The fifth State of Design Festival is set to Change By Design this year, with new look website and a host of events across Victoria.
Held 14 - 25 July, the 2010 Festival presents a broad program of exciting, revealing and informative events under the theme Change by Design.
This year's Festival boasts four major programs: Design Capital business program, Design for Everyone public program, a trade fair Design:Made:Trade and the biennial Premier's Design Awards, which recognises and applauds design excellence in Victoria. Highlights include:
- Design For Everyone will feature a series of exhibitions, talks and workshops around Mobility and the Built Environment, with topics including cycling through public gatherings and forums, the future of motorized travel, urban agriculture, making homes more environmentally sustainable and bushfire resistant design.
- Design:Made:Trade will be a key highlight of the Festival. Building on the success of 2009, the Royal Exhibition Building will again be the Festival's business and trade hub. New events will include Lightsource, sponsored by Philips, a commercial lighting exhibition for lighting designers, manufacturers and distributors and NEXT, a commercial exhibition space for companies seeking to promote innovative and ecodesigned new products to the Australian market.
- Design Capital Business Program will offer design vision, leading innovation information and competitive economic insight from leading international industry leaders and key Australian brand leaders.
Last year more than 130,000 local and international visitors flocked to the Festival, positioning it as Victoria's premier platform to showcase significant design achievements and celebrate innovation across industry.
An initiative of the Victorian Government, the State of Design Festival aims to increase the possibility of businesses using design as well as demonstrate how design can quite literally change the lives of all Victorians.