Learn Something Everyday
Simple illustrations featuring new facts everyday. See them here.

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Beniffer Editions

Andrew Zukerman - Book and Cassette
Music: Bram Devens
Art/Printing: Jacob Horwood
Insert: Andrew Zukerman & Randy Gagne
Exploding Motor Car member’s silkscreen ephemera and experimental music packaging:
“Look at this! Consists of 32 pages of collage images done with drawing, photocopies and 2-colour screenprint. Often potent and engrossing, the collection is a true testament to the ever evolving [...]

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Justin Lee Williams

The work of Melbourne based artist/illustrator Justin Lee Williams is delicate yet also slightly confronting: through the use of some dysfunctional proportions. The balance of decorative elements alongside mythical creatures, plus animals from our world: Williams art is truly engaging.

You can read DG’s interview with Justin Lee Williams here. Visit his site [...]

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Riki’s Food Blog

Riki Takaoka is a freelance cartoonist. He explains: “I love to draw what’s around me and whats in my head”, including beautiful sketches of what he likes to eat.
You can find his blog here, and his Etsy shop here.
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The Illustrators Australia 20th Year Anniversary Exhibition will be held over a weekend in June as part of the Northern Exposure Festival at the Northcote Town Hall, Melbourne.
This exhibition gives you the chance to view the creative process as employed by the professional illustrators involved. The work on display ranges from initial concepts and sketches [...]

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Kate McCurdy
Absolute Watchmen is just that: complete, definitive, absolute.
The oversized hardcover edition of this ground-breaking graphic novel is considered to be a prized item to any collector of comics and graphic novels, as well as those of good literature.
The 1986 comic, Watchmen, was classed by Time magazine among its ‘100 best English-language novels from 1923 [...]

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Zero Per Zero grew from a collaboration between two university students in Korea: Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol. Operating with an experimental approach to creating information design, illustration and animation, Kim Ji-Hwan talks to Caroline McCurdy about the ideas behind their award-winning designs.
Early Days
After meeting at university (they studied Visual Design together at Hongik [...]

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Justin Lee Williams is an Australian artist/illustrator who is noted and acclaimed for the intriguing, highly distinctive qualities in his work. The emotive characters with intricate details offer a different world: containing extraordinary, nonconformist scenes.
Starting Point
Lead by his love for art and illustration, Justin Lee Williams studied graphic design at Swinburne University in Melbourne. However, [...]

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It’s here! The long-awaited Oz Graphix 6 is now available.
In five previous editions, Oz Graphix established itself as the premiere showcase of Australian studio creativity. This sixth edition is packed with work that will inspire and inform. Whether your interest is in graphics, branding, photography, illustration or web design, you’ll find Oz Graphix 6 an [...]

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Bruno Novelli, better known as 9li, is a Brazilian artist whose works are equally as extraordinary visually as they are in meaning. His current exhibition META, explores themes about spiritism, alchemy and metaphysics, as well as his own life experiences.

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Caroline McCurdy
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Bruno Novelli, better known as 9li, is a Brazilian artist whose works are equally as extraordinary visually as they are in meaning. His current exhibition META, explores themes about spiritism, alchemy and metaphysics, as well as his own life [...]

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Caroline McCurdy
The Narrows gallery in Melbourne hosts a wide range of work from local, national and international artists/designers. The curator of the diverse art space, Warren Taylor speaks about the most important aspects of running a gallery.
What was your idea [...]

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It is difficult these days to come across design that does not include some kind of hand-generated elements. The most common example is for giving a corporate identity a more organic appearance. The DIY theme seems to have really taken off lately. Michael (Mike) Perry’s Over & Over is a generous [...]

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Review
Caroline McCurdy
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It is difficult these days to come across design that does not include some kind of hand-generated elements. The most common example is for giving a corporate identity a more organic appearance. The DIY theme seems to have really [...]

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In a recent issue, DG magazine online covered Studio Output’s interior design for Seven, a small hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Intrigued by their approach to this brief, we decided to take a closer look at the work done by this [...]

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