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June 2010 WIP

Posted 12.06.2010 @ 7.18PM

@oneweioranother cheers, and yes, I'm at Billy Bluff.

Matt, man – that motorbike sketch, want it on one of our walls already. So nice.

I hate my job

Posted 10.06.2010 @ 6.40PM

@oneweioranother I just find that there's a lot more creative jobs in advertising going in Sydney compared to Melbourne. And as I'm originally from Sydney I've got plenty of contacts up there.

SALE: GRAPHIC Magazine and other Graphic Design Books (Melbourne)

Posted 13.03.2012 @ 6.48PM (Edited 13.03.2012 @ 7.05PM)

The following items are for sale, all are **as new** (except as stated) and pretty much cheaper than anywhere else. Pick-up/Drop-Off Only in Melbourne, unless you're willing to pay $10 shipping:

**Graphic Magazine:**
**#16 Type Archive** *($30)* http://graphicmag.kr/index.php?/issues/16-type-archive-issue/

This type archive issue exhibits a wide spectrum of 48 typefaces that reflect current flows of typeface design, which again reflect today's graphic design. This issue is composed of two books and a booklet; a type specimen of 48 typefaces, a book of designers' interview on their typeface, and a supplementary booklet for a typeface Lÿon designed by Karl Nawrot & Radim Pesko.
**Has a slight fold mark from when it was shipped over**

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**#14 Work & Run** *($22)* http://graphicmag.kr/index.php?/issues/14-work--run-young-studios/

30 young small graphic design studios participated in this issue showing their work, talking about running the studio. You can find 23 studios from around the world such as Switzerland, United States, The Netherlands, Germany, England, Belgium, Canada, as well as 7 studios from South Korea. By looking into how these small studios "work & run", we want to find what the young designers are pursuing in the reality of today's graphic design.

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**#13 Visual Identity** *($22)* http://graphicmag.kr/index.php?/issues/13-visual-identity-issue/

This issue explores the sphere of visual identity. You can find 28 design teams' projects and their interviews in this issue, which emphasizes the identities within cultural sector such as for museums, cultural festivals, exhibitions, theaters etc., that broadly outline the directions of the current visual identity design.

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**How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designer** *($19)* http://www.designersreviewofbooks.com/2011/10/how-to-think-like-a-great-graphic-designer/

Take a peek inside the heads of some of the world’s greatest living graphic designers. How do they think, how do they connect to others, what special skills do they have? In honest and revealing interviews, nineteen designers, including Stefan Sagmeister, Michael Beirut, David Carson, and Milton Glaser, share their approaches, processes, opinions, and thoughts about their work with noted brand designer Debbie Millman. The internet radio talk host of Design Matters, Millman persuades the greatest graphic designers of our time to speak frankly and openly about their work. How to Think Like a Great Graphic Designers offers a rare opportunity to observe and understand the giants of the industry.

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**Never Sleep: Graduating to Graphic Design** *($25)* http://www.neversleepbook.com/

To demystify the transition, we share the failures, successes, and surprises during our years in college and progression into the field: the creative process, monetary problems, internships, interviews, mistakes, and personal relationships. We include the work from our first design class to our most current client work, along with side stories and interviews from our mentors, teachers, and peers. This book will serve as the ultimate companion for design students, educators, and anyone breaking into a creative field.

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**The Business Side of Creativity** *(3rd Updated Edition)* *($29)* http://www.creativebusiness.com/books.lasso#side

This is the most popular book ever published on establishing and running a creative business. Nine printings, three editions, over 35,000 sold. Based on input from thousands of creatives, The Business Side of Creativity covers everything from starting out to checking out in a clear and practical, real-world manner. Contents Include: Establishing A Freelance Business, Pricing, Collecting, & Taxation, Selling & Marketing, Running A Multi-Person Shop & Appendices (Dozens of Sample Forms, Procedures, and Plans)

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**Hand Job** *A Catalog of Type by Michael Perry* *($30)* http://www.mikeperrystudio.com/detailed/175

In Hand Job, graphic designer and hand typographer Michael Perry curates a selection of work from fifty outstanding designers, illustrators, and typographers, who integrate hand-drawn type into their designs. Each entry is shaped entirely by the artist’s hand and unique process, including the unplanned “accidents"of line, color, and craft. In addition to exhibiting a spectrum of styles and approaches, Hand Job also includes photographs of found type and artists’ studios to give readers a stronger understanding of what goes into creating hand-drawn type.

**Email me** at *weiandhimself at gmail dot com* if interested! *Pick-up/Drop-Off only around Melbourne*, unless you're willing to pay $10 shipping.

How to reconcile differences in aesthetic taste or quality of design?

Posted 01.03.2012 @ 4.33PM (Edited 01.03.2012 @ 4.38PM)

Hey James, you can read about Studio Anybody here, on Lisa Grocott's (one of the original founders) website, I'd give you the direct link but the website's a bit convoluted, http://www.lisagrocott.net/ on the right, click *Case Studies*, then at the top *1. Projects*, then *2. Visual Essays*, and then read the article *1. Designing a Space for Speculation* or better yet read the PDF here http://newschool.academia.edu/LisaGrocott/Papers/784794/Designing_a_Space_for_Speculation_a_Visual_Essay_

:: it can be done but you need the experience

And actually one of the guys, started it *straight* out of uni, he then went on to form Chase & Galley, http://chaseandgalley.com/

:: there's lots of opportunities out there if you search hard enough

Sorry to be a bummer, but I've been looking for a while and, there's not really many right now. We're in a recession and when we come 'back' from it, things will have changed irrevocably. Have a read of http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/when-less-really-does-mean-less/32738/

::We have become accustomed to prospering by catering for the insatiable appetite for consumption that has characterized the last few decades. But what if there is a fundamental change in the way people think about consumption? And what if huge numbers of people are going to learn to live with reduced spending power? This is not mere speculation; there are signs that this process is already underway.
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It appears that we are entering a “post-graphic design” era: a time when pretty much anyone can make graphic design, and when, in a networked and “template-for-everything” world, communication can be had more cheaply and more easily than at any time in history. In the post-graphic design era, the demand and need for routine graphic design skills will inevitably diminish.
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No one knows how designers will earn a living in the coming decades, but the most likely outcome is that for many people, design skills will become the equivalent of owning a driver’s licence: lots of people drive, but very few earn a living from just driving – they drive to do other things. In the long-term, I can see design skills becoming a license – a passport – to do other things. But in the immediate future, survival will depend on adaptability. And as the Darwinians tell us, adaptability is the key to survival.

February Book Reviews

Posted 01.02.2012 @ 11.10PM

Fans of Karel Martens should watch the lovely SBS produced doco about him from his visit to Monash:

Studios in NYC

Posted 31.05.2011 @ 1.07PM

www.qbn.com

http://www.qbn.com/topics/585238/
http://www.qbn.com/topics/551660/?page=4

Business card Gilding in Melbourne?

Posted 04.04.2011 @ 5.22PM

Anyone know someone who can do 2000 of these?

Cheers in advance!