Author: Rebecca Whittington

The Arts and Cultural Exchange and the APDG will present an information and networking session Saturday 11th November 2023. The session will be an introduction to opportunities in the Design Departments in the screen industry, focusing on the Art, Costume and Make-Up Departments. The screen industry in NSW is growing rapidly with many professional opportunities [...]

Vectorworks 2024 to Unleash Limitless Creativity for Designers Upcoming Version of the Design and BIM Product Line Focuses on Empowering Designers with Comprehensive Solutions for Faster Workflows from Start to Finish.  Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. is preparing to release the 2024 version of its product line, dedicated to providing comprehensive solutions [...]

The APDG costume members have been extremely proactive over the past few months. Erin Roche has been at the forefront of the "Naked Without Us" campaign, while I am advocating for training pathways that will enable mid-career costume supervisors to advance to senior costume supervisors. The role of Costume Supervisor is crucial within the costume [...]

PRESIDENT'S LETTER The 2023 APDG Awards were held this year at Federation Hall in Melbourne. The event went off without a hitch and I would like to congratulate Rebecca Whittington and the awards team for what proved to be a flawless event. Amongst the award recipients was this year’s lifetime achievement winner, Jennifer Irwin. What [...]

SIGGRAPH Asia is a special and unique place for artists, scientists, and innovators to converge and share their love for computer graphics. As a roving event in the Asia Pacific region, every SIGGRAPH Asia edition brings together a brilliant blend of computer graphics and interactive techniques with the host country’s local culture. This year, we [...]

AUSTRALIA’S NEWEST INDUSTRY GUILD ELEVATING THE LOCATIONS DEPARTMENT The Australian Location Managers Guild (ALMG,) has launched a website www.almguild.com, to promote the creative and logistical contributions that the Location Department makes to bring abstract concepts and writing to the screen. The guild is now inviting Locations Department professionals, as well as screen industry colleagues, to [...]

PRESIDENT'S LETTER Through one of life’s delightful and unexpected turns I have just completed my first year as the APDG president. The APDG is a very different organisation to the one I first came to know in 2009. Perhaps not surprisingly, it its far more cohesively integrated into the Australian performance design culture and has [...]

International Production Design Week: A New Initiative To to Celebrate the Craft of Production Design Inspired by the experience of the inaugural Gathering in Greece last year, the Production Designers Collective will coordinate a week of events in October to globally promote the craft of production design. Following the significant success of the first-ever international [...]