About Courtney van der Weyden
Courtney van der Weyden
Courtney van der Weyden is the Digital Content manager for 6.2, curating and managing content across White Spaces and the iPad Magazine, the Black Report. Part time Instagram addict.White Spaces Together with Vivid Sydney Present IF Talks: Making Ideas Happen
May 23, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Gathering panelists with experience in getting ideas into action across Australia and the world.
June 6 | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia MCA Lounge | 7.30 pm
From a comedian, innovation specialist, digital marketer, cancer fighter,…
A Zero Energy House
May 22, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Soleta House is a prototype in a line of eco-friendly homes currently on display in Bucharest, Romania outside of the American embassy. The quasi-open plan house includes high-tech, clean energy systems that can be controlled with a smart…
PRO Files: The Critical Creative Society
May 20, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
PRO Files is a new addition to White Spaces that will feature short films of people we deem of interest. It is a collaboration with 85 Productions. 85 Productions consist of a team of two that work in unison to create content that positions and…
The birth of ART…for Opportunities: An Interview with the Founder
May 17, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
White Spaces recently sat down and spoke with ART for Opportunities (AFO) founder Lauren Ivery about her not for profit that was envisioned during a recent trip to the Thai-Burma border. Now a reality, AFO is raising much deserved funds…
A House Powered by Exercise
May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish design firm Elii has created the JF-Kit House, based on “an image of a possible future where citizens produce part of their domestic energy requirements with their own physical activities.”
Each room in the concept…
Argentina Ghost Town Re-Emerges
May 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
An Argentinian town that was underwater for a quarter of a century has re-emerged as an eerie ghost town that according to the New York Daily looks like a bizarre, post-apocalyptic landscape that captures a traumatic moment in time.
The Epecuen…
Creative Start-ups find Home in Abandoned gas Station
May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
A retro style gas station in Los Feliz, Los Angeles is on the fast track to becoming a community orientated, multi-purpose space. It will be radically transformed into a ‘marketplace where start-up companies and individuals can…
App Transforms iPhone into Hearing Aid
May 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
UK-based BioAid is an iPhone app that provides hearing impaired with a means to amplify the sounds within their environment. It transforms the iOS into a wearable hearing aid with the use of headphones. The way in which it works is quite simple.…
Art Meets Science: Masks Created from Strangers DNA
May 9, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Information artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg has created a rather bizarre series of sculptures for her project Stranger Visions. The sculptures are based on pieces of information; DNA that has been extracted from objects located in public…
Ad uses Photographic Trick to Make it Visible only to Children
May 8, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Spanish organisation Aid to Children and Adolescents at Risk has created a bus stop advert that displays two different messages to adults and children simultaneously. Two messages are shown using lenticular photography technology that…
FailCon Comes to Sydney this May for Vivid Sydney
May 7, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
It’s time to stop being afraid of failure and start embracing it! Brought you by 6.2 | An Innovation Lab and held in conjunction with Vivid Sydney, FailCon Sydney is a conference celebrating failure, shared through stories by fascinating…
Tech Company bans Email
May 3, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Nara’s vision is to humanise the internet and they way we search for information. The company seeks to make the internet more personalised through search recommendations and by eliminating the distracting noise that can interfere…
PivotDesk: Helping Start-ups who Need Space
May 1, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
PivotDesk is a new online platform seeking to eliminate one of the biggest barriers start-ups face, finding suitable office space. The website is able to streamline the process for budding entrepreneurs and supports online transactions…
Citizens Collaborate for Smart Water Management
April 29, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
IBM is leveraging the crowd In South Africa to keep track of water infrastructure and sources with their latest tool WaterWatchers. Launched on World Water Day in the City of Tshwane, the aim of the project is to help capture, share and analyse…
Splitsecnd, Your Emergency Contact
April 24, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Splitsecnd is a GPS-enabled key that instantly connects the driver of a vehicle to emergency personnel when an accident occurs. It significantly reduces the time it takes for life-saving care to reach victims. It is simply plugged into the…
What Would Entice you to Move to a Shrinking City
April 24, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Niagara Falls Community Development Department is bringing a new generation of engaged youth into the town. The department is currently accepting applications for ‘urban pioneers’, luring them with the promise…
Platform to Diagnose Medical Conditions
April 19, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
CrowdMed uses the collective intelligence of hundreds of ‘medical detectives’ to assist in solving the world’s most difficult and unusual medical cases with the implementation of their online platform. The company…
How Oakley Tested their Wearable Platform
April 19, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Earlier this year Oakley introduced new product Airwave to their range that propelled goggle design and technology to the next level. With a built-in heads up display in the form of a fourteen inch feed that integrates GPS and bluetooth, …
Forensic Artists Proves Women don’t know Their own Beauty
April 17, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Dove’s public relations and marketing campaign Real Beauty launched in 2004. Ogilvy Toronto has breathed new life into the campaign enlisting the support and talent of a forensic artist. Artist Gil Zamora was employed to draw sketches…
Monocle Opens Cafe in London
April 15, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Global affairs magazine Monocle launched in London, 2009. It publishes ten issues a year, has a solid online presence and took to the air in 2011 with a twenty-four hour radio station. It was during 2011 that the publication launched their…
Cafe Drive-in for Cyclists
April 11, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Zurich city council has installed the ‘Velokafi’; a drive in platform for cyclists. Housed on the terrace of the Rathaus Cafe, are two wooden docking stations with tabletops, complete with a slot at the front that enables …
The Future of Passwords
April 11, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
In the not to distant future it may be possible to access private and restricted information with a thought, known as ‘pass thoughts’ and will replace the need for passwords. This new body of research has been conducted at the University…
TEDxSydney unveils 2013 performer line-up
April 10, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
4 May 2013, Sydney Opera House
Annual ideas festival, TEDxSydney, today revealed the Australian performers who will share their music and passions on stage on 4 May at Sydney Opera House – including a preview of the new collaboration between…
Walgreens set to Become a Zero Energy Retail Store
April 3, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
US drug store chain, Walgreens have set an ambitious goal of becoming the countries first zero energy retail store. With the fusion of various technologies the store will generate and reduce its energy consumption. The company proposes that…
A Clean Machine that could Remove Tons of Plastic from Oceans
April 2, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Boyan Slat, a nineteen-year-old engineering student has been focusing on a problem that has plagued the world for decades now; ocean pollution. It is estimated that one third of the global ocean surface is covered in plastic pollution. Therefor…
Postcards from Google Earth
April 2, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Postcards from Google Earth are a series of screenshots collected by Brooklyn based artist, Clement Valla. At a first glance it appears as though there was an error or glitch when the image was captured. However the effect occurs when algorithms…
Foursquare’s new Office Space
March 28, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Social media networking company Foursquare recently relocated to their 28,000 foot new office in Soho, New York. The space was designed with the assistance of Audra Canfield from Designer Fluff. Take a browse through the images below.
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Travelling Pop up Agency
March 25, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Pop Up Agency was founded by six students who adopted the popular trend of the pop-up concept with a unique twist. The concept has gained a successful footing in retail, hospitality and travel and will now be adapted to the design agency. …
Electric Tattoos Printed onto Skin
March 21, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden 1
The University of Illinois has developed an electric tattoo that is capable of remotely tracking patients symptoms including heat rate, temperature, strain and hydration. According to Wired magazine, the design is “paving the way…
Australian Wine Industry Design Competition
March 21, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Association of Australian Boutique Winemakers (AABW) is currently calling on winemakers to submit entries in the 2013 Australian Wine Design Competition. The competition is devoted to label design and its harmony with the bottle it …
Water Generator Billboard
March 20, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru has implemented an interesting and innovative way to recruit new students for the year 2013. Enlisting the help of agency DraftFCB, the uni created the world’s first water …
Floating Structures to Clean air Pollution
March 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden 3
Designers Hao Tian, Huang Haiyang and Shi Jianwei have envisioned a new type of skyscraper titled the pH Conditioner. The design was submitted to the annual Evolo Skyscraper Competition. The competition recognises innovation in design,…
Saatchi Works with Homeless to Create ad Copy
March 18, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The Big Issue vendors have partnered with advertising agency M&C Saatchi to create a series of advertisements that visualise their unique retail business. Five designs were selected to be featured on billboards and in magazines across…
Coffee Farm pops up in CBD of Melbourne
March 14, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
An urban coffee farm and brew bar has popped up in the CBD of Melbourne, Australia. One hundred and twenty trees have temporarily inhabited the red stairs of the public amphitheatre located on the Yarra River. Design firm HASSELL designed…
Infographic: Twitter Tweet Cheat Sheet
March 14, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
Digital agency Linchpin SEO have created infographic: Twitter Tweet Cheat Sheet. Designed to help brands get the most out of the social media platform, it will also assist in increasing engagement and insure marketing efforts are not going…
Japan Erects Sculpture of the Last Standing Tree from Tsunami
March 13, 2013 | Courtney van der Weyden
The last surviving tree from the devastating tsunami that swept across the coast of Rikuzentakata in the Iwate prefecture has been transformed into a massive sculpture. It has been erected to mark the two-year anniversary of the …
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