Tucker Hinterlands catalogue
14.07.2008
Hinterlands: Albert Tucker’s landscapes 1960-1975
28 June 2008—22 February 2009
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Hinterlands examines Albert Tucker’s new vision of his homeland, with particular emphasis on works depicting the bush around his property in rural Hurstbridge on Melbourne’s fringes; the distinctive Gippsland landscape off the coast of south-east Victoria; and the spectacular Barmah Forest in the north of the state.
The catalogue for this exhibition is the 5th in the Tucker series and moves to a landscape format with slipcase, to reflect the landscape orientation of this body of work. The project was supported by Spicers Paper, with the catalogue being printed on their new recycled coated stock, Hello and the slip case being printed on the new Stephen Spicy White. An additional customised run of these catalogues were produced for Spicers Paper for the promotion of these new stocks.
New Australian Pavilion Competition exhibition
28.06.2008
The studio has been responsible for the creative direction of the Venice Biennale New Australian Pavilion: Di Stasio Ideas Competition for their client Rinaldo di Stasio to celebrate his 20th anniversary of Café di Stasio in St Kilda. The ideas competition involved an open brief to design a new Australian Pavilion in the Giardini Della Biennale in Venice to replace the temporary structure design by Philip Cox in 1988.
The competition attracted over 450 registrations of interest from architects and students from 51 countries around the world, with 170 entries being finally submitted. A judging panel lead by architect and critic Norman Day and including photographer John Gollings, artist Callum Morton and City of Sydney architect Bridget Smyth devised a short list of 56 projects, 37 professional and 19 pre-professional. A subsequent list of 11 finalists has been selected, with the winners in each category being announced on Monday 28 July 2008. For a full list of finalists visit the di Stasio website.
To celebrate the competition, the studio has designed an exhibition featuring all of the short listed entries at Heide Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition will be on view until 3 August 2008. A 256 page publication is currently in production and will be available from Heide Museum of Modern Art or through Café di Stasio.
Click here to listen to Alan Saunders interview with competition judges Norman Day and Callum Morton on Radio National’s By Design program from Saturday 28 June 2008.
Signs of the Times stills photography
18.05.2008
Simon Pemberton, past National President of AGDA, has embarked on a documentary of 13 of Australia’s design icons. On 9-10 May 2008, Ken Cato, Mimmo Cozzolino, Garry Emery, Trevor Flett, Myriam Kin-Yee, David Lancashire, John Nowland, Brian Sadgrove, John Spatchurst, Neil Turner and Harry Williamson spent two days in Melbourne discussing the stories behind their work and the ideas and inspirations that frame the way they think (Ian Kidd and Barrie Tucker will be filmed in Adelaide to complete the group of 13). The documentary will bring to life an extraordinary body of work much of which helps define us as a nation and influence how we live our lives.
The filming has been supported by Swinburne University Film and Television School and the still photography by David Pidgeon and Andrew Ashton.
The project still needs financial support to enable the production of the final documentary and book. If you would like to support the documentation of Australia’s design history, please email Simon Pemberton at simon@graffiti.net.au
Read Me First publication
1.05.2008
A newspaper publication produced with Andrew Ashton of Studio Pip & Co on behalf of AGDA to help students navigate through the process of getting a job. The project included an except from Adrian Shaughnessy’s book How to be a graphic designer without losing your sole and a survey of 45 studios from around the world to give an insight into what their studios look like, what they drink, they wear, favourite colours, typefaces, publications and so on.
Over 500 copies of the publication were sold in 15 minutes of chaos at the AGIdeas Conference in May.
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces prospectus
23.04.2008
Prospectus created for Victorian Major Events Company (VMEC) to help secure future exhibits from around the world for the annual Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series, which are exhibited at Melbourne’s leading cultural institutions, the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) and Melbourne Museum.
