The London Design Festival gets bigger and bigger each year. There were over 300 individual events this year – enough to give you pavement paralysis hopping from one foot to the other, unsure where to turn next. For the first time since the festival’s inception though, I really felt like it paid to be far […]
Categories: Art, Design, Event, Festival, Journalism, London Design Festival, Writing
FestivalwithAttitude_DQ_Summer2011_JackieHawkins.pdf
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Indesign_Issue44_DIYKyoto_JHawkins
Categories: Articles, Design, Journalism, Sustainability, Writing • Tags: design, journalism, sustainability, writing
Less Mouth, More Trousers[1] As Emily Dickinson famously wrote ‘being a poet is all. Being known as a poet is nothing.’ Can the same be said about designers? Today you can’t pick up a fork, sit on a seat, switch on a light, open a bottle or pick your nose without someone’s name being attached […]
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Design and business educators and professionals share new ideas and approaches around tackling the pressing issues of today. Produced by the Billy Blue School of Design, contributors include Dean Roger Martin, Alice Rawsthorn, Vince Frost and er, me. It will be launched at Sydney Design and is available in bookshops now. Please contact Leanne Rule […]
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RedesigningDesign_JHawkins_AusCreative_JUNEJULY_LR Designers are faced with all sorts of challenges and none more so perhaps, than how to challenge oneself. In an industry where innovation, adaptation and progressive practice are benchmarks we commonly strive for on behalf of our clients, are we always the best at being introspective? Looking at ourselves and our industry and asking, […]
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EmotionalIntell_AusCreative_April10_JH_LR There are people you meet in life, who may amuse, entertain, even keep you on your toes, but there are few that truly delight, both intellectually and creatively. We all know them. They just have that extra something that makes us sit up and take notice, manage to keep our (otherwise waning) attention and […]
Categories: Articles, Australian design, Communication, Design, Experiential design, Journalism, Writing
London Calling_AusCreative_Feb-Mar10_pgs26-28_LR Australians excel in many fields overseas, and design is no different. Hot on the heels of Marc Newson’s (dubious) ‘Supercell’ project, which sat basking in the sunshine on London’s Southbank at the London Design Festival, were Ben Rousseau and Daniel + Emma. Jackie Hawkins gets acquainted. Exhibiting as part of Designersblock and 100%Futures […]
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