September 2nd, 2010
Inspiration
Blonde Redhead: 23—

23 is one of my favourite albums – and Blonde Redhead are one of my musical obsessions. I’m fascinated with their band DNA – 2/3s of which belong to idential Italian twins Amedeo and Simone Pace, the other 1/3 to Japanese singer Kazu Makino, and…

August 25th, 2010
Discography
Preservation—

I’m very pleased to introduce a record label that has been a huge source of inspiration to me personally, and is one of the most compelling, handsome and consistently excellent labels currently operating – Australia’s own Preservation.

There’s something truly special about this label –…

August 22nd, 2010
New Work
Broadcast Two—

Some more recent work for New Weird Australia – this time it’s the cover art and layout for the second volume of the Broadcast series – which essentially compiles performances from the New Weird Australia radio show on FBi.

While the branding and artwork system…

August 22nd, 2010
New Work
New Editions 01—

As part of my ongoing work for New Weird Australia I’ve recently produced a template and artwork for the first in a series of releases entitled New Editions.

New Editions aims to help promote and distribute new experimental Australian music in a collection…

August 19th, 2010
Discography
Underworld by Tomato—

This series of articles aims to examine the relationship between design and music. How does one compliment the other? How do different designers solve the various creative problems of this discipline? What makes a successful (if not iconic) solution for music design? And how do creative partnerships in this…

August 18th, 2010
Inspiration
Black Swan—

Directed by Darren Aronofsky and co-written by Mark Heyman (assistant on The Fountain) and American environmentalist Andres Heinz (?!), Black Swan is now #1 on my list of films to see.

A New York City ballet company is producing Swan Lake, and director Thomas Leroy (Cassel) decides…

August 18th, 2010
Roundup
#30—

This will be the final Roundup for the foreseeable future.

It takes a surprisingly long time to collate and publish the posts in this series and as weeks (months) have gone on, I’ve found that my interest in it has waned considerably and I’m really struggling to…

August 10th, 2010
New Work
Peepshow—

A new design for Tantrum Theatre this week – an identity, poster and flyer for a performance that will be part of the Sydney Fringe festival this year called Peepshow. This will actually be MK2 of the Peepshow performance, and the…

August 9th, 2010
Roundup
#29—

Apologies to the creative team behind the original theatrical poster for Naked Lunch. Does anyone know who’s responsible for that gem?

And apologies to you for yet another slow blog week, and yet another text-lite Roundup. Time just keeps getting away from me, and as…

August 8th, 2010
Inspiration
Conversations With Designers—

The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) is currently producing a series of videos titled Conversations With Designers.

There are three videos in the series so far, focusing on three extremely talented individuals with very unique and interesting points of view. It’s a classy and…