Welcome to Sydney’s annual festival of design, presented by the Powerhouse Museum. Find out what design means to you through a 17-day program encompassing exhibitions and events at the Museum and satellite venues all over Sydney. Highlights this year include a series of special night openings to ignite the spirit of modernism and complement the new exhibition Modern times: the untold story of modernism in Australia.

Young Blood: Designers Market is on in tandem with ‘designboom mart’, an international market that brings designers from around the globe to discuss and sell their wares.

To coincide with SD08, the Powerhouse Museum and the British Council with Arts NSW will present the inaugural Design NSW: Travelling Scholarship, valued at $18,000, to an emerging local designer. The scholarship has been established to enable a young designer to undertake professional development activities abroad.

The Powerhouse is also proud to co-produce the exhibition Workshopped for the second year. A mainstay in the Sydney Design calendar, Workshopped has been exhibiting new Australian design — from prototypes to production pieces — in high-profile commercial settings for seven years. This year Workshopped returns to Chifley Plaza in the CBD.

Further afield, Sydney Design’s many partners and supporters will present a great program of exhibitions, events, walks and talks at venues all over Sydney.

Sydney Design 08