Just completed another interface for a Radio National project, this time for the national project / competition Marvellous Museums.

“Australian museums come in many shapes and sizes, with themes and collections of infinite variety. Millions of Australians visit museums every year, enjoying the chance to see the objects and the images that reflect both our past and our present.

From Sunday 18 May, ABC Radio National will celebrate these inspiring institutions with a museum-themed week of programming and the launch of the first Marvellous Regional Museums Awards.”

A remix of some of The Present History material for a Australian INfront project that sadly never eventuated…

We have just completed a re-design and complete rebuild of the ACTS website.  Having designed and built their previous website (back in 2004) we had a good understanding of both the technical and design requirements. The client was essentially happy with the original design - so it was basically just tweaked a little to modernise it a little and help it play nicely with the new content management system (a highly customised version of Wordpress 2.5.1)

Just down the road from where we are working (see Laughing Waters post) is an old mud brick house… National Parks Victoria just acquired it for a multi-million dollar sum and while their primary interest was the 40 hectares or so of hills and river frontage, we are far more taken by the abandoned human habitat’s to be found on the property. It must have been quite the party house in the 60’s / 70’s, pumping water straight out of the Yarra the grounds would have been lush - grounds filled with water features, ponds, tennis court & pool, all of which is now in a glorious state of decay. We are interested in staging a few different photoshoots for an exhibition later in the year, however the photos below are just playing around… getting used to the space… You can probably tell from the images that we thought the old pool was pretty crash hot.

Bjork’s new 3d film clip ‘Wanderlust’ is a feast for the eyes… it is one if not the best music video I have seen in a while… great cyclical concept and fantastic execution. Wanderlust was produced by Ghost Robot of NYC.

Proper good old paper collage from a few years ago….

A friend tipped me off to the work of Sara - she is a fine example of sticking to your niche aesthetic and being very successful for it. Link.

Working with Gordy at the ABC we designed a series of banner graphics for the program ‘History Under Siege‘. “History under siege: battles over the past surveys the tensions and debates around history, identity and contemporary society in four countries around the world. It features interviews with historians, as well as oral history and testimony, and archival material.”

View site here.

I have always loved the (Australian) designs of Petey Carey books…. maybe because I am a huge fan of his writing, I have read all of his books over the years and therefore have been able to admire a string of gorgeous cover designs by Jenny Grigg. It is pretty hard to track down much information about her - except that she came to book cover design from designing magazines and CD sleeves… and that in 2002 “she was named young designer of the year,g winner for best designed cover of the year and co-winner for best designed literary fiction book” (quoted from smh.com.au).