Flatland

Posted 29/10/2009

Its probably about time we reviewed a book on the Buro North blog.

I bought ‘Flatland’ in a secondhand bookshop, on the basis that it claimed to be “A Romance of Many Dimensions”.  Described as a ‘Mathematical satire’ the book  gives the account of a series of visions by a 2 dimensional being “A. Square”, as he travels between various dimensions including nondimensional ‘Pointland’, one dimensional ‘Lineland’ and our own three dimensional ‘Spaceland’. Click here for more

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Buro Tree website online

Posted 25/10/2009

We have just launched an online store for our award winning Buro Tree, check it out here

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Posted by Soren

Categories: Studio News

X-Mas Brew

Posted 23/10/2009

We spent yesterday afternoon down at Barleycorn Brewery preparing our ‘09 BN Christmas presents. It was a fascinating process to learn and be involved in, and hopefully (we did our best to follow the recipes) both our super dry crisp, and dark malty organic preservative (and hangover) free brews will come up a treat in a month, ready to be sent out to our friends, clients and collaborators in time for Christmas……

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Categories: Studio News

Congratulations Finn & Tina

Posted 22/10/2009

Buro North’s Wayfinding Director Finn Butler took off to the UK last month to get married to the lucky Tina Rainbow in a stunning outdoor abbey in Wales. Congratulations guys…

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Categories: Studio News

Construction……

Posted 21/10/2009

We are officially in construction mode….. A whole host of our recent projects are being fabricated, printed, manufactured and installed all at the same time currently. Projects such as the Falls Creek signage, MYER docklands graphics, ACMI signage and a host of print projects all coming to fruition at once - Exciting times.!. Below is the prototype ‘i’ for the new ACMI sign for Flinders Street, checking illumination levels last week.

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Awesomeness

Posted 21/10/2009

Posted by Soren

Categories: Design — Art

Casting the Falls Creek signage modules

Posted 05/10/2009

Fantastic to see the casting process first hand last week for the Falls Creek wayfinding signage we designed over the last year or so… Being manufactured by Schiavello, the alloy modular components were being cast at Mullholland Foundry who showed us the incredible craft behind casting… Lots of process images here…

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Dieter Rams Interview

Posted 03/10/2009

Absolutely cracking interview with Dieter Rams produced by the V&A as part of the Cold War Modern exhibition, well worth watching…

Posted by Soren

Categories: Design — Industrial