To bury or not to bury your copy of 25 years of desktop magazine? (here with a masthead from their past)
As there opening statement on the cover of this month’s desktop magazine states: “The past, present future, now: 25 years of design publishing love. Ideas, pictures, insights, moments, caught up in a time capsule of ink on paper from people who love design like a sister, bro, frenemy or foe. A highlight of this special celebratory is that it is Guest edited by Andrew Ashton of Studio Pip and Co – a 16 page visual essay to be exact.
desktop are the epitimy of design in Australia, and we congratulate Brendan McKnight and the team at desktop for encapsulating 25 years of Australian design culture – well done.
In a collaboration with desktop, we’ve created a sticker with 6 desktop mastheads from their past to present years for their subscription recipients – starting with their initial 1986 masthead, and wow how the masthead has dramatically changed since its concept.
Printed :: Jac Vellum Permanent by K.W.Doggett Fine Paper.
The current 'masthead' of desktop 2011
The 1989 desktop 'Masthead'.
The 1989 desktop 'Masthead.
The 2001 desktop 'Masthead'.
The pull-out Andrew Ashton 'trilogy' poster.
The special masthead sticker page which accompanies desktop #275 edition.
Bec Paton is a designer, with a Doctoral Candidate at the School of Design and teacher at the University of Technology. She engages in extensive research and educates on the following…
‘Sure we all know projects start with briefing, but briefing is actually a back-and-forth process between a client and designer. The nature of the project can change during the course of these conversations as intentions and meanings are clarified and the approach(s) to the project agreed upon. I have looked into this by interviewing expert designers, given we don’t know much about how projects are framed during briefing.’
We recently printed a business card design by Bec, for Lofty Consulting onto Splendorgel uncoated 300gsm, with the white areas (the cloud design) utilising our raised dimensional printing, with an outstanding result.
Presenting the A4 PAPER FESTIVAL Video… a little snippet of what was seen at the festival including here at Opening Night on 31 May.
The Paper Convention Collective presented the first ever A4 PAPER FESTIVAL, unique to Sydney, Australia on 31 May – 5 June, which offered audiences insight into contemporary developments in paper by means of ground-breaking paper installations, lectures and workshops.
This grass-roots level event saw Lisa Loxley and The Paper Convention Collective direct 2 exhibitions, 2 opening nights, 6 workshops, 2 talks and 1 lecture over the course of 6 days to an audience in excess of over 2000 people.
Paper artists from around the world; UK, Japan, Columbia, Hong Kong and the US, highlighted the traditional medium ‘paper’ with Australian Paper Artists showcased astonishing results in all shapes and sizes.
With the reviews exceeding our premonitions, A4 was a success which bought attention to a discipline on the cusp of new possibilities, capturing the fantasy of the artists and general public alike. Digitalpress were a proud sponsor.
Australianinfront are presenting their Visual Response 05: Women Exhibition in Melbourne this friday 8 July – showcasing 20 works by Austalian designers & artists on the appropriate theme ‘Woman’, via their recent VR Competition.
We are proud to be the VR05 print sponsor and we can’t wait to show you the winning poster prints post-event of course!
If your in Melbourne, don’t miss it…
Visual Response 05: Woman Exhibition
Friday 8th July 2011
6pm – 9pm
The Compound Interest
15-25 Keele Street, Collingwood
We encourage designers to conceptualise with the big picture [and also the end picture - being print!] in mind including projects crafted with attention to detail; enter INVENTORY DESIGN, a Sydney based graphic design studio who believe the success of every design outcome includes a collaborative response.
Designer Brendan Seery from Inventory has recently designed a new invitation piece for a party based in Hong Kong. With texture, colour and a glossy finish in mind, we at Digitalpress have printed the invites using our Roland UV wide format technology onto buckram stock with a uv spot finish on the coloured strips of the invite = unique printed result.
We enjoy their blog too, where the art world meets the design world in fine juxtaposition.
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