Powerhouse Museum, Design Project

All items in Powerhouse Museum, Design Project (704)

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Rogers, Harry
A poster designed by Harry Rogers for Qantas is known, ca.1959.
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Meere, Charles, b. 1890
Charles Meere's art practice encompassed landscape, still life and portraiture, mural design, and black and white illustration. He is best known for his Art Deco ...
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Zoates, Toby
Cartoonist, did prison poster.
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Muncaster, Ron, b. 1936
Muncaster was a designer working in costume design, notably costume developed for the Sydney Mardi Gras parade. He began designing costume for the parade in ...
Updated April 28, 2019
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Airzone Ltd
Airzone Radios was established by Sir Claude Plowman (d.1954) with a factory in Auburn NSW employing 250+ employees making battery-powered mantel radios and related equipment ...
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Newton, Helmut, b. 1920
Newton was a German-Australian photographer specialising in magazine fashion and celebrity photography. He had an extensive international career in magazine journalism with numerous photography exhibitions ...
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Perceval, John, b. 1923
John Perceval had little formal training as an artist, but after he fell ill with polio at the age of 15 he concentrated on painting ...
Updated March 20, 2019
Meadmore, Clement, b. 1929
Well known as a sculptor, Meadmore began his career as a designer. His furniture was sold at Marion Hall Best’s showrooms and his lighting design ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2019
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Bilt Moderne
Bilt Moderne was a trio of early-career Melbourne architects, Roger Wood, Randal Marsh and Dale Jones-Evans, which produced experimental furniture prototypes during the 1980s. The ...
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Morrison, Alistair, b. 1911
Morrison was a typographer, graphic designer, industrial designer and author. He had a celebrated design career in London from 1936-1939, returning to Australia before the ...
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Featherston, Mary, b. 1943
Mary Featherston studied at RMIT, interior design, then worked as a designer with architects Mockridge, Stahle and Mitchell, Melbourne, later forming a design partnership with ...
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Bernabei, Rina
Industrial designer, educator and partner in Bernabei Freeman, a Sydney design practice.
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Andrews, Gordon Arthur, b. 1914
Gordon Andrews was one of Australia's prominent mid-20th century multi-disciplinary designers. While best known for designing Australia's first decimal currency notes (1966), his international career ...
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Tully, Peter, b. 1947
Artist and gay activist, was included in the Tin Sheds exhibition, "Dead Gay Artists", in 2002.
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Murcutt, Glenn Marcus
Glenn Murcutt (1936–) was one of Australia's most internationally notable architects from 1975 to 2000. He is best known known for leading 'the Australian modern ...
Updated June 8, 2017
Tipiloura, Immaculata
Immaculata Tipiloura is an artist from Bathurst Island, Northern Territory.
Updated June 8, 2017