Television Programs of Interest (Sat 28th March to Fri 3rd April 2009)

• REVOLUCION: FIVE VISIONS

A breathtaking visual exploration of Cuba yesterday and today thanks to the video work of Mexico's premiere director of photography, Chuy Chavez. It reveals five decades of revolution though the lenses of five Cuban photographers.
Saturday 28 March 2009 3.25pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 65 mins

• SUNDAY ARTS

This week on Sunday Arts Virginia Trioli speaks with Rafael Bonachela, the new artistic director at the Sydney Dance Company; and we feature artists Sarah Smuts-Kennedy and Bill Luke.
Sunday 29 March 2009 5.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 60 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN TURKEY

The Indiana Jones of the art world, Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers selects a historic and magical site in Turkey to locate two of his 12 massive Earth Art rock creations. Not for him the confines of a gallery or museum when he designs and scales his art. His monumental and symbolic rock sculptures are designed to be built on remote hillsides to be viewed from the air. They are big enough to be seen by satellite 350 km from earth, and link a country's historic symbols and cultural past to present day artisans.
Sunday 29 March 2009 10.00pm
ABC2 Rating: (G)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: THE ART LIFE - LUST FOR LIFE, SERIES 2: EP 3 OF 3

The final episode in this series, Lust For Life, looks at contemporary art that engages with political issues on local and international scales. Andrew meets with artists Deborah Kelly, Zanny Begg, Mickie Quick, Nobody and Astra Howard and discovers how their work challenges the conventional barriers between the artist and audience.
Tuesday 31 March 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M) *Final*
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Tonight's panel of judges includes new panellist, surgeon, inventor and 2005 Australian of the Year, Professor Fiona Wood.
Wednesday 1 April 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• THIS IS CIVILISATION: UNCERTAINTY - EP 4 OF 4

Forty years on from Kenneth Clark's landmark series Civilisation, art critic Matthew Collings offers his own interpretation of Western art history for a modern audience, at a time where contemporary art and tastes reflect our own lack of belief in anything at all. In each episode, Collings chooses key moments when there was a fundamental shift in attitudes towards, and the objectives of art. From Greek and Roman classicism glorifying man, through to religious art and art as a saviour of the soul, and on to the nihilism of modern art.
Thursday 2 April 2009 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (G, Rpt) *Final*
Duration: 60 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: DEVON

Kevin McCloud follows ecologically-minded couple, Martin Whitlock and Sue Charman, building an 'eco' technology home 'with soul' out of two old barns in Devon, while living on site in a mobile home.
Thursday 2 April 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins

• DESIGNERS: FASHION - EP 5 OF 10

A fashion designer for a street-wear label reveals the process that turns a sketch in his notebook into a garment hanging on the rack in a clothes shop. We see all the steps in the process.
Friday 3 April 2009 10.45am
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 15 mins

Design Futuring

Design futuring: sustainability, ethics and new practice by Tony Fry is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Designing Logos

Designing logos: the process of creating symbols that endure by Jack Gernsheimer is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Stereographics

Stereographics: graphics in new dimensions is a new book that has just come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Desktop - Issue #248 (April 2009)

The latest issue of Desktop 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. You can view more information on their website:

http://www.desktopmag.com.au/

Monument No. 90 (April/May 2009)

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

artonview (Autumn 2009)

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

Black

Black : the history of a color by Michel Pastoureau is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

More Mobile

More mobile: portable architecture for today / edited by Jennifer Siegal is a new book that has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

Annie Leibovitz at Work

Annie Leibovitz at work is a new book has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

SustainAble

A new book called SustainAble: a handbook of materials and applications for graphic designers and their clients by Aaris Sherin has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

md : moebel interior design - 3 2009

The latest issue of md: moebel interior design 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.

The Architectural Review (February 2009)

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

Step Inside Design (January/February 2009)

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

Architectural Design - Vol. 27 No. 1 (January/February 2009) - Theoretical Meltdown

The latest issue of Architectural Design 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.

Aperture No. 193 (Winter 2008)

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

• Archive - A Magazine in the Making by Peter C. Bunnell. A look at the first issue of Aperture on the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the magazine's founding editor.
• Witness - Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua by John Berger. Berger considers Meiselas's powerful project on Nicaragua's civil war in the 1970s.
• Mixing the Media - The Author As Photographer: Early Soviet Writers and the Camera by Erika Wolf. In the post-revolution Soviet Union, authors who tried their hands at photography.
• Photographer's Project - Phillip Toledano: Phonesex. Portraits of behind-the-scenes workers who make a living with their voices.
• Portfolio - Richard Misrach: Untitled. A selection from Misrach's newest body of work.
• Essay - Deep In The Archive by Ulrich Baer. An exploration of photography that engages the concept of the archive.
• On Location - Guy Tillim: Things As They Seem, interview with Joanna Lehan. Photographs that document colonial-era architecture and decay throughout Africa.
• Work and Process - On The Edge of Clear Meaning: Reconsidering the Work of John Wood by David Levi Strauss. Wood's photographs and photo-based multimedia works tackle politics with poetry.
• Roads Less Traveled - Disappearing Giants, photographs and notes by Michael "Nick" Nichols. The veteran wildlife photographer tracks endangered elephants in Chad and Kenya.

Ragtrader (13 March 2009)

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

• What events in China mean for Oz TCF


• Why Jeanswest is turning Japanese


• How DPK Australia came unstuck

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

Between Earth and Heaven

Between earth and heaven: the architecture of John Lautner / edited by Nicholas Olsberg and texts by Jean-Louis Cohen, Nicholas Olsberg, and Frank Escher has come into the Learning Centre and is now available for loan.

"This publication accompanies the exhibition Between Earth and Heaven: The Architecture of John Lautner, organized by Frank Escher and Nicholas Olsberg and presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, July 13-October 12 2008." -- title page verso

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 21st March to Fri 27th March 2009)

• THE MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION

This documentary was produced as a compliment to the recent exhibition in Melbourne of some of the world's most precious medieval manuscripts, containing amazing draughtsmanship in opulent colours by artists from the 8th to 16th centuries. It logs the process of organising and curating the exhibition, including the painstaking process of shipping priceless works of art across the world and preparing them for display.
Saturday 21 March 2009 3.00pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: THE ART LIFE - WHO MADE WHO, SERIES 2: EP 2 OF 3

What does it mean to be an artist today? What do artists do? And how do ideas about the role of the artist affect the way art is made and seen? These are the questions Andrew Frost explores in the second series of The Art Life. Part two, Who Made Who, looks at the idea that being an artist is a role that can be taken on like an actor playing a part.
Tuesday 24 March 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (M)
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

This week, host James O'Loghlin welcomes surgeon and inventor Professor Fiona Wood to the judging panel of The New Inventors - the program that highlights the latest contemporary creations from the new generation of inventors, innovators and designers. Fiona will join engineer James Bradfield Moody and designer and inventor Sally Dominguez to decide the winner from three new Australian inventions.
Wednesday 25 March 2009 8.00pm
ABC1 Duration: 30 mins

• THIS IS CIVILISATION: SAVE OUR SOULS - EP 3 OF 4

Forty years on from Kenneth Clark's landmark series Civilisation, art critic Matthew Collings offers his own interpretation of Western art history for a modern audience, at a time where contemporary art and tastes reflect our own lack of belief in anything at all. In each episode, Collings chooses key moments when there was a fundamental shift in attitudes towards, and the objectives of art. From Greek and Roman classicism glorifying man, through to religious art and art as a saviour of the soul, and on to the nihilism of modern art.
Thursday 26 March 2009 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: LONDON

In this program Kevin follows couple Sarah Jordan and Coneyl Jay who are building a modern, sparkling, jewel-like house which will reflect their creativity.
Thursday 26 March 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins
*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan

• DESIGNERS: CAR - EP 4 OF 10

Two young automotive designers develop their concepts for the exterior and interior of a car. Their ideas are refined through the construction of full-scale clay models, and finally we see the cars being built on the assembly line.
Friday 27 March 2009 10.45am
ABC1 Rating: (Rpt)
Duration: 15 mins

• THE FABRIC OF A DREAM: THE FLETCHER JONES STORY

For a generation of Australians, Fletcher Jones was a household name; the founder of one of the most successful clothing companies in the nation's history. This is the story of how a shell-shocked World War I veteran, who left school at 12, took to the road as a hawker and ended up building a national icon. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE)

Friday 27 March 2009 7.30pm

SBS Rating: (PG, WS, Rpt)

Duration: 60 mins

*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan.

Clean Clothes Campaign

Ethical fashion is a hot topic within the fashion industry. Not only is it important to be sustainable it is also important to ensure that the workers within the fashion industry are getting a fair deal. I've stumbled upon this website called the Clean Clothes Campaign which is a European based organisation whose aim is:

"The CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empower the workers in it. There is a Clean Clothes Campaign in 12 European countries. These are Austria, Belgium (North and South), Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom."

You can visit their website here:
http://www.cleanclothes.org/index.htm