‘Tis the season to be jolly… la la la la la la la la la… With most agencies slowly winding up projects with an eye on stuffing themselves with chocolatey treats and fine roast dinners, it seems Moving Brands like to break the norm and fit in one really tricky challenge to complete the year. The tricky project in question is really their own doing.. how to top last years Seasons Greeting? Last year saw […]
Being one half of an outstanding brand and communications studio is one thing, but doing it with a smile and use of wit is truly a feet in itself. Originality of thought and style has been the hallmarks of Nick Finney as he made his way from Pentagram to setting up the award winning studio NB. With seemingly effortless ease Nick manages to execute the simplistic of solutions to briefs that would have other designers running […]
Interbrand AUS have been excelling themselves of late and their latest work for Melbourne Theatre Company is no exception. Using a spectrum of colours as a basis for the new vibrant identity, MTC (Melbourne Theatre Company) has been launched back onto the map with a new look to match their fresh season of productions for 2013. The brand’s genesis to position MTC as glowing brightly and shining its light on the audience and whoever is […]
Thomas Williams is one of those people who you have to stop and ask ‘how on earth do you find the time?’ Not content with being the founder and Creative Director of one of Melbourne’s stand out intelligent design consultancy Hunt Studio, Thomas is also the founder and Editor in Chief of critically written and award winning quarterly design publication Process Journal. Throw in some guest lecturing at various design institutions including Swinburne University, Monash […]
Sydney based Gemma O’Brien is a lady with unquestionable passion and enthusiasm for what she does. A self-confessed type nerd, you could say Gemma went a little too far when she celebrated her 21st birthday by insisting everyone who came dress as their favorite typeface. This injection of energy and infectious passion Gemma demonstrates led her from the traditional forms of wooden and metal type, where she learnt her craft, into more experimental mediums; from […]
With this weeks special announcement that Sonia Rentsch, Melbourne’s cleverest of creatives, will be presenting at this year’s Analogue/Digital Creative Conference, Designers Journal caught up with conference founder Matthew Haynes to talk baseball, standing ovations and grass roots design as he gears up for the festival season. Returning for its second year, the Analogue/Digital Creative Conference shines a spotlight on the culturally starved Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast of Australia. Largely overshadowed by the lure […]
With a background in architecture, a bit of magic from ‘Click Through’ the pink unicorn along the way, and a focus for getting back to the hand and keeping things simple, Scott Thomas is a man architecting change. As the Design Director for Obama’s 2008 campaign, Scott, ‘Simple Scott,’ has a philosophy of simplification which has been illustrated in more recent years with the Noun Project. We’re pleased as punch Scott managed to spare a […]
Looking back through our ‘design heroes‘ series so far it would be a fair to ask, where are all the female designers? Well this weeks profile will help to address this by focussing on the eclectic, colourful and sometimes eccentric work of the wonderful Morag Myerscough. Most well known for projects that integrate graphics and type within architectural environments, her award-winning work on wayfinding systems, exhibitions, installations and even schools has been well documented in […]