Our studio away-day last week took us upto Hepburn-Daylesford for some hard earned relaxation, walking, talking and eating local produce… Given our penchant for fast things, we also managed to spend time fanging quad-bikes through insane amounts of mud and water, highlighted by Shane rolling the quad (he is OK). Thanks to Missy for letting us use her farm and the crew for a day of leisure with no design talk! See more images below.
I was listed as a “Melbourne designer to watch” in an article about Mark Newson in last weeks theage (melbourne) magazine. Interesting because I really admire Newsons ability create nice aesthetics across an incredibly diverse array of outcomes, from jewlerry, cars, shoes, interiors to jets… But he described himself in the article as ‘a gun for hire, jetting in to fix people’s design problems’ and Id love to know what the problem was that required a rivetted alluminium extremely uncomfortable chair that costs 1M pounds, or the problem that required a plastic dish-hanger that doesnt hold up plates? Designer sure, problem solver..?.. Anyway… Good press…
We produced the graphics and brochure design for Design;made;trade as part of the Design Festival again this year, and took a stand to release our new X-Mas tree designs, see the stand below… The new designs were a hit, but strangely enough everyone wanted to order the original design that won the premiers award.!. Not sure if its due to its handsome good looks, or its stash of awards? Either way, the three trees are available for purchase here - www.burotree.com
Just came across Carmody Groarke’s memorial to the victims of the London July 7 bomb attack. Stunning outcome in both aesthetics and materiality… And the production video link below is fascinating;
Kevin Carmody and Andy Groarke had been in practice for just 18 months when they won the memorial competition in November 2007. They won not with an already formulated scheme but a method of consultation — a readiness to engage with the bereaved families to find the right response. The result is an array of 52 sand-cast stainless steel columns, each 3.7m high, which Carmody Groarke refers to as stelae — standing stone slabs used as grave markers but also for commemoration. They stand in six parallel rows in clusters that represent the numbers lost in each of the four bombings, but the clusters overlap to form a continuous field of columns — “interlocking four events to make one”. Read more from BD Online here
Categories: Design — Art, Design — Built Environment, Design — Signage, Design — Typography
The new Melbourne Design Guide was released last week by alphabet press during the Design Festival, a really playful and interesting outcome by Stuart from Chase & Galley, the guide featured us on a double page spread amongst an incredible amount of local talent, well worth a copy for a host of current Melbourne centric information…
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