First Knowledges Design: Building on Country Indian Crafts environments include the Canadian Rockies

environments include the Canadian Rockies

the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the Australian Museum

Through fifteen bright and graphic desert landscapes the book looks in detail at unusual species

where and by whom an artwork was made

Its creative focus is on that most important insect

First Knowledges Design: Building on Country Indian Crafts environments include the Canadian RockiesAboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied