Creative Sydney – Get Involved

Sydney’s design industry has been asked to put its best creative foot forward and collaborate with the city’s most creative minds for this year’s Creative Sydney, a week-long mix of discussions, presentations and performances held in June as part of Vivid Sydney (27 May-21 June). Get involved with Creative Sydney →
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Lesley Bourne – The Bourne Identity

Lesley Bourne is an Adelaide based graphic and web designer. In recent years, she has developed a keen interest in photography and collage. One of Lesley’s photographs was recently showcased in the Design Federation’s ‘Friends of the Federation’ exhibition in Sydney. Read all about Lesley Bourne →
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Friends of the Federation Artists

The up and coming fashionistas who exhibited at our Friends of the Federation party in February are definitely ones to watch out for in the future. Below are mini interviews with 4 of these rising stars; Sheila Man, Amy Hungerford, Amelia Huang and Amy Oram
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Max Dawn Gallery
March 6 to 27th
Robert Bader, Karen Paris, Sam Evans, Ruben H Bermudez
Opening Night Sat 6th March 6 to 8pm
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You’ll Never Take Me Alive! – by Johnny Romeo

Johnny Romeo is an Australian born painter. His work is critically acclaimed in its attempt to represent a visual type of poetic and rhythmic blending of word, symbol and image. Read about You’ll Never Take Me Alive! The Ned Kelly Hero Series by Johnny Romeo →
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Australasian Student Design Awards – Call for Entries

In recent years, Sustainable Design has moved past its pop-culture status to form a key requirement of any good design process. So, it’s only fitting that the Design Institute of Australia (DIA) devotes one of its most prestigious awards to fostering Sustainable Design practices in the region’s emerging designers. Read all about the Australasian Student Design Awards →
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Toast Print – Online Venture For Australian Design & Print Industry

Toast Print, the first Australian online platform connecting commercial printers and designer print buyers, is officially launched today. The web startup, founded by web savvy brothers Jonathan and Andrew Chak, offers designers a web application to streamline the process of finding the right printer, better organize print jobs, as well as easily compare printers and quotations. Toast Print draws on Web2.0 community concepts where designers are encouraged to provide feedback and ratings that contribute towards the merit of printers they have done business with.
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Syd Mead – Legendary designer of Blade Runner to tour Australia

“While all us otaku try to draw like Japanese anime, the Japanese try to draw like Syd Mead.” anime.com
Syd Mead is regarded as the greatest concept designer of the 20th century. He is the visionary artist behind some of the most iconic, and inspirational, science fiction movies of this era including BLADE RUNNER, TRON, STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE, ALIENS and 2010.
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