How would you feel if your work was copied? What can design fans do to support an original design industry? Is Australia the "wild west" of design...

Authentic Design: Get Real, Buy Real, Supply Real

Location:

901 Bourke St
2017 NSW
Australia

Authentic Design: Get Real, Buy Real, Supply Real

Featuring

Anne-Maree Sargeant

Anne-Maree Sargeant

Anne-Maree Sargeant

MODERATOR // event creator - ANNE-MAREE SARGEANT

AMS wears multiple hats in the design industry - as journalist she was editor-at-large of BELLE, and founder of ID.x THE SNAP COLLECTIVE an independent Australian designer platform. 

After design studies at RMIT, AMS worked as an interior designer at BATES SMART Melbourne, and DEGW, & WOLFF OLLINS in London prior to relocating to Sydney where she was instrumental in founding the SPACE FURNITURE network for founder Kevin Jarrett.

Commemorating a 20-year milestone AMS rebranded her marketing agency AMS pty ltd. as THE SNAP COLLECTIVE, collaborating with designers, design brands and events of broad reaching creative initiatives.
 
As a journalist, AMS has been widely published, as trends editor for INSIDE OUT for more than a decade, editor at large of BELLE for 5 years and contributing editor to MONOCLE and SURFACE USA / SURFACE ASIA.
 
AMS launched THE SNAP ASSEMBLY blog in 2010, a curated selection of art, design and other cool stuff.

In association with VIVID SYDNEY - AMS is hosting GET REAL - DON'T BE FAKE!! - a constructive discussion on how to protect original furniture and lighting designs; and HANDMADE-BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED? Probing how the proliferation of mass-produced products have seen a rise in the importance of handmade, artisanal products and a return to craftsmanship

GET REAL talks will continue nationally to support original design.

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Factory Design District

Good Design Festival 2016: Exchange 

David Trubridge

David Trubridge

David Trubridge

New Zealand based designer David Trubridge exhibits at major trade fairs and design weeks globally, and has products sold in 40 countries.

As an internationally acclaimed designer David explains how he tackles the issue when his own work is copied.

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Factory Design District

Event Details

How would you feel if your work was copied? What can design fans do to support an original design industry? Is Australia the "wild west" of design copies? How do we get real?

New Zealand based designer David Trubridge speaks to Anne-Maree Sargeant, Director of the Authentic Design Alliance. This will be a frank and positive discussion about authentic design, the avenues open to designers for protection of their IP, presented with recent case studies. More guest speakers to be announced.

Experimentating in his Perth workshop in the 1990’s, designer-maker David Trubridge stumbled on a repeat geometry that when assembled, formed an illuminated sculpture that became the now iconic Coral light - sold globally in over 40 countries.

Many of David’s lighting designs have subsequently been copied and sold in Australia through replica retailers, national chain stores and online sellers - often using David’s original photography and marketing description to sell fake versions of his original designs. 

Citing Australia to be the ‘wild west of design copies’ - David, supported by an IP legal team, has won the battle against fake / unuthorised copies of his lighting designs - the copies now illegal in Australia.

Following this discussion, a design performance will take place in the yard - we will celebrate authentic design and the audience will be invited to take part and show their feelings about copiers and fakes.

This event is presented by the Authentic Design Alliance as part of Factory Design District. 

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