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Spark Newsletter


'Spark' is the national newsletter of the DIA, currently produced tri-annually and distributed free to all DIA members, plus selected design events or organisations. It is printed in hard copy, on 100% recycled paper, and also available online in pdf format, below. 'Spark' advertising rates and specifications are also available as a separate pdf download.

Information, rates and specifications for advertising in Spark.
SPARK_Advertising_Specs.pdf - 106 kb
  • Drawing from the heart
  • Goin' out the country
  • Stylish beginnings, ignominious end
  • IKEA. Love it, buy it, hack it
  • The self, travel and centricity
  • 14th IFI World Congress
  • Big Picture winners announced
  • Colours of the coast

SPARK16_autumn_2010.pdf - 1408 kb
  • Divine Light
  • Big Picture
  • Greenhouse friendly fabrics
  • Victorian Top 7X7
  • Qdos
  • AIDA
  • Extra texture

SPARK_15_Spring09_web.pdf - 2585 kb
  • Creative Spirit: A visionary designer breaks new ground - again
  • What happened to the fun?
  • GOTYA! Textile graduates take out top honours in NSW and Victorias
  • New designers for DIA Hall of Fame
  • DIA designers prominent in ‘visionary’ 2009 Interior Design Awards
  • DIA attends Global Design Network
  • QLD 'Bubble andSpeak' Breakfast Series returns
  • Six Green Stars in the city of churches
  • Record entries lift 2009 ASDA to new high
  • Calm amidst the chaos

SPARK_14_Winter09_web.pdf - 1922 kb
  • Embracing a material world
  • DIA joins Designers Accord
  • Survive the recession
  • Joint Ventures
  • Good website design
  • Fashion graduate exhibition
  • A passion for pearls

SPARK_13_Autumn09_web.pdf - 1190 kb
  • Manifesting the dream
  • New DIA National President
  • Student Workshops
  • 2008 WA Design Awards
  • Buzz and Ella Baché
  • Top 8x8 and 9x9
  • Queensland DIA makes a splash
  • Protecting your IP

SPARK_12_Spring08_web.pdf - 1190 kb
  • Bright ideas from tomorrow’s designers
  • CATC shines again
  • New textile talent
  • 2008 Interior Design Awards
  • DIAS
  • Polo/Lauren and Parallel Imports
  • QLD Smartstate awards
  • Platform

SPARK_winter08_web.pdf - 855 kb
  • High octane kitchens from Porsche and Poggenpohl
  • Dusko Sofa
  • New office for DIA National
  • Textile fabrics of the future
  • Carr Design
  • Social pages
  • Platform
  • Off the Cuff

SPARK_autumn08_web.pdf - 855 kb
  • Magnificent Meccano
  • Stamps of approval
  • Apartheid in Design?
  • Man overboard
  • Platform
  • 2007 WA Design Awards
  • Textile design in the 1930s

spark_spring07_web.pdf - 1800 kb
  • 2007 DIA Student Design Awards
  • Bigger than Bollywood
  • 2007 ADA Awards
  • 2007 IDA Awards
  • 2007 QLD SmartState Designer Awards

spark_winter07_web.pdf - 1211 kb
  • Nothing if not brilliant
  • Room with a view
  • 2006 WA Design Forum
  • Transported into the future
  • Turning heads
  • New DIA membership structures
  • Platform

spark_autumn07_web.pdf - 2924 kb
  • Curves of Steel
  • 2006 SA Design Awards
  • Hall of Fame
  • Leaving the comfort zone

spark_summer07_web.pdf - 1198 kb
  • Lost in space
  • National and state design awards
  • 2006 Student Design Awards
  • Textile designs and fabrics
  • Platform

SPARKspring2006_Web.pdf - 3500 kb
  • Football trophy design
  • CIPG Victorian launch
  • Textile design wall
  • Platform
  • Bag production
  • Design in Sport

SPARK_Autumn_2006.pdf - 1900 kb
  • Confessions of a design heretic
  • Everyday things of beauty
  • Re-arranging the furniture
  • Platform
  • Textiles
  • Xperiment 05

SPARK_Spring_2005.pdf - 1700 kb
  • Pushing the boundaries
  • Hall of Fame rekindled
  • 2005 Student Design Awards
  • We’re a weird mob
  • 2005 Queensland Design Awards
  • Textiles

SPARK_Winter_2005.pdf - 1500 kb
  • Queen’s Baton
  • What’s happening in the DIA?
  • World’s best bathroom designer

SPARK_Autumn_2005.pdf - 365 kb