Cloud 19 represents ‘Not One Style Religion’ but a futuristic landscape of 15 design disciplines fused with electronic music.
The exhibition showcases design creations from over 40 emerging and established designers from Melbourne and Sydney.
Poetically curated the opening event will sure to be a surreal and imaginative experience.
WHEN: Saturday 18th July 2009
WHERE: 1000 £ BEND, 361 Little Lonsdale St
TIME: 6-9pm
FREE entry, donations welcome.
This event is part of the State of Design Festival 15th-25th July. Produced by Tracy Quertier
Enquiries: e: cloud192009@gmail.com p: 04 3174 3045
Monday, June 29, 2009
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
DS (2)
(DS) 2 is an ideas-driven media production agency.
(DS) 2 takes a creative approach to providing TV, music, video, viral and interactive solutions. In a saturated market, (DS) 2 helps you to be seen.
N Brett D’Souza
P 0408116 009
E brett@ds2.tv
W www.ds2.tv
NHJ
NHJ aka Not Happy Jan has ten years of playing mixes of grumpy disco, bleepno, twinkle-house and freaked out bass jams to some of Australia’s best parties and clubs with sporadic international appearances in Thailand, Singapore, Holland, Belgium and Spain, where Jan was a participant at the Red Bull Music Academy 2008. Jan’s most recent project is the M Division record label.
W www.m-division.com
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
TRUST FUN
Trust Fun! is a Sydney trio comprising of Jonathan & Annie Zawada and Shane Sakkeus. They work as designers for some of the most prominent fashion, music and commercial corporations worldwide, bringing unexpected artistic concepts to a commercial client base. Trust Fun! have just released their latest collection of limited edition silk scarves, entitled Glory Scarfs, which are sold in boutiques worldwide.
P +61 403 821 326
W www.trust-fun.com
MINK ENGINE
Mink Engine is the techno-coloured lovechild of Melbourne-based electronic musician Askii and motion graphics artist Touch Me Tiger. Together they take you on a neon ride with punchy beats and animated colour explosions. 2009 has seen them play in Shanghai at the Glamour Bar, the main stage at Good Vibrations Festival and followed up with their recent screening of their DVD Acres of Diamonds at ACMI. Catch them before the rest of the world does.
P 0422 953 774
E info@minkengine.com
W www.minkengine.com
ELKE KRAMER
Elke Kramer is based in Sydney and works as an illustrator, art director and jewellery designer. Elke brings her unique aesthetic to all her design work, however, it is her line of jewellery, that has brought her international recognition and praise. Elke continually uses unique materials whilst experimenting with unexpected production techniques.
ADRIAN FERNAND
Adrian Fernand is a writer born in Melbourne. With a background in the interior design, communications and event management industries; Adrian has worked as an event manager for leading luxury goods brand, Louis Vuitton and as director of a marketing, events and online strategy consultancy.
He is the author of his debut novel, The Glamour Never Stops, the social protocol and etiquette blog, I Do Believe I Came with a Hat, and is currently completing a screenplay and work-in-progress, Love in the Time of Chlamydia. He has in excess of 90 pairs of shoes.
YELLOW DIVA
David Walley’s recent work explores the concept of progression, lineage and evolution. Returning to his native Melbourne after a long sojourn in Britain provided impetus for a shift in focus. Now Design Director of Yellow Diva, the creative design studio he established in London with British architect, James Davis, David is enjoying a period of productive independence in Australia.
CURSORCTRL
Willie’s career began with sign-writing and silkscreen printing with his father in London. He moved to NYC to work in the industry and in 1997 created his own company, Cursor Inc, an internationally acclaimed digital augmentation studio that provides image-retouching services for the advertising, beauty and fashion industries. Cursorctrl provides a complete service from pre-shoot consultation to the finished image.
P +61 03 8060 7022
E willie@cursorctrl.com
W www.cursorctrl.com
VOLKER HAUG & CHRIS NASH
Designer, Volker Haug and artist, Chris Nash; both Melbourne based, are for the first time combining their ideas to create an installation of visual art/lighting. Volker was ten when he made his first light. He now designs lights for contemporary spaces utilising raw and recycled materials. Chris has been exhibiting his abstract painting, collage and photography since 2002. Having come from a performance background before this, his art is created through play, experimentation and instinct.
W www.volkerhaug.com / www.chrisnashart.blogspot.com
FLATLAND OK – TIM FLEMING
Tim Fleming’s practice covers a wide terrain as a visual artist and designer/maker. Recently Tim’s practice has focused on carpentry of small objects and modular furniture systems. Fundamental to this practice is a conceptual business operation called ‘Flatland OK’. Tim experiments with objects through hybridising functions and creating products that blur fact with fiction. A play has always existed between this flatness and the form.
P 0432 485 765
E tim@flatlandok.com
W www.flatlandok.com
THINK POSITIVE DESIGNER PRINTS
Think Positive Designer Prints has been at the forefront of digital direct-to-fabric printing technology since its inception, leading the world in developing the digital printing process across all natural base cloths. Groundbreaking Colorbox colour management software, twenty-five years of textile design experience, together with a customised printing techniques allows Think Positive Designer Prints to achieve vibrant colour and intricate designs on all natural base cloths. Think Positive Designer Prints also offers services in custom textile print design, as well as offering its own range of textile designs.
P 02 9251 2233
E penny@.thinkdesignerprints.com.au
W www.thinkdesignerprints.com.au
TESS MCCABE
Graphic designer, Tess McCabe began her career designing lovely CD covers for bands. Lamenting the lack of tangible CD artwork that accompanies digital album downloads, Tess makes paper collages inspired by the music - using common household printed material such as magazines, advertising, junk mail and wrapping paper, and fastened with thread and a glue stick.
P 0419 280 282
E tess@tessmccabe.com.au
W www.tessmccabe.com.au
SUZIE STANFORD
Growing up Suzie Stanford was always collecting things from ceramic teapots to potties; making bags and macramé for the Royal Show. After graduations from University and spending ten years living in London, Suzie relocated home to Melbourne. Since then, she has worked on numerous projects creating one-off pieces including the feature French Tea Towel Chairs for the Guillaume Brahimi Restaurant at the Melbourne Crown Casino, furniture and objects for the Joe Black men’s tailoring stores, and numerous one-off light fittings for the much-acclaimed Ivy Bar, (including restaurants and private club) in Sydney.
P 0403 920 450
W www.suziestanford.com.au
SPRINGFREE TRAMPOLINE
Brilliant in functionality, outstanding in visual aesthetics and superior in quality, the Springfree™ Trampoline revolutionises the traditional trampoline. Created by worldclass engineer and devoted father, Dr Keith Alexander.
The design objective was to ensure superior trampoline safety; what was delivered was the world’s safest trampoline through a unique design removing all the impact zones associated with traditional trampolines, therefore reducing injury occurrence.
Springfree™ Trampoline received one of the highest accolades in design excellence from Standards Australia earlier this year, winning an Australian International Design Award.
P 1800 JUMP SAFE (5867 7233)
W www.springfreetrampoline.com.au
SETH REES
Seth Rees is an atmospheric sound-scape guitarist/filmscorer/producer/ from New Zealand, now living in Melbourne. Since moving across the Tasman in 2000, Seth has become a key member of the Fitzroy-based Melbourne music scene and has forged his unique sound as a member of an increasingly impressive list of bands, including This is Your Captain Speaking, the Spheres and Amplifier Machine.
E sethrees@yahoo.com.au
W www.myspace.com/sethrees
SCANDINAVIAN WALLPAPER & DÉCOR
Scandinavian Wallpaper & Décor is the Australian agent for one of Scandinavia’s primary wallpaper manufacturers of traditional printed wallpaper, ‘Décor Maison’ and digital printed wallpaper, ‘Mr Perswall‘. Using the latest digital printing technology to create photo wallpaper suitable for commercial and residential applications, the wallpaper is printed on a quality-assured non-woven material, which is extra pliable and easier to hang. The only limits are the imagination.
P 08 9204 5302 or 043 492 3363
E lollo@wallpaperdecor.com.au
W www.wallpaperdecor.com.au
PETER O’CONNOR
Influenced by spaghetti westerns, horse-riding cowboys, western boots and Clint Eastwood, Peter’s satchels are practical and hardwearing – they are built to stand the test of time. The satchels reflect an old-fashioned sensibility combined with an artist’s appreciation of colour and texture. Peter’s palette tends toward the earthy and natural: tans; ochres; browns; and the occasional deep blue or unexpected stop-sign red.
P 0412319720
E soundslikeleather@gmail.com
PAUL BARBERA
Paul Barbera was born in Melbourne, and completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1995. He has lived and worked abroad since 1996, spending most of his time in Amsterdam before returning to Melbourne. Paul has established himself as an interiors and fashion photographer, working with publications like View on Color, Bloom, Elle Décor, Freudin, Grazia, Vogue Living and Jalouse. He now divides his time between Australia and abroad, continuing his advertising and editorial work while also expanding into new projects that include books and exhibitions.
P 0412441170
E barbera@me.com
W www.paulbarbera.com
NICHOLLS+SCOTT
Nicholls+Scott is a Sydney based collaboration between industrial designers, Ross Nicholls and Greg Scott. Through their work they aim to provide an insight into the origin of products we use in our daily lives by highlighting the hand of the manufacturer, rather than the ego of the designer. They hope to encourage a shift in perception away from products as a temporary reflection of self, to products as a profound and lasting feat of human ingenuity.
E info@nicholls-scott.com
W www.nicholls-scott.com
NETZAIR
With a passion for live performance, Netzair has spent years experimenting, shooting and producing his own unique visual content. Crosscutting live, graphic compositions to sync, his style allows you to see beyond a reel of pleasant images - you see the music. This visual experience is especially suited to an electronic environment where bass, glitch and snare can be translated optically.
W www.netzair.com
PLUSCREATE
Pluscreate is an interdisciplinary design consultancy working in the advertising and fashion domains. Pluscreate provides hair and makeup, props and product styling services. Nadja Mott has a Masters in Sculpture from the Victorian College of the Arts and a Graduate Diploma in Design Management. Her research paper lead her to the conception of Pluscreate where she is co-director with Nicholas McColl.
P 0410644813
W www.pluscreate.net
MINELA KRUPIC
Minela Krupic was born in Bosnia and relocated to Australia in 1997. Having studied painting at RMIT and Printmaking at the Victorian College of the Arts, Minela creates two-dimensional works on paper including Australian iconography while reflecting the influence of her European heritage. Eastern themes and fairy-tale like surroundings show Minela’s inextricable connection to symbols and ideas that originate from her formative years.
E minelakrupic@hotmail.com
MELANIE MARTIN
Armed with a Bachelor of Arts (Advertising; RMIT, 2005), designer Melanie Martin pursued her passion for handmade craft and 3D design, completing an Advanced Diploma of Visual Merchandising (RMIT, 2008). She currently designs displays for ‘The Stitches and Craft Show’ at Living Creatively Events.
As the inaugural POPAI Student Sustainability Design Award Winner (2008), Melanie enjoys the challenge that visual merchandising now faces: creating spaces with high visual impact; while minimising waste and reliance on environmentally harmful practices.
E melaniemartin.design@live.com
MELANIE BOWER
Melanie Bower is an emerging fashion designer based in Melbourne. She has a degree in Fine Art (2000) and recently graduated with a degree in Fashion Design (First Class Honours, 2007) from RMIT University, Melbourne. Melanie’s work is a result of her ongoing interest in new materials and techniques and is inspired by the fashion-making process. She strives for a balance between austerity and hedonism. Previous collections have included digital prints taken from photographs of fabric under the microscope and functional embellishment such as in-seam beading.
E melanie.j.bower@gmail.com
MARC PASCAL
Marc Pascal is an independent designer and producer in Melbourne, developing and evolving an array of products that bring happiness and empower the spaces in which they find themselves. After studying Fine Art (Painting and Printmaking) at the Victoria College of the Arts and Industrial Design at RMIT, he has received grants and awards; and exhibits his work regularly. Marc is an emotive and tactile person, enjoying playing with materials, colour, and light. He works in an intuitive manner, attempting to imbue each piece with spirit and love.
P 03 9480 3617
E info@marcpascal.com
W www.marcpascal.com
LUCI EVERETT
Luci Everett is a freelance graphic designer living, working and drinking lots of coffee in Melbourne. She studied Communication Design (Honours) at RMIT, which she completed in 2008. Luci now enjoys working on a variety of projects amongst creative folk in the city she adores. Recently her focus has been collaborating with members of the local music community. There is nothing she enjoys more than the language of the visual world; exploring, comprehending and reinterpreting.
P 0408 178 344
E hello@lucieverett.com
W www.lucieverett.com
LIMEDROP
Limedrop is a Melbourne based fashion label that captures the imagination and offers perfect balance of classic lines and experimental silhouettes. Hailing from the hot, dusty reaches of Darwin where the design duo met and fell in love, Clea Garrick and Nathan Price studied fashion design and marketing respectively at Queensland University of Technology. Limedrop has 25 Australian boutique stockists and 7 international stockists in New Zealand, Indonesia and Singapore.
P 03 9415 6310
E crew@limedrop.com.au
W www.limedrop.com.au
Monday, June 22, 2009
LIGHTLY
Based in Melbourne, Cindy-Lee Davies is the designer behind Lightly. Inspired by dail y rituals and acts of domesticity. Cindy-Lee has witnessed global success with commissions by Kate Spade International and Moma Restaurant in New York, with exhibitions in Milan, Paris, New York and Los Angeles and Tokyo. Lightly products are available internationally and are sold to unique design and gallery stores.
P 03 9348 9520
E info@lightly.com.au
W www.lightly.com.au
KIM VICTORIA WEARNE
Kim Victoria Wearne established her label, Bonfire Folk in 2007. Kim originall y completed a BA Interior Design at RMIT and it became rapidly clear that she was drawn to smallscale work and could not face life without tiny saws and needle files. Drawing on a wide range of materials from precious metals and timber to concrete and cotton, her jewellery and objects seek to reveal clues about the events that it has weathered.
W www.bonfirefolk.com
FLOWERS BY KAREN ROSE
Flowers by Karen Rose is not your average florist. It started in a little shop tucked under a stairwell in Centre Place off Flinders Lane and garnered a following. Moss, twigs, season blooms, teacups, birds, rice steamers, feathers, trinkets and lushy foliage or something picked up on the side of the road; Karen takes flowers and foliage and makes them an art form. Flowers by Karen Rose is now situated in North Melbourne; also displaying and selling found objects from vintage clothes, furniture and seasonal blooms with a twist.
P 03 9329 4848
JUSTIN HUTCHINSON
Justin founded the design consultancy Justin Hutchinson Design in 2008. The firm offers strategic creative consultative service to clients, focusing on design solutions developed around future social, environmental and technological change. His clients include David Lancashire Design, Sustainability Victoria, Tongue and Groove and Swinburne University.
P 0412 378 546
E design@justinhutchinson.com
W www.justinhutchinson.com
JON HEWITT
jon hewitt lives and works in Melbourne. Having graduated with a BA Fine Art, Honours from Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, jon works with the everyday, the mundane, the ‘basics’, practical, not beautiful, functional and unexceptional.
P 0450 119 034
E jonhewitt84@gmail.com
JOHN HOOGENDOORN
Ruby Studio is a multi-disciplinary design studio specialising in the areas of furniture,lighting and homewares design. Established by John Hoogendoorn and Kristin McFarlane in 2007, the practice operates from a studio and workshop in Melbourne, Australia. Born in Holland, John trained as an industrial designer at Monash Universityand has since collaborated with many major brands in Australia and abroad.
JO DUCK & JADE LEUNG
Taking inspiration from everyday amusement and giggles, Jo Duck and Jade Leung’s signature style is beaming everywhere from magazine covers to billboards. With a huge emphasis on the concept, soundtrack and atmosphere of each shoot, Jo and Jade share an intuitive technique resulting in beautiful images that are more often than not, subtly poking fun.
P Jo 0425 728 549 / Jade 0408 168 865
E jo@joduck.com / styling@jadeleung.com.au
W www.joduck.com / www.jadeleung.com.au
JEM SELIG
Trained as an industrial designer, Jem Selig entertains various ideas and occupations. Currently besotted with clamps of all kinds, Jem is an occasional award-winning animator, part-time photographer and regular designer for Moth Design. Jem also works as a CNC machine operator and is a partner in Like Butter, a business that makes things for people.
P 0408 503 593
E jem.selig@gmail.com
JASON LEE
Jason Lee is a local freelance motion graphics designer with a heart of gold and pants of a slightly less valuable material. When not designing Jason enjoys exploiting loopholes in fast food outlets’ advertising campaigns, and so he can be found most Friday nights eating two burgers and cheekily smiling, knowing he only paid for one.
E jazzyjase@gmail.com.
JASMINA KRUPIC
Jasmina Krupic, who completed her Bachelor of Design at RMIT in 2004 after having studied photography and drawing, has established herself as an accomplished artist and jeweller in Melbourne. Focusing predominantly on jewellery making, which she describes as ‘wearable art objects’, Jasmina has always drawn utilising markmaking as a way of giving initial form to her designs in jewellery.
JAMES CAMERON
James studied Fashion Design and Arts, launching his first full collection under his own name in 2003. Several successive seasons of great acclaim followed, stocked in some of Australia’s most prestigious boutiques. Inspired by the modernists and their vision of the future, the collections are effortless, natural and understated; where the belief that making clothes that are good quality, beautiful, practical and new is the inspiration.
FREEFOLD FURNITURE
Freefold Furniture produces two flat-pack storage systems made from recycled cardboard, with plans to create a long-life version out of a more durable material. Toby Horrocks graduated in Architecture at the University of Melbourne in 1999. For nine years, he worked for John Wardle Architects as Research and Development architect. In 2007, he won the Lockwood ‘Design a Lever’ competition with a design based on minimising waste in manufacture. As well as Freefold Furniture, he now runs his own architecture practice, Toby Horrocks Architecture in Melbourne.
P 0413 603327
E info@freefoldfurniture.com
W www.freefoldfurniture.com
DESIGN DISPENSARY
Design Dispensary is a space to showcase what is special about small-scale European design and emerging designers. Design Dispensary focuses on the original, innovative, sometimes quirky and often thought-provoking work of emerging designers and niche companies. They consider products for their design integrity: concept, aesthetic, execution and importantly provenance - underpinned by ethical production. The result is a diverse and edited collection to inspire.
BONEE S
Melbourne local, Anna Benjamin and German designer, Sibylle Seibert are the creators of Bonee S, an art project using organic materials derived from the land. They embarked on a venture to create stunning jewellery from natural materials uncovered in the bush, including bones and untreated wool; celebrating bones, rather than seeing them as something to shy from. The results are unique and striking pieces that capture the harsh beauty of Australia. No animals were harmed in this project.
W www.myspace.com/bonee_s
B-SPOKE DESIGNS
B-Spoke is a unique one-on-one service that allows both male and female clients to create and design custom and handmade fashion accessories such as jewellery, hats, shoe embellishments and leather goods. The accessories are tailored to the client’s exact measurements, taking into account particular physical characteristics and personal style.
ANNABELLE PETERS
Annabelle Peters, designer of the ‘Skewer Light’ is an avid collector with an eye for the unusual, the useful and the ultimate. Annabelle is a fashion designer turned interior stylist who lives in Melbourne and travels widely.
P 0412 147 307
E annabelle@inhouseconcepts.com.au
W www.annabellepeters.com
AFAR: ALEXI FREEMAN & AARON ROBERTS
Alexi Freeman is a Melbourne-based fashion designer whose collections for women are manufactured locally; incorporating elements of hand-drawn and printed textiles worked into drape, juxtaposed with tailoring. Aaron Roberts, Director of studio, Room 11 based in Hobart and Melbourne, has a primary focus on architecture and experimental cross-disciplinary projects.
Alexi Freeman
P Alexi 0413 355 290 Aaron 0409 537 787
E alexi@alexifreeman.com / aaron@room11.com.au
W www.alexifreeman.com / www.room11.com.au
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
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