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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A from ABECEDA by Karel Teige, Prague, 1926 “Karel Teige (1900-1951) was the brightest star in the brilliant constellation of Czech avant-garde artist-writers of the 1920s and ‘30s. A constructivist and a surrealist, a poet, collagist, photographer, typographer and architectural theorist, his 1926 photomontage designs for the alphabet are a uniquely elegant and witty invention, [...]

Look.Stop.Shop is a design-led walk through Melbourne’s City Centre. A selected group of retailers have created special window displays and in-store installations exploring sustainable design. Look.Stop.Shop includes a broad field of traders from department stores to tiny boutiques, vertical retailers, designer-owned and operated spaces and pop-up shops for fashion, books, furniture, flowers and objects. With [...]

Occupying a special place in everyone’s diary, the Melbourne Design Market is now held twice a year in July & December. Over 10,000 visitors are drawn to its carpark location at Melbourne’s Federation Square, transformed for each occasion into a design show that features the latest in fashion, homewares, furniture, lighting and much more. There [...]

T-post works a lot like a magazine subscription. Every five weeks, subscribers from over 50 countries receive a new issue/t-shirt in the mail. The offbeat news story is printed on the inside back of the shirt. And a graphic artistʼs interpretation of that news story is printed on the front. For subscribers, the comment “Nice [...]

Design Capital State of Design Festival to explore the future of Victoria’s built environment, mobility systems and digital strategy The 2010 State of Design Festival’s business program, Design Capital, will focus on how three interrelated areas – the built environment, mobility systems and digital strategies, are helping businesses address the big issues they face in [...]

Curated by Clare Lewis – as part of the Firstdraft Emerging Curators Program supported by Arts NSW Laresa Kosloff, Spirit & Muscle, 2006, digital video, 4:39 minutes. Image courtesy and © the artist and Neon Parc. A new exhibition opening at Firstdraft this month explores six contemporary Australian artists’ post-minimalist tendencies. Artists: Peter Adsett, Gail [...]