A while back I stumbled upon Sneeze Magazine. $5, massive format. I didn’t hesitate to buy it now (despite the $13 shipping!). It came today, bit beaten up from the long trek from the USA but it’s awesome. When unfolded it’s huge and all the pages fall out to be massive posters. Visit: http://www.sneezemag.com
A Type Of Show is on next week. Today I dropped of my typographical piece to the gallery, guys weren’t in (I was there pretty early in the morning) so I dropped it off to their local cafe onRiley St. Robo Cog, damn rad cafe, wish it was around when I was living around the corner many years ago!
Contributing Australian artists and typographers — Timba Smits, Jim Parry, Atome, James Arboghast, Joel Birch, Tristan Ceddia, Andrew Van Der Westhuyzen, Merda, Dmote, Vince Frost, Benjamin Hennessy, Pudle, Morgan Veness, Marty Routledge, Gemma O’Brien, Jonathan Zawada, Wing Lau, Yosuke Ando, Luke Lucas, Jeremyville, Andy Uprock, Les Sharpe, Perso, Numskull, Ken Taylor, Justin Fox, Phibs, Luca Ionescu, Carby Tuckwell, Paul Nolan, Symple, Ron Garsuta, Toby & Pete, Bel Johnstone, Deanne Cheuk, Elizabeth Carruthers, Paul Astwood, Dboe, Will Lynes, Maud, Jay Ryves, Brooklyn Whelan, Bianca Chang, Emma Elizabeth, Moffitt.Moffitt & Paul McNeil.
I’m pretty excited about the show. More about the amazing names on the list, and the amazing work that’s going to be on display. I’m still feeling very un-worthy. Very very un-worthy! If you’re in Sydney, please come along on the night, it’s going to be awesome. I promise!
Like Minded Studio and kind of — gallery present A Type Of Show, with international artists Tony Dispigna and Alex Trochut.
With honorable Australian typographer Keith Morris.
Opening Wednesday 17th of August, 7pm — 9pm.
72 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, Sydney.
Whilst many people out there get the impression that I’m a good designer, personally I prefer the work of others. One such guy is Mike Stevens (I call him “Van” as that’s been his username on JDMST since the beginning).
A while back Christina and I got Van to design the VWGolf.net.au logo (which we’re very happy with) and since we’ve opened up JDMST to membership I wanted to give our supporters a special edition Supporting Member sticker for their rides.
Van got it done quick, and in my opinion nailed it first go. I love it! I’m sure our supporting members will love it too.
For more information on JDMST Membership, click here. To visit Mike Steven’s folio visit: http://localmike.com
Yes being naughty and ripping shit off again. Top logo symbol is inspired by the F1 logo, bottom one inspired by the McLaren F1 logo. Cheeky bugger huh? Which one do you like best?
PS: New site is up: http://toponeauto.com.au
& Yeah…
Couldn’t help myself! JDMST Brands T now available.
A few weeks ago Luca gave me the heads up on a special Q&A screening of Mike Mills new film Beginners at the Dendy cinema in Newtown. I quickly snapped up 2 tix for Christina and myself (lucky as it was a sold out event). It turns out Andrew and Murray form Semi-Permanent were hosting the screening.
From writer/director/graphic designer/illustrator Mike Mills comes a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna (Melanie Laurent) only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who – following 44 years of marriage – came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.
Such a beautiful film and I’m a huge Mills fan now. I related instantly to his Dad passing away, and how the experience gave him the immense strength and drive to make the film a reality. I’m hoping the film reaches more people, hopefully outside of the Dendy and into more mainstream cinemas. It’s beautiful, touching, moving, real and funny.
Visit the movie site, buy tickets at the Dendy and after the film be sure to check out Mike’s Begginers blog site for more insight.
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I’m gobsmacked and feeling very un-worthy for being invited to display a typographical piece next to the names on this list. Seriously, wow. It’s all happeming August 17th on Oxford St. Darlinghurst. Put it in your diaries, come along!
ANJA Eurphorics in Black Gloss.
A few days ago I got a call from Caryn, her little brother Scott (he’ll always be Scotty to me!) has launched a new sunglasses company which totally took me by surprise!
I checked out the site, real nice. I thought Caryn had designed it but it turns out Scotty did it all by himself. Being a bit of a sunglasses collector I couldn’t help myself so I bought a pair.
They came in the mail today and I love them! They’re rad, packaged nicely, came with some stickers and an ANJA branded pouch and cleaning cloth too.
Check out: http://anjaeyes.com and also be sure to check out the ANJA Blog, warning though, it’s not safe for work!
New wired keyboard with numeric pad.
As much as I want to avoid being a mac fan (the few technical issues I had with my new mac didn’t help) I’m actually starting to like being back on a mac. Like anything else I suppose it’s about customising things to suit.
A while back the bluetooth mouse was giving me the shits with lost connections so I put my old wired Microsoft mouse back on and I’m loving it. Last week my keyboard batteries went low and started losing bluetooth connection. I charged up some rechargable batteries but failed to get the keyboard to synch up with the mac, in frustration (I never liked the tiny incomplete keyboard in any case) I reverted to an old wired Apple keyboard but instantly I found myself struggling with pressing the keys and as a result I was making spelling errors everywhere.
Remembering that the new style flat keyboard took a while to get used to I gave the old keyboard a few days to see if I’d get used to it again, but… no go. On Sunday I ordered a new flat style (but complete with numeric pad + wired so I’d never have flat battery issues again) keyboard from the Apple Store and it came this morning. It’s perfect and I’m loving it.
My old buddy Sean invited me over to his place last night for a long overdue catchup. He’s lived in an apartment at Broadway for quite a few years now a while back he mentioned that he planned to re-invent the space. I was thinking new furniture, artwork on the walls perhaps… but as soon as I stepped into his apartment I found I was in an art gallery!
Sean’s current flatmate is Sokquon Tran, a landscape artist who’s mentoring him at the moment. Sokquon’s pretty good with his hands and he’s built a wall structure that covers the entire kitchen, benches surrounding what was the lounge room as well as an outdoor area to match. The idea is to have small private invite only opening nights, music, wine, nibbles, art talk.
Despite not having any art on the walls yet there was already wine and conversation flowing. I think the concept is brilliant. I’ve never felt like smaller galleries worked well post opening nights. I always assumed that a show would have little or no visitors during the week (dead) or so after opening night, but this negates that. An invite list prevents dealing with blow-ins from the street looking for free booze and having a gallery in such an intimate and comfortable setting works well socially.
Sean’s busy working on a web site for his new space. I’ll be sure to report back with a URL as soon as it’s up!