This year the festival is bigger than it’s ever been, with a vibrant cocktail of events, exhibitions, speakers, tours, markets and workshops designed to engage and inspire audiences.

Highlights at the festival’s main precinct, the Powerhouse Museum, include Eat Green Design, Young Blood: Designers Market, Australian International Design Awards exhibition, late night event Play Late, and the Design Underground tours.

Sydney Design 09 extends all over the city too, with more than 70 events and 35 venues around Sydney.

When: Saturday 1st to Sunday 16th August 2009
Where: Various venues across Sydney
www.sydneydesign.com.au

Innovative young designers from the 2008 Higher School Certificate Design and Technology course will exhibit their works in the annual DesignTECH exhibition. The 25 outstanding projects were chosen from over 3,700 works. On display is a diverse range of creations, from fashion, furniture and textiles, to recreational and musical equipment, to farming innovations and children’s education.

On now until Wednesday 18 March 2009
Powerhouse Museum
500 Harris Street Ultimo, NSW
www.powerhousemuseum.com

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

Fashion designers draw their ideas from many sources and a new display of graduating students work at the Powerhouse Museum reflects some surprising connections between fashion and cell division, Dada, Star Wars and the Geisha.

This year the exhibition showcases work by Dion Lee from The Fashion Design Studio, Sydney Institute TAFE NSW, Robby Tjia from the University of Technology, Whitehouse Institute of Design student Alison Davis and Allison Berger who graduated from Raffles College of Design and Commerce. The exhibition is on now at the Powerhouse Museum .

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