Computer Arts Projects | Reviewed by Chris Griffiths
Computer Arts Projects, the sibling magazine of Computer Arts, is a monthly magazine out of the UK. Computer Arts Projects is different from other design magazines in that it focuses on a particular area of design with each issue. The issues are diverse, covering a range of topics including interactive design, illustration, print and branding,...
Eleni Ioakimidis
Desk//top is back! Our first student in a while is the weird and wonderful Eleni Ioakimidis. DESK My desk is where I spend most of my life. It’s my favourite thing in my room. I found it in a random warehouse it was imported from Morocco. What’s amazing about it is the wash of the wood, the...
Tractor Graduates
Congratulations to UWS Graudates (class of 2010) Matt White and Angelique Hering, plus Honours candidate Thi Nguyen (class of 2011). The trio are part of the first batch of designers to graduate from Tractor Design School. Hat’s off to these designers, they’d meet twice weekly with some of the best designers in the industry to...
Bemused
Following news today that Adobe have purchased leading web font service Typekit and HTML 5 app building software, PhoneGap there’s no doubt the company has bounced back from it’s Flash fiasco and is serious player in the future of web. These purchases are particularly exciting as they are sure to make their way into the...
Event | Insight #08: Toko
Apple and Australian Infront present this talk (at the Sydney Apple Store) with the Dutch duo behind Sydney design hotshop Toko. “Toko will explore and discuss their ‘Future’ Practice based on for example past experiences, their move to Australia, scale and immediate impact of advances in technology on print based design.” Although I’ve never seen...
AGDA – Opening Doors 2011
The job market can be frightening and bewildering but this seminar will give you an edge over your competitors. Robyn Robins of Cardinalbrand in Melbourne will present Opening Doors, developed especially for design students finishing formal studies and looking for a job. If you are one of these students or know someone who is –...
The Distillery
Students Dave Katague and Thao Lai produced this smooth video explaining the Letterpress printing process for The Distillery, a fantastic letterpress studio in North Sydney.
Cheap Design
How affordable is graphic design in Australia? Who can afford it and what that means to us as designer and the industry at large? I’ve got no answers but I offer some speculation and invite your own. My (humble) hunch is that graphic design is becoming de-valued in the small business sector because it’s considered...
Adobe Muse: The Answer to our Prayers?
For those of us graphic designers who’ve almost given up on Web design, Adobe’s latest offering could be the software that pulls us back from the abyss and propels us into the future of modern design practice. And designers who want to “focus on print” – let’s be real – we’re better off with some...
EXPOSURE: Interview with Rhiannon Jansma
Hello and welcome to the third post of exposure. Todays post is an interview with student photographer Rhiannon Jansma.
B Sides # 4 | Helvallica: Back in Cooper Black
This fortnight’s edition of B Sides focuses on typography in music. Typography is possibly my favourite design element: I’m a bit of a typophile. And when typography is used in the music industry, some wonderful examples of visual communication arise. Some examples are very quirky, others are iconic, or epic, or even a little glamorous....
B Sides #3 | I can see the music!
This fortnight’s BELATED edition of B Sides takes a slightly different approach to design for music. Rather than focusing on groundbreaking designs and designers, I want to share with the Warren readers my experiences of the neurological condition that affects 1 in 2000 people. It affects men and women equally, and is often passed from...