The Shoe Fits

Being an earth sign I've always loved comfy shoes that place me close to the ground. Birkenstock have a rep for producing the highest quality and most comfortable shoes in the world, with a a strong environmental/sustainable platform to boot. This catalogue was produced with a debossed cover on recycled stock for a sophisticated and understated look and feel. I was also able to weave in some simple didactic illustrations. A great project hot off the press.

We are the Champions

I was really excited when Gymnastics Australia came to us requesting a revamp. Sports photography is so dynamic to work with on a compositional level. Take a look at some of the Event Branding and Annual Reports I've been working on this week.

Eat My Shorts

I have been keeping my writing skills up by enrolling in a Short Story course at CAE. As somewhat of a  cyber-narcissist, I have decided to publish my Stories each week. In the first weeks story "The Spaces Between Them' I had to change the gender of the protagonists - as the writing teacher insisted it was a female voice coming through... and that male painters would never use the colour pink. (?) So here it is - Eat My Shorts -

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Earning a Lil'Quid

Hello fans, creeps...mum...the faithful handful of people that read this blog. Just wanna apologise for my lack of entries. Have been doing some serious bread-winning of late. Working on a beaut catalogue for Birkenstock shoes and other creatively sustaining graphic design projects - all top secret. Have teamed up with Sue Palmer at Liquid, and it's been a wonderful experience to work with a Creative Director with such an earthy, non-arrogant demeanour.  Am working in a beautiful sunlit studio that was once an old auto-mechanics in North Melbourne.

PS - for those disappointed by my lack of consolidated squiggles...don't worry...will be sharpening my pencils for a cartooning workshop soon...so stay tuned.

Funny Farm

Foodie feature turned out noice...There are 4 spreads for FuckFood magazine (yep that's what the mag is called - so I'm thinking it's no Junior MasterChef Spinoff)  Um. So - I'll just give you a teaser. Here's the cover.

Food For Thought

Here are some process drawings for a Farmers Markets feature, to be published in a new underground food magazine. The Art Director gave me some yummy photos to montage and illustrate - and a totally open brief. Yee-Ha Cowboy!

Thanks Mr. Walker

Previous New Media winner Rob Walker has just uploaded his Judges notes for the Newcastle Poetry Prize in New Media to his web site . This is what he had to say.

This truly is mixed media. Like watching a close-up of hand-made Chinese paper on an old projector with the new millennium bonus of interactivity. Transparent water colours on a tactile surface; interesting use of textures and choice of typography. Some of the text animation is perhaps a little contrived, but transitions between screens and animated graphic elements are technically slick and aesthetically beautiful.
The counterpoint of Chinese characters and an Australian environment, the visual construction and deconstruction of the landscape and the effective and well executed soundscape add other layers to the meaning of the poem itself – a poem which could stand alone on its own merits but now has other strata of sumptuous complexity.
Sudden rain is much more substantial and polished than its rivals. It’s clear that much more work has gone into this than the alternate entries.
It has the best use of illustration, sound, texture, animation, transitions and layout and is the most successful in pulling all of these aspects together to create an immersive experience.
I especially appreciate that there are conflicting elements which don’t attempt to reach a conclusion – richly varied, complex and contradictory – much like Life.

Rob Walker
www.robwalkerpoet.com
NPP New Media Winner 2009 and 2007