New logo design for Somebuddy Loves You.
A charming little boutique on Smith Street in Collingwood
As a part of the Melbourne Music Week in 2011, Music Victoria with Tourism Victoria launched Melbourne Music City, the guide to Melbourne’s Live Music Venues. It focuses on six live music hubs of Melbourne’s inner city suburbs. Maps are my new thing.. I love maps.
Always the invite maker ;p
Last year was the 20th anniversary of the Sendai Mediatheque, a multimedia center for creatives in Sendai, a hub for exhibitions and research in design. The anniversary of the mediatheque was important in showcasing Sendai’s talent and growth in the creative industries.
The Mediatheque was designed by Toyo Ito, it was revolutionary.
Although the Quake left the mediatheque structurally standing, the interior looks to be heavily damaged.
After twenty years of being an incredible design landmark of Sendai and a facility of education, talent and innovation I can only imagine what it would be like to rebuild. Like other creatives in the effected areas of Japan and New Zealand, all of their hard work may have been destroyed or washed away, how does one even begin to put together a portfolio afterwards for future career opportunities?
This is a fantastic way to help creatives in the quake effected areas of both Japan and New zealand.
Please consider making a contribution and help our peers rebuild their lives.
http://www.designtaxi.com/helpcreatives.php
Over the weekend many of us have had sleepless nights wondering where are loved ones are and how they are. I won’t repeat the headlines that you have read and the new reports on TV, I’m sure that you are all aware of the situation that Japan is currently facing. My small home town of Tagajo is situated in the effected areas of the Miyagi prefecture, just twenty minutes away from Sendai city and fortunately my family are all safe and our house remains in tact, however the same can’t be said for an enormous amount of our community. The scale of destruction is something I am still struggling to come to terms with. Please find it your hearts to consider a donation to the survivors of the quake, at the moment it is cold and there is no power for heating and not enough food or water. The population in the effected areas are an ageing population, a lot of them are elderly.
http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html
My good friend Jackson Clarke opened a great new store.
You could spend hours in there going through the abundance of great music and books, but also because he’s such good company with a wealth of knowledge. I encourage you to pick his brain.
This giant paper balloon was hanging in his shop front for a lil while.
189 St Georges Road, North Fitzroy
When I was a kid my mum’s rice soup was the most comforting meal in the world, dad’s japanese curry was the best treat, strawberry shortcakes were a regular but only in December and eating muscat soft serve ice creams in the winter with my sister was the ultimate test. It’s no surprise that these are easily a few of my favorite eats and after seven years of living in a different country, most of my favorite meals consists of anything that reminds me of home regardless of whether I loved or hated it back then. Little bowls, plates, spoonfuls of comfort that make me close my eyes with a smile curling in the corner and go “just like………used to make it”.
I’d like to think that food triggers memories in the same way that scent does. When I have a great meal, I can generally remember every morsel, texture and layer of flavor that made the meal so delicious, who I was with and the countless string of information that is linked with it, like the first time I had ever had brunch, my cousin invited my sister and I to crepe & co in Bangkok and at this point our breakfasts had been a mango before school so of course my initial reaction was “breakfast for lunch! what genius!” Its not just the taste of a dish that can trigger a fond or pivotal memory for me, but also recalling the sense of achievement you have when you feed someone with something you’ve made and its clear as day that they really enjoyed it, they’re happy so you’re happy.
My first memories of cooking was from watching my dad cook these giant Sunday power breakfasts (basically scrambled egg with a bunch of good stuff), a ritual he held for about a month or so. You don’t realize how much kids absorb even as a kid. After semi-watching my dad cook breakfast for a month I was obsessed with making omelets, I made one everyday after school initially with the help of my mum and then later on like a pro egg folder. From omelets I moved on to a bowl of pasta everyday. Then there was the day I tried to make a broth without any knowledge of what stock was, I just mixed a bunch of soy sauce with water and boiled it, went to my dads room to present him with this “soup”, which I’m sure he poured down the drain but told me it was delicious anyways, it was at this point that my sister intervened and told me that too much salt is a bad thing and that’s not how soup is made, lesson learned!
New design for the Streat team, we could probably create some really great memories for their youth trainees.
Some T Shirt Designs for the good folk at Streat
