Some local found type, brings up notions of cultural identity
View Larger Map> What makes design in Australia unique is often found in traces that is littered and hidden in its communities. One can turn a corner and look down to spy a set of letter forms that...
View ArticleLong gone Mitre 10
On June 1, 2001, The Australian hardware store Mitre 10 announced it was undertaking “a major repositioning and re-branding exercise to capture the “noughties” consumer and cement its position at the...
View ArticleCasual vs formal brands
This crest came as a little surprise when it presented itself in a suburban side street. The Salvation Army with it’s red shield, of which one has given money too, can also be a spiky crown and wheel,...
View ArticleFutura – 5 / Helvetica – 1. Fantastic Mr Fox is a must see…
Note the text on the top right, it aint cussing Futura The love of type and typography is a conversation often lost on most of the wider public. The nerdy lengths that type lovers go to sate their...
View ArticleFlinders Street Station’s forgotten wayfinding system
Flinders Street Station circa 1953, Public Record Office Victoria. January 2010 marks the 100th year of Flinders Street Station. Flinders Street Station, Australia’s oldest central railway station...
View ArticleSpeaking in China
Communicating in most instances is something quite unremarkable, yet when a saucer is passed your way, in sobriety, with “U SUX” delicately cast in the middle of a saucer, one can either become highly...
View ArticleThe design that surrounds us
In Melbourne there is on average over 200 creative/design/graphic based lectures, events and random occasions a year. After twenty years of racking up a fair share of these events, it is easy to just...
View ArticleOpen signs of the moment
Glenmoore in Elsternwick While way finding people loose themselves in bent metal and fibre optic lit forms, one is taken by a inspired piece of metal work signing that also doubles as a gate. This...
View ArticleLooking back, looking foward; Australian Character is what?
Cover (probably the most uninspired part) Flett Henderson Arnold Neil Turner Robert Rosetzky Bruce Weatherhead Grant Jorgenson Elda Charous Darryl Thompson Ken Done Mark Hackleton David Lancashire Kel...
View ArticleA forgotten type tool well worth finding again
Accuspec II Transparent Type Gauge & Specifier Set The studio is working on a publication for The Humble Vintage and our trusty type gauge came in handy. The type gauge was once common place on the...
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