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Out West: Interviews with WA Designers : Russell Springham

10th December, 2009

Sean McKay bring us a series of interviews with some of Western Australia's most renowned graphic designers. Russell Springham has worked in the design industry for over 35 year. Originally from...
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Out West: Interviews with WA Designers : Stephen Castledine

9th December, 2009

Sean McKay bring us a series of interviews with some of Western Australia's most renowned graphic designers. Stephen Castledine has been working in the design industry in WA for over 27 years. He...
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Out West: Interviews with WA Designers : Brad Street

8th December, 2009

Sean McKay bring us a series of interviews with some of Western Australia's most renowned graphic designers. Brad Street has worked in the design industry in Perth for nearly 20 years. He is...
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Out West: Interviews with WA Designers : John Emery

7th December, 2009

Sean McKay bring us a series of interviews with some of Western Australia's most renowned graphic designers. John Emery has been working in the design industry for 22 years. Based in Perth, WA he...
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Design is Political: David Lancashire on Australian Graphic Design.

2nd November, 2009

When you work for an industry association such as AGDA you witness quite a lot of what you might call industrial soul searching. Graphic designers, perhaps more than other professions, like to talk...
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Australian graphic design: Making its diversity visible

16th October, 2009

By Yoko Akama and Carolyn Barnes Recent criticism of the cost of designing the City of Melbourne’s new visual identity indicates a significant gap in the public’s understanding of...
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In cahoots: Rick Poynor on Australian designers and their clients

26th August, 2009

For a select few in Australia's design industry the big problem is the client. You know the story: they don't get design, they don't turn up to events, they're boring. And it is this animal, with...
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By Hand: Handwriting in the 21st Century

10th August, 2009

Handwriting and its potential relegation to the margins of history seems to expose all sorts of ambivalences and anxieties about technology and what it is to be human in the 21st Century. For...
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An Open Letter to the Lord Mayor of Melbourne

24th July, 2009

Update: Thankyou! Comments are now closed. Anonymous posts have been removed. The City of Melbourne’s rebranding has attracted a veritable storm of controversy, not least because of Lord...
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How to be Amateur

5th July, 2009

The amateur, like the collector, retains a value when everything in our over-commercialized, over-produced world seems valueless. The amateur has a looseness, a lightness of touch but most...
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