“Started in 2002 by Daniel Frigo, Platform5, (the name derived from Daniel’s time spent waiting as a child at a Florence train station), was built upon the already extensive experience gained after 15 years in the Fashion Industry, alongside some of Australia’s most iconic Brands.
Established as a name in Visual Merchandising, Platform5 has built upon its 3D approach to design to become a multi-disciplinary design studio.”
“Kareena Zerefos is an artist and freelance illustrator who lives and works in Sydney, Australia. With a background in graphic design, completing a Bachelor of Design at the College of Fine Arts, her personal creative work began to move away from graphics becoming more illustrative by the end of 2005.
Conceptually based around memories, dreams and nostalgia; Kareena creates a bittersweet, slightly unsettling feeling in her work by exploring themes of isolation and escapism. She works using a variety of media, including pencil, gouache and ink, and often combines traditional drawing with digital graphics.”
About Beige:
“born in 1984, to a mother and a father, in sydney australia. still living and freelancing in sydney, providing creative solutions to inspirational / exciting people, and their projects. print design, creative direction, graphic art, illustration, & web design.”
It is going to take me a while to get the images of the sculptural pieces in Patricia Piccinini’s latest exhibit at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery out of my mind. Fantastic yet incredibly disturbing at the same time. Especially with the use of small children. Bizarre and awesome.
There is an interesting interview up for a read with famous doodler/designer Jeremyville at Thunder Chunky. Who knew he was that famous. Wow.
Wow, I was really impressed by the work in the fully relaunched website of Aussie Illustrator Eamo. Great stuff.
“Coöp is a collective of creatives dedicated to the practise of visual communications.
Visionary in approach, we are not limited by discipline, instead we work openly and collaboratively across many platforms.
Our design philosophy is holistic. We combine critical thought, style, function and finish to create aesthetically pleasing designs that work. Uniting theoretical foundation with imagination, our work is both ordered and playful and is defined as contemporary with classic sensibilities.
Responsive to brief, we strategically interpret our client’s values and personality into their projects. Open to continual learning, we build solid relationships with our clients and encourage them to get involved with the design process.
Believing good design should be for everyone, we work cross-sector on a range of projects varying in size and complexity. From the tiniest bespoke brief to large-scale projects we apply an equal dedication to excellence and this commitment is our driving force.”
Awesome work guys. Sincerely. Thank you so much for sending an email.
Ravi Vasavan on Ravis Vasavan: “I am nothing more than another ordinary young boy living in Sydney, Australia and working as an Art Director slash Designer by the day and a caped crusader by the night. With a strong penchant for pastel colours, as it can be seen in latest few web projects of mine.”
Bizarre but interesting illustration and design work by Aussies, Tin&ed.
Melbourne-based XYZ Studios has updated with a new website full of really stunning work for motion. Top notch all the way.
There are some nice drawings, art and illustrations in the portfolio of Australian illustrator/artist Dane Flighty.
Nice clean and classic design work from the people at Round based in Melbourne.
Surry Hills, Sydney-based design agency, Toko have updated their site with some brilliant new work. They never disappoint.
Barry McGee inspired artist Trent Whitehead has a show coming up in September. His work has evolved a lot since he started out a few years back and his recent series of masks is really nice. If you are an Aussie and in the neighborhood you might wan to check it out. The flyer for the show is on the landing page of his website.
War Design based out of Sydney, Australia has updated their website with even more strong graphic design work. They are also hiring as well, so if you are in their area you might want to drop them a line and see if you can’t pick yourself up a job at a great shop.
We Buy Your Kids “make artwork for posters, albums, tshirts, magazines, the internet, the magic of YouTube, the telly and many other things.”
Webuyyourkids is Sonny Day & Biddy Maroney and they are based out of sunny Syndney, Australia.
There is lots of attractive design work waiting to inspire you at Australian design agency There.
There are some really nice fusions of imagery and typography happening in the portfolio of Manila-born, Australian-bound graphic designer, sometimes photographer and onetime drummer Paolo Lim who goes by the name Supersteady.
I love that the album cover above was created in 2006 and it looks like it came straight out of the 70’s.
