Gunn & Taylor approached us to assist with developing an end of year promotional campaign – last year Japan was top of mind, this year we flew across continents and landed in Montmartre, Paris.

Gunn & Taylor have a new very special foiling, embossing and die cutting machine (a packaging designers dream) that needed a work out. We dreamed up eight joyful party divas, which masqueraded in splashes of matt Yves Kline blue foil and delicate glimmers shot white foils contrasted with black and red printed on crunchy, toothy boards to fine uncoated papers. Invitations, event coasters, Christmas cards and other joyful printed surprises await. Another wonderful moment where communication, craft and print know how meets. Thanks again Mr Gunn and crew for a terrific collaboration.

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Hong Kong is one of those great cities where the heights of nature and man made activity clash. Set on the side of a picturesque harbour with towering mountains, rocketing buildings reach to the sky like some sort of suburban picket fence gone wild. Andrew was in Hong Kong for five days during the 2010 Business of Design Week. In between speaking commitments a little wandering took place with his willing camera.

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Kere Kere brand and signing programme / December 2010
Brand, marketing proposition, sub branding, tag line, print, signing and advertising communication.

In early 2009 the studio developed a brand for a café situated with the campus of Melbourne University. The café started out as a cart and over time transformed into a purpose built structure.

Working with a modest budget we collaborated with the client to design it yourself, DIY – in this instance we devised look and feel, then supplied stamps, stencils and provided pdf art for posters, menus and tags. Time, guidance and the client helped realising the brand, communication and signing graphics execution. This project is a fine example of changing the relationship with design we are striving for with clients and their communication. Our dream is to work with big and small clients in a range of DIY capacities. Let’s go

Next stop is Kere Kere’s website, thanks to James again, wonderful collaboration.

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Is the poster redundant? Is the poster a space that makes scense of the sponsors logos placement and hierarchy? One looks to poster design in Europe and dreams of medium that is larger than life. A communication space where the image is the message and the audience is visually enhanced — A mythical cast of thousands hungry for well craft messages and images that tap on the door of the art world and call out — is if there is a room in the inn for the night?

On the other hand the majority of Australian poster design is a canvas for a big picture; sometimes art directed, a headline, text unsuitable for reading in the poster format and let’s not forget a stable logos.

A good campaign is usually capped off with a poster. We design our posters to communicate and to be stolen. A good poster is a stolen poster. A poster that compels someone to break the law to decorate their homes and work spaces.

We love a good poster, we love making innovative and mimicked campaigns too.

2007 Fifth Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition poster

2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival posters

2007 Melbourne Fringe Festival posters

2007 Moonlight Cinema Poster

1998 Suits poster for Tomasetti Paper House

1999 Tune Out Poster by Australian Poster

2001 Hub poster for Saxton by Australian Paper

2001 Saxton Scholars Poster

2002 Saxton Scholars Poster

2005 Saxton Scholars Poster

2006 Saxton Scholars Poster

2006 National Institute for Design Research poster

2004 State of Design Exhibition poster

2004 State of Design Exhibition poster

2009 This Is Not a Design Market poster

10 Commandments of Copyright poster

2010 Planet Cup awareness poster

2009 Jardan Furniture poster

2009 Pearl Café take-a-way poster

2010 Optix Modern Manifesto posters

2009 Gunn & Taylor Guys and Toys poster

2010 AIA Extra/ordinary conference posters

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