The Japan Foundation Gallery will be transformed into a temporary dwelling place for a contemporary version of the obakemono, spirit-possessed creatures, evoked from their hidden worlds with an imperative warning for us all.They are a new breed that surround and haunt our routines, intangible and ever-present.

Gemma Cuneo in her first solo exhibition cleverly adopts the prevalent quirks and issues that blight society by personifying them as modern obakemonos. Her creations serve as stark reminders of the imperfect world we live in, and physically demonstrate before us the ramifications of daily human activity on the environment and ourselves.

Meet Gemma in person on Saturday 22nd August from 11am to 4pm at the Japan Foundation Gallery.

What: Urban Ghosts Exhibition
When: 12th to 28th August 2009
Where: Shop 23, Level 1, Chifley Plaza | 2 Chifley Square, Sydney 2000
Contact:

For stylish gift ideas this Christmas, direct from the cream of our national design talent, visit the Young Blood: Designers Market at the Powerhouse Museum this Friday night and Saturday only.

Discover a wide range of unique products from 40 emerging designers selected by the museum to exhibit in a vibrant market atmosphere.Young Blood showcases fresh design, from fashion to furniture, jewellery, graphic, product, landscape and lighting design, amongst good food and entertainment.

Shop, chat with the makers themselves, meet for a drink on Friday and enjoy live entertainment from Bondi musician Matt Ralph or pop into explore the museum’s design galleries on Saturday. First launched during Sydney Design 05, Young Blood is a regular curated event and part of the Powerhouse Museum’s commitment to nurturing new and innovative Australian design.

Event: Young Blood: Designers Market
Date: Friday, 12 December 6pm-9pm and Saturday, 13 December 8am-5pm
Address: Level 2 Courtyard, Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo
Admission: Free

The Finders Keepers Markets is a bi-annual event that showcases the work of over 60 emerging designers and artists from Sydney local designers to areas all around Australia.

The markets bring together new contemporary independent artists and designers of original and high creative standards. There aim is to always introduce new designers and new product to cater for a wide range of customers and supporters.

DATE:
Friday 5th December from 6pm – 10pm
Saturday 6th December from 12pm – 10pm

The markets will be held at:
The inside foyer at CarriageWorks
245 Wilson Street, Eveleigh NSW 2015.
The pedestrian entrance is at the corner of Codrington St and Wilson St.

Nearest train: Redfern or Macdonaldtown and its only a short walk from King Street in Newtown.

As a photo editor and designer, we always have to ask the question ‘Where do I get the right pictures from?’ Until recently we used the traditional stock photo houses like ‘Getty images’, ‘Corbis’, ‘Jupiter images’, Alamy, etc. However we decided to explore the microstock world a little and was quite surprised about the quality of the pictures available on microstock. What we see as a problem of microstock sites is that the content of the microsites is very similar – you will find the same pictures on Dreamstime as on Stockxpert, Fotolia etc. We have listed my favourite microstock sites below – the 4 which are the most popular because they have the largest portfolios. We also added some smaller sites which we found interesting.

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Art By Design is an inaugural exhibition celebrating emerging artists and designers in their chosen medium. The brainchild of the exhibition is Naomi Solomon. She is a designer & is doing a wonderful job providing local designers & artists with the opportunity to promote there work. Art By Design showcases the limitless talents of up-and-coming as well as already established artists/designers poised to make their mark.

Kinokuniya Art Gallery is again supporting the event. Kinokuniya is a huge book store which also features an in-store Art Gallery which exhibits works from ambitious, creative, and talented artists to help them develop their careers. New exhibitions are shown every two weeks.

This year, Art By Design 4 years on, is proud to present designers such as happy end designs, claretduskymoonpie, ev liong, jmg designs, jon zhu, let’s call it shirley, ly, maaike pullar, maricormaricar, me and amber, popperbox, rubikus, deep fried sam, symple & little turtle.

The exhibition runs from the 12th October until the 1st November 2008.

Kinokuniya Art Gallery
Level 2, The Galeries Victoria
500 George Street, Sydney
Times:
mon – wed + fri – sat 10am-7pm
thu 10am-9pm
sun 10am-6pm

www.artbydesignexhibition.blogspot.com

Young Blood Designers Markets are back during August in Sydney. Young Blood and designboom mart will team up for SD08 to present the very best local and international design. The combined market will host over 70 designers from Australia and abroad; this is your chance to showcase and launch your creative talent onto the local and international scene.

Young Blood: Designers Market
Powerhouse Museum, 500 Harris Street, Ultimo

Thursday 14 August, 6.00 – 9.00pm
Friday 15 August, 10.00am – 6.00pm
Saturday 16 August, 10.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday 17 August, 10.00am – 6.00pm