Powerhouse Museum - Success & Innovation Exhibition and Australian International Design Awards

For my Passport, I was required to visit a Museum and aspecific exhibition and I chose to go the Powerhouse Museum located in Ultimo as I have always loved it and feel that it's exhibits are more relevant to the area of Design and Technology.

The exhibit I chose to see on this occasion was the Success and Innovation exhibit which contained the Australian International Design Awards.

The Success and Innovation Exhibit splits itself in to 3 main categories:

- Reviewing the best

- Engineering Excellence Awards (which I skipped past and didn't see)

- Australian International Design Awards 2010

'Reviewing the best' splits itself into 3 main categories also. They are:

- Bright Ideas

- Well Made

- Sold Well

Bright Ideas featured some of the best in terms of originality of ideas, for example a segmented tyre

Well Made featured some of the best in terms of quality of manufacture for example the cardiac pacemaker

Sold Well featured some of the best in terms of effectiveness of sales for example the 'Dolphin mk3' Eveready Torch.

Following that, I moved onto the Australian International Design Awards 2010 exhibit which featured a selection of finalists from the AIDA that showcased excellence in design as well as the innovative use of technology of materials to provide significant benefits to the user.

The student category (James Dyson Awards) included work from a UNSW Industrial Design student, Samuel Adeloju, for his design of a man-portable system that allows for the rapid conveyance of temporary water-activated buoyancy devices to a drowning victim.

The Industry Category included such designs as a pocket-sized ultrasound system which is the World's smallest and received the Powerhouse Museum Design Award and a gaming headset that reads brain signals and facial expressions.

Overall, I found the exhibition to be inspiration and made me aware of the industry standard being released into the marketplace and made me aware of my obligations to contribute similarly innovative and revolutionary designs to the marketplace.