DG magazine 129
Black is the new black
The Jarman Award
Kingston ‘HyperX Girl’ Character Design Competition: Call for Entries
Frame, Set & Match
DG Portfolio [8]
Concrete Canopy: Serero Architectes’ Winning Design
Production Line: Exhibition
Beck Wheeler: a celebration of the handmade
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today: Exhibition
DG Student Design Competition 2008 Call for Entries and 2007 results
Olivia Desianti
Nando’s and Coca-Cola 2007 Classic Design Project Competition Winner: Mary Pham
Inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards Winners
Game On: Exhibition
Eulda 07 – European Logo Design Annual
SEX, London (fashion house) 1974–76
Vivienne Westwood (designer) born England 1941
Malcolm McLaren (designer) born England 1946
Court shoes 1974–76
leather, metal, rubber
(a-b) 17.3 x 8.5 x 23.2 cm (each)
Purchased, 1985
© Courtesy of Vivenne Westwood
Black is the new black
As the 2008 L’Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival has shown, this city’s relationship with the colour black is far from fading. The significance of this relationship, and indeed the strong presence of black in fashion design is now the subject of a major exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria, Black in Fashion: Mourning to Night.
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In the spirit of experimentation: The Jarman Award
Launched in January this year by Film London, More4 and the Serpentine Gallery, the Jarman Award seeks to award artist filmmakers who create their art in the spirit of the late Derek Jarman. The award coincides with a season of screenings of the filmmaker’s work on More4 (Channel 4′s digital arts and documentary channel), the Serpentine Gallery’s new exhibition on his work, a screening of his Super-8 films at the Tate Britain, and the UK premiere of Isaac Julian’s film biopic, entitled Derek.
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Kingston ‘HyperX Girl’ Character Design Competition
Call for Entries
Who says technology has to be boring and hard? Who says memory only exists in your computer? Kingston is calling for all character designers out there to get your magic wand out and create a fun and cool original ‘HyperX Girl’ that will become the spokesperson for Kingston’s HyperX series products.
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Frame, Set & Match
Frame, Set & Match (FSM) are one of the largest independently owned post houses in Australia. Based in Sydney, they specialise in design, visual effects, colour grading, compositing and digital intermediate. With a strong background in design, they have worked on commercials, feature films, television series, re-branding, music videos, and most recently the graphics package for Tropfest 8, the largest short film festival in the world. Not only did FSM create two packages for the event, they were also a sponsor of Tropfest 8, which reflects the company’s strong philosophy of supporting and fostering emerging filmmakers, as well as emphasising FSM’s own participatory role in the Australian film and television industry.
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DG Portfolio [8]
The annual DG Portfolio is one of the most popular showcases of creative talent. Now there are two: DG Portfolio 8 will be published in print and online.
As it is a stand-alone publication, and no longer a numbered issue of DG magazine, the shelf life of the printed edition in retail outlets is increased. The online galleries will gain an even greater audience than before. For this, the first ‘double format’ edition, we invite submissions from image professionals to make this the best collection so far.
Entries close 16 May 2008.
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Concrete Canopy: Serero Architects’ Winning Design
Serero Architects were recently awarded first prize in competition for the new auditorium and movie theater in Saint Cyprien, France.
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Production Line
Exhibition
If you are ever tempted to think that car designers aren’t wedded to their calling, just ask what they do in their spare time. A recent exhibition in Melbourne gave a glimpse of the answer when a group of Ford Australia designers decided to put on a show of their personal work. Curated by Luke-Matthew Ray, the exhibition was a collection of paintings, digital images, mixed media, photographs and … oh, yes … a car.
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Beck Wheeler
A celebration of the handmade
Beck Wheeler was born in Germany, and raised in the small suburb of Beach Haven in Auckland, New Zealand. A ‘quietly creative’ family, Beck grew up in a house of handmade clothes and toys, with a basement gallery showing off the best of Beck and her sisters’ work. After showing a keen interest in photography, art history, sculpture and painting in high school, Beck went on to study further aspects of jewellery, sculpture and painting at UNITEC in New Zealand, before moving to Australia in 2000. At the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE in Victoria she focused on graphic design and illustration, and the now Melbourne-based artist has combined her talents for painting, sculpture and toy-making in storytelling. She has recently written and illustrated her own children’s book, How Absurd!.
Her new exhibition ‘Hey, Hey, Which Way?’ centres on darker themes of death and the afterlife, however, Beck’s playful take on morality has had a very positive reception.
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Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
Throughout art history, color has often been used as a strong symbolic element by artists, driven by an inner necessity to express emotions. However, in the early twentieth century, art underwent momentous change – a move away from the perceived elitist avant-garde tradition. Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today is a fascinating exploration and manifestation of this change. Ann Temkin, Curator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MOMA, presents works by 44 contemporary artists (including six installations specifically created for the exhibition) who have helped to re-shape our perceptions about the traditional use of color and form.
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DG Student Design Competition 2008
Each year we invite students to design a cover for an imaginary issue of Design Graphics, and now DG magazine. Here are the results and a selection of entries from 2007′s competition. This competition was open to all students studying an appropriate course at an Australian tertiary institution, but after much demand, for 2008 we have added a secondary schools division. There is now an option to design a home page for a website as well as a cover for DG magazine.
Visit the Call for Entries page for more information on the 2008 DG Student Design Competition.
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Olivia Desianti
Olivia Desianti has achieved quite a lot for someone in her early twenties. By the age of twenty-one she has graduated with a degree in design (Visual Communication), begun her own online music magazine ‘Arcady’, established herself in the music photography scene, and started work as junior designer for the ‘Herald Sun’ newspaper in Melbourne.
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Nando’s and Coca-Cola 2007 Classic Design Project Competition Winner: Mary Pham
The brief: To create a design for a limited edition 385ml glass Coke bottle which conveys the theme of ‘Happiness’ or ‘Optimism’.
A judging panel which included representatives from Nando’s, Coca-Cola and the DG Design Network chose Mary Pham’s design for its lively and eye-catching response to the brief. Wrapping around the iconic Coke bottle waved circles of bright pinks, yellows, and red increase in size stretching from the top to the base of the bottle. This vibrant pattern is overlayed with fine line art in black and grey depicting Nando’s famous chicken and peri-peri chillies as cute and happy characters living in a country, perhaps called ‘Psychedelia’. It is the combination of colours and the little characters in the illustration which work to create feelings of happiness or optimism. Mary’s design not only strongly addresses the theme of the brief, but its bright visual impact also enhances Coca-Cola’s marketing of the Coke brand in store.
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Inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards Winners
In an attempt to support and promote the myriad disciplines that fall under the umbrella term ‘digital moving image’, this year the Jerwood Moving Image Awards was established to provide a platform for exploring and debating the artform as it exists today, as well as its future prospects.
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Game On
Game On is an exciting exploration and celebration of the development of video/computer game technology from the earliest electronic game, Spacewar, in 1962, played on a giant computer, to present day games and into the future. Game On looks closely at the relationship between design and culture. It examines the many areas of design in this industry, such as graphics, illustration, animation, sound, game design and technology, game consoles and much more.
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Eulda 07 – European Logo Design Annual
The 2007 European Logo Design Annual (EULDA) promotes excellence in design by showcasing 201 logos from 33 European countries. The annual presents the different quality, trends and evolution that currently take place in brand identity development.
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