A cotton fabric printed with a fluorescent rainbow striped background, and scattered purple hibiscus. Designed for Bush Couture's 'Bush Kids' children's line.Printed on the selvedge: 'Linda Jackson handprint 1989'textile design, australian fashion

Scarf featuring fish designtextile design, textile, australian fashion

Dr. Frances Mary Burke (1907 - 1994) was a textile designer and printer, businesswoman, artist and Australian design advocate and retailer. Burke’s modern abstract textile designs incorporated motifs and colours inspired by Australian Indigenous art, Pacific Island cultures, Australian flora and fauna, English gardens, and the sea and its wildlife. Following Burke’s death in 1994, her life-long companion Miss Fabie Chamberlain donated the contents of Burke’s studio to RMIT University.Single colour screenprint, white fabric with chartreuse coloured print of positive large format design featuring large stylised canna leaf motif.Printed on selvedge 'CANNA LEAF' a "Frances Burke" UNIT COLOUR DESIGN'textile, australian flora, rmit design archives

This photograph was reproduced on the cover of the magazine 'Housewife, Home and Family', in October, 1960 with the heading, 'Miss Frances Burke, Brilliant Australian Textile Designer'. The photograph contains interesting contradictions: Burke, wearing a cocktail hat whilst painting, was never a housewife, nor did she have children. Gladys Hain, editor of the magazine, exhorted women who did have children to get busy, start businesses and contribute to the economy! The image highlights Burke's ability to attract publicity and demonstrates her acute understanding of the power of PR and marketing. Burke established her textile business in 1937, developing it between the wars in a very challenging marketplace by capitalising on opportunities as they presented. Robyn Oswald-Jacobs, 2017Photograph featuring Frances Burke painting at desktextile design, studio, rmit design archives

Textile design was part of the Winter 1988 range.ink, cotton

Architectural perspective drawing featuring aerial view of the Chancery at the Australian High Commission, Kuala Lumpurink, acetate

Sketh plansink, acetate

Black and white photograph of the Aborigines Advancement League Headquarters, Melbournesilver gelatin, paper

A letter detailing parts of Anatol Kagan's entry for the Sydney Opera House design competition.ink, paper

Translated title is 'Reconstruction of Historical Centre'ink, paper, cardboard

A beige, handbound photo album containing black and white photographs of houses designed by Anatol Kagan. Houses photographed include: Fabian residence, Mount Eliza residence, Lansell Road flats, Toorak, Anachel Residence, Lyall residence.silver gelatin, glue, paper, cardboard, metal

Handwritten timetable by Maggie Fooke and Jerry de Gryce. Fooke wrote the headlines and de Gryce the smaller print.ink, paper

Joyce Coffey (nee Hiddlestone) was the first woman to receive recognition as a designer in a major Australian manufacturing business, Kempthorne Lighting, where she was the chief designer in the post war period. These design drawings by Joyce Coffey were for the Well Glass lamp series of lights that were designed for indoor and outdoor use. Joyce Coffey worked in partnership with Selwyn Coffey on the designs. In 1956 lights from this series won a bronze award in the Industrial Design section of the Arts Festival exhibition of the Melbourne Olympic Games. Ann Carew, 2017Drawings of a Kempthorne Well Glass Wall Bracket and Ceiling Lamplighting, design, melbourne olympic games, industrial design

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This photograph commemorates a visit by American Fashion Models to Prestige Textile Studio in July 1950. Melbourne’s Myer Emporium in conjunction with Neiman Marcus, Dallas, Texas presented the first American Fashion Parades in Australia in July 1950. Ruth Hancock, the leading model and buyer for Neiman Marcus, directed the Parades, and the eighteen year old modelling prodigy, Carmen dell’ Orefice, described by Cecil Beaton as ‘the world’s most beautiful woman’ was one of the stars of the runway. In a bid to encourage a market for Australian textiles in the United States, the models visited textile manufacturers and design studios in Melbourne, such as Yarra Falls Mills and Prestige Studios, one of Melbourne’s premier textile design studio. Ann Carew, 2020This photograph is historically significant for its association with Prestige Textile Studio, and it's association with the Australian Textile Industry. It highlights the role that Myer Melbourne played in promoting the Textile Design Industry and Australian Fashion to the United States of America.Black and white photograph of 8 models from the US, laying on the floor of the Prestige Studios. Names of the various models have been drawn on the floor from the foreground to the background of the photo, with eagles and stars in between each name.Models pictured include Ruth Hancock, Carmen Dell'Orefice, and Margaret Edwards.USA MODELS / VISITING AUSTRALIA carmen dell' orefice, prestige textile studio, ruth hancock, margaret edwards, fashion, rmit design archives, models, usa

Designed by Robert Pataki for Kambrook.Beige 3 outlet powerboard prototype.plastic

John and Phyllis Murphy designed this house and garden in Kew for Sir Frank and Lady Macfarlane Burnet in 1959, the year before Burnet and Peter Medaware received the Nobel Prize for discovering acquired immunological tolerance. For the most highly honoured scientist to have worked in Australia, Burnet's house is modest - single storey with two bedrooms. Typical of post-war suburban housing thought, the garden is a generous, and the planting a mix of existing shrubs and trees, old favourites such as camelias, hydrangeas, lilacs, and a unusually 'a thick copse of native trees'. John Murphy (1920-2004) and Phyllis Murphy (nee Slater) (1924-) are alumni of RMIT. John commenced his architectural studies at Swinburne Technical College prior to WW2, and subsequently studied at Melbourne Technical College (now RMIT University) from 1944 to 1946. Phyllis studied architecture at Melbourne Technical College from 1942, before transferring to Melbourne University's Architectural Atelier in 1944 They both completed their Bachelor of Architecture in 1949, with Phyllis topping the fourth year, and John coming in second. They established their architectural practice in 1950. One early project was their design with Kevin Borland and Peter McIntyre for the Olympic Swimming Pool (1956). Ann Carew 2018dye, paper, garden design, kew

Sketchbook containing designs for fabricink, paint, paper

Page layout for Costume of Australia book, by Marion Fletcher.Page layout features sketch of twe 1870s , including bodice detail of the second dress: 1. Day Dress c.1873, from the National Gallery of Victoria; 2. Afternoon or Dinner Gown, 1877, from the National Trust of Australia (Victoria).Inscribed in blue pencil, bottom left: '64% in grey ink, bottom left: 'P2' in blue ink, bottom left: '<-----------------------164mm--------------------------->/ OUP 102[cricled]'; bottom left [running horizontally]: <---------------------187.5mm----------ink, paper

graphic design

Cassete magazine including one magazine and one audio cassetteink, paper, plastic

Cassete magazine including one magazine and one audio cassetteink, paper, plastic

Fast Forward was an audio-cassette based music magazine conceived and edited by Bruce Milne and Andrew Maine. Both had music programs on radio station 3RRR and Milne ran the successful independent record label Au Go Go Records. Michael Trudgeon joined them as the designer for the magazine. Each issue comprised a cassette tape interspersed with music and was packaged with printed artwork. The magazine was distributed in record shops for $3.50. Thirteen issues were produced between November 1980 and October 1982. Regular contributors included Jeff Holland, who created elaborate sound collages which were combined with elaborate illustrations in the booklet that accompanied the audio cassette. Many ground breaking Australian bands were first published on Fast Forward tapes including Hunters and Collectors. An international audience was first exposed to music from Australian bands including Laughing Clowns, the Go-Betweens, Rowland Howard’s ‘Shivers’ as performed by The Young Charlatans, The Scientists, the M Squared label, Dead Can Dance and Pel Mel’s ‘No Word from China’ recorded as a ‘demo’. Fast Forward was the world’s first audio-cassette music magazine. As the magazine’s presence and reputation grew, international acts began to submit material for publication including The Cure. Interview subjects included Nick Cave, The Cure’s, Robert Smith, Mark E Smith of The Fall, and the manager of The Clash.Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, one crossword, one subscription pamphlet, and one pamphlet titled 'The Kmart Herald'.music, design, magazines

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, and one crossword.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover, Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, one crossword, one F.A.T.E entry form, one newsletter titled 'Pneumatic Drill',and one 'Cassette- It-Yourself' guide.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, one crossword, one subscription pamphlet, one pamphlet advertising Minotaur Books, and one pamphlet featuring news, competitions and a poem.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes Annual report, two audio cassettes.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, and one crossword.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one audio cassette, one subscription pamphlet, and four postcards.ink, paper, plastic, vinyl

Cassette magazine in vinyl cover. Contents includes one magazine, one subscription card, one subscription pamphlet, one vinyl folderink, paper, plastic, vinyl