As part of AGDA Victoria’s on going event programme, come and say hi and celebrate what is graphic design in a down period, in down town St Kilda. BYO smiles.

Designers-sell-out-beer-o-clock hosted by Why Pay More at Studio Pip and Co.

Catch the Sandringham train, plenty of parking, and trams.

6 to 8 pm
16 April 2009

Argy Bargy
263 Carlisle Street
Balaclava

No fancy frills, no interiors by Nic, or Chris, or Pia. Come before 7pm and take advantage of Argy Bargy’s Recession Session – Cheap Drinks, odd chairs, lots of action, dramas and special stuff. The biggest woe-is-me-moaner will be put on massive logo duty for the next twelve months.

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Hungarian based grand illusionist, image maker and designer István Orosz has opened an exhibitions of print works at the Glenn Eira City Council Gallery. Read more

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The weekend just passed heralds the fourth year of the Design Market in Melbourne.

The market was an idea that the studio developed while working with the National Design School, Swinburne, to compliment marketing their post and undergraduate programmes in 2003.

At the time Swinburne‘s marketing team passed up the idea and Andrew then proposed this idea to the team that developed the inaugural State of Design Festival programme for the Victoria state government in 2004. Andrew then devised the market‘s name Ready Made Market which was then renamed the the Melbourne Design Market in 2006. The studio also designed subsequent brands and material for the 2004 State of Design Festival, the Ready Made Market and the the Melbourne Design Market.

Melbourne Design Market brand was one of the last projects developed for the National Design Centre. The type utilises the custom typeface designed specifically for the National Design Centre — irreverently called Fluffy in response to the custom font that Garry Emery developed for the City of Melbourne called buff. The Melbourne Design Market, like many business names is difficult to design in type — one long word, two short words, hence the breaking of Melb-ourne to create a balanced piece of type design. If you think the that the “i“ in design looks like a floating balloon or lolly pop – you would be right, as the market is more like a fair or carnival for design.

Since 2003 the design market concept has been running successfully for four yeas in Melbourne and adopted in Sydney and attracts tens of thousands of patrons. It is exciting to witness an idea action into a presentation of design and its makers, that connects design directly with the public.

This market is not unlike the seven markets that we have attended in the past. The mood of the shoppers may have been sobered by the global financial crisis, however hundreds of transactions took place over the course of the day from $2 to $40 to keep our spirits high.

The Pip and Co stall was generally packed, and even though the majority of browsers were just browsing, it was enlightening to watch people interact with the studio‘s work, witness the projects people look at, field a range of questions about the work itself, and take in how people interacted with the humour, detail and presentation. Christine from Studio Round who was sharing our stall with the famous Hold all bags also share her insights of visual merchandising.

Developing design solutions is generally a closed process. It not often one has direct access to the public, over referring to market testing and consumer research. One can feel that they are working in isolation and it difficult to make sense of the antidotes, hunches and research results in the absences of a real audience.

Thank you again to everyone that visited our stall and interacted with our work. Again we recommend to every designer to sell out, develop products, present products to the public and participate directly in the market economy.

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With all the belt tightening and cost cutting in a TIME OF FINANCIAL CRISIS, this is probably the only FREE to enter (with a gift for the Royal Children‘s Hospital NICUnit), FREE drinks, FREE food, FREE (Tamas Jones, the other half of Hey Convict) tunes, FREE fun christmas gig for 2008.

Joost the Greenhouse‘s creator will also be conducting a walk through for all green thinking graphic designers, at 6pm sharp!

Mark the date in your diary, get there early, RSVP essential vic (at) agda (dot) com (dot) au. See you there.

Visit AGDA here, visit the Greenhouse here

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