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Forecasting weather in uncertain seasons ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity; it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going directly to Heaven, we were all going the other way.’

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harles Dickens’s famous opening to his novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is as searingly relevant today as it was then. Only today we have futurologists (also known as futurists, which creates confusion with the early 20th century cultural movement) to help us decide for either optimism or pessimism – or neither.

A futurologist takes a punt on coming trends using a crystal ball sparkling with past and current affairs and some have a better success rate than others. The further away your prediction is set, the less you have to worry about it coming off or not. Those who deal

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in commercial building trends or the shape of toasters on Monday have a lot of clients’ money riding on it.

Futurology or ‘futures studies’ looks at the ‘three Ps and a W’– the possible, probable, and preferable futures, plus wildcards. With climate change dealing the cards, expect it all to be pretty wild.

Among the wilder futurologists is Ray Kurzweil (www.kurzweilai.net), who expounds upon the ‘metaverse singularity’ and the fascinating/frightening world of transhumanism – human ‘enhancement’ with technology, regarded by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as ‘the world’s most dangerous idea’. Another noted player is theoretical physicist Michio Kaku (http://mkaku.org/home/), whose 1999 book Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century is surprisingly upbeat given his understanding of the environmental problems which beset us.

In the following pages our assessments of trends range from the modest to the outrageous. Our topics likewise range wide, from the value of Prada heels to the impact of photon switching on information technology.

We hope you will find much to entertain and inform.

Visionaries and corporate strategists alike can expect the unexpected, but will they be ready for it? One thing is sure, however – uncertainty can be guaranteed.

As to toasters on Monday, they will be anodised blue aluminium pyramids and work with individual swipe cards programmed to each family member’s favourite level of toastiness. A crumpet plug-in will come at an extra cost. Beneath the family toaster, nothing can defeat the lurking of robot surveillance cockroaches courtesy of the Ministry of Freedom.

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Australia is entering a period of intense national debate over energy issues and the contribution that burning fossil fuels, together with other topics such as land use changes, is making to the country’s emissions of greenhouse gases.

The transport sector provides one of the keys to reducing our carbon footprint.

As a country, Australia is almost entirely dependent on oil – increasingly on imported oil – for our transport fuel.

Hand in hand with the environmental concerns of burning fossil fuels are concerns surrounding security of supply of transport fuels and self-sufficiency in these fuels. Currently the demand for oil is outstripping supply.

Making up this shortfall in supply will not be possible in the short term and there are questions as to whether the world’s current energy mix will be able to supply global energy needs in the medium to longer term.

Fossil fuels will continue to be the default fuel source for the transport sector, however, we are now in a position where it is

necessary to examine alternatives to oil for our transport fuels.

While Australia has been one of the few countries lucky enough to be an oil producer, much of this has been exported. Our nation’s reserves are dwindling and, as a result, we are growing increasingly dependent on imported oil.

transport fuel alternatives, and conveniently, many of the technologies for reducing our dependence on oil-based transport fuels are already available.

Industries in biofuel technologies, natural gas processing and conversion and smart vehicle manufacture already exist in other parts of the world.

Now is not a good time for any country to be reliant on imported oil, especially one as dependent on imported goods as Australia.

Australia’s oil trade deficit has already reached $10 billion, and it could swell to an alarming $25 billion in just a few years unless alternatives are found.

Now is not a good time for any country to be reliant on imported oil, especially one as dependent on imported goods as Australia.

Australia’s oil trade deficit has already reached $10 billion, and it could swell to an alarming $25 billion in just a few years unless alternatives are found.

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Australia can learn from these examples and we can develop industries of our own, which are particularly relevant to the local situation. This could be done with relatively small seed funding and with intelligent incentive frameworks.

Development of such industries will serve Australia in two

ways: firstly, they will provide a local capability in alternative transport fuels, creating jobs and a skill base which can be transferred across to other sectors not as quick to take up the low-carbon challenge; secondly, the development of such industries will address the three related issues of reducing transport fuel emissions, enhancing energy security, and promoting energy self-sufficiency.

Given that almost $13.5 billion is invested in maintaining existing fossil fuel infrastructure, and almost $10 billion is provided to the industry in government subsidies each year, it is reasonable that seed funding contributions to an alternative fuels sector should be made.

■ From the Jamison Report. The Jamison Group was established

by NRMA Motoring & Services following the company’s Alternative Fuel Summit in 2006 and comprises four eminent scholars in the fields of energy and transport – David Lamb, Mark Diesendorf, John Mathews and Graeme Pearman.

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ustraliaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internet is on the brink of a digital revolution. The Rudd government plans to build a nationwide fibre-optic network from scratch, an investment in Australiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internet with a $43 billion price tag.

Current broadband technology is built upon existing telecommunications infrastructure with information sent as electrons along copper wire. Fibre-optic technology instead carries information as light down a glass or plastic tube.

Photons, the smallest measure of light, travel much faster than electrons do, which means a greater internet speed can be achieved.

A feature-length movie may take less than 10 minutes to download, a rate one hundred times faster than what most internet users in Australia currently experience.

While this is a blistering speed for much of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s internet users, fibre-optic internet has not begun to reach its full potential.

This is primarily because of the way information is bounced from one side of the world to the other.

It is â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;routedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; from server to server, hub to hub until the information you are browsing reaches your computer. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s this routing process

that retards the speed at which fibre-optic data can travel.

This is because the machines that do the routing, routers, can direct electronic information but they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t route fibre-optic data because it is light. In order to do so, the information has to be changed into electronic data, routed, and changed back into light data before continuing down the fibre-optic cable.

The development of the photonic chip however may change that. Rather than being made up of transistors and capacitors, the photonic chip is comprised of microscopically patterned glass. The glass in conjunction with an electric field can slow light, a process known as optical non-linearity.

By slowing light, the photonic chip can be used to replicate a similar function to an electronic router, but using photons instead â&#x20AC;&#x201C; photon-switching.

The photonic chip in tandem with fibreoptics reduces much of the energy currently required to maintain the internet. Photonbased technology generates less heat and consumes less power. A bright, light future.

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ne of the glory jobs of technology is enabling reading. With reading comes freedom, of education and of culture. Whether you read to manage modern living or for your work or as a hobby, technology is now racing to your paper book face. So is everyone in the craft: writers, publishers, illustrators and a cavalcade of entrepreneurs, lawyers and politicians.

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con, the first electronic paper, other industries have focused on using the electronic ink with rigid glass and plastic screens.

These â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;readersâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;are devices such as Amazonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kindle, Sonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PRS 505 and Barnes & Nobles Nook, which sell for around $US280.

There are dozens of devices from other companies displayed and reviewed on the internet.

Exactly what is there to read?

Or listen to, as audio books are increasingly popular? What format is it in? Kindle recognises only one format. Sony now announces its gear handles every kind of format.

And, whatever the format, how is the digital file made available?

Finally, there is the question of access, that 21st century euphemism for control. The types of control being tested range from timed shelf life of the digital media and digital files to control of the devices that display them.

Scandals to date include remote blocking of content via Kindles by Amazon.

Public libraries are crucial in many cultures. On one hand, the technology is set to enhance local libraries. In a few years, electronic paper and readers are expected to cost less than $100 each. Libraries or councils might hire, loan or even allocate them like resident car parking coupons. Readers will have scope even greater than was once only possible by living near a large, venerable institution.

But on the other hand, tight control and high costs could work against both libraries and readers.

At stake is the freedom to read.

Freedom to assemble information. Lifelong learning depends on lifelong reading. Perhaps the answer to the many conundrums is a strong affirmation of the importance of education.

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The transformation is a number of science fiction dreams coming true. Similar to an ancient papyrus scroll, electronic paper is flexible and unrolls for use. Its surface is a screen which works like a slate.

Powered up, the screen displays patterns of black and white charged particles floating in oil droplets. This resolves as text, stable like ink on pulp paper, unlike the flickering screens of computer monitors.

The texts of hundreds of books are on the e-paperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s microchip.

The device is also â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wirelessâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, able to receive and send text. There is a keyboard. Talk is that there will eventually be a pen for the reader to use.

This electronic paper is already in use in many ways, including wrapped around a phone in a pocket sized device called a Readius. In Japan, the device Fujitsu Flepia features colour. â&#x2013; Mary Gardnerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first e-book In the thirty five years since went online at www.mgardner.

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Many gyms are now just area – Tony’s GYM. as much ‘wellness’ centres as Tony’s, which is still open, was they are places to lift weights – one of those ‘old school’ gyms increasingly so. before it became cool to be On the technology front we’ve ‘old skool’. Lots of free weights, benches, blokes grunting and no got Wii Fit so you don’t even have to leave your lounge room – perwomen anywhere to be seen. fect for all those Sydneysiders or Back then if you wanted to build aerobic fitness, or even used Melbournites who haven’t made the term, you ran, surfed, swam or the move to the beautiful north coast. I think there are a few, played sport. There was no such aren’t there?! thing as a group fitness class in In terms of health and fitness the park or on the beach. Getting we’ve become more discernfit was for most people a fairly ing, much more educated, and rudimentary thing – you were or we demand more than just a you weren’t. bench, a bar of weights or a smith How things have changed. machine.

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On the technology front we’ve got Wii Fit so you don’t even have to leave your lounge room – perfect for all those Sydneysiders or Melbournites who haven’t made the move to the beautiful north coast. building strength, while maintaining flexibility – two elements that have always had a rather uneasy relationship. In brief, functional training is exercises tailored to the activities of everyday life, or sports specific training, rather than single motion training such as weight lifting.

One pioneer in this field is Paul Chek. Paul integrates a holistic approach to fitness, and focuses on what people are doing, and need to do to be fit and strong, in their life.

One of his most celebrated success stories in World Champion surfer Mick Fanning. After suffering a almost career ending knee injury in 2005 Mick teamed up with Chek practitioner Jan Carton who basically revolutionised the way Mick dealt with not only rehab, but how he would restrengthen and realign his body for the rigours of pro surfing.

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Now this isn’t for everyone of course, Mick’s training is advanced, but the message is that we all have things we need to do every day, or should be able to do if need be. Walk, run, jump, push body weight off the floor, squat and lift. By using those core elements as our base for exercise we naturally become stronger, fitter and in extension happier.

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It’s already happening and there are a few great centres in Byron such as Body & Soul offering this, so go check them out.

Additionally, one of the most exciting developments is the use of DNA profiling as a marker for what kind of training is the most effective for an individual.

One such company providing this to fitness centres and personal trainers is Brisbane based Gene Elite.

Gene Elite offers a cutting edge genetic test profiling 15 genes directly associated with fitness and

little or no positive outcome, and often this is because it is the wrong kind of training for an individual.

From a simple cheek swab, they analyse 15 key fitness and lifestyle genes, with the results giving you the power to train smarter and achieve better results.

I like the idea of that – smarter, more effective, individually tailored training regimes, that sounds like the Future of Fitness to me.

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o are you trend chaser or a trend setter? Most of us like to believe that we are setting a trend (and there are some of us that do) but for the majority there has usually been some kind of influence somewhere along the line. Reading countless weekly magazines where your favourite celebrity has decided to wear something super sexy, plain or super daring and you think to yourself, hey, I like his or her style, I’ll copy that.

What you probably don’t realise is that they copied that trend from the catwalk! So that makes them slightly ahead of the game because High Street fashion is about six months behind the creations that have graced the catwalks of Milan, New York, Paris and London.

So in light of that fact – you are also slightly ahead of the game.

The funny thing about fashion trends is that they are recreated over and over. There is always some influence of the 20s, 60s, 70s and possibly even the 80s too showing up from time to time. So we are being fooled sometimes to

think that the current trend is ‘oh so original.’

As a hoarder of clothes over the years I have realised that not throwing out my favourite clothes means that if I chose to follow a particular trend that year all I have to do is dust off the cobwebs in my wardrobe and hunt for something appropriate. Twin that with a new scarf, pair of earings or shoes and I’m there. That’s of course if the moths don’t get to them first!

One trend that I have noticed has become increasingly popular is Retro Vintage style. Now I know that this style has been around for many many years but I am seeing it more and more around the Northern Rivers. It allows an individuality and unique style due to one off creation. I mean, who wants to be seen in the same dress/skirt/pants as someone else – I certainly don’t! And the great thing about retro and vintage is the diversity. So many bright colours, cuts and styles.

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Photo Jeff Dawson. the delightful Stacy St Star. N Now th d li htf l St here’s a chick that knows how to throw an outfit together, complete with beautiful funky accessories – see picture this page.

She has been collecting retro and vintage clothing for 20 years and has got it down pat. Her stall was filled with lots of bright and funky fabrics with equally as wild accessories to match, perfect for the festive season. Every piece is hand selected and handled by Stacy herself. You will see her once a month in Bangalow at the RSL hall touting her wares but nothing beats the hoard of vintages she has at her shed in Eureka – it’s an Aladdin’s Cave.

On market days are when you see the earthy colours and flirty

ffabrics b i being b i worn as the th men and women show an inside sense of serenity. For the bolder characters there are lots of bright colours that show that they have a playful and frivolous soul. On the street I seem to be noticing more girls wearing heels. There are lots of them now (thank god). Daring to defy the cliché of the seaside town – and so they should. Looking sexy, calf muscles rippling.

Women from early 20s to middle age 50/60 year olds.

One street style I am not fond of though is still being worn by guys – the ‘let’s show our pants off style’ This was first introduced in America (of course) by gangster rappers trying to gain credibility in prison. Credibility for what!?

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Are they saying that if they show off their undies they would appear more cool? Personally I think that this shows the opposite.

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Seriously though, now is the time to smarten up and get some colour into your life guys. Women love nothing more than to see their honey dressed to impress â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and of course it makes us feel less overdressed when all we are trying to do is look cute!

Trends for Summer 2009/2010: See-through and sheer fabrics

have graced us again this year and are guaranteed to keep us girlies feeling cool and sexy. If the guys are daring, why not try a perforated t-shirt! And for the extremes thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sex kitten look. Get those heels out, girls! The caftan has also made a comeback. Thankfully for me my Mum is a great seamstress and has already made me two for the summer. Fringed skirts, dresses and shoes are also here. Fetishinspired heels, fringing and reptile skin. Deep v-neck tops for guys â&#x20AC;&#x201C; looks like there will be a lot of work coming for the hair removalists! Now for any of you people out there that have mocked the Emos â&#x20AC;&#x201C; others have now adopted the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Goth Ninja Trend.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Keep it up, guys!

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1600 pairs! No wonder she never wore the same pairr twice! Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a woman afterr my own heart, rt, but I do thinkk that 1600 is excessive â&#x20AC;&#x201C; not to mention expenpensive. My shoee collection at its peak only consisted ed of 73 pairs. This was when living in England. When I came here I had a mere 6 pairs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; however, I did get my Mum to courier over 10 pairs in the first year. Since living in Oz Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been home twice and on both occasions â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;stocked up.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; I love heels â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a downside when out on the town. Imagine walking down the streets of Byron, smile on your face and wiggling your hips.

Heels are good for this, as the thinner the heel, the more you wobble â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but your hips keep the balance. You end up with this â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wobble-balanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; going on â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thus creating the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;wiggle.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But suddenly you find youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking with one shoe â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the wobble is gone and turned into a frantic hop, you find youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve left your prize footwear half way up the street â&#x20AC;&#x201C;i n a crack in the pavement. A way to combat this but still get the height and the sexy calves â&#x20AC;&#x201C; wedges! You can meander along the same street without falling in the cracks and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re comfortable. Wearing a wedged heel actually feels like youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking on a flat shoe.

My favourite shoes are a brown and cream, 20s inspired pair of Prada heels. I call them my â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;restaurant shoesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;. I drive to the restaurant in bare feet, get out of the car, put them on and walk to the restaurant from wherever Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve parked. Anymore than 5 minutes walking will kill my feet, so I take them off once at my table and

theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re only worn again when I get up to go to the loo or leave. Why go through the pain you ask â&#x20AC;&#x201C; because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the most beautiful, well crafted shoe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever owned and they look hot on my feet.

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The trend in flip flops (sorry thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my pommy wording â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I mean thongs). Flip Flop is actually the original name and was invented by an Englishman called John Cowie, who started manufacturing them in the late 1940s. This is contested by New Zealander Morris Yock who patented them in 1957.

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Crimes of fashion to get up at sunrise just to give your head time to set. Makeup ’ll never forget the thrill of my in the 80s taught make up artfirst shoulder pads. There I was, ists now everything they know. just 16 with a 24 inch waist and a 65 inch shoulder. I was no longer Thanks to the fashion casualties makeup artists the world over a classic hourglass, I’d become a have developed a rule of thumb triangle. Men no longer saw me as acute, I was mysterious, even a for cosmetic perfection. Pick a feature. It might be your eyes, or little obtuse.

Suddenly I was no longer some your lips, or even your eyebrows, and make that the key. For blonde bimbo hanging out with instance you don’t wear heavy the guys from wood tech, I was eye makeup with red lipstick. One getting the intellectuals. Mathwears red lippy with a nude eye ematicians were cracking right or a nude lip with a heavy eye. It’s angles everywhere I went. ‘Hey buddy, is that a protractor in your alluring, mysterious, and a lot less drag queenie than the 80s option pants...’ of wear everything at once. BugShoulder pads made me feel ger it, go the blue eye shadow. powerful, like someone out of Giant spider eyebrows and shiny Dynasty or Dallas. Combine that with some awesome big hair and lustrous blood red lips.

In the photos of me as a I was 6 foot 5. Oh the 80s. The teenager I look about 40. The 80s decade when every woman was was about excess. Too much of truly equal. We were all ugly. The everything. Natural fibres were fashion was so fake it made you outlawed. Everything was big look like a man. Drag Queens must have loved the 80’s because and bold. Earrings were giant and it was truly one decade when you chunky and plastic. I reckon that blokes must have been pretty couldn’t tell the difference.

There was no mineral makeup, damn afraid in the 80s. Even the beautiful women looked like no natural lip gloss or hint of blokes and the really stunning blush. Blush was worn on the cheek in a giant burgundy stripe, ones actually were.

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The 80s was about excess. Too much of everything. Natural fibres were outlawed.

Everything was big and bold. embarrass someone, than dig up their 80s shots. It’s like finding their porn. Bad perms, too much makeup and stilettos with shorts.

There was a little bit of Linda Lovelace in every woman.

I envy women who had their teen years in the 60s and 70s. If you rustle up the snaps of them from their adolescent heyday they look funky. Like a photo shoot from Vogue, something that would still get a run even now.

But I’m 41 so I must claim the 80s as my own. I have committed more fashion atrocities than I care to remember and it’s time I came clean. I admit I not only wore a maillot, I wore the g-string version... with a belt. And not just to the beach. I once wore it to a party in a desperate attempt to emulate Jerry Hall in the Bryan Ferry clip....’Let’s stick together’ .

If you ever wore vinyl pants on a hot day, then it could be your anthem. In the 80s I had shoes that were so painful they required two Neurofens just to leave the house and high waisted jeans with clear plastic pockets that were so tight a walk to the shop ensured you a denim clitorodectomy. If you went dancing in the plackie pants, then you were going to need Canasten. And not

just one tube. You were going to need a backpack with a hand pump. Another one of my many fashion crimes was the body suit.

I almost lost part of a labia doing up the clips after hitting a box of Fruity Lexia. Why you’d put a hook an eye in such a sensitive area is beyond me. On the upside I created my own genital piercing.

I wore baggy denim overalls, complete with a bandana. Like a cross between Cybill Shepherd and a refugee from Dexy’s Midnight Runners I believed I was cutting edge. My favourite jeans were high waisted with pleats.

If you could leave the house wearing these daks it was assurance that you had a self esteem problem. It was obviously too high. Most of all I loved my puffy shorts. The hot pink pumpkin pants I wore with my hot pink boob tube. The cuffs made the fabric balloon around my thighs and ensured that my arse looked at least twice its size. How I ever managed to get a root in the 80s is beyond me. For the last decade I have been lamenting the lack of good contraception but I need worry no longer. The 80s are back.

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’m often asked about the latest trend in architecture. Well I guess that depends on where you are.

If you’re in and around Byron Bay then the answer would be that anything and everything must be Balinese. Or faux Balinese, actually. Except it’s not the latest trend, it’s the status quo. What’s going on? Why not an Australian house?

Is it that we simply want life to be like our holidays? If we live all the their large and spacious living time as if we are on holiday, then different type of holiday. Skiing perhaps. Imagine Byron with fake room near all the conveniences in what value will actual holidays the kitchen. Perhaps when they have? Perhaps we live on holiday snow everywhere, surely a few snow making machines wouldn’t had planned their dream home, and take a break every now and they dreamed of a life where they then to work. Come to think of it, I stretch the Council budget? Plus weren’t really TV watchers. They suppose that is what a lot of peo- snow can really conceal all manner of architectural faux pas. Just were, instead, going to sit around ple around here do. But why Baland talk, and read and drink wine like vines. ‘Surgeons bury their inese? It’s not exactly the tropics with candles burning. But that mistakes, architects grow vines’, I where we live. It’s not Far North lasted three Queensland. Wee nights, and now do have winters.. they were living Do we reout their lives in ally want to be Many families huddle in a dark airless the media room hopping from room at the back of the house every at the back. one thatched A while back, pavilion to annight, wondering why they aren’t bigger was betother when it’s using their large and spacious living ter. McMansions a full southerly appeared, even raining cats and room near all the conveniences in here in Byron, dogs? Perhaps the kitchen. Perhaps when they had albeit with a that’s when we Balinese twist. go away on a planned their dream home, they Now ‘small is holiday to work. dreamed of a life where they weren’t the new big’.

I often wonSmaller is the der whether Bareally TV watchers. new direction linese couples for sustainability. are hitting up Sustainability their Balinese and ‘green’ is the architects current trend, at least talking once read. with requests for ‘Wagga Wagga’ about it is. I’ve had clients menTrends in architecture, like style architecture or a little bit of tion sustainability, photovoltaics trends in any field, come and ‘Central Coast’. Probably not. Not and green principles, in the same quite as romantic I guess, though go. Open plan living seems to breath as wanting air conditionbe here to stay, but I wonder if we should never underestimate media rooms will go when we all ing. Sadly, most often the real the power of a few tyres scattrend is to want green principles get a bit more sensible, and start tered around the backyard as a and sustainability as long as no watching TV in our living rooms landscape feature or that post cost is involved, and then, once boxes on stiff chains can really lift again. Meanwhile, many families sustainable elements cost money, huddle in a dark airless room at the entry to a property.

Who originally picked Balinese the back of the house every night, dump them for something else wondering why they aren’t using in the budget, like a media room anyway? What if it had been a

and Balinese imports. Imagine the energy spent shipping that stuff over, not to mention the whole issue of robbing a country of its cultural items. But I don’t want to open that can of worms!

But probably the most worrying trend of all in Australia, unlike in say Europe, is to not use an architect at all. Or to use one, but just for a limited involvement. A bit like getting your hairdresser to stop cutting half way through – ‘don’t worry, I’m just going to pay you half and I can finish the haircut myself.’ Of course there are bound to be people who can and will design their own houses, and even do it well (and no doubt even a few people that can cut their own hair). My view is – and yes, of course I know I’m biased – that the money spent on a good architect, one that you like and have good rapport with, will actually provide good value, can even save you money, and more importantly, help you realise a house that might not just meet

your brief, but surpass it.

I’m convinced that the way you feel about your home affects every aspect of your life; your health, happiness, relationship, your ability to work, your general wellbeing. It’s not about it being grand or something that could be published in a magazine. It’s about the quality of space, light and an infinite number of other things that go beyond bricks and mortar and whether you have a media room. Perhaps in spending the money on an architect, we’d be less inclined to have to leave our homes in a constant search for nirvana somewhere else, like Bali. Perhaps we’d be less inclined to try and tart up a bad house with Balinese icing, opting instead for a simple and honest Australian vernacular.

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or those of us lucky enough to live in this area with the natural landscape so beautiful, whatever we can create pales into insignificance with relation to what nature originally created here.

We should be trying to restore the landscape and bring back the bush in many places; in others we might be left with the possibility of doing some landscaping. Many of us will look away from the tiny pockets of local pristine wilderness for inspiration, and look towards the resorts of Bali, or the way Japanese recreate nature in their gardens; or without thinking outside the box â&#x20AC;&#x201C; towards the TV for the often kitsch garden Licence No 208183C

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Many landscape garden publications have focussed more on the top end of town, and the trend up until the recent financial turbulence has been â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Resort Style Livingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.

This is about outside perfection, such as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;outdoor roomsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with lots of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hard scapeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x201C; flat hard areas of paving and walls, softened by swimming pools and spas, surround sound and lavish outdoor kitchens for the more seriously well heeled. These photogenic spaces, wonderfully lit up in the evening, looked appealing and inviting for those who could afford them â&#x20AC;&#x201C; though are often under utilised and of high maintenance.

Often plants in these designs are specimens only and the lawn dominates. This trend, with the dream perpetuated by desiring something unobtainable for most, is looking to being replaced by some good old home-grown selfsufficiency and getting back to the basics. With climate change happening we should be reassessing what is best for the environment â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the future is in our hands.

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MULCH Organic mulch, whether it is cut up and composted home made, recycled green waste from the tip or premium mulch from the landscape supplier is important for retaining moisture in the soil, soil improvement, maintaining more of a constant soil temperature and for weed suppression.

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Permaculture has been around for a while and is becoming more integrated into landscape design.

RECYCLING Recycled green waste turned into compost, crushed concrete and roof tiles turned into decorative gravels, old metal corrugated roofs turned into raised garden beds, old tyres into planted retaining walls, industrial waste turned into garden art….

GARDEN ART Can provide opportunity for reflection and brings pleasure and surprise to the viewer. The garden is often the perfect place to display creative work whether it is simple craft work or high end art in any material, providing it is durable enough to withstand some test of time. If a garden is passionately created it is art in itself.

LIGHTING Why just enjoy the landscape during the day, especially if most of us are away from our homes during most of this time. LED lighting technology uses very low amounts of power and is becoming popular.

WATER If rain water is captured in tanks to be used on the garden, or brought up from the ground or re-used domestic water then that is much better than using town water. Irrigation systems are becoming smarter with rain sensors and drip irrigation.

PAVING There’s been a trend towards larger size pavers, however small concrete and clay pavers are

usually the most affordable and easy to lay. There are also many new products coming onto the market with better environmental credentials. Permeable pavers allow water to infiltrate rather than become stormwater runoff.

There are also modular plastic or concrete pavers that can be filled with gravel, or soil and grass for a ‘cheaper and softer’ hard surface.

Cobblestones look great and concrete cobbles that come in a strung together ‘sheet’.

With concrete there is a myriad of colours – oxides and surface finished additives that can add interest to concrete. Concrete that has exposed aggregate and ground or polished can be more interesting.

STONEWORK There are a number of faux stone products, or real stone hand crafted into shape or finish and sent halfway across the world to be available here. It is hard to beat the basalt spewed out of Mt Warning or the sandstone from slightly further a field. Natural rock looks great in large slabs, and with the use of plants and gravel or smaller rocks between adds interest and natural effect.

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design despite this, the early design reformers would still be incensed by the public’s aesthetic taste and by their desire for comforting references to Professional design, as we know David Robertson historic and cultural symbols that it, emerged in the late 1800s as a have no functional relevance to the crusade to bring quality of lifestyle, product or environment at hand.

In 2007 the Design Institute of honesty of manufacture and a puAustralia turned sixty. Starting in The design crusade had its roots in rity of aesthetic to the masses.

Melbourne in 1947 as the Society the Industrial Revolution, a continuity Early disciples of design decried of Designers for Industry, the DIA of changes in technology, economic has spanned a period of significant the general public’s lack of taste, and systems and social organisation proattempted to impose on it an intelsocial and technological change. ceeding from the mechanization of lectual ideal of function and beauty. manufacturing. From the mid-1700s Design – the conscious manipulation of factors to achieve a desired But other commentators throughout onward, industrial production and human history have made similar outcome – is as old as human distribution progressed from water calls. The worthy part of early design- power, to the steam engine and the existence. The role of the modern ers’ aim – to bring quality goods and railway locomotive. The resulting designer, as a professional who utilitarian living environments to the changes in the volume and price of reconciles human and technical multitude – has largely been realised, manufactured goods accelerated the requirements to serve commercial at least in developed countries. But needs, is perhaps a century old. accumulation of possessions, alleviated drudgery, increased opportunities for travel, and sped the change of social systems. History will decide whether the design revolution and the communication revolution are simply parts of the Industrial Revolution or distinct eras in their own right.

Early mass-produced products and appliances were often hard to use, hard to make and unappealing. What passed for aesthetic refinement was often simply decoration applied to the surface of a product, or references to craft-based processes that had vanished from the manufacturing process. The products of the 1800s and early 1900s were built to deliver a mechanical function, but often without much thought to human needs.

The early champions of industrial design demonstrated that commercial advantage could be gained by addressing these shortcomings.

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Through the 1900s, industrial design earned a role as a bridge between consumer needs and desires and the traditionally trade-and-engineeringbased product development team.

Industrial design humanised mass production by professionalising arts and crafts skills. The social and technical changes of the last hundred years have inspired a vast array of laboursaving and life-enhancing products that industrial designers have refined and humanised. After the Second World War, focus on design for manufacturing and trade advantage in the Western world established the designer as an integral participant in industry. The democratization of tertiary education has ensured the broad spread of design skills. Design, as a structured way of approaching the development of objects and human environments, is here to stay.

Innovation is the political and commercial fashion that has supplanted the focus on design for trade advantage since the late 1990s. ‘Innovation’ is often the twenty-first century replacement for ‘invention’. The word takes the attention off manufactured goods and neatly encompasses activity associated with services – the current commercial preoccupation of the developed world. Innovation goes hand in hand with design in describing the human drive to manipulate the environment to achieve personal advantage. But innovation is a hollow promotional exercise, rather than a discipline. Unlike design, there is no specific process or activity of innovation that can be learnt or exercised. The word merely promotes the

Local, family owned and independent After many years in the bedding industry, Jaime and Allison Cramp opened Bedzzz Tweed Heads two years ago and have not looked back since.

“Choosing a mattress is not an easy decision, which is why we think customers like having the change to speak directly with the owners of the business”, Jaime said. It is the only family-owned, independent bedding store in the area so you can expect a higher level of service than you have come to expect from some of the bigger stores.

Bedzzz also offers a 30-night comfort guarantee. This means you can sleep on your new mattress at home for 30 nights and, if you’re not completely happy with your choice, they’ll exchange it for another mattress of equal or greater value.

“Another benefit of being independent is we don’t pay all the rebates and royalties that franchises do and this is reflected in our prices,” Allison said. “In fact we’re so confident we have the lowest prices, we offer a price guarantee.”

Jaime and Allison encourage you to shop around and find the best price you can. If you find a comparable mattress for a better price, they’ll beat it! Same day delivery is available on most items and they will also remove your old bedding for free. Now that’s good old-fashioned service!

contemporary furniture byron bay SIMON HILL DESIGN Simon Hill Design is a local company which prides itself on producing furniture of the highest quality. The work is clean and understated in its design and well suited to our more relaxed lifestyle.

Simon has been designing furniture for 18 years and has operated from the Byron Arts & Industry Estate for the past 7 years. His skilled use of traditional cabinet making methods are highly evident in his work.

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notion that commercial advantage lies in change.

In the 1940s, the term industrial design embraced all design associated with commercial activity.

This included interior, exhibition and display, textile, and graphic design. In the DIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lifetime, each of these areas has become a distinct specialisation in its own right, and many others have emerged.

Is there a future for design and designers? Apart from the obvious truth that designed solutions to projects have much higher probabilities of being useful and successful than ones entirely the product of chance, there is also the commercial answer â&#x20AC;&#x201C; companies employing professional design in the development of their products, environments and businesses financially outperform companies that donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Professional designers have the skills, experience, and mastery of processes required to improve the outcome of a project.

As languages tied to geography decline in importance, professional skill sets become the new languages of the world. Designers communicate with form, materials,

colour, texture, light and symbols.

Their language has both international currency and regional cultural dialects. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a living language, undergoing constant change. It has historical and cultural depth that constantly draws on and recycles references from other cultures and earlier periods. By being trained and immersed in this language, designers create the leading wave of artefacts and environments that inform societyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current and future taste â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the living design vector.

The major change within the life of the DIA has been the shift of focus from design as a crusade to the professionalisation of design as a service. There is a greater acceptance of the idea that human society has room for many outcomes and aesthetics, and that no single one is right. As a mature profession, design acknowledges the eclectic diversity of human needs and offers its skills for the commercial and social advantage of the community.

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The ‘green’ kitchen continues the ever-burgeoning movement toward an environmentally-friendly consciousness and lifestyle. Products made from sustainable materials are increasingly popular, such as ecofriendly cabinetry constructed from bamboo or wheatboard, often manufactured with low- or no-formaldehyde glues. The new induction cooktops possess innovative sensors which measure the temperature from the bottom of vivienneinteriors@gmail.com the pan and apply to the element Victoria Cosford

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the exact amount of energy needed to deliver precise cooking results every time without any wasteage at all.

With the rise in tech-savvy consumers, kitchens become accessorised with electronics rather than with traditional decor. Wall-mount televisions, sound systems – even computers are being installed.

Secondary refrigeration – in the form of under-the-counter fridge drawers, built-in mini refrigerators, wine coolers – is accommodated. Jokes are made about ovens that talk but such things exist, with fully voice-controllable ovens requiring you to tell them what temperature to set and how long your food is to be cooked.

Drawers are much larger to store a huge range of useful and important things and warming drawers assist in keeping food hot or aid in the cook’s ability to prepare and serve several courses. Master Chefs the lot of us.

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‘Green’ living is only going to become more important in the future. Bathrooms can now expect to feature LED lighting; products employing a fraction of the energy of traditional fixtures; dual flush toilets and energy-efficient showerheads. An economical use of space is the installation of dual basins fitted with one-handle faucets – faucets operated with just one hand. Water recycling becomes possible with a system known as phyto-purification, whereby an organic filtering system purifies the used water from

washbasin and shower before re-using.

A new emphasis on light fixtures and a different understanding of how light is used give rise to hidden or recessed lighting or lighting. Electronic window blinds, shower-waterproof television sets, bath multi-media systems with email, internet, phone and DVD capabilities, tanning showers, towel-warming drawers, ‘smart’ toilets which automatically open, flush and close, radiant floor heating, jetted tubs, steam showers: these are what we – or perhaps our children – have to look forward to.

And as for materials and colours – glass tiles for baths, bamboo cabinets, stone to take the coldness out of stainless steel.

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Colour-wise, white will always be popular but natural colours terracotta, rust, ocean blue, deep forest – are becomingly increasingly so.

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1. Zaishu, a seat or a table – Australian artwork by Nicola Cerini on sustainable plywood, $350 – Aurora Design Studio – Bangalow, 02 6687 2092, www.auroradesignstudio.com.au. 2. Imandeco French design African handmade childrens armchair $129 – Echidna Place, 3. Mae Wall Decals (made in Australia) from $44.95 – Echidna Place – Bangalow, 02 6687 2622. 4. Internal wall light – Byronian Lightworks – Byron Bay A&I Estate, 02 6685 5744. 5. Handcrafted Ceramic Vine Light $385 – Jules Hunt Gallery, 6. Handcrafted ceramic dove and chick from $85 – Jules Hunt Gallery – Byron Bay A&I Estate, 0408 766 546, www.juleshunt.com. 7. Scribble Pendant Light $482 – Kate Manning Interiors for Sustainable Living – Byron Bay A&I Estate, 0416 212 302. 8. Luxury vinyl plank, installed from $50/m2 – Solomons Flooring – Tweed Heads South, 07 5523 2111.

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