Brooks Atwood
Brooks Atwood, Founder, Principal & Creative Director at POD DESIGN + MEDIA is coming to Australia.
Based in New York, Atwood is one of the leading practitioners in American design and industrial design culture. His product design, architectural and interior design work is at the forefront of digital innovation and accordingly he has received acclaim by the likes of the New York Times, New York Magazine and Wired.
In addition to being an early proponent of 3D printing, Brooks has been shaping future design thinking for the past ten years in his role as professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, as assistant director the Ideas Factory and through his award winning practice Pod Design.
POD DESIGN is an award winning New York based design studio working in the fields of architecture, industrial design and interior design specializing in advanced technologies and material transcendence, since 2003.
Pod’s internationally recognized work is the result of a multi-disciplinary laboratory with the belief that the practice of collaboration gains relevance through a constant dialogue with other disciplines, cultures, thinkers and makers to offer innovative design solutions. Their process-based approach to design is coupled with a deep interest in methods of fabrication that challenge norms and reveal new territories.
POD are committed to sustainability and believe that good design starts with the environment keeping it healthy. POD have signed The Designers Accord (www.designersaccord.org) and are committed to deal with issues that face our times and planet.
Portable Studios are bringing the designer to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and Atwood will be giving an exclusive series of talks from June 4 - 6.
BRISBANE Tuesday, June 4, Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland
SYDNEY Wednesday, June 5, Museum of Contemporary Art (part of Vivid Festival)
MELBOURNE Thursday, June 6, at Australian Centre of the Moving Image
www.pod-design.com
www.portablestudios.com.au
Based in New York, Atwood is one of the leading practitioners in American design and industrial design culture. His product design, architectural and interior design work is at the forefront of digital innovation and accordingly he has received acclaim by the likes of the New York Times, New York Magazine and Wired.
In addition to being an early proponent of 3D printing, Brooks has been shaping future design thinking for the past ten years in his role as professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, as assistant director the Ideas Factory and through his award winning practice Pod Design.
POD DESIGN is an award winning New York based design studio working in the fields of architecture, industrial design and interior design specializing in advanced technologies and material transcendence, since 2003.
Pod’s internationally recognized work is the result of a multi-disciplinary laboratory with the belief that the practice of collaboration gains relevance through a constant dialogue with other disciplines, cultures, thinkers and makers to offer innovative design solutions. Their process-based approach to design is coupled with a deep interest in methods of fabrication that challenge norms and reveal new territories.
POD are committed to sustainability and believe that good design starts with the environment keeping it healthy. POD have signed The Designers Accord (www.designersaccord.org) and are committed to deal with issues that face our times and planet.
Portable Studios are bringing the designer to Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and Atwood will be giving an exclusive series of talks from June 4 - 6.
BRISBANE Tuesday, June 4, Edge Auditorium, State Library of Queensland
SYDNEY Wednesday, June 5, Museum of Contemporary Art (part of Vivid Festival)
MELBOURNE Thursday, June 6, at Australian Centre of the Moving Image
www.pod-design.com
www.portablestudios.com.au
