• Nick Cave – the Exhibition
• Sixty40
• nailgun* goes Universal
• Studio Output
• Childhood imaginings: The Work of Andrew Bennett
• New look PMA for 2008
• The World of the Book

Nick Cave – the Exhibition

Australian songwriter/musician Nick Cave is appearing at the Victorian Arts Centre in an exhibition that shows the many sides of his talents: aural and visual, writing and performing. Being able to view a collection that attempts to delve deep into the inner-workings of this darkly creative mind, Kate McCurdy discovers can be a fascinating experience.
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Sixty40

How to achieve a balance between commercial, the interesting and the beautiful.
Sydney motion graphics and animation studio, Sixty40, is definitely on a roll. Headed by Matt Taylor, Animation Director (the non-bearded one) and Mark Simpson, Design Director (bearded), one word that seems to sum up the last seven years of Sixty40 is ‘awesome’.
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nailgun* goes Universal

Award-winning New York design/production studio brings intriguing narrative direction to redesign of Universal Channel, a television network seen in over 19 territories in Latin America.
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Studio Output

There are some people who associate different colours with different days of the week. Perhaps Monday is red, Tuesday is yellow, with the weekends taking on a purple or bluish hue. UK design studio Studio Output seem to have adapted this idea in response to the interior design of a new boutique hotel in the heart of Bangkok, Thailand.
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Childhood imaginings: The Work of Andrew Bennett

Contemporary Australian artist, Andrew Bennett, has a particular fondness for producing images that are derived from the imaginary world of childhood. Working in acrylics on canvas, he carefully positions familiar things in familiar spaces. While the familiar comfortably beckons us, we soon become aware that Bennett has tweaked these cosy images by playing with scale, time and perspective. The effect is surreal.
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New look PMA Show for 2008

The Photo Marketing Association International has again joined forces with the Photo Imaging Council of Australia to promote for the second time the new show concept for the Asia-Pacific photo imaging industry.
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The World of the Book

Book review
Every once in a while, a book that demands your attention appears. For designers, one has just been published.
Compiled from the Rare Books Collection of the State Library of Victoria, Des Cowley and Clare Williamson have presented in The World of the Book a captivating and relevant document of the history of great books and publishing innovations. An important aspect of the book is the authors’ recognition of design and typography as essential elements of book production. While the subject matter clearly originated in many countries over several centuries, it draws strongly upon the collection of the State Library of Victoria.
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