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 [...]
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 [...]
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). [...]
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 [...]
Bonsai (Scottie Neoh), OH54 (Paul Milecharane), Nails (Niels Oeltjen) and Twoone (Hiroyasu Tsuri) are Wooden Foundations. Sharing the common bond of the spray can, these artists have each developed vibrant art and design practices. For this show they will create an installation which explores artistic oin-gallery collaboration as an extension of their street-based collabs. As [...]
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 [...]
Gorker Gallery 2nd Birthday celebrations will be kicking off this Thursday 1st July with The Forty Thieves 3: The Third Offence The Forty Thieves 3: The Third Offence group exhibition is the third installment of the popular annual group exhibition series ‘The Forty Thieves’. Curated by Luke Matthews and Lauren Biedrzycki, The Forty Thieves 3: [...]
Alex Naghavi from Brisbane and Vladimir Zokic from Canberra, have won a national competition calling on creative young Australians to design a limited edition tin to help make carrying condoms as normal as carrying a mobile phone or keys. Alex Naghavi Alex is a talented Designer, Photographer and Illustrator, who entered the competition to not [...]
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 [...]
The fifth State of Design Festival is set to Change By Design this year, with new look website and a host of events across Victoria. Held 14 – 25 July, the 2010 Festival presents a broad program of exciting, revealing and informative events under the theme Change by Design. This year’s Festival boasts four major [...]
Semi-Permanent & Dosh Wallets, Sydney, 2010 Semi-Permanent and Dosh Wallets launch search to find the next generation Dosh designer. 12th March 2010: Semi-Permanent, Australia’s leading design festival, has partnered with forward thinking wallet brand, Dosh, to find the next generation Dosh designer. The competition is calling for artists to submit a piece of work which [...]
Regular Graphic Design Today Regular Graphic Design Today, looks at the shifts which have taken place: socially, aesthetically, and culturally in graphic design/visual communication, through current designer’s work. Work which has been shaped by “mass-culture, sub-culture, context, aesthetics of reception and connection” (François Rappo). The collection of pieces also aims to identify a “turning point” [...]
