For years now email inboxes have been bombarded with suggestive writing, pictures of blue and yellow pills and saucy images. In the last week a new crunchy image with foul colours and naive renders have appeared in emails to tempt the masses with the joys of new function. The new yuck aesthetic takes Viagra marketing into a look that alt pop icon Beck, or indie dance act Boredoms would commission for their latest music release.

Midnite Vultures – Beck, art by EYE

Midnite Vultures – Beck, art by EYE

Super Roots 9 – Boredoms, art by EYE

You Aint by Luke Matthews

Melbourne based design and image maker Luke Matthews also has a wonderful grasp of the land of good yuck. Luke’s extraordinary images push the bounds of colour, image, and type to create fused images that look like they have gone through the crunchy jpg filter, to be then rained on and left in the sun for a few days.

Check out Luke’s work here.

Join AGDA for insights from a diversity of designers in matters that start with design and beyond. Developed by Andrew Ashton 48 (Forty-Eight) – 2009 goes into over drive as it soars the dizzy heights of creative thinking. Fueled by the rants of Roxy Music and early 90s glam, join Spencer James, Alter, ERD, 3 Deep Design, Blenheim Design Partners, Foundry Typography, Design & Visual Dialogue, Langdon Lorriane, South South West, Hi God People, and Oslo Davis for a night filled with process, ideas, insights and work, work, work.

21 July 2009, 6pm for a 6.30pm start
RMIT Kaleide Theatre, 360 Swanston Street, Melbourne
Tickets 03 9380 4440 vic@agda.com.au – AGDA members Full $20, Students $15 / Non-members Full $30, Students $20 — Tickets available through AGDA Victoria

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The studio has produced image and marketing materials to promote the event, inspired by the State of Design festival’s theme – sampling the future. Andrew photographed a state of the art 1980s boom box by Marantz and developed an ironic typographic montage of vignettes and technological detail. Resulting in a levitating form that is austere, alien like and confident.

Located 140kms south east of Melbourne, Phillip Island is an out-of-the-way sea side spot in Westernport Bay. Discovered by George Bass in 1798, Phillip Island was once roamed by Bunurong people for 39,000 years.

The current population stands at 7,000 people whom often witness some of Australia’s most restless weather systems generated from the unpredictable Bass Strait.

Cover

The studio has just been featured in a rich publication that explores small design studios from around the world by German and Chinese based design publisher Hesign. The brief was structured to give the reader some insights into how small design practices work.

Along with a lengthy introduction Q&A with design super stars Sagmiester and Troxler, one hundred studios were propositioned with a range of questions, images of their spaces and broad selection of works. This piece is self covered in 130gm2 stock, that makes up a brick of paper. The binding is raw and the edges are finished with a band saw like edging. Hesign publications are finely detailed and hard to come by, so if you came across a copy have a look, the finishing is special.

Visit Hesign here