Another feature site for ABC Radio National:

‘In 2008 the South Australian government launched a regional development initiative focused solely on the arts. Every two years a regional city or town will become the venue for a 12-month program of high art and cultural events involving all of the state-funded performing arts organisations. The first regional centre to experience this bold experiment was the much maligned town of Port Augusta, which sits at the tip of the Spencer Gulf proudly proclaiming itself ‘the crossroads of Australia.’

Link to Radio National Port Augusta site.

We have just launched the Radio Australia: Celebrating 70 years website.  Racket was responsible for the information architecture, the design and building the content management system.  Here is a bit more about the project:

“For 70 years Radio Australia has been at the forefront of covering news and current affairs, political and social change and key events in Asia and the Pacific.During this time we’ve built up strong partnerships and provided of English language lessons to generations of listeners.”

View the timeline or the rather snazzy television commercial here.

Design for the 2009 This is Not Art website.  Built by Small Studio.

Creative Spaces and the Melbourne City Council have organised the visit of Canadian based organisation Artscape.

“Artscape is Canada’s leader in multi-tenant space development for the arts and culture sector. It is a not-for-profit enterprise that has been engaged in culture-led regeneration efforts since 1986 and has consulted world wide on projects that have made positive cultural, economic, social, and environmental impacts. Artscape has developed a unique capability to work effectively across disciplines to align values, leadership, policy and infrastructure that enable innovation and creativity on the ground.”

We were asked to produce a series of electronic invitations target to different demographics.

We have recently completed a website for Israeli based Australian illustrator Emily Penso.  The design features some of her illustrations and is ofcourse powered by Wordpress.  View the website here.

We have been lucky enough to be working with the Creative Spaces project for the last twelve months.  In that time the scale, scope and potential of the project has grown enormously as more and more support has come on board.  The website was officially launched on the 20th February 2009 by Deputy Lord Mayor Susan Riley at the Boyd School Studios (managed and facilitated by Creative Spaces).

The website itself is a highly customised multi author build of Wordpress.  Racket managed all aspects of the project from infromation architecture through to the graphic design, XHTML & CSS coding and ofcourse the Wordpress build and integration.

Another interface we produced for the Radio National team:

“Holding our tongues is a Hindsight project about the long and painful task of reviving Aboriginal languages. Find out more…”

Australia has the highest rate of language extinction on the planet: that’s according to UNESCO who says language diversity is—like species diversity—rapidly declining. And once a language is gone, can it really be brought back to life?

We have just completed a website for Melbourne based artist Ghostpatrol.  Built with Wordpress 2.7.1 as the CMS it also features some pretty seamless integration with Flickr (which the client uses as their image CMS) and an integrated shop for managing all art sales.  Building sites for artists in always an enjoyable process as there is so many image resources to draw from…

View the Ghostpatrol website here.

Radio National promotional partnership site with the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2009.

View the ABC Radio National - Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2009 site

An interface design we have just produced for an upcoming ABC Radio National project.  From the producer:  “A pod of poets” is a series of eleven, forty-minute podcasts which will be published on Radio National Online as special feature attached to the Poetica program.”