Our component of the exhibition looked at the spacial relationship we have with water footprints. We illustrated in three dimension the volume of everyday consumables. Alongside each volumetric study was some supporting information that offered insights and alternatives to the product shown to help us move in a more sustainable direction. Special thanks to Dan Honey from State of Design for her tireless efforts in pulling it all together, Dalton for sponsoring the boards, design to print for the printing and Dave and Giovanni for their hard work…
Better than TV (BTTV) is a night of entertainment for the easily distracted. Provocation, conversation and revolution.
This launch event next Friday 23rd July is inspired by the State of Design Festival theme “change by design” and features Architect Simon Knott (RRR’s The Architects & BKK), (me) Soren Luckins (Director of Buro North) and fashion designer Anthea van Kopplen (The Envelope). Also featuring the environmental reportage photography of Peter Bennetts.
BTTV invites the audience to come armed with their own design opinions and their will to share them as it is an open forum for provocative discussion. After the provocateurs say their piece, the audience will keep them on their toes and dig into the heart of design matters. This intimate event will be held in dynamic warehouse shell of the No Vacancy Gallery in hideaway lane ways of QV Melbourne - Click here to download the invitation, go here to book tickets or email ‘info@bttv.com.au‘ for tickets to this event.
We were recently engaged by the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) to develop an identity and suite of graphic material for their annual speaker series (Top 10×10) now in its 5th year.
The Top 10×10 series is a fast paced, informative, showroom-based forum that attracts over 200 professional designers each year. Top 6×6 will be held at Space Furniture’s spectacular showroom in Richmond, facilitating both the social and educational aspects of the event. The theme for Top 6×6 is ‘Design Icons’. Six of Australia’s leading designers will present a personal selection of six of their favourite designs and the reasons for their choice. They could be environments, objects, graphics or experiences.
In the lead up to the event, the audience will be invited to submit their own six design icons, which will be added to the Top 6×6 blog - Where you can win a Zanotta Sciangai coat stand…
Given the strong reference to 6 for the event, we developed the logotype based on a 6×6 grid, with intersecting lines creating the shapes of the letterforms. The shapes have been separated onto 6 different coloured stocks, and lasercut to produce the layered image, creating a depth of graphic that is relevant to the audience of interior designers and architects.
Thanks to Spicers for sponsoring the Optix paperstock for the invites, and Dave and Tim for spending an insane amount of time laboriously laser-cutting the different sheets, then weeding the cutouts and assembling each invitation by hand.!. Amazing work…
Just come back from a month recharging in Italy and Croatia. Part overdue break, part soaking up of creative inspiration and part gearing up for the challenges ahead… It really is incredible that its possible to take a laptop and iphone to the other side of the world, and recharge whilst not missing a beat (thanks to the guys back in the studio). Few highlights included the incredible hand rendered typography and killer signage in Rome, the new Zaha Hadid Maxxi Museum, the Calatrava bridge in Venice and a cracking Damien Hirst exhibition somewhere (cant remember.!.)
We have been a little slow off the mark with this one unfortunately… The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) signage and wayfinding was completed earlier this year. Just had Peter Bennetts out to take some lovely shots for us, the wayfinding has successfully dealt with a complex site, broad user group and some significant operational changes at ACMI. The design uses the spectrum of refracted light to suggest the vibrancy and diversity of the moving image and further enhance the exciting ACMI experience. Click below to see more image, or here…
We have had a bit of press lately, being involved in the high profile MYER headoffice fitout with BVN Architecture led to a little story in last weeks Age Commercial Property about the the ability of graphics and signage to engage an audience and communicate a story; in MYER’s case a story about the heritage and history of this iconic Australian company. Also out last week was the latest Monument magazine with a feature on our speculative, sci-fi inspired ‘Future Wheel‘ project with Peter Bennetts and Fooch (Squint Opera)…
A little while ago we were asked to produce a concept for a new cardboard paper-stock that has particular folding and strength properties, to be sent to Architects and designers by (our client) the paper company.
Given the stocks ability to become almost anything, be printed to look like timber, or laminated or treated like any other paper but be incredibly strong, we thought it was a bit like a Chameleon - and thus created this critter from 2 x A3 sheets… The idea was to send flat sheets to the clients of the paper company, and they would fold up their own Chameleon, in the process learning about the special properties of this stock…
Well, unfortunately the concept bombed but Giovanni decided to make a couple the other day, and ‘Cameleonte’ sounded so good in Giovanni’s Italian accent, that we named our critter just so;
Download your own mini-cameleonte to make at home here.
Send photos to info@buronorth.com
No matter how much you prepare, program and manage a project, telling a client that the delay is the Volcano’s fault is tricky…
Ash clouds from Iceland’s Eyjafjoell volcano brought travelers to a standstill last month, and caused delays all over the world. One of those delays was a project we are working on that has components flying in from Europe… But the below shows beautifully how incredible this event was, shot by Sean Stiegemeier using one of these little crackers.
Just received some super nice shots back from Peter Bennetts of our recently completed MYER graphics package. Immersive interior graphics and a rich thematic signage system for their recently opened head office in Docklands. Designed by BVN Architecture (who commissioned us) the interiors are amazingly detailed and seductive. More images on our site or below…
The logotype we produced for ‘BTTV’ - Better than TV, has just been featured in an exhibition in Japan & an upcoming book as part of the Tokyo Type Directors Club Annual Awards. We’re pretty stoked to be featured amongst such esteemed company, see here for more BTTV images. Look out soon for the next BTTV event as part of the State of Design Festival in July…
Just done the final sign-off on the Falls Creek wayfinding signage design. We’re wrapped with the outcome and think Schiavello have done a brilliant job of the casting, fabricating, powder-coating and assembly. Very happy client, very happy design team. The signs have have a lovely knack of blending into the trees when your not looking for directions, and then jumping out like orange beacons when your lost…
The International Green Dot awards were announced last month in the States and Buro North were fortunate to have been awarded 3rd place in the Design category for our ‘buro tree‘ amongst fairly interesting competition from Europe, Asia and North America. The Green Dot Award “honors excellence in innovative environmental projects, products and services” and “strives to reward and promote forward-thinking businesses that create environmentally sustainable products or services and to reward revolutionary green business plans and proposals”… So we are chuffed - Well done guys, thanks Dave..
Soren and I spent a day out at Triptych, a new residential tower beside the Arts Centre, art directing a campaign shoot last week. Fraser Marsden from (Earl Carter Studio) and a tight but talented crew for styling, hair and makeup, helped us bring together some stunning shots in and around the construction site.
A bit of post, a bespoke type treatment and some layout work later, the shots will be appearing in press across Melbourne in the coming weeks and months. We will also be getting onto some print and web design to round out the 2010 marketing package for our good friend Beatrice at Stable Properties.
Having been to a few future visioning workshops in the past that produced policy based strategies, I thought bugger it we should put some clever minds together and visualize our own proposition for Melbourne’s conceptually flawed Southern Star Big Wheel.
So together with the brilliant photographer Peter Bennetts and the super talented Fooch from Squint Opera we came up with the following reuse strategy; a greek windmill inspired sci-fi future with a ‘wind driven, solar sail energy collecting wheel, as a hub for a new fleet of flying steam powered trams’ to alleviate congestion in a newly greened Melbourne. Click on the images to view the full scale versions.
Although maybe not obvious, there are some serious ideas and questions amongst the madness.. How to efficiently adapt, reuse and re-function outdated infrastructure as we move to a more sustainable future. Anyway, the devil is in the detail, so click on the images and zoom around, fun food for thought….
Rilla is one of several creatives that make up the Rinzen group, and has garnered a lot of attention lately since releasing her own website, which you should have a look through here - www.byrilla.com
We thought we’d post photos of some recent Rilla work, below is the Pictopia exhibition at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and following that the Hotel Fox which again features some fantastic character illustrations…
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