BuroNorth

Liveable Cities

We were fortunate to be invited to participate in the Creating Liveable Cities exhibition as a part of the State of Design Festival sponsored by Melbourne Water which opened last Friday.

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…

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BTTV at State of Design

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.

DIA Top 6×6

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…

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Recharge

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.!.)

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