Design Federation

This collection of scenes from an IBM Slide Presentation in 1975 offers a fascinating glimpse into yesterday’s tomorrow.

Designer Rugs together with Virginia Wilson has invited seven of Australia’s leading contemporary artists to create single edition wall and floor rugs that both extend their art practice and broaden the style of rugs produced by Designer Rugs, for a live charity auction in August.

Artists in The Rug Project are Shaun Gladwell (recently selected to represent Australia at the next Venice Biennale), Newell Harry, Clinton Nain, Hossein Valamanesh, Justin Trendall, Kirsteen Pieterse and Gemma Smith. 

This sounds like a great idea, and it will be very interesting to see the final works by the artists. While on the topic of rugs, another page that is really worth a look is Rugs Of War which “is a project which investigates the history, iconography, production and distribution of “the war rug”.

Revok1 (AWK/MSK) is a true style-king holding things down in LA. Can’t wait to get over there and check out the LA scene.

In the red corner, coming in at 88 pages & 10,000 copies, Australias best free hip hop magazine, Peak Street Issue 2!

Six months have passed since the last one, but issue two is finally on the streets in Melbourne and the rest of Aus shouldnt be too far off. Plenty of late nights, domestic disputes & production dramas went into getting this publication of ours out and into your hands. So we hope you enjoy the read and we’ll see you at issue 3.

Still independant, Still free.
Peace
Mr.Mann

Improv Everywhere strike again! This time its a human mirror. Check the videos.

Everfresh still doing their thing at the McCulloch Gallery

NEW2’s Entropy exhibition on at Per Square Metre

Opening 18th July 6-9pm

Check whats going on at the Mitten Fortress with their July 08 Newsletter

Los Angeles native, and member of world renowned crews AWK/MSK, Retna continues to succesfully cross the boundries between graffiti and fine art. Over the years he has established his own distinct style which includes a unique typographic alphabet which draws influence from various ethnic cultures around the world.

Need business card ideas? Check out this flickr group.