Some of my identity work was recently featured on the blog of Studio Tundra, a design studio based out of Malmö, Sweden.

Currently working at The Letter D.

Eight:48 a beautiful UK based design publication have recently featured some selected works on their website.

Jason Grant of Brisbane design studio Inkahoots recently delivered a talk (now available to stream online) at the State Library of Queensland as part of the Designing for Happiness program. It's the kind of honest and hard-hitting design discussion that needs to happen more often. I was lucky enough to have Jason as a tutor/lecturer this semester and can attest to his authenticity as a designer who truly practices what he preaches.

"The projects driving toward the welfare of humanity end up as nothing more than the vicissitudes of profitability."

Some exquisitely refined work by Geneva based studio Schaffter Sahli. Consistent, high quality output, and a great solution to an online folio.

Aaron Gillett and myself recently printed and photographed collateral for our collaborative typeface project which sees us out to graduation this year. We chose to focus on the recent events regarding the global Occupy movement as inspiration for a new display, monospaced typeface. We experimented with overprinting onto bought newspaper stock which produced really interesting results. The goal for the typeface is to provide a stronger, unified and more cohesive voice for the movement.

UPDATE: the project can be viewed here.
UPDATE: Desktop Magazine have featured the work on their Project Wall.

Die andere Seite is a magazine designed by Holger Huber, a Berlin based designer. Completed in 2010, it's a study project about child Soldiers in Africa. Some great, emotive design to compliment such an important story.

I have just added a new project to my portfolio.
Read about it here.

I was recently sent a batch of photos taken by a very good friend who was visiting the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The exhibition, Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey features works from Crouwel's celebrated career as a highly influential graphic designer.

"Crouwel embraced a new modernity to produce typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s. The exhibition explores Crouwel’s innovative use of grid-based layouts and typographic systems to produce consistently striking asymmetric visuals."

I'm currently rebranding a classical music radio station as a response to a recent academic brief. Classical music has been the inspiration for some of the most beautiful modern design I've ever seen. A few months ago I came across these posters by renowned designer Ivan Chermayeff. Here's what Michael Cina had to say,

"Ivan frequently uses collage and collections to create texture and dimensionality, continually exploring modernist ideas. He produced this package of brochures for the Ninth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1993. The piano abstractions are rendered in the form of his trademark torn paper collages."

See more here.

NineteenEightyThree, a website I regularly frequent, have featured my Svarte Greiner project in their Daily Catch.

September Industry have published a very comprehensive special on Melbourne based design studio Hofstede.

A very insightful lecture by Australian born graphic designer James Goggin of Practise into his unique thinking, processes and career to date. Filmed by the Walker Arts Center, it's very much worth the time. The image above (a sample of his work for the TATE) is a click through.

"It's a point I quite like making with a lot of my work, often there is a definite function to the work but I very much like the idea of graphic design having the capacity for enquiry or speculation or even fiction."

This book recently arrived in the mail shipped all the way from the UK thanks to Unit Editions. I really admire the production quality of this book, the linen cover finish and half paper wrap are very complimentary finishes to such a beautiful and well designed compendium. This from the Unit Editions website,

"TD 63-73: Total Design and its pioneering role in graphic design is a unique insider’s account of the evolution of Total Design, one of the most important and influential design groups in the history of visual design.

Written by Ben Bos, a key member of the studio, the book describes how a group of idealistic Dutch designers came together to form a multidisciplinary design studio that helped shape the future of graphic design."

I'm about to start my final semester of University study and have finally put the finishing touches on the new website. It's built from the ground up with Wordpress without the aid of a parent theme. It's gone through a lot of design changes but I finally feel like I've arrived at the best solution. (For now!)

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