For the audience members from — AGDA‘s f-o-r-t-y e-i-g-ht presentation in Melbourne, find attached the type tour taken by type designer Tobias Frere-Jones and Andrew on a hot January day over the new year’s break in Melbourne.

Elwood is rich with an astounding variety of anonymously developed type design for those prepared to hunt it out. If you would like to take this tour, we suggest starting or finishing at Wimbledon Avenue, and leave out the Balaclava stretch. The tour will take approximately two hours. If one has the desire to wander off the route, do so, the samples at the f-o-r-t-y e-i-g-h-t presentation represent a small selection of what is on offer. Finally, it‘s an obvious yet important instruction — please be sure to respect the residents of the area by not trespassing on properties and respecting privacy.

In the next few months we will be assembling a group of type nuts to make sense of this work. We are planning to develop some form of printed survey and exhibition displaying the diversity of anonymous lettering design in and around Melbourne. If you would like further information please email us to join our data base for updates.
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Studio intern programme at Andrew Hogg Design

Friends of the studio, Andrew Hogg Design, are looking for studio interns seeking four to six week assignments at their studio. A modest allowance will be provided to the successful applicants as well as plenty of hands-on experience at the studio. Please email your C.V. to: info (at) andrewhoggdesign.com for details.

An ironic, or possibly a self serving headline for a mass produced throw-a-way commuter news sheet.

An ancient precursor to the mobile phone.

Who took the board room table?

A prototype for a new concept in glass bottom boats.

Somewhere in the suburbs, a big grass field, air socks, light planes, helicopters, chain fences, the occasional person, weather worn signs, and plane spotters sitting quietly in oddly parked cars.

The studio has produced a 44 page newsprint publication to showcase work principles and project samples. This is the first publication of this nature in the studio‘s first five years and over eighteen years of Andrew‘s work life. Andrew doesn‘t see the point of producing a soft cover or hard cover book publishing a portfolio of work without supplementing the work with detailed process notes — such as Wolfgang Weingart‘s — My Way to Typography.

The temporary nature of newsprint seems appropriate for a piece that is a splashy show-and-tell publication, even though we embellished the piece with saddle stitching and high quality newsprint paper. Newsprint is an exciting media as is fragile, temporary, the reproduction is crude and cost effective — appropriate for lots of graphic design at most of it has a short life and is disposable.

This publication is FREE to existing and potential clients, $10 plus postage for design students, $50 plus postage for professional designers.

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