NEWS

Design By Pidgeon is once again opening its doors to participate in the AGIdeas Studio Access Evening on Tuesday 27 April 2010. To book for the evening visit the AGIdeas website.

In October, David Pidgeon presented at the Icograda World Design Conference in Beijing along with over 60 speakers. His talk The Geometry of Letters explored legibility, visual perception, dimension, perspective, points of view, motion and colour through restricting the form of the roman alphabet to strong geometric grids.

A strong Australian contingent was in Beijing to promote the Brisbane Icograda Conference in 2010. Andrew Ashton, David Lancashire and David Pidgeon were all commissioned to create a promotional poster for the conference, which has the theme of Optimism.

On Saturday 17 October at the AGI Conference in Istanbul the Australian design community lost one of its first real champions of Graphic Design in Les Mason.

Six days earlier while in transit at Changi airport on route to Istanbul I was walking to the gate when a tall statuesque figure with a walking stick arrested my attention. This man had a presence about him that was all consuming, as we entered the plane he was two people behind, I could not help but think that maybe it was Les Mason, as I knew he was attending the conference in Istanbul but had only ever seen photos of him as he had lived in Perth for decades. As he passed my seat, I plucked the courage to ask this stranger if he was in fact Les Mason and to my delighted it was.

Together with his beautiful wife Gail, we shared some lovely time together in Istanbul. For a man of 85 he had the thirst for life of a 20 year old, unfortunately his body could not keep up with the mind. On the Saturday morning we attended the AGI General Assembly to the news that Les had not woken that morning. He went out on his terms, living life at 110%, you cannot ask for more than that.

It was an honor to share those few days, farewell Les.

David Pidgeon

The MADC Award presentation evening was held on 28 August with Design By Pidgeon picking up a bronze award for The Southern Colour Award for Best Book Design for the New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition publication. For more information about the awards please visit MADC and click here for more information about the publication.

Congratulations to editor Viviane Stappmans and Stuart Geddes from Chase & Galley on the release of The Melbourne Design Guide 2009/2011 Edition. For more information and to purchase a copy please visit the Melbourne Design Guide website.