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sydney design returns with a question - is old new again?

30 July 2011 Design NSW

Sydney Design is back! Opening on 30 July, Sydney Design 2011 (SD11) features over 90 design exhibitions and events across the city. This year’s theme - Is Old New Again, offers audiences a creative and spirited look at the collision between tradition and innovation, heritage and experimentation.

SD11 is produced by the Powerhouse Museum in partnership with more than 50 cultural institutions, organisations and individuals. This year’s signature exhibition, Love Lace, is a spectacular, ground- breaking exhibition of contemporary lace works by artists and designers from around the world showcasing lace design in ways never before seen or imagined.

"We are delighted with this year's program which showcases the amazing ways artists and craftspeople are being inspired by traditional crafts and where old skills are given spectacular, new creative twists," said Dr Dawn Casey, Director, Powerhouse Museum.

“I am particularly excited about Love Lace, and delighted the Museum can showcase to our visitors the works of so many ingenious international and national artists.”

SD11 attracts those with a personal and professional love of design, providing visitors with an insight into design processes, functions and narratives as well as illustrating innovative and bold design solutions.

In addition to the Love Lace exhibition, the Museum will host the Love Lace International Symposium: Not just a thread and Master Classes. Featuring select artists from the Love Lace exhibition, the SD11 Symposium and Master Classes offer audiences a unique insight into contemporary design techniques and skills developed by leading design artists.

“We are living in a world where change is so rapid that our notions of ‘normal’ are constantly shifting,” said Lily Katakouzinos, Sydney Design manager, Powerhouse Museum.

“In all areas of design from product design to architecture, fashion and graphic design, practitioners everywhere are mining tradition and marrying cutting edge technology with an artisanal and human sensibility. You can see it in media, food, popular culture and the arts - but nowhere is this more pronounced than in the world of design.”

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The Powerhouse Museum is a partner of the Creative Industries Innovation Centre.