Magnation and Bird in the Hand are hosting an exciting zine making day at the Magnation Newtown store (Sydney). They’ll have, “some pretty nifty interesting paper, magazines, fabrics, scissors and glue as well as staple facilities and writing implements to share.”

When: Saturday, 6th March.  10am-3pm

Visit the facebook event for more info.

Typography is an art, but good typography is great art. “Paul Rand”

Here is some great art by Artem Sukhinin

Simple, clever and witty work of photographer and designer Erin Hanson of Recovering lazyholic

Some awesome fresh work from nohawk. Check it out.

Fredrik Oscarsson And his F L A W L E S S Portfolio

Christopher David Ryan… a Portland, Maine-based graphic artist,
daydreamer, pseudo-scientist, wanna-be astronaut and untrained intellectual. C.D Ryan has some entertaining works on his fickr page. Using a nice combination of fun pop symbols and type.

Yarron Is the founder of Nue Creative, A small Creative agency based in Brisbane.  Check out Yarron’s shop its full of great tees to keep you looking fresh this Summer, Here is his other worldly number 16, for our artist advent..

Today’s advent artist is the talented Kareem Rizk. Kareem is one of the featured artists in the Forth Thread zine. Which is now available for purchase here.
If you like this piece, Kareem tells me it will soon be available as a print, so be sure to keep an eye on his shop.

You know those boring old hand made signs you see around the streets, lost pets, rooms for rent, things for sale, garage sales and so on.

Cardon Copy, takes these vernacular of self-distributed fliers and tear- offs we have all seen in our neighborhoods. It involves hijacking these unconsidered fliers and redesigning them, overpowering their message with a new visual language. The fliers are then replaced.

With the end of the year approaching, many design students will soon be out looking for work, or perhaps you are to graduate further down the track and want to know how to make the most of your studies before you venture into the world.

We had a chat with Antonio of Reverse Design Lab about his experience in getting out into the world, post- study.

Click here to read the interview.