Text: Caroline Clements Images: Tobias Titz & Madeline Kidd
The Narrows straddle the enviable aesthetic territories of art and design. The result is gallery admired by fellow curators and a back catalogue of exhibition flyers that are eminently collectable. Caroline Clements talks to Warren Taylor at The Narrows gallery about wall flowers, intelligent insects and how this gallery in Melbourne is walking the line where art meets design. Continue Reading…
Text & Images: Tristan Ceddia
Standing taller than most and occasionally dressing like nordic tourists from the late 70s, Dave Ladd and Stephanie Anderson create a boot load of interesting stuff. He is big into sign writing and publishing zines whilst she is a model maker and animator, and together they had a modest studio named He She It They I. Rumour has it they once stretched a tin can phone between their apartment and that of a friend, as a very temporary mode of communication. There have also been whispers they hid a weed plant in an exhibition they had last year. Tristan Ceddia visited Dave and Steph in their Kings Cross apartment to talk about what other worldly things they have brewing. Continue Reading…
Text: Oliver Georgiou Images: Collider
At first glance it would be close to impossible to tell that any of Sydney based Collider’s work was made in Australia. From humble beginnings in co-founder Daniel Askill’s bedroom at his mother’s home in Sydney at the turn of the century, he and partners Andrew Van Der Westhuyzen and Sam Zalalns have built their very own design and film media empire. Catering to a huge spectrum of clients including BMW, Hummer, Cadbury, UNKLE, Placebo, Dior, Nike and Lexus – Collider are producing work with an authentic A-grade international edge. Oliver Georgiou caught up with Daniel Askill over the phone to get the inside word on how it’s all happened. Continue reading…
Text: Tristan Ceddia Images: Grafik
Circulating in one way or another since the mid-80s, London’s Grafik magazine showcases multidisciplinary design work from the worlds most influential known and unknown creatives. Building a cult following from discerning designers and students a like, the magazine supplies a fresh look at the current state of the world in design. On the eve of Grafik’s trip down under for Semi Permanent, Tristan Ceddia asks editor-in-chief Caroline Roberts to shed some more light on this influential publication. Continue reading…
Text: Caroline Clements Images: Tamas Jones
I wanted to find a connection between building houses and building music – a relationship between the two, for the sake of Tamas Jones. Though an architect by day and DJ by night, notably as one part of Hey Convict!, in his mind there are in fact no particular links between his two chosen ventures. For him, simply, work is one thing, and music is another, and he splits his time between the two. In the meantime, this bearded rogue has also managed to re-record a track with Dominik Von Senger, which is to be released in just a few weeks. Continue reading…
Text: Luke Lucas Images: Mario Hugo
Mario Hugo’s illustration, typography, design and art direction is of such a standard that it sets the minds of even the most left-brained amongst us alight. He’s as much a darling of the bloggers as he is of the world’s biggest magazines, proving that the best visual communication really does speak to everyone. Luke Lucas caught up with New York based illustrator, designer and business man to talk antique shops, drawing and the fate of print design. Continue reading…
Text: Caroline Clements Images: Melanie Katsalidis & Fraser Marsden
It all started in kindergarten, stringing together pieces of bow tie pasta and sucking soggy Burger Rings off your fingers. You see at the age of five, a handmade penne necklace is really quite glamourous. Some years later, jewellery designer Lucy Folk is perpetually inspired by the time when her materials came from a bag at the supermarket and could also be found in her dinner bowl that night. Since then, Folk has created a range of ‘wearable food’ in more tasteful forms that are worth their weight in gold (and silver). Continue reading…
Text: Gabriel Knowles Images: Tristan Ceddia & Mark Drew
For those of a certain age the cassette tape can conjure the most emotive of memories. The first album, the mix tapes that made the trip to school bearable or the ones that you thought just might impress that special someone – they all hold a place in our memories. For Mark Drew they aren’t only confined to his memory because he still has all his old tapes, and then some. Gabriel Knowles caught up with designer, curator and some time artist to find out how his tapes are jogging other people’s memories. Continue reading…
Text: Tristan Ceddia Images: Craig Redman
The digital age that we live in paired with the increasing capacity of the world wide web sees literally millions of images making their way online every day. That’s not to say all of them are amazing, but the critical mass of the image is surely undeniable. So undeniable, that these days humans have the opportunity use images in place of words to tell a story or send out a message. Craig Redman from Rinzen debuted the blog Darcel Dissapoints just over a year ago as a personal diary composed entirely of illustrations. Drinking, skateboarding, exhibitions and the general day to day are all used by Craig, via Darcel, to bring the life and times of New York City to the world. Continue reading…
Text: Caroline Clements Images: Benjamin Lichtenstein
If there is one thing you can’t live without, it’s a chair. Imagine life without the chair at your desk, the seats on the bus, and the stools at the bar of your local watering hole. Life just wouldn’t be the same. And there’s one man who knows that better than most.
A trained furniture maker by trade, Nicholas Barratt, is not only the head of sales in Melbourne at European chair makers, Thonet, but is also the owner of a large cactus garden, a greyhound named Tahini, and influenced heavily by the design style of a protestant religious sect called the Shakers. Continue reading…
