Melbourne Now Design wall: Design in everyday life
Presenting 40 design projects by 21 Melbourne design studios communicating design’s relationship to serial manufacturing.
The Ian Potter Centre: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
22 November 2013 – 23 March 2014
Curator Simone LeAmon
Exhibition design Simone LeAmon and Edmund Carter
Supported by The Hugh D. T. Williamson Foundation
Design in everyday life presents 40 design projects by 21 Melbourne design studios. Communicating design’s relationship to serial manufacturing each project is presented in multiples with almost 700 objects making up the ‘design wall’. The installation is curated to five themes: Design and Social Culture, Design and the Economy, Design and Sustainability, Design and the Human Body, Design and Visual Culture.
Commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for Melbourne Now – a celebration of art, architecture, design, performance and cultural practice in Melbourne the Design Wall featured as part of the design presentation Melbourne Design Now – revealing how contemporary designers are embedding unique and serial design production with ideas, meaning and emotion to resonate with the city of Melbourne.
Design In Everyday Life / 2013 / Simone LeAmon curator / LeAmon and Edmund Carter exhibition design / 7000 x 15000 x 500mm / Photography Nicole England
Designers and projects
Brightgreen; Catalyst Design Group and Knog; Charlwood Design for Oates; CobaltNiche for Yarra Trams, KeepCup and Associated Controls; Crumpler; Demain International for BluCave; Design+Industry for Quickboats and Billi; David Flynn for Willow Ware Australia; Dale Hardiman; Helen Kontouris; Tom Kovac; Adam Lynch; Outerspace Design for b.box; Nick Rennie; Rip Curl; Ronstan; Sherrin; Sprocket; Belinda Stening and Curve magazine.
An entry in the 2014 Core77 Design Awards out of New York the Design Wall by Carter LeAmon was awarded a Professional Notable in the Interiors and Exhibition category.
Watch Time Lapse of Design Wall Construction Watch Design Wall Interview for NGV
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