Good Stuff
There is so much good coming from this little studio down on Smith St it’s difficult to describe them in a nutshell. The Social Studio’s primary aim is to give refugees a safe, welcoming place to learn new skills from experienced designers so they can then find employment in their new homeland. The offshoots of this project are: a fantastic shop where you can pick up one-off designer remakes, a coffee shop and sewing workshops that are open to the public. All the revenue raised from the offshoots go back into funding the primary project.
Posted 11-02-2009 by Tahnee Moore in Design Stuff, Good Stuff
Wooden Toy is one of our favourite local art and design publications which means we’re happy to announce a new competition for the next edition of their magazine. The Music Edition will feature an 8 page reader submitted gallery, this means Wooden Toy are calling out to designers, artists and illustrators to submit unpublished work under the theme of music. Wooden Toy will also be running an online gallery for all of those submissions that can’t be printed so stay tuned to WMSG for updates.
What: Wooden Toy drawing competition
When: Deadline for submissions is Friday November 6
Guidelines: All works must be created at 225mm x 225mm at 300dpi print resolution and cover the theme of music. Only send screen resolition 72 dpi jpegs (under 1mb) to submit@woodentoyquarterly.com. If Wooden Toy digs your submission they’ll send you an email.
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Posted by Robert Hecimovic in Design Stuff, Good Stuff, Melbourne, Music Stuff
Mel Kadel is an L.A artist who had a chat to me about such things as leg wrestling, cotton boxers and her latest body of work which she is wowing the world with.
Posted 10-27-2009 by Ezzzy in Art stuff, Good Stuff
These posters by Atlanta’s Mark Weaver would look awesome on the sad, white walls of our new house. Shame we’re all so poor. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by 1up in Art stuff, Design Stuff, Good Stuff
Hello boys and girls and welcome to your first lesson on plastic water bottles. Ever wondered to yourself if that plastic bottle you keep refilling and reusing is doing you harm? Don’t get me wrong, recycling is the cleaner, greener way to a happy future but can it affect your health?
Research has shown that most water bottles are only designed for single time use, so if you keep reusing them they can leach harmful chemicals into your water. Heat can also affect this so keeping your bottle in a hot car can increase this rate of ‘leaching’.
Posted 10-20-2009 by Ania in Design Stuff, Good Stuff
IdN is one of the most interesting design magazines on the market today, each edition is a colourful and intriguing spread of the latest in art and design. With their 15 year anniversary coming up the team have gotten together and produced something special, a massive 452-page hardcover book packaged with a ton of creative stuff.
Posted 10-19-2009 by Krystal Schultheiss in Design Stuff, Good Stuff
The illustration show “Monkey See, Monkey Do” presents the newest pieces from SAM-Crew. The differences between members Leps, Kid Kyuss, Hope, & John Reaktor are astonishing - their styles are as varied as it gets, which is exactly what gives the pieces their appeal and promises a worthwhile visit to the WMSG Gallery at the Stattbad in Wedding.
Who: SAM CREW vs MK
When : Exhibition Sat 17th Oct, 7pm on.
Visiting hours: Tues - Fri: 2pm - 6pm until the 30th Oct
Where: 65 Gericht Strasse, Wedding, Berlin (Stattbad)
Mit der Illustrations Ausstellung “Monkey see, monkey do” zeigt die SAM-Crew die neusten Einblicke ihrer Werken.
Unterschiedlicher können die Arbeiten der drei Mitglieder kaum sein, wie in der Ausstellung im Stadtbad Wedding zu sehen ist. Aber gerade das verleiht der Präsentation ihren Reiz und macht den Besuch so sehenswert.
WER: SAM CREW vs MK
WANN: Samstag, den 17ten Oktober, ab 19 Uhr
WO: Stattbad, Gerichtstrasse 65, Berlin-Wedding
Öffnungszeiten: Diestag - Freitag 14 Uhr bis 18 Uhr, bis zum 30sten Okt.
Posted 10-15-2009 by George Ironside in Art stuff, Events, We Make Stuff Good Gallery, berlin
People in Australia are noticeably becoming more interested in typography. You don’t have to be a graphic designer to know that Comic Sans is not funny and Helvetica dominates everything around us…
Posted 10-10-2009 by Krystal Schultheiss in Design Stuff, Events, Good Stuff, Melbourne, Sydney
I don’t usually give shoutouts to many personal artist’s blogs but I became friends with this this chick on facebook and she has me hooked…
Posted 10-07-2009 by Krystal Schultheiss in Art stuff, Good Stuff
Bo- dado ba-boo, type that into your lyrics!
This yet another fantastical gallery exhibition that Semi-Permanent is adding to their festival collection for this October.
So why should you go to yet another gallery opening? Beacause you will know all the words to all the songs. The Wooden Toy the caped crusaders have done it again with their new exhibition called Lyric and Type. Inviting 17 international typographers, designers and illustrators to graphically interpret a line of lyrics by famous (both past and present) singers, songwriters or bands through a combination of experimental type and illustration.
Posted 10-04-2009 by Krystal Schultheiss in Design Stuff, Good Stuff, Melbourne
This year’s featured ‘Curvy’ artist Kaitlin Beckett will be hanging a new body of work at Melbourne’s 696 gallery. Displaying works on paper and canvas, her show ‘A compendium of undersea curiosities… and friends‘ will bring a wide array of creatures both mystical and mesmerising to the Brunswick gallery…
Posted 09-30-2009 by Ezzzy in Art stuff, Events, Good Stuff, Melbourne
