AgIdeas celebrates 20 years

Celebrating 20 years, agIdeas is an international festival that showcases design and other creative disciplines.

This year a total of 40 international and national design practitioners will be part of a program that will explore aspects of design.

The festival will feature talks on illustration, industrial design, graphic design, film, branding, textile design, product design and landscape architecture.

Speakers for the 2010 festival include: Michel Bouvet, France; Dean Poole, New Zealand;
Jacques Reymond, Australia; Alex Alvarez, USA; Richard Ferlazzo, Australia; Agnete Enga Norway; and, Theo Jansen, The Netherlands.

Since its inception in 1991, there have been 440 speakers, an audience of 43,000 and more than
3,500 volunteers involved.

Some 38 young designers have won scholarships allowing them to travel the world, attending design studios such as the Benetton Group Communications Research Centre in Fabrica, Italy.

The festival is made up of events that include: the International Design Forum (three days of talk about inspirational design); Studio Access (visits to Melbourne’s leading design studios); Master Classes (full day workshop with an international designer); Futures (evening career expo for secondary students); NewStar (design competition and exhibition); and, Advantage (business breakfast forum).

The agIdeas International Design Week will run from April 26 – 29, 2010.