Learn the inner workings of retail professionals at MSFW’s Business Breakfast SeriesMelbourne’s retailers, designers, fashion industry leaders and marketers can access a wealth of business expertise at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week’s (MSFW) Business Breakfast Series, proudly presented by the Victorian Government and the City of Melbourne. Running from Monday 30 August through to Friday 3 [...]

Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Robert Lepage, Jack Charles, Hotel Pro Forma, Michael Clark Company, Thomas Adès, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Akram Khan Company, The Black Arm Band & Beck’s Festival Bar The 25th Melbourne Festival, and the second under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, announces a dynamic and emotive program of work from some of the finest creative [...]

During September in select cinemas around Australia, Madman presents REEL ANIME 2010, showcasing five of the freshest anime feature films this side of Tokyo. Following the sold-out success of the 2008 Showcase, which featured ‘The Girl Who Leapt Through Time’ and ‘Appleseed: Ex Machina’, this latest crop of films has something for everyone: from the [...]

AWARD, Australia’s pre-eminent creative industries body, has announced changes to its 2011 awards programme. AWARD, the Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association, counts some of the finest creative minds from Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia amongst its members. It is a non-political, non-profit organisation that aims to set standards of creative excellence, to promote creativity [...]

Comrad Couture (2009), ACMI: Berlin on Film 2010 The Australian Centre for the Moving Image, in association with the Goethe-Institut, presents - Berlin on Film Thursday 4 November – Monday 8 November 2010 To coincide with the Berlin Dayz cultural festival and the twentieth anniversary of the reunification of Germany, the Australian Centre for the Moving [...]

Alex Prager, Desiree MoMA’s annual photography series highlights four contemporary artists with new photography in 2010 U.S. Debut of Alex Prager’s Despair (2010) and Elad Lassry’s Untitled (2009) Marks the First Time Film Has Been Included in a New Photography Installation New Photography 2010: Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, Amanda Ross-Ho September 29, 2010—January [...]

Semi‐Permanent a celebration of all things art and design is back in 2010 to inspire Melbourne’s thriving creative community yet again. While some may think it’s the forum where design nerds gather to fight against the evils of Comic Sans, Semi‐Permanent offers an eye‐opening insight into the broad streams of design, and where those varying crafts [...]

Cheddar Jalapeno Cheetos with Geraldo Features, colored pencil on paper, 30 x 22 in.  (76 x 56 cm.), 2009 Eric Yahnker was born in Torrance, California. He received his B.F.A. in animation from the California Institute Of Arts and studied journalism at University of Southern California.  Recent solo exhibitions include Nervous Surf, Galerie Jeanroch Dard, [...]

International interest in the sophisticated and aesthetic visualization of complex information made Data Flow a bestseller. Today, more and more graphic designers, advertising agencies, motion designers, and artists work in this area. New techniques and forms of expression are being developed. Consequently, the demand for information on this topic has grown enormously. Data Flow 2 [...]

The word “planetes” is Greek for “wanderers,” just as planets wander across the sky. The drawings presented in this show portray nomadic peoples roaming, gathering, and socializing in a seemingly endless forest where all possibilities are considered. Drawings from the forest series are an ongoing project, and they themselves are always expanding, evolving and changing [...]

The next installment of Australia’s typography exhibition GO FONT UR SELF* takes place on Thursday 19th August at new space LO-FI Collective, Taylor Square, Sydney from 6pm. Proudly presented by Kirin© GO FONT UR SELF* is back for another round with Chapter 5. The touring exhibition, which is a calendar event in the wonderful world of [...]

Underground Cinema is a secret film screening event held in undisclosed locations throughout Melbourne. The locations and even the films identity are kept a mystery. Undergound Cinema are not your average cinema experience, as they describe arriving at one of their locations alike “walking onto a film set, with live performances recreating elements of the [...]

Annual, James Kape, photographed by Dan Hilburn, © 2010 James Kape is a designer from Sydney, Australia who does a little bit of everything, but has so far specialized in a variety of print-media, some web and branding. He has worked for names such as ‘Ksubi’ (Australian fashion collective) and ‘Ben Frost’ (Australian street artist). [...]

Disco Chair by KIWI&POM – Photography: Jon Tonks Commissioned by Wallpaper* Magazine, the ‘Disco Chair’ is a bespoke one-off illuminated furniture concept. Constructed from 200 linear metres of illuminated wire, the chair transforms into a neon rainbow when powered. A pulse setting enables the chair to flash on and off creating an instant disco installation [...]

Directed by Special Problems, Produced by Special Problems, Live Action: Produced by Jett Steiger and Peter Brant for Team G, DP: Kevin Phillips, Costume Designer: Erica Frank, Post-production/animation/edit by Special Problems, Additional animation: Curtis Baigent, Commissioned by Warp Films A second single from Flying Lotus’ self-proclaimed “space opera” Cosmogramma, MmmHmm features renowned bassist Thundercat (Sa-Ra [...]