2 available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: HAMPSHIRE

Cheryl Robson and Alex Reay decided to get out of the rat race and move from London to country Hampshire to lovingly restore a medieval thatched cottage into their dream home. But just before their first child was due the house burnt down and Cheryl and Alex lost everything. Amazingly they decided to rebuild and start all over again.
Thursday 26 August 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 60 mins

Communication Arts (July/August 2010)

The latest issue of Communication Arts is now available from the Learning Centre. This issue features the Photography Annual.

Contents:

features

• 72andSunny by Julie Prendiville Roux An optimistic outlook - reflected in its name - infuses the work of this agency based in Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
• Odopod by Sam McMillan The interaction between disciplines is paramount at this San Francisco interactive studio.
• John Cuneo by Ellen Shapiro From Woodstock, New York, this prolific illustrator weaves between wildly diverging subjects - from sex advice to politics.
• Enterprising Designers by Patrick Coyne Six entrepreneurial creatives who launched their own product lines.
• Exhibit by Jean A. Coyne The latest and best in visual communication from here and abroad.

2010 photography annual

• Advertising
• Books
• Multimedia
• Editorial
• For Sale
• Institutional
• Self-Promotion
• Unpublished

fresh

• Karen Klassen A Calgary, Canada, illustrator finds inspiration in textiles and film.
• Bryce Pincham This New York photographer is a wanderer at heart - and it shows in his work.
• p576 In the work of this Bogotá, Colombia-based design firm, nature and typography vie for prominence.

columns

• Design Culture In response to "Just Do It," by Wendy Richmond
• Advertising Ernie Schenck believes the shifting creative landscape needs avatars.
• Design Issues Part one of a two-part series on systems thinking by DK Holland.
• Typography Dr. Shelley Gruendler addresses how to bridge the gap between type education and application.
• Emerging Media Joe Shepter looks at the current state of Web 3-D technology.
• Business David C. Baker presents eight transition options for principals.
• Web Watch An art history Web-book and three sites with a focus on photography.
• Design Trends The power, presence and psychology of color.

departments

• Editor's Column
• Contributors
• Books
• Resources
• Index to Photography Annual 51
• Directory
  

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 7th August to Fri 13th August 2010)

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: FANTASY - SERIES 5, EP 2 OF 4

This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind's eye. The program features Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen and Cao Fei.
Saturday 7 August 2010 3.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS
Duration: 65 mins

• ART NATION

A 'Design Special' featuring textile designers Otto and Spike, furniture maker Khai Liew, a new book celebrating wallpaper design, and Kate Vigo performs.
Sunday 8 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 30 mins

• TALKING HEADS: JOHN AND ROS MORIARTY

This week on Talking Heads Peter Thompson is joined by John and Ros Moriarty, the husband and wife team behind the brilliantly coloured artwork on Qantas jumbos. Their company, Balrinji Design Studio, has grown from a kitchen table operation in 1983 to now being Australia's leading Indigenous art consultancy working across Australia, Japan, Europe and the USA.
Monday 9 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• HIDDEN TREASURES WITH BETTY CHURCHER: FIRST FLEET SKETCHES - SERIES 2: EP 8 OF 10

First Fleet captain John Hunter copied the work of young First Fleet midshipman George Raper to produce his famous sketchbook showing life in Botany Bay. Raper's own First Fleet paintings, begun in 1788, show his skill and fine eye for detail in capturing the birds and flowers of NSW. They were acquired by the National Library of Australia in 2004 after lying undiscovered and undisturbed for more than 200 years in an English manor. While Hunter, who became the second Governor of NSW, didn't share Raper's talents with a paintbrush, both men shared equally an excitement and enthusiasm for recording what they found in Sydney Cove in 1788.
Tuesday 10 August 2010 11.20pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 10 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 & inventor Sally Dominguez, inventor & journalist Christine Kininmonth, and wood worker & teacher Richard Vaughan.
Wednesday 11 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 3 OF 4

Host Wil Anderson and Gruen regulars, Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, will run an x-ray over the federal election - its advertising and all the other tricks political parties use to get their message out.
Wednesday 11 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: YORKSHIRE

Not everyone gets to live out their childhood dreams, but in 2004 Francis Shaw did exactly that when he bought a crumbling castle on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register, to restore. Little did he know what he was letting himself and his family in for by taking on this project.
Thursday 12 August 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 55 mins

Desktop #263 (August 2010)

The latest issue of Desktop is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• UPDATE
• DEBRIEF LOGO - The Drawing Book Studios
• DEBRIEF AUGMENTED REALITY - HSBC
• PROFILE THE FINE LINE Sam William-West uncovers the retro styling of illustrator Ben Sanders.
• PICTURE THIS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW When it comes to photographic talent, sometimes there's no place like home.
• PICTURE THIS TROUBLESHOOTER
• COPYRIGHT ISSUES HIDDEN PERILS Jane King looks at the hidden copyright dangers of stock photography.
• COOLSTUFF
• STUDIO TALL AND MIGHTY We grab a slice of life with Darren Price of Mighty Nice.
• CENTREFOLD
• MAYA TUTORIAL RENDER UNTO CAESAR Kevin Schooler explains how high quality rendering can be made easy.
• TYPE MASTER OF LETTERS Brendan McKnight catches up with type legend, Stephen Banham.
• FOREIGN POLICY CH-CH-CH-CHANGES The more things change, the more they stay the same, writes Jason Little.
• WEBGUIDE HAIR!
• WEB MAKING IT MOBILE John Allsop checks out the world of web on mobile, and creating apps in a snap.
• EDUCATION GUIDE INSTRUCTIONS ENCLOSED Some schools are making a greater effort to prepare their students for life outside the classroom.
• DESKTOP EDUCATION COURSE GUIDE 2010 CAREER GUIDE GOING MY WAY? Whether you're heading in a new direction or simply after a change of scenery, there are people there to help.
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN PLEASE CONSIDER... Why it's time business started being more specific when it comes to finding staff.
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN FIGHTING BACK Australia's creative industry is emerging leaner and meaner.
• PRINT PRINT AND LEARN With print, you never stop learning, writes Theo Pettaras.
• DIGITAL MOBILE MONDAY We find out why Mobile Monday has grown into an international movement.
• PRODUCT REVIEWS Flip video, Very Nearly Almost (VNA), CorelDRAW Graphics Suite x5.
• REARVIEW

AGENCYLAND

• ABOUT TOWN NEWS
• VIEWFINDER
• BRIEF ENCOUNTERS VOLKSWAGEN POLO Dedicated Followers of No One
• PEER PRESSURE IF I KNEW THEN... What do you wish you had been taught about the creative/advertising industry that you know now?
• PROFILE HEY HEY IT'S THE MONKEY'S! How many Monkey's does it take to change your world?

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 31st July to Fri 6th August 2010)

• BACON'S ARENA

Francis Bacon was one of the most filmed artists of the 20th century, although he did not allow the filming of himself actually painting. The artist is given a powerful presence through the use of archival footage. The viewer experiences the charms of the man, which are in contrast to the disturbing nature of his paintings, showing screaming popes and deformed bodies. Bacon's works are examined through their likely connection to his relationships with six different men in six decades of his life.
Saturday 31 July 2010 1.45pm
SBS ONE Rating: PG, A, L, N, SWS Rpt
Duration: 100 mins

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: COMPASSION - SERIES 5, EP 1 OF 4

Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists' feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? This episode features three artists - William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems - whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
Saturday 31 July 2010 3.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS
Duration: 65 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LIGHT ART - ANGELA BULLOCH, IM ZWIELICHT DER ERINNERUNG

The art of London and Berlin-based sculptor and installation/sound artist, Angela Bulloch.
Sunday 1 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE MYSTICAL NORTH - EP 3 OF 3

In the final episode, Andrew reveals how the north of the country has produced some of the most dazzling and iconic art of the modern age; Spain's turbulent history has shaped artists from Francisco Goya to Pablo Picasso. He also argues that Spanish architecture is the art form taking the nation forward in the new millennium.
Sunday 1 August 2010 10.50pm
ABC1 Rating: PG *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ARTSCAPE: PHOTOGRAPHY HIJACKED

Photography Hijacked, a documentary by Jack Pam (son of Max Pam), is an exploration into the process, technique and outcomes of the work of 12 unique photographers from Australia and America. The film explores the concept that individuality of process is what underwrites and makes possible all interesting artwork.
Sunday 1 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Chris McAuliffe reviews 'European Masters: Staedel Museum, 19th-20th Century' currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, a new segment 'Guilty Pleasures', and The Wilson Pickers live in the studio.
Sunday 1 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• SOLIDBODIES: THE 50 YEAR GUITAR WAR

Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul electric guitars have been heard on more popular recordings than any other instruments during the rock era. This is the story of their design, sounds, and the battle between them.
Monday 2 August 2010 12.20am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring a container that is edible and biodegradable; how to create aerosol paint with a smooth coverage; biofeedback device to encourage stroke patients to shift more of their weight onto their affected side.
Wednesday 4 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 2 OF 4

Host Wil Anderson and Gruen regulars, Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, will run an x-ray over the federal election - its advertising and all the other tricks political parties use to get their message out.
Wednesday 4 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: CUMBRIA

Kevin McCloud revisits an unusual building in the wild open countryside of Cumbria, one of the most beautiful regions in the UK. Helen and Phil Reddy wanted their home to make the most of the spectacular views, but they also wanted it to be ecologically friendly with no heating bills. Their solution was to build an earth-sheltered home, with most of the house built into the hillside.
Thursday 5 August 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 55 mins

The Machine That Made Us

The machine that made us is a new DVD that is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

"British actor Stephen Fry investigates the story of one of the most important inventions ever made - the Gutenberg printing press. Invented in the 1940s, the printing press made the production of mass media possible." -- back cover

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 24th July to Fri 30th July 2010)

• MARKUS RAETZ

An overview of the life's work of Swiss artist Markus Raetz. Raetz has been creating art for 40 years and his works cover an immensely broad span of different forms of sculpture, photography and sketches.
Saturday 24 July 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN ICELAND: EP 2 OF 6

Iceland, one of the most northern countries in the world...only 25 miles from the arctic circle is the most active volcanic area on the planet with the largest waterfall and glacier in Europe. Here Rogers has been invited to Akureyri, one of the twenty largest cities in Iceland located at the end of the largest fjord in Iceland, to create a series of earth artworks to preserve their ancient Celtic/Viking mythology.
Sunday 25 July 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE DARK HEART - EP 2 OF 3

In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon goes on the road to reveal the art treasures of Spain. The second episode follows Andrew as he journeys to Spain's centre to explore the art of the 16th and 17th centuries. From El Greco to Velazquez, this era was so extraordinary it became known as the Golden Age.
Sunday 25 July 2010 10.50pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• STONE UPON STONE UPON STONE: REIMS CATHEDRAL

A series looking at important medieval buildings in Europe.
Sunday 25 July 2010 4.50pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 10 mins

• ART NATION

Featuring the work of up-and-coming visual artist Laith McGregor whose blue biro portraits feature bearded men; and Katie Noonan and The Captains perform from their new album.
Sunday 25 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• LIQUID STONE: UNLOCKING GAUDI'S SECRETS

The challenge to complete the Sagrada Familia Church, according to Gaudi's vision, is revealed by architects and artisans who have spent years of their lives immersed in unlocking the secrets of Gaudi's Liquid Stone.
Sunday 25 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• KATSURA RIKYU: IMPERIAL VILLA OF THE MOON

A first time glimpse inside the beautiful Katsura Rikyu Imperial Villa in Kyoto shows why it is renowned for being the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. Built in the 17th century for an aristocratic family, it reveals all the glory and attention to fine craftsmanship Japanese princes put into their palaces, despite it being a time when the Imperial Court was losing power to the Samurai.
Sunday 25 July 2010 8.25pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 50 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

A cooking special featuring Poh Ling Yeow, Matthew Evans and Margaret Fulton who will be casting their gaze over three new food-related inventions.
Wednesday 28 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 1 OF 4

For the first time during an Election, each week Wil Anderson, Todd Sampson, Russell Howcroft and guest panelists - political insiders and commentators - will examine the art and science of political persuasion. What works, what doesn't. We'll run a Gruen comb through this election, as well as previous Australian and overseas campaigns.
Wednesday 28 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: SURREY

When Philip Trail, a young father of two, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, he and his wife Angela decided to sell their London home and start a healthier, less stressful life in the country. They moved to a village in Surrey to be close to Philip's family, and decided to renovate a 150-year-old threshing barn. Rather than a barn conversion, it was more of a barn inversion.
Thursday 29 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 17th July to Fri 23rd July 2010)

• FRANCISCO GOYA: THE WAY TO LUCIDITY

Francisco Goya was born in Aragon, Spain, in 1746. He underwent a major change following a road accident in 1793 and subsequently suffered a stroke that left him deaf. Before 1793, his paintings represented joyful scenes, in bright colours and after his accident he drew grim representations showing the ugly side of human nature.
Saturday 17 July 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS JUNG CHANG

Tim meets the writer Jung Chang whose family history novel, Wild Swans became an international best seller. Jung Chang chose the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to explore her life and work.
Saturday 17 July 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN INDIA: EP 3 OF 6

Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers specialises in constructing geoglyphs, huge sculptures that can cover hundreds of metres of ground, made of rocks and other natural materials.
Sunday 18 July 2010 9.05pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE MOORISH SOUTH - EP 1 OF 3

In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon goes on the road to reveal the art treasures of Spain. On the way, he explores the work of some of Europe's most important artists from the Renaissance to Modernism including Goya, Picasso, Dali, El Greco and Velasquez.
Sunday 18 July 2010 11.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ART NATION

We look at the latest work of inveterate traveller and artist Stephen Eastaugh; Namila Benson travels to Tasmania for the Festival of Voices; and Kate Vigo performs in the studio.
Sunday 18 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• LEARNING FROM LIGHT: THE VISION OF I. M. PEI

Culture. Nature. Light, These elements provide the structure for a documentary film that explores the vision of one of the world's master architects, I.M. Pei and his newest creation, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
Sunday 18 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 95 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: CLAIRE HEALY AND SEAN CORDEIRO - EP 3 OF 4

Up and coming installation artists have come back to Sydney after two years on the international arts circuit and are revisiting Sean's parents' garage in suburban Sydney. What was once just leftover stuff, packed away in damp boxes while they travelled the world, will now become the centrepiece of their new work for the Art Gallery of New South Wales' annual sculpture exhibition - The Balnaves.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 2.40am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• LANDSCAPE OF THE WYNNE

Artscape: Landscape of the Wynne transports you into the studios of four very different contemporary Australian painters - Geoff Dyer, Graham Fransella, Ben McKeown and Kate Shaw. Watch as they each try to win the oldest and most prestigious gong given for Australian landscape painting - the Wynne Prize.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: HANNAH GADSBY GOES DOMESTIC

Comedian Hannah Gadsby has been called many things, but never domestic. This 'domestically-challenged' winner of the Director's Choice Award at the 2010 Melbourne Comedy Festival steps outside of her comfort zone and into the kitchen to explore the work of contemporary artists who have been inspired by themes of domesticity.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to allow pools to hibernate in peace; improve emergency exit ladders in underground mines; quickly and easily install new vineyard trellis posts.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 6 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has series 1 of this program available for loan on DVD.

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES - EP 2 OF 3

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Thursday 22 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: WALTON HUF HAUS

David and Greta Iredale are seasoned builders. They built their first house in 1956 and their second, nine years later. Having lived in it for 40 years, the timber house they designed themselves began to rot, so they decided to demolish it and replace it with a prefab. For their final house, they chose a solid, German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.
Thursday 22 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

Desktop #262 (July 2010)

The latest issue of Desktop is now available for loan from the Learning Centre.

Contents:

• UPDATE
• DEBRIEF PRINT - Connect Furniture.
• DEBRIEF INTERACTION - Jay Jays.
• AUGMENTED REALITY BETTER THAN LIFE Jo Spurling quizzes Boffswana and Zagura about the hologram of the 21st century.
• PROFILE SWIMMING UPSTREAM Jo Spurling speaks to Salmon Design about the tasty side of design.
• PICTURE THIS A PHOTO A DAY Alison Copley speaks with Thad and Sarah Lawrence about capturing the world one day at a time.
• CENTREFOLD
• PICTURE THIS TROUBLESHOOTER
• COOLSTUFF
• CD AND DVD PACKAGING NICE PACKAGE Brendan McKnight hunts down the tastiest techniques for creating standout CD and DVD packaging.
• WEBGUIDE PLEASE PLAY WITH ME!
• WEB DESIGNING IN WEB LAND Hugh Edwards gets back to basics and reminds us of the things we sometimes forget when designing for the web.
• TYPE A TYPE OF PASSION Luca Ionescu speaks with Amsterdam-based artist Parra about all things type and beautiful.
• STUDIO REEL THEM IN Bredan McKnight dives inside the creative fishbowl with Bigfish.tv.
• PRINT: DIGITAL MASTER CLASS EXPLORING THE COLOUR GAMUT Theo Pettaras of Digitalpress looks at making the most of digital colour.
• DIRECTIONS IN DESIGN GET A JOB Pip Jamieson looks at how an online portfolio site can provide more job opportunities.
• DIGITAL THE ART OF SKETCHNOTING Neil Simpson chats with two modern day sketchnoting pioneers, Mike Rohde and Matt Balara.
• PRODUCT REVIEWS Blurb books, ViewSonic PJD6251 DLP projector, Sony Ericsson Vivaz.
• REARVIEW

AGENCYLAND

• ABOUT TOWN NEWS
• VIEWFINDER
• BRIEF ENCOUNTER HONEYWAY TRAIN Boffswana creates a world first AR game for Honey Nut Cheerios.
• BRIEF ENCOUNTER MOUNTAIN GOAT BEER Freeform know it's all about the beer.
• PEER PRESSURE PITCH THIS! We ask if the pitching process is out of control in Australia?
• PROFILE SOME LIKE IT HOT The Furnace - a creative agency with a burning passion.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 10th July to Fri 16th July 2010)

• CEZANNE

This program explores the life and works of artist, Paul Cezanne.
Saturday 10 July 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS RENEE FLEMING

Tim meets American soprano Renee Fleming at the Neue Galerie and Chuck Close's Studio, New York.
Saturday 10 July 2010 3.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN

Focuses on painter and conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin, who was a significant influence on the emerging YBA (Young British Artist) generation, and artists such as Damien Hirst.
Saturday 10 July 2010 4.00pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 35 mins

• IOU: ROBIN BOYD

The final part of IOU pays tribute to Robin Boyd (1919 - 1971) - the great modernist Australian architect, writer and public intellectual.
Sunday 11 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ALICE NEEL

A biography of the American artist, written and directed by her grandson Andrew Neel. She was an extraordinary woman and an amazing artist who only achieved fame at the end of her life.
Sunday 11 July 2010 11.10pm
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 85 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone visits the World Press Exhibition, Geoff Newton meets Raafat Ishak and we hear from Dan Sultan.
Sunday 11 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• INFINITE SPACE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF JOHN LAUTNER

The lifelong quest of visionary architect John Lautner was to create timeless, free joyous space for all of life's activities. This film traces his brilliance and how he created the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
Sunday 11 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 90 mins

• TALKING HEADS: KEN DONE

This week on Talking Heads, Peter Thompson chats with Ken Done. Who knows what percentage of the population has owned one of his Sydney Harbour tea towels? Obsessed by colour from a young age, seeing a Matisse exhibition in his early 20s changed Done's life.
Monday 12 July 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES - EP 1 OF 3

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Monday 12 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to help amateur guitar players imitate the masters, help electricians to wire buildings in half the usual time and light up the lives of the world's poorest people.
Wednesday 14 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 5 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 14 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Season 1 of this series available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PETERBOROUGH

John and Terri Westlake never intended to self-build. They were looking to buy a house near Peterborough, in the county of Cambridgeshire, when they came across a tumbledown cottage backing onto woodland, with great views across open countryside.
Thursday 15 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• NOISE ON SCREEN

Meet Darcy Prendergast, a clay animator who's inspired by the "weirder people of society"; spend time with heavy metal music-inspired illustrator, Aska Dolinska and go wide lens with Sam Shmith's epic landscape montages.
Friday 16 July 2010 3.15am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: THE POWER OF COLOUR - 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?
Friday 16 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*CC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this series available for loan on DVD.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 3rd July to Fri 9th July 2010)

• TIM MARLOW MEETS TONY BENNETT

Tim meets legendary singer and artist Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Museum, New York to discuss all things art.
Saturday 3 July 2010 3.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• YINKA SHONIBARE

Profiles contemporary British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare who talks about his recent work and the struggle to realise new ideas and projects.
Saturday 3 July 2010 4.00pm (Eastern States only)
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• WHO THE #$&% IS JACKSON POLLOCK?

When a 73-year-old American long- distance truck driver with an eighth grade education bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know it would pit her against the most powerful people in the art community. Teri Horton learned that a fingerprint on the back of her canvas matched a fingerprint found on a can of paint in Jackson Pollock's studio. More research found the paint on the floor of his studio also matched the paint on Teri's canvas. Because Teri knew a Jackson Pollock painting the size of hers was worth upwards of $50 million, she thought she had won the lottery. "Not so fast,'' said the art world.
Sunday 4 July 2010 11.20pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 80 mins

• ANATOMY: MUSCLE - EP 3 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. Muscle is an intimate film about the extremes of strength and frailty in the human body. For Simon Yates, Jo Lancaster and Mozes, the three members of nomadic performance troupe Acrobat, the body is everything.
Sunday 4 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: M *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone looks at the legacy of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Wagons sings with ChorusOz and The Cat Empire performs.
Sunday 4 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EMILY IN JAPAN

A $50 million exhibition of more than 200 works of Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, toured Japan in February 2008. It was the largest solo exhibition of an Australian artist to tour overseas. This film examines the amazing impact the works had, taking the art world by storm in Osaka and Tokyo.
Sunday 4 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• NOT A WILLING PARTICIPANT

Shot in Australia and Italy, this program looks at Cairns-born artist Vernon Ah Kee's installation at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Sunday 4 July 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: DR CHARLIE PERKINS - EP 4 OF 6

This week Bill is painting the activist for Indigenous rights, Dr Charles Perkins AO. Charlie was an exceptional Australian who broke new ground in just about everything he turned his hand too. To find out more about his portrait subject Bill talks to Charlie's good friends John Singleton, Malcolm Fraser, Chicka Dixon, Gordon Briscoe and photographer Robert McFarlane.
Tuesday 6 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to assist farmers in checking the grain level when they are filling a silo; give your pot plants a new lease of life; and save homes from sinking.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 6 OF 6

From the initial 12 students vying for a six month placement with Philippe Starck, it has now come down to two - don’t miss tonight’s final episode of Design For Life. After spending the last couple of months thinking, stressing, striving and working, 27-year-old Ilsa and 23-year-old Mike are now only a few weeks away from finding out which one of them will win the placement.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: M *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 4 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has the first series of this program available for loan on DVD.

• MESSAGE STICK: BORN IN THIS SKIN

Vernon Ah Kee is a portraitist, graphic and video artist. In 2009 Ah Kee will become one of a select group of Australians whose work will be displayed on the most important visual arts stage in the world, the Venice Biennale.
Thursday 8 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PUGLIA

Artists David Westby and Leonie (Leo) Whitton bought a derelict olive farm in Puglia, a beautiful region of south-eastern Italy, otherwise known as the 'boot' of Italy. With a meagre budget, David and Leonie planned to transform the property to include a Roman-styled house for themselves and guest accommodation for visiting artists.
Thursday 8 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: MAKING COLOURS - 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.
Friday 9 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 26th June to Fri 2nd July 2010)

• LIVING WITH THE FUTURE: EP 6 OF 6

Richard Paxton died at only 49, and his legacy is the house he designed for himself and his family. His widow, Heidi, lives there now with their two teenage children. When Simon Davis arrives, he finds it hard to see an entrance. Behind a sort of high-tech garage door which miraculously lifts (including the boxes of planted pansies) to let him in, he finds a house noone would suspect, as it contrasts strongly with the surrounding mews.
Saturday 26 June 2010 4.00pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*CC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• BIKINI REVOLUTION

Bikini Revolution tells a fun and light-hearted story of the bikini: a story that began in July 1946 in Paris. The French are pretty good at revolutions, but this time, they stormed the swimming pool instead of the Bastille. However, across the Atlantic, where the prim American version of the two-piece was still covering New World navels, people were having difficulties coming to terms with the revolution instigated by fashion designer Louis Reard who called his daring new two-piece swimsuit "the bikini" because it sounded exotic.
Saturday 26 June 2010 8.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: PGCC WS
Duration: 60 mins

• FAIRWEATHER MAN

An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of Australia's greatest painters. When Ian Fairweather died in 1974, Australia not only lost an extraordinary artist but one of its greatest eccentrics. However, the reclusive, driven artist left behind a wonderful legacy - a body of marvellous paintings that today are highly collectible and hang on the walls of galleries around the world.
Sunday 27 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LISA ROET - APE LADY

Spanning a career of almost 20 years, artist Lisa Roet has made the plight of chimpanzees the subject of her life's work. Her passionate investigation of primates has seen her producing artworks in mediums as diverse as sculpture, photography, video art, stained glass, screen printing, drawing and painting.
Sunday 27 June 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: BON SCOTT - EP 3 OF 6

A six-part series which will take viewers on an amazing journey as renowned cartoonist and portrait painter Bill Leak paints six well-known Australians. In this week's emotional episode, Bill paints AC/DC larrikin Bon Scott. To understand the essence of the character of Bon Scott, Bill spends time with Bon's ex-wife Irene. They separated before Bon became famous but always remained good friends. Irene has never been interviewed for TV about her relationship before and in this interview she shares her memories of Bon's earlier life and his off-stage persona.
Tuesday 29 June 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: NECESSARY GAMES

Necessary Games is a collection of three award-winning short dance films. Featuring members of Adelaide's Restless Dance Theatre, each of the three films showcase unique and compelling dance performances by disabled and non disabled dancers.
Tuesday 29 June 2010 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to lessen the pressure of lifelong trailer commitment; quickly and easily detect dangerous bacteria; uphold hygiene standards in the poultry industry.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 5 OF 6

With only four students left after last week's brutal elimination round, renowned international designer Philippe Starck's search for a new British protege moves to the next level.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 3 OF 12

What is the worst ad of all time? This year on the show, audiences will be able to nominate what they think is the worst ad of all time and whichever ad gets the most votes wins.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PECKHAM

When Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe began looking for a house to buy in London they soon realised that the only affordable option was to build one themselves. They found a very cheap block of land in Peckham and bought it at auction, only to be told it was too small to put a house on. Undeterred, engineering-whiz Monty began building an experimental bungalow that filled the site from boundary to boundary.
Thursday 1 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 55 mins

• MALLS R US

Traces the history of the shopping mall in America, visiting some of the world's largest and most spectacular malls in Canada, the USA, the UK, Japan, Poland, France and Dubai. Contains interviews with architects, mall developers, environmentalists, labour activists and social critics, as well as talking to mall shoppers themselves.
Friday 2 July 2010 1.30pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 60 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: VIEWING COLOURS - 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.
Friday 2 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.