A herculean effort over the last ten days has seen the amassing of ideas, reviews, notions in and around design, its folly and the 2009 State of Design Festival. In the form of a 20 page newsprint publication – Design Reporter by Ray Edgar, Stuart Geddes, Penny Modra, and Jeremy Wortsman was launched at Iron Designer on Friday evening, just in time for the closing of the 2009 State of Design Festival.

Andrew contributed a piece of the Elwood type tour conducted as part of AGDA’s Back to Basic series, and an illustrated satire of latest logo bashing by the media and the public of the City of Melbourne’s big M by Landor titled – OMG! Wtf?.

The publication is as fresh as they get. There was not time for pushing shapes on white rectangles for weeks, mincing over picture crops, or fussing with type treatments. Greta, the typeface that is, gets a real workout, and the front cover (that doubles as an index) ironically depicts the madness of the last few days of emails, articles, rewrites, pictures, edits and final drafts. Amazing effort guys.

Pick up you copy at The Narrows, Metropolis Books, Lamington Drive and Greville Books – it’s free.

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