Past Programs
Lifestyle and Leisure - 2008
The look of the decade
30/12/2008
All decades have their iconic objects and metaphors that describe the times. Adrian Franklin suggests that today's objects include LCD flat-screeen TVs, BlackBerries, the Toyota Prius, exuberant, loud large women's handbags, patio gas heaters and the iPod. We had the swinging 60s, the decadent 20s and the austere 30s. How will we describe the noughties?
Part of the By Design Summer Season this was first aired on July 12, 2008.
Luxury
24/12/2008
'Luxury or bust, what happens next?' was the title of a keynote address given at the the l'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival business seminar this year. It was delivered by Dana Thomas, formerly cultural and fashion writer for Newsweek and now contributing editor of Conde-Nast Portfolio. Dana is author of a very successful book published last year called Deluxe: How Luxury Lost its Lustre.
Part of the By Design Summer Season this was first aired on March 1, 2008.
Trends: urban forests
24/12/2008
This week Trends and Products is about urban forests, with physicist Dr Peter Fisher, who emailed us in response to our Conversation in June with the Melbourne City Council's Rob Adams. Dr Fisher has a passion for old-fashioned shade from trees and plants, and is lobbying hard for urban forests. He is a climate change consultant and research fellow at the Central Queensland University.
Part of the By Design Summer Seaon this was first aired August 2, 2008
How pin-up girls taught men to shop
16/08/2008
In the 1950s marketers looked to educate men and women quite differently when it came to advice about the then burgeoning consumer lifestyle. For men the lure was often pin-up girls inside quite respectable publications such as Popular Photography. Many advertisers believed that by placing the 'hook' of a scantily attired girl in photographic spreads and features many a lawnmower or motor car or particularly male product could be more easily sold. Many advertisers believed that 'a girl in the hand [was] worth five salesmen on the road'.
Trends: urban forests
02/08/2008
This week Trends and Products is about urban forests, with physicist Dr Peter Fisher, who emailed us in response to our Conversation in June with the Melbourne City Council's Rob Adams. Dr Fisher has a passion for old-fashioned shade from trees and plants, and is lobbying hard for urban forests. He is a climate change consultant and research fellow at the Central Queensland University.
Small moments in design - Oki Sato
26/07/2008
Oki Sato his way into design through architecture. It was a trip to Milan's Salone Mobile in 2002 that turned his thoughts to how much was possible in the world of design. He acted on his positive emotional response and founded Nendo, based in Tokyo. His success was immediate. He has been picked up by a number of manufacturers, and was a keynote speaker this month at Melbourne's Design Capital event, part of the State of Design Festival.
What identifies the look of 2008?
12/07/2008
All decades have their iconic objects and metaphors that describe the times. Adrian Franklin suggests that today's objects include LCD flat-screeen TVs, BlackBerries, the Toyota Prius, exuberant/loud large women's handbags, patio gas heaters and the iPod. We had the swinging 60s, the decadent 20s and the austere 30s. How will we describe the noughties?
Trends: murketing, the new marketing
05/07/2008
Trends and Products this week looks at the way in which our shopping and consumption patterns are the touchstone to understanding who we are. In his new book, Buying In, author and journalist Rob Walker declares marketing an outdated concept. He suggests murketing be the new description of how brands are made and marketed. The relationship now is interactive, between consumer and what is consumed.
Conversation with Rob Adams
21/06/2008
In this segment By Design invites guests to raise ideas they want to talk about, rather than respond to events raised by the media. Last year Rob Adams produced a report for the European Union looking at 12 cities worldwide that have taken on the agenda of liveability -- Melbourne being one of these cities -- and it is this topic that he has chosen to talk about today, about you and I, actually, moving to a low-carbon future and embracing the change.
London under Boris
17/05/2008
On May 3, when Boris Johnson arrived at City Hall to sign the official acceptance of the office of Mayor of London, he stood up to make a speech, tripped on a step and nearly fell over. He then got in a muddle about which architectural peer, Rogers or Foster, had designed the building in which he and his audience were standing.
In fact, it was Norman Foster, though in many respects Richard Rogers was the architect of choice for Ken Livingstone, the man whom Boris had defeated and who had held the office for eight years.
So does Boris Jonson's apparent inability to tell one significant British architect from another bode ill for the architectural future of one of the world's greatest cities? Why has the hard-left Ken been in bed with feral developers? And is the congestion charge really such a good idea? To try to answer these and other questions we talk to the distinguished writer on design, Stephen Bayley.
What makes a good opening sequence?
03/05/2008
Danny Yount has an interesting job in the world of design. He says of himself that his 'primary focus is main title design'. Today on By Design we look at the magic of designing the 'look' of a film, the power of the opening sequences, for example, the way a trailer is designed to hit the mark. Danny Yount is the man who designed the powerful opening sequence of Six Feet Under, and his work on this cult TV show earned him an Emmy.
Slow Home Movement
08/03/2008
The slow home movement takes its cue from the slow food movement: like ingredients, houses must be carefully considered, nourishing and thoughtful. This is about finding a house that suits you, rather than buying what others think suits you.
