Soak up the best in design! No Images? Click here Design at State LibraryDiscover your new favourite design book among the recent additions in our design collection. It’s also a busy end to the year at State Library, with events like our international architecture lecture with Marijn Schenk. You can find photos, videos and articles from all of our events and workshops on Design Online, Design Minds, and the APDL blog. Keep in touch via our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Vale James BirrellMyles Sinnamon profiles James Birrell, one of Queensland’s preeminent architects, who recently passed away. Read about his iconic work and watch an oral history to learn more about his life including his projects in Queensland as Brisbane City Council and The University of Queensland staff architect. You may also like...Behind the Lines: The year’s best political cartoons 2018Until 27 Oct | Free Featuring over 80 cartoons by 30 of Australia’s best political cartoonists, this exhibition revisits the 2018 political year, capturing the humorous side of the year’s leading political headlines. Bubble and Speak25 Oct | Victoria Park Golf Course BallroomDIA’s final event in the Bubble and Speak series for 2019 is almost here! Hear from two inspiring social enterprise companies, TradeMutt and Magpie Goose, whose founders are creating change in their respective industries – one bright and bold fabric print at a time! Australian Institute of Architects: Connecting Narratives25 Oct | Cairns Art Gallery Connecting Narratives is a one-day seminar exploring community, collaboration and connection in the context of tropical urbanism. The focus will be on discovering how different disciplines are negotiating connections with communities, particularly in the context of changing tropical climates and places. Library ShopSupport local designers such as Busy Head who created Meet me at the Paragon earrings. MembershipBecome a member of State Library today to borrow from our growing design collection. Acknowledgement of Traditional Owners Graphic based on Kurilpa Country, an original artwork by Lilla Watson. Images: Marijn Schenk, Image courtesy of Next architects; The Elastic Perspective by NEXT architects, Photo by Sander Meisner; View inside the University College of Townsville Library, Queensland, 1969. Later renamed as the James Cook University of North Queensland. James Birrell, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland 6523-0001-0407; Photo courtesy of Design Institute of Australia; Curiouser and Curiouser by Matt Golding. Courtesy Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House; Segar Passi, ‘Stima kor kor’ 2012, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, Cairns Regional Gallery, 2012. |