During the summer holiday some people in Melbourne hang around town and some, the lucky ones, find somewhere quiet in the country or by the sea. This is Pearl Café in holiday mode with a summer menu and an image by Andrew in holiday mode as well.

International Reconciliation Year 2009.

It seemed fitting to see in the new year in with a message of peace. It is an age old cliché that needs little explanation in such interesting times.

From the United Nations website:

Reconciliation was a way of embedding into culture the high ideals beyond petty concerns, a process that made humanity and the common good the cornerstone of development. Reconciliation between those estranged by conflicts was the only way to confront today‘s challenges and the process and practice of reconciliation must be promoted by States; between men and women, nature and humanity, and wherever fraternity and justice were absent from human relations. The initiative had the support of governments, institutions of higher learning, civil society groups, the alliance of civilizations and the culture of peace.

In response the studio has developed an image of peace, executed with a collection of stamps and some spare time.

Happy holidays to all. Thank you to all our contributors, our clients, our collaborators and those of you out there on the other side of computer screen interested in our works and the ideas in and around communicating ideas to the community.

Peace and reconciliation to one and all in 2009 and beyond.

The studio is working with Melbourne based catering group Food & Desire to assist with brand positioning and communication across a range of media — from print to advertising.

With existing imagery we developed an idea that interrupts the catering process to illustrate the desire that is unique to the client‘s catering services, with copy that prompts what these events mean to the people who commission catering services. In summary, Food & Desire helps their clients put on great events and we felt their is an opportunity to make this process clear and destinctive.

This brand ad developed for Food & Desire, with photography by Marcel Aucar, this appears in Vogue Entertaining and Travel this month, is the beginning of a communication campaign that looks beyond the food and venues, and onto the act of creating memorable occasions and inspired celebrations.

Thanks again to Food & Desire for making this outcome happen.

What is a birthday celebration for two little boys without a monkey birthday poster? The image making was developed in the studio and this short run poster was produced utilising Risograph printing.

The Risograph is a high speed, multifunctional digital printing system. It combines three basic technologies: scanning, precision imaging, and high speed printing. The Risograph is the perfect self-contained reprographics system as it offers the convenience of a copier, the economy of a duplicator, and the durability of an offset press.

Thanks to Stuart at Chase & Galley for printing our posters.

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