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Data Flow 2

Aug 18, ’10 10:06 AM

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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 expands the definition of contemporary information graphics. The book features new possibilities for diagrams, maps, and charts. It investigates the visual and intuitive presentation of processes, data, and information. Concrete examples of research and art projects as well as commercial work illuminate how techniques such as simplification, abstraction, metaphor, and dramatization function. The book also includes interviews with experts such as The New York Times’s Steve Duenes, Infosthetics’s Andrew Vande Moere, Visualcomplexity’s Manuel Lima, ART+COM’s Joachim Sauter, and passionate cartographer Menno-Jan Kraak as well as text features by Johannes Schardt about the challenges in creating effective information graphics and about the relationship between complexity, clarity, content, and innovation.

Offering practical advice, background information, case studies, and inspiration, Data Flow 2 is a valuable reference for anyone working with or interested in information graphics.

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No Vacancy: Planetes – New Works by Acorn

Aug 11, ’10 1:20 PM

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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 with experience and time. “Embracing a new, folksy, semi-spiritualist aesthetic, Acorn’s show is an obsessively drawn world of beings who are roaming, gathering and socialising in a seemingly endless forest where all possibilities are considered. Here modern tribalism is evoked and the force of folk art mixes with hyper-detailed penmanship.” Gemma Jones, The Vine

Originally from the west coast of North America, acorn has been working and living in Melbourne for more than two years. With a focus on traditional mediums he has spent most of his drawing time developing his craft with an ensemble of pens and inks. The characters and patterns in his work stem from no single culture or religion, but are part of an ongoing focus for creating something unique all together. An endless task.

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No Vacancy Gallery
34-40 Jane Bell Lane, QV, Melbourne
Opening night: Thursday 12th August: 6:00pm ‐ 9:00pm
Exhibition Runs Untill: 12th – 22nd August
Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm

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No Vacancy: Wooden Foundations

Jul 1, ’10 12:06 PM

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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 collectors of miscellany and users of recycled material in their artwork, the collective has gone one step further and committed to creating installation almost entirely out recycled/reclaimed/re-used material.

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No Vacancy Gallery
34–40 Jane Bell Lane, QV, Melbourne.

Opening night: Thursday 1st July: 6:00pm ‐ 9:00pm
Exhibition Runs Untill: 2nd July – 16th July

Trading Hours:
Monday: Gallery Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00am – 6:00pm
Saturday: 11:00am – 5:00pm
Sunday: 12:00am – 5:00pm


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EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK

Jul 1, ’10 11:53 AM

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Illustrated with striking, candid photography, EVERFRESH: BLACKBOOK provides a rare and exclusive insight into the life of the studio, the artists behind the work and the culture of the elusive underground art world—a world usually cloaked in anonymity.

The group known as Everfresh—artists Sync, Phibs, Reka, Rone, Wonderlust, Prizm, Meggs, Makatron and The Tooth—create works which fuse intense colour, intricate line work, iconic characters and visual narratives, using the most diverse street art and graffiti techniques. The Everfresh crew are the key players that continue to shape Melbourne’s dynamic and prolific street-art scene.
Everfresh Studio is an explosive hub of creation and activity, inconspicuously located in Melbourne’s inner-city suburb of Collingwood. Behind an unmarked factory door, Everfresh artists conceive, develop and collaborate to produce their now internationally renowned work for the streets, as well as fine art for exhibition in galleries and to furnish the art market’s growing appetite for street art.

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T-post: Wearable Magazines

Jun 30, ’10 4:53 PM

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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 shirt” now becomes an invitation to tell the story behind the design and create dialogue about an interesting world event.
More than just an innovative social brand, T-post is also an environmentally conscience one. To reduce waste, T-post is only sold online to subscribers using the principles of on demand manufacturing, i.e. making only what consumer’s want. Additionally, shirts are sweatshop-free, often organic, and printed with eco-certified inks.

For more information:
See their site here, their YouTube, and Facebook

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Gorker Gallery – The Forty Thieves 3: The Third Offence

Jun 30, ’10 4:35 PM

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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: The Third Offence showcases an exciting line-up of forty of the best leading local and international street and fine artists, each asked to create a work in the theme of a mug shot.

ACORN // ALASTAIR MOONEY // BEC WINNEL // BEN FROST // BRETT CHAN // BRETT MANNING (USA) // BRIDGE STEHLI // CAMELLIE (UK) // CAT RABBIT // DARREN HENDERSON // DEB // DREWFUNK // EAMO // EARS // HAW // ILYA MILSTEIN // JAGI // JAMES JIRAT PATRADOON // JULIA RICH // JUSTIN LEE WILLIAMS // JUSTIN WALLIS (USA) // KAREENA ZEREFOS // KELLY THOMPSON (NZ) // MAKATRON // NATE HOLMES TRAPNELL // NIOR // OTIS CHAMBERLAIN // REGAN TAMANUI // RIK LEE // SASKIA PANDJI SAKTI // SEAN MORRIS // SEAN EDWARD WHELAN (JPN) // SLOW DEATH // STABS // STEFF WILSON // SUTU // TOBIAS J // TRISTAN JALLEH // TWOONE // VEXTA

Be prepared to see some of the finest, dirtiest, and in some cases most unsuspecting crims around. To help with the celebrations, Gorker Gallery will be hosting it’s very own mug shot wall, complete with a special guest photographer to snap away at all the opening night repeat offenders.

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Gorker Gallery – Leah Bartholomew

Jun 16, ’10 4:26 PM

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Leah Bartholomew’s second solo exhibition These are the Days, at Gorker Gallery, 17 – 27 June.

Following the success of her debut solo exhibition Where the Dry Leaves Fall, Leah Bartholomew is set to impress us all with her new body of work.
These are the Days is an intimate exploration of the small, special moment that bind us together in friendship and create a sense of place. The prints, collages and paper sculptures delicately handcrafted by Bartholomew tell the story of a protracted coming of age, anchored in the landscapes of both experience and imagination.

From poetics scenes such as the group of friends lazing in a sun-drenched field, to the bonding of the shared beer in city back streets, to the quiet moment of solitude amongst prismatic trees, these works honour the events and emotions that can seem almost insignificant at the time, but go on to become important memories and dreams. They convey a similar feeling to that of discovering the smell of bonfire on a pair of jeans that you haven’t worn for weeks.

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Girlfriends, Leah Bartholomew

Opening Night Thursday 17 June, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Show runs until Sunday 27 June
Gorker Gallery opening hours:
3pm – 7:00pm Wednesday – Friday
11am – 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday
Wine Tasting Wednesday 23 June 6:00pm – 7:00pm
(Brought to you by Austin Wines)

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Jacqueline Pytyck

Jun 15, ’10 3:11 PM

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Jacqueline Pytyck is a freelance illustrator and designer, graduated from Ontario College of Art and Design, with an appetite for the mysterious. Upon completion of her thesis, ‘Cold Shoulder and Other Recipes,’ she was awarded the Medal of Excellence for her body of works. Since then, she has been fortunate to have her illustrations featured in numerous publications, e-blogs, galleries, curated projects, as well as, upon urban apparel; Some of which include Applied Arts, Maclean’s, LyteArts, Monster Threads, Wilkintie and The Working Proof.
Her ultimate goal is to create conceptual illustrations that expose social boundaries, and conduct dramatic visual relationships between space and form. These days, Jacqueline resides in Canada, producing images that she hopes, will instill wonder and remedy cosmic angst.

See more of Jacqueline’s work here, and keep an eye out for her work appearing on The Working Proof

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State of Design: Design Capital

Jun 15, ’10 2:48 PM

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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 today’s economic climate.
This innovative program comprises seven key events featuring real-life case studies on the importance of design in a sustainable future. With Melbourne’s population growing faster than any other city in Australia, Design Capital will look at new models for urban planning and public and private modes of transportation. Design Capital will also explore the potential for using the vast amount of information on how our cities and businesses operate – currently held by public and private organisations – to improve citizen experiences.

BUILT: RETROFITTING THE GRID
Tuesday 20 July 2010
The biggest issue confronting the creation of sustainable cities is the inefficiency of existing commercial building stock. In this session the panel will discuss the sustainability case for retrofitting existing buildings to improve their environmental performance and the short to medium term gains for property developers, landlords, materials and services suppliers.
Panel members include Rob Murray-Leach, CEO of the Energy Efficiency Council, Ninotschka Titschkosky, Principle Architect of BVN Architecture, and Romilly Madew, CEO of the Green Building Council of Australia.

SUSTAINABLE AND MORE PROFITABLE
Wednesday 21 July 2010
Melbourne is home to a number of innovators who are changing how we design and engineer new buildings. Their research and development affects design and construction processes, the overall sustainability performance of a building and the experience of being in the space. This opportunity to learn about the commercial benefits of sustainable construction and design is not to be missed.
Panel members include: Nonda Katsalidis, Director of Unitised Buildings, Callum Fraser, Director of Elenberg Fraser, Ian Jones, CEO of Vipac, and Dylan Brady, Director of Studio505.
Supported by Master Builders Association of Victoria.

DIGITAL: MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Thursday 22 July 2010
Digital strategies are critical to building brands. This reality is prompting governments, councils and small to large companies to invest in the digital realm. Apple is a pioneer in using the internet to simultaneously educate users about their products while incorporating user feedback to improve their future releases.
Our panel explains how councils through to innovative companies are implementing digital strategies. Panel members include: Dan Hill, Senior Consultant of Arup, Sam Davy, Brand Director of Crumpler and former Global Creative Director of Apple Inc and Dave King, CEO of The Royals.
Sponsored by Diadem.

MOBILITY: THE FUTURE OF PERSONAL EMOTIONAL MOBILITY
Chris Bangle, Chris Bangle and Associates (Italy)
Tuesday 19 July 2010
We want to live in cities admired for their pedestrian-friendly streets and efficient transport corridors. Yet we are constantly challenged getting from A to B and being on the move is plagued with concerns about time, our state of mind and our carbon footprint. How we solve the current issues facing our urban environments is an issue Chris Bangle is passionate about. Bangle’s innovative, highly successful and at times controversial sixteen years at BMW proves he is more than capable of steering change through complex industrial contexts. Bangle will provide his unique insights into current and future trends in mobility, including what will enable and hinder change in new automobiles and his planned role within this emerging world of eco-friendly mobility trends.

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Chris Bangle, Chris Bangle and Associates

SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS TO INSPIRE
Els Zijlstra, Materia (The Netherlands)
Friday 16 Jul 2010
Sustainability should be integrated into every design where comfort, functionality, economics and beauty are important. Els’will explore sustainable and inspirational materials in her Design Capital session. Els Zijlstra is founder and creative director of Materia, a platform between the creative professional and the Industry. By gathering innovative materials worldwide and exposing them through a search engine, lectures, books and articles, international travelling, fairs and consultancy Materia aims to become the central worldwide platform on innovation, creativity and sustainability.

THE POWER OF MORE: WHEN COLLABORATION IS BETTER BUSINESS
Axel Enthoven, Enthoven Associates Design Consultants (Belgium)
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Friday 16 July
Two Belgian organizations, MoOD and Optimo, supporting the textile and furniture industries, initiated a creative think tank dubbed The Flemish Masters. With the support of professional designers, the event assisted participating manufacturers respond to the challenges of globalisation, innovation and competitiveness through user-centered design. Join award-winning designer Axel Enthoven, who directed The Flemish Masters, in a behind-the-scenes look into the process, realisation and results of this unique event with some valuable lessons for Australian industries. Enthoven is Founder and Chairman of Enthoven Associates Design Consultants in Antwerp (Belgium), as well as Professor at the Design Academy in Eindhoven (The Netherlands) since 1989. At the Design Academy he is the Dean of the ‘Man and Mobility’ Department.
Sponsored by the Furnishing Industry Association of Australia (VIC/TAS) INC

DESIGN CAPITAL PANEL SESSIONS WILL BE MODERATED BY JANNE RYAN
Janne Ryan is an ideas curator, producer of the ABC Radio National program, By Design, and was a founding
Executive Producer for ABC Radio National’s Late Night Live, and Arts Today. For the Australian Financial Review
Magazine, Ryan created the Front of Mind interview, where key thinkers worldwide talked about their ideas and
thinking. Her AFR 20 Questions interview pioneered talking to Australian leaders about their key life influences. Most
recently, Ryan co-curated Tedx Sydney 2010.

The State of Design Festival is an initiative of the Victorian Government,
delivered in 2010 by Australian Exhibitions & Conferences Pty. Ltd.

Visit the site for more information, news and links.

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2010 State of Design Festival

May 28, ’10 4:54 PM

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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 programs: Design Capital business program, Design for Everyone public program, a trade fair Design:Made:Trade and the biennial Premier’s Design Awards, which recognises and applauds design excellence in Victoria.

2010 Events:
Design For Everyone will feature a series of exhibitions, talks and workshops around Mobility and the Built Environment, with topics including cycling through public gatherings and forums, the future of motorized travel, urban agriculture, making homes more environmentally sustainable and bushfire resistant design.

Design:Made:Trade will be a key highlight of the Festival. Building on the success of 2009, the Royal Exhibition Building will again be the Festival’s business and trade hub. New events will include Lightsource, sponsored by Philips, a commercial lighting exhibition for lighting designers, manufacturers and distributors and NEXT, a commercial exhibition space for companies seeking to promote innovative and ecodesigned new products to the Australian market.

Design Capital Business Program will offer design vision, leading innovation information and competitive economic insight from leading international industry leaders and key Australian brand leaders. Last year more than 130,000 local and international visitors flocked to the Festival, positioning it as Victoria’s premier platform to showcase significant design achievements and celebrate innovation across industry.

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Who Did That, lighting sculpture, State of Design 2010

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An initiative of the Victorian Government, the State of Design Festival aims to increase the possibility of businesses using design as well as demonstrate how design can quite literally change the lives of all Victorians.
Visit the site for more information, news and links.

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Illustrators Australia, The A3 Show, Melbourne 2010

May 26, ’10 11:27 AM

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Semi-Permanent, Sydney, 2010

Mar 16, ’10 2:35 PM

Semi-Permanent & Dosh Wallets, Sydney, 2010

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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 will be printed on a wallet and sold from dosh.com.au and in stores globally.
Dosh has championed collaboration’s with some of the best contemporary artists from around the world including Jonathon Zawada, Stephan Marx and French, who have all used Dosh as their canvas.

Budding creatives need to log onto www.semipermanent.com or www.dosh.com.au to download the design template and submit their work to ken@dosh.com.au for judging before the 27 March. The winner will join the ranks alongside some of the leading designers in the world and will also receive 5% from every wallet of their design sold.

For more information on the competition and event, please visit www.semipermanent.com. The winner will be announced on the 30th April.

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The IA A3 Show, Illustrator’s Australia

Mar 16, ’10 1:45 PM

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Semi-Permanent, Sydney, 2010 – UPDATE

Feb 23, ’10 12:14 PM

Semi-Permanent announces second raft of speakers for Sydney conference

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Semi-Permanent, Australia’s award winning design festival*, is pleased to announce additional speakers to its already awe-inspiring line up. Award winning filmmaker David Michôd, San Francisco based design community Fecal Face and Australia’s own frankie magazine, join this year’s event on the 19 and 20 March. Other speakers this year include the likes of award winning photographers Jill Greenberg and Ashley Gilbertson, graphic artists Jasper Goodall and Jessica Hische and the ABC’s celebrated broadcaster Craig Schuftan.

David Michôd – an Australian director who is currently building a solid reputation on the international film scene. His debut feature film, Animal Kingdom, was recently awarded the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. He was also the co-director of the critically acclaimed documentary, Solo, which documented the ill-fated journey of kayaker Andrew McAuley’s attempt to kayak between Australia and New Zealand. The powerful documentary won the 2009 AFI Award for Best Documentary Under One Hour. David is also well known to the Australian film community as past editor of Inside Film magazine.

Fecal Face – Making a welcome return in the web community space is San Francisco based Fecal Face – a leading online art based community site. Initially created to highlight and promote the art scene in San Francisco, Fecal Face has expanded to encompass work from artists and exhibitions world-wide. It’s an extensive directory of photos and interviews with artists, and the sites positive, down to earth and fun outlook on art makes it stand out from the crowd.

frankie magazine – one of Australia’s most popular magazines which combines interesting articles, beautiful photography and great artwork to make a cross between a fashion and art magazine that speaks to a wide audience. Founded by Louise Bannister and creative director Lara Burke, frankie is a creative voice amongst the multitude of magazines created for women that are basically catalogues for advertiser and to top it off, it’s a magazine that even your average male hipster is not ashamed to read!

Alongside the two day conference, Semi-Permanent also plays host to side shows which have seen the likes of Banksy, Shepard Fairey and 123Klan exhibit work for the Australian public. This year is no different kicking off with Mixed Business presented by We Are The Image Makers, the Opening Hours, Stupid Krap and Semi-Permanent. Taking place on the 18th March at the Ambush Gallery in Waterloo, the group show features work from leading artists including Numskull, Phibs, Beastman and James Jarat Patradoon alongside international talent, Mel Kadel and Travis Millard. The show will be open until 28th March 2010.

More information on the event, here.

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Engraving by Twoone

Feb 22, ’10 10:36 AM

Engraving by Twoone

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At the Gorker Gallery: 25 february – 14 March, 2010
Twoone is an artist who’s work commands a certain kind of intrigue from it’s audience. His craftsmanship, patience and instantly recognizable decorative style resonates a flowing narrative, portraying a world of spiritual tranquility that you can’t help but wish to be a part of. He is an artist who’s quiet voice and kind nature are conflicting to his success, his artwork speaking for itself, with features in some of Australia’s premier art and design magazines and exhibiting with the likes of Graham Base in February this year. We see this as a promising beginning to 2010, with ‘Engraving’ set to be another exciting showcase of his work.


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Opening Night Thursday 25 February, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Show runs until Sunday 14 March
Gorker Gallery opening hours:
3pm – 7:00pm Wednesday – Friday
11am – 7:00pm Saturday & Sunday
Wine Tasting Wednesday 10 Mach 6:00pm – 7:00pm
(Brought to you by Austin Wines)

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See more of Twoone’s work here

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