A lesson in ARIA design history
My favourite thing about new music is checking out the cover art. My all time favourite CD cover art would have to be for Regurgitator’s ‘Unit’ (although I could be a little biased as they are my all time favourite band). ‘Unit’ scored itself an ARIA for its shockingly simplistic CD cover art (by design [...]
Design Saving Lives
Design is used everywhere. If it’s subtle enough that you don’t notice, then it’s done its job. But when design isn’t employed in some of the most basic forms, it can have disasterous effects. Air Crash Investigation recently broadcasted an episode about the second-deadliest plane crash in US history – The 1988 Northwest Airlines Flight [...]
Could art be imitating life in Daybreakers?
Who would have thought there was room on our video store shelves for yet another vampire movie?! Daybreakers is an Australian epic, filmed at Gold Coast’s Warner Brothers MovieWorld. It’s a visual piece of art by the Spierig brothers, Michael and Peter. Michael is a graduate of Graphic Design and Peter a Film graduate. Teamed [...]
Adobe CS5 is HERE!
Call me crazy, but I actually quite like Monday mornings. Here at Red-i Design, we get treated to half an hour of inspiration during our Monday Morning Meeting, whether it is through motivational speakers or examples of great art and design. Today, we had an extra special treat: a quick (but oh so amazing) tutorial [...]
Memories on my walls…
I’ve always been a poster pilferer. I go to gigs and take them from the walls get them signed by the band then frame them. My Skunkhour poster from The Go tour is my pride and joy. My best friend recounts and experience of regret the time we saw Alex Lloyd at the Waterloo (in [...]
You’re invited to…
I am getting to a certain age where my friends are starting to get engaged, married or having babies. As their token graphic designer friend the tasks generally falls on me to come up with invitations. Now being a designer I don’t want my friends to have run of the mill invitations, I want to [...]
Penguin Classics
I have long been a fan of the Penguin Classics range. The beautiful orange and black that look so neat and professional on your bookcase. Not to mention that they are must reads from all periods in time. Well, recently while browsing in a bookstore I saw that the Penguin Classic collection has been given [...]
Heavy Meta: Design and the Informational Baroque
New York designer, Barbara Glauber, is touring the country later this month as part of AGDA’s international speaker program. Barbara is a founding partner of the Smoking Gun website and is on the faculty at Yale University as a critic in graphic design. She loves typography and chocolate (don’t we all?) and during her talk, titled ‘Heavy Meta: Design [...]
Happy Birthday Bauhaus
April 1 marks the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus movement in Weimar. The Bauhaus brought us such revolutionary typographers as Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer and Jan Tschichold, who introduced the ideas of “New Typography” to design. The influence of the Bauhaus can be seen in much of today’s graphic design. It would seem [...]