Events

Exhibition: Workshopped 08- Why Design Matters

Four COFA graduates are included to exhibit in Workshopped 08. Amy Cunningham, Luiza Milewcz, Bic Tieu and Amy Tang, who was the peoples choice award from Workshopped 07, are all included in the Workshopped exhibition at Chifley Plaza from the 13 to 23 of August.
 
The Workshopped exhibition is the largest single event of the Sydney Design Week, promoting Australian designers through staging the show, and also through helping designers put their designs into production. The Workshopped vision is "To nurture Australian design excellence and facilitate successful commercial relationships between designers, industry and the market, both locally and internationally."

Workshopped helps with the exhibition, manufacture, management, distribution and retail of Australian product design, and finds 'solutions' to the problems faced by local designers moving from prototype to production. They identify great Australian design and bring local and international attention to it, with the exhibition as the first step in the process.

This year the exhibition, works to the theme of Why Design Matters and has more designers, furniture, lighting, gadgets and homewares than ever before. The Workshopped group has aided the work of several of its featured designers to go into production and has aided in the success of many young Australian designers, including Amy Tang and her Flosion Stools.

Workshopped 08 is co- presented by the Powerhouse Museum and sponsored by Jaguar and Bombay Sapphire.





WHERE: Exhibition at Chifley Plaza, Sydney CBD
WHEN: 13 to 23 of August







article amended from press release by Sophie Cross