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An arvo with Jardan / event design / Sydney
Event brand, image design and campaign
colour and mono / type design, print collateral, apparel, digital media
Developed 2011 / 12 week project

The studio has been working with Jardan Furniture for several years developing and refining their story, communication design and brand. While many Australian designers and manufacturers aspire to be European, American or Japanese, Jardan has found a space to explore an Australian design approach, which is familiar, unique, passionate – celebrating the best of living in an exotic place somewhere on the edge of the world.

For Saturday in Design in Sydney, the brief was an exploration of 70s living in Australia. The 70s was a time where bands played it loud and raw, a pash was a pash not a kiss, every weekend had a big domestic job (like blocking a fireplace or ripping out a bathroom), a game, a bbq, a beach, an arvo with mates, friends, the boss, or the inlaws.

Our response was a typeface inspired by teenage schools bags, 85 line per inch screens, tan marks, thumping bass drums, big hair entourages and words that are everything but work. What a fantastic project, thanks to the Jardan team for the opportunity, and cheers to over twelve hundred people that made their Saturday part of Jardan’s design.

Invites x three

Pole posters

Facade treatment

Jelly in action

Street posters

Crew tees

Take-a-way new range brochure

The studio has been consumed by Melbourne boutique roaster – Coffee Supreme. The second skew of their coffee range – the 250g and 500g bags are out in the café space for one and all.

The studio is responsible for the production – research and development, concepts, prototyping, image making to artwork, along with regular client commentary. This round of packaging was designed to work in with the café interior, whilst also having a bold retail presence. There is one image outcome in the range. The studio produced a comprehensive pattern range based upon the coffee plant. Several final patterns have been developed, which have also been applied to the 1kg skew.

The packages are hand assembled at the factory and the stitched in card, can be put in the customers coffee pot to confirm bend and roasting batch.

Thanks to Supreme again for keeping our communication process fresh.

Cruden Farm is one the world’s most revered private gardens. Featured in the television programme – Around the World in 80 Gardens – by British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don, the garden is a popular destination for gardening enthusiasts visiting the region. Briefed to complete a website which communicates general facts and sites of garden for visitors and fact finders. The studio spent eight weeks completing this project undertaking design, approvals, gathering content, website development and testing. Thanks to the Cruden Farm team and The Mighty Wonton for all your assistance.

See the brochure we developed here

Visit the Website here

The studio over the last few months has evolved the coffee bag range for Melbourne boutique roaster – Coffee Supreme. The first skew of this range, the 1kg bags, has hit the streets with little fuss.

The studio is responsible for the entire production – research and development, concepts, prototyping, image making to artwork. This round of packaging was designed to work in with the café interior, whilst also having a bold retail presence. Their are two image outcomes in the range and this image is a visual response to a New Zealand company operating and producing in Australia. Overall this outcome is contrasting – bold, quiet, graphic, straight, twisted and loaded with messages and irony. The Supreme coat of arms is a hybrid of the Australian coat of arms, mashing together a diverse range of elements – Supreme’s brand, the coffee plant, catch cries, cups and components of coffee making machines.

More to come, thanks to Supreme for continuely putting in place an interesting communication process.

Supreme can be found all over Melbourne

Read Me First / Australia wide
Studio design publication / content strategy, image making, layout and artwork
Full colour / developed 2008 / 4 week project
* * * 2008 AGDA Distinction Award Winner

The studio developed a student publication with designer David Pidgeon on behalf of the Australian Graphic Design Association. The piece features an article written by design writer Adrian Shaughnessy – how to get a job, along with a voyeuristic question and answer forum with over 45 studios from Berlin, Sydney, London, New York, Auckland to Melbourne – exploring colour, typeface, beverages, influences to simply documenting studio web addresses. Read Me First is a 40 page publication was a mad rush of late nights, collation and instinct.

The publication is AU$10 plus postage, email us for your copy – ideas (at) peoplethings (dot) com

Visit Adrian Shaughnessy, Design by Pidgeon, AGDA here

Cover

Series type detail

First reveal

Internal spread – notes and disks

So Frenchy So Chic / The Unofficial Soundtrack to the 2011 French Film Festival / Australia wide
type mark and symbol / colour and mono / CD packaging, poster, PR, advertising
Developed 2011 / 6 week project

A chic diva by Kat floats in a cocktail of type and dreamy bubbles. Thanks to JF for another great collaboration.

Purchase your copy, visit Cartell Music or Cartell Downloads for details.

Completed Christmas gift

Felt pouch, customised docket book, complete with pencils

Coffee Supreme is a coffee roaster who enjoys the inventive, creating and discovery process. Charged with a brief to make something useful for Christmas, the studio collaborated and devised a café order kit.

In over twenty years Andrew has produced a range of custom gifts – shoulder bags, folios, coffee cups, pencils, stickers, aprons, hankerchiefs, garments, jackets, hats, diaries, folders, paper kits and paper accessories. Behind the presentation of a felt pocket, a folder or garment is a nutty process of chasing down materials, skilled makers and co-ordinating the production of components. Key to these projects are quality manufacturers and makers. As many Australian manufacturers have closed in the last two decades, due to cheaper offshore manufacturers, our makers have become a cherished group of skilled manufacturers, that we scour industrial estates, regional factories and chase down leads to find.

The outcome we devised had several components – a bespoke felt pouch, sealed with custom printed cloth tape, we sourced old school docket books and pencils to complete the kit. Each element required detailed drawing, artwork, material sourcing, production specification and production supervision with the final product coming together in under six weeks. Supreme made savings in time and money by chasing up estimates, samples, prototype, delivery of components and production supervision.

Happy Christmas Supreme, thanks again for another interesting communication project.

Françious inspired joyful divas

Gunn & Taylor approached us to assist with developing an end of year promotional campaign – last year Japan was top of mind, this year we flew across continents and landed in Montmartre, Paris.

Gunn & Taylor have a new very special foiling, embossing and die cutting machine (a packaging designers dream) that needed a work out. We dreamed up eight joyful party divas, which masqueraded in splashes of matt Yves Kline blue foil and delicate glimmers shot white foils contrasted with black and red printed on crunchy, toothy boards to fine uncoated papers. Invitations, event coasters, Christmas cards and other joyful printed surprises await. Another wonderful moment where communication, craft and print know how meets. Thanks again Mr Gunn and crew for a terrific collaboration.

Temporary moving poster

Ground stencils

Café in action

Barn door

Street brand campaign

Kere Kere brand and signing programme / December 2010
Brand, marketing proposition, sub branding, tag line, print, signing and advertising communication.

In early 2009 the studio developed a brand for a café situated with the campus of Melbourne University. The café started out as a cart and over time transformed into a purpose built structure.

Working with a modest budget we collaborated with the client to design it yourself, DIY – in this instance we devised look and feel, then supplied stamps, stencils and provided pdf art for posters, menus and tags. Time, guidance and the client helped realising the brand, communication and signing graphics execution. This project is a fine example of changing the relationship with design we are striving for with clients and their communication. Our dream is to work with big and small clients in a range of DIY capacities. Let’s go

Next stop is Kere Kere’s website, thanks to James again, wonderful collaboration.

Produced 2005 / Recycled newsprint / 48 pages
Theme content direction, photography, image making, design and layout
Publication, signing, posters, invitation

The end of year publication for undergrad at Swinburne University’s Design Faculty serves many purposes – to document students, their work, communicating this output to family, the industry sectors as well as other design institutions.

In 2005 the Studio was asked to put together a publication that communicated the Faculty and its achievements, using a united editorial and writing team, cohesive image making, along with a curated collection of graduate work all within a modest budget. Inspired to illustrate the transformation process of tertiary eduction the theme “transform me” followed up “people, place and work” theme established the year before.

This publication was recognised at the 2006 Australian Graphic Design Association Award for editorial design.