Hot off the press is the collateral & brochure for Sunland Group’s latest land development in the prestigous Geelong suburb of Highton. Photography by Peter Bennetts, and printed by Finsbury the brochure is an absolute treat with matt lam cover, metallic foiled logo, knocked in pages, and half size insert pages throughout. Thanks to Skye & Vossy for their persistance and pushing Finsbury to achieve this cracking outcome..!.. See more images here.
Director of Buro North, Soren Luckins married the lovely Ms Kate Pears a few weekends ago in Daylesford. The ceremony was hosted in a stunning setting at Lavendula Swiss Italian Farm, in a break of weather that lasted just long enough for the couple to tie the knot. Photographed by good friend Peter Bennetts, there are a few images of the day below, and the amazing kraft/black cotton laminated invites designed by us and letterpressed by the very talented Chapel Press…
We are very excited about the latest project to come into the studio, (Revitalising Central Dandenong), the City of Greater Dandening wayfinding and signage. Working with VicUrban, BKK Architects, TCL Landscape Architects, Electrolight and a host of others should make this a diverse and interesting challenge…
One year after the completion of our Fairfax Media project, we are very excited by the great set of images Sydney based photographer Tyrone Branigan shot of the graphics, signage and wayfinding. The large-scale graphics, designed around themes of virtual and reality, add another level of vibrancy to Bates Smart’s already dynamic fitout of public and communal spaces. Interactive digital signage is housed in slick, reflective black panels, and a pixel typeface was chosen for the directional signage to reflect Fairfax’s growing digital direction. This project highlights the conceptualization, coordination and collaboration between our graphic, industrial and wayfinding capacities, and we are all rapt with the outcome.
Our first year entering the AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) Awards was a great success with the studio having one Finalist and two Distinction Awards. Our Latitude project won an award in the ‘Environmental Graphic Design’ category and our X-Mas tree won an award in the ‘Self Promotion’ category, with our identity for QUON Prefab housing being nominated as a finalist in the ‘Branding’ category… Well done crew..!..
A new magazine on the market called Habitus by the InDesign publishers have included an interview with Buro North director Soren Luckins. Alongside folk such as Akira Isogowa, Chris Connell and Daniel Baffsky the magazine features creative people as well as their projects.
One of the best motion studios around is Umeric from Sydney, we just noticed they have updated their website with this fantastic work for MTV… Audio-Creatures - creatures that create sounds in reaction to their urban environment. Shot in and around Sydney and integrating 3d creatures pulsating to surreal percussion and electronic audio design, very nicely done, so seductive is amazing motion work!
MTV Australia Video Music Awards - Umeric from Umeric on Vimeo.
Absolutely blown away by this concept. Ive been interested in bio-mimicry for a few years, but always in an aesthetic or functional sense, but a generative process is something Id never imagined. Clever, clever, clever…. Tokujin Yoshioka has developed the ‘Venus Natural Crystal Chair’ by growing crystals in a tank over a sponge-like substrate. From the designer “Nature shows us a beauty that exceeds our imagination. On the other hand, it contains a strength that is sometimes frightening. The forms of nature are unique and cannot be reproduced. This endows them with mysterious beauty and makes them fascinating to us”.
Im in Tokyo this week for work, well… One meeting for work and a few days having a look around this incredible city. So far I have just visited stores, design related, famous Architecture, artists and some pretty incredible custom bike builders, both fixed wheel peddlers and old 70’s motorbikes. Awesome, every genre of every sub-culture has specialty stores here. Anyway, thought Id post a few happy snaps, not great quality as they are off my i-phone, travelling light.
The opening night of Head Case was a huge success! If you missed our exciting, emotive, challenging, inspiring and informative exhibition… check out the images below (thanks to Henrik at Proud Mother). With a crowd of over 350 people, a beautiful speech by The Age columnist Catherine Deveny and almost all the fabulous artworks sold, we think we did alright! The People’s Choice Award Winner went to Louise Steinfort (last image below), for her work ‘Expression In The Dark’. Thanks to everyone who came along and supported… and especially to those involved who helped us raise awareness of Acquired Brain Injury…
The installation of our inaugural Head Case exhibition was… well… 14 hours of hard yakka! Thanks to an incredible team of about 30 people who worked tirelessly (and voluntarily) transporting 53 pieces of X-board up from the basement of The Sofitel on Collins to our space on the promenade. We stuck down 600 pieces of double-sided tape, trimmed, drilled, glued, stuck, screwed, measured, carried, pasted, (ate pizza), positioned, placed, hung, pinned… and then went home and crashed. Thanks everyone for an enormous effort!
Tonight we are launching our ‘Headcase Exhibition’ (read more about it here) at The Sofitel in Melbourne as part of the ‘Brain Injury National Conference’. The exhibition opens at 6pm and runs until Wednesday 3rd September. There was also a little article about our pro-bono work, and the exhibition in the Herald Sun last week with Skye and I doing our best cheesy grins, see it here.
Is a particle accelerator being built on the border of Switzerland and France. These photographs from CERN show various stages of completion, and several of the larger experiments. Apart from being in complete awe of this incredible feat of engineering and scientific exploration, the thing is just bloody beautiful. There is a lot of commentary about the potential of creating black holes and scientists lack of understanding about the consequences, which makes for some funny and interesting reading, but I just keep coming back to the scale, symetry and absolute beauty of it….
Working with Cilla Maden and her energetic team, Buro North developed an engaging and tactile identity for what will become an annual event. Inspired by the event concept – a festival ‘hot-spot’ combining hospitality, networking, design and retail – and dedicated to pushing the concept all the way through the branding, we spent a day shopping in the market and building the letterforms ‘egd’ from fresh fruit and vegetables. The documentation of the process makes a lively little stop-frame animation and the end result is break away from the norm.
We at Buro North are very honored to have received a ‘Premiers Design Award’ this year for our ‘Green X-Mas Tree’ project. We received the award in the Industrial product design category. Described by the judges; “The product demonstrates that it is possible to provide an environmentally friendly solution in a unique, vibrant package capable of enriching the user experience by adding a smile to both the process of construction and the resultant product”.
From July 17–20 we will be working from our ‘virtual studio’ at the Design:Made:Trade event — nestled amidst the cardboard maze resulting from our collaboration with Visy — as part of Melbourne’s State of Design Festival. Büro North were engaged to design the exhibition layout, and develop the stand graphics and graphic collateral. Working with an established logotype fitting into the Victorian ‘State of Design’ graphic system we developed an enveloping, dynamic barcode ribbon that encased and unified the event and the graphic collateral.
As well as designing the exhibition we are also participating and will be onsite to display our award winning Green Xmas Tree, and will be there on rotation to chat about who we are and what we do. Come down and see us if you’re in the neighbourhood on Sunday July 20 (open-to-the-public day).
A collaboration between of one of our favourite design studios (M/M Paris) and Icelandic artist Gabriela Friorikdottir. An interesting representation of both artist and designers work into a 3D form, explained by the artists as…”The philosophy of form and the philosophy behind Urriðaholt (the site) complement each other well. By which I mean playing with the possibilities of nature as opposed to colliding with it; using soft forms that create greater harmony”…
London-based design group Design Typography specialise in book and magazine design, and with their refreshingly old-school approach to typography and titles under their belt such as ‘American Modernism (Graphic Design 1920-1960)‘ and ‘The Designer‘ magazine, it’s no wonder they’re inspiring some of the exciting graphic projects we’re working on at the moment.
