State of Design Festival, Melbourne 15 - 25th July

[youthful_implants]

From the website

State of Design Festival, an initiative of the Victorian State Government, will host over 100 interactive events, exhibitions, workshops and talks from 15 – 25 July! Make sure you pick up your official Festival guide at Melbourne cultural venues, cafes and stores, or download here. You can also view all of the public events here, organise your Festival days with our event map here, and pick up the official Herald Sun liftout on Wednesday July 8.

The Festival holds four major programs in metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria, focused around the 2009 theme ‘Sampling the Future’: Design Capital business program, Design For Everyone public and cultural program, Design:Made:Trade industry program, and the biennial Premier’s Design Awards (next held in 2010).

Looks good!

[DBoy]

Recommended.

Last years festival was dope.

-- The Best Bits --

Iron Designer
Open House
Design Made Trade open days on the weekend - seriously if you like design at all don't miss this.

There are a few hip hop bits and pieces this year, launch of melbourne history thing, style wars screening at ACMI, some dance bit i think.

Get to as much as you can, support this biz, building melbournes reputation as an internationally recognised design hub.

Last year we hosted a few international designers and journalists who seemed suitably impressed, no doubt a few more this year and before you know it...

[youthful_implants]

Nice. It looks really interesting.

[DEAN G]

quietly excited about this years state of design, all though I think there is too much on.