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.”

An interface we designed for a Radio National feature program.  The project is called ‘Voyage To The Southern Ocean‘ and here is a blurb:

On 16 December 2007, the scientific research vessel the Aurora Australis embarked on a voyage to the Southern Ocean. The 75 expeditioners and crew were taking part in Australia’s contribution to International Polar Year.

Interface design for a ABC Radio National feature Red Dust Travellers.

From the Red Dust Travellers site:

“1950 the Knox Grammar School undertook an ambitious expedition to Ayers Rock, accompanied by renowned anthropologist Charles Mountford.”

“Here, in Central Australia, you will find a wonderland of chasms and gorges and valleys that are as dramatic as anything I have seen. I wouldn’t be surprised if, one day, this becomes a great tourist centre.” Thomas Bradshaw, Alice Springs, 1899

Website to coincide with independent Sydney based band Here Knows When’s new EP launch. Wordpress content management system.