Where have you been?????

Beers 'n Ideas started in Melbourne originally, but in its Sydney incarnation, it's essentially a series (2 or 3 per night, once a month) of very loose, informal presentations by a variety of people involved in all aspects of design (and culture)...... We want to use it as a forum for cross-pollination in design, a way to excite us all about what we do.


Some people/topics that have been presented to date:

• Sam Crawford from Architects without Frontiers, talking about a proposed orphanage/adolescent education centre in Malawi
• Jeremy Somers from People Like Us Collective - online T-shirt design company that commission artists and designers for their ranges
• David Royle, who bought a coach and is completely kitting it out as a new movable home
• Kate Hogan (me) - Interior Designer at Group GSA, with a rundown from this year's Milan Furniture Fair
• One Fell Swoop - amazing emerging fashion label from Perth
• Students from the Whitehouse Institute of Design, presenting their Furniture Design pieces
• Bronwyn from Karolina York Print Studio, showing their work and discussing their trials and tribulations as a new business in the design industry
• Kimmie Neidhardt, one of the creatives behind the new Tooheys Extra Dry ad (the guy who grows clones of himself on a farm - quite a cool ad, as far as beer ads go)
• Robert Barton - one of the guys behind the amazing Rooftop Cinema in Melbourne
• Photographers and graphic designers WILK and Simone Mandl, previewing their current exhibition LIGHT BRIGADE, showing at the Chalkhorse Gallery
• Architect and sculptor Chris Fox, discussing his work, featuring an installation in Townsville that reflects on his infamous ancestor, Captain William Bligh
• Jonathon Larkin - People Like Us Collective and intern to Clover Moore, discussing the proposed changes to the NSW Liquor Licensing Act
• Dave Gravina - Digital Eskimo, and co-founder of Raise The Bar - citizen action group lobbying for the changes to the NSW Liquor Licensing Act
• Elvis Di Fazio - photographer, stylist, print-maker, t-shirt designer - this man does everything.
  

People talking in October and November:

• Craig Allchin from Six Degrees Architects,discussing the project he's been working to activate Sydney's laneways once the liquor act is revised (fingers crossed!!!)
• Jeremy Hughes from Tonkin Zulaikha Greer, the architects behind the new Carriageworks complex at Redfern
• Michael Lugmayr from Toko, a multidisciplinary design studio originally harking from Rotterdam, now based in Surry Hills
• Aaron Nicholls from Format Furniture, recently returned from living in London, talking about the state in design in London and Europe.
• Brianna Pike and Anna Harves from Six Hands graphic and print studio
  

So you know a little more about us, here's a quick run down:


The group is made up of:

• Adele Winteridge (ex Futurespace, now Interior Design lecturer at the Whitehouse Institute)
• Christie Coleman (ex Haworth, now Director of Ground Floor Collaboration)
• Michelle Gilmore (ex Haworth and Wovin Wall, now Director of Ground Floor Collaboration)
• Annabel Hammond (ex Kann Finch, now account manager at Interstudio)
• Kate Hogan (Interior Designer with Group GSA)