Vectorworks 2024 Unleashed

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 [...]

Siggraph Asia

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 [...]

ANNOUNCING ALMG

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 [...]

APDGreen Conversations – Winter 2023

In this Quarter’s newsletter, Imogen Ross shares links and information about what is happening in the enviro- sphere, for both stage and screen peeps. Sustainable Theatres Australia and Sustainable Screens Australia have all recently launched new projects that promote environmental awareness and encourage designers, producers and makers to focus on reducing their carbon emissions on [...]

International Production Design Week

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 [...]

The Culture and Climate Report

Though not strictly 'design' focused, I want to share information about the recently released Culture for Climate: a preliminary study into how Australian performing arts organisations are responding to the global environmental crisis report, which I peer reviewed last month for the newly-formed Performance and Ecology Research Lab [P+ERL] based at Griffith University in QLD. The Climate for [...]