What’s Up #64: Heath Killen
Heath Killen [madebyhk.com] is Australia’s answer to Julian House and this is no bad thing. You only have to swing by S.P.A.S.H. or rather The Society for the Preservation of Australian Secret Histories [thespash.com] to find out why. S.P.A.S.H.‘s mission is to unearth previously unseen artefacts from Australia’s secret history. The first of which is [...]
Decadism: Music 2000—2009
It’s been a crazy decade in terms of the seismic shift in the way people find and consume music. We started the decade with a the simple equation sales=charts=sales (and so on into infinity). By 2009 we’ve entered a bizarre paradox where we’ve become our own taste makers. Excitement has shifted from joining a club [...]
Maglophile #7:
Apartmento and the new D.I.Y.
This article first appeared in Grafik #182 as the seventh in a series of monthly magazine reviews. Visit [grafikmag.com] for more information. It’s not often that a magazine comes along that beats a whole genre into a new kind of shape but Apartmento could transform long time hokey ‘house and garden’ magazines forever. And if [...]
100 Things: #017
The Making of 2001 Paperback ‘The Making of Kubrick’s 2001′, to give it it’s full title, was first published in 1968 to co-incide with the realse of 2001: A Space Odyssey. This paperback was edited by Jerome Agel, who worked with Buckminster Fuller and Marshall McLuhan on titles such as ‘I Seem to be a [...]
What’s Up #63: Rob Cordiner
Rob Cordiner [cordiner.com.au] is a Melbourne based designer who returned from an extended visit the the UK earlier this year. Since his return to Australia he has been busy indeed; laser etching mdf to great effect for Federation of Australian Writers, indulging in a spot of ambigram-ity for Graniph and getting his hands dirty in [...]