HEL YEAH! It doesn’t take much searching to find something written in the Helvetica font. In fact, Helvetica is such an old favourite (and by old, I mean 51 years old) that it’s practically achieved cult status. Hell, some guy even mad a
movie about it. Imagine that. A movie about a font!
Here's the trailer:
Love it or hate it, Helvetica is here to stay. Glasgow based graphic designer Greig Anderson of Effektive Design loves it so much that he has produced this
slick little wall calendar as a tribute. The calendar itself is a tribute to Anderson’s simple but oh-so-cool design style. Check out the Helvetica Calendar in the image gallery.
BEFORE & AFTERWasting stuff = Bad. Recycling stuff = good.
Before & After = awesome.
Melbourne duo, Dhiren Bhagwandas and Justin Hutchinson have produced an exhibition called Before & After as part of Melbourne’s State of Design Festival.
Before & After explores the use and re-use of discarded objects, and will display the work of over 15 Australian designers who have put a new spin on some old discarded products.
The works will be on display at
Eat Green Design, Level 2, 39 Little Collins St Melbourne from the 17th - 21st July.
BOARD STUDENT, GOOD REPORT CARDI don’t know how he did it, and I’m not sure you’d want to ride it around on a wet Melbourne morning, but 21-year-old English design student, Phil Bridge has
made a bike from cardboard. Cool eh?
Phil sites affordability as his main inspiration for making a bicycle from paper products: who’d want to steal a bike that’s worth bugger all? But from an environmental point of view, paper products are way better than carbon fibre, or alloy metals. Besides which, it looks fairly cool too. Nice one.
REECE FOR THE STARS Alright, you budding industrial designers, put down that X-box controller and pick up your sketching pencils. The
Bathroom Innovation Award is on again. What’s that? Never heard of it? Well strap in, because you could win some serious cashola off this bad boy.
The Bathroom Innovation Award is a competition run by
Reece (the guys who make taps and toilets), which rewards innovative design of - you guessed it - bathroom products. You have to be either a design student or professional to enter, and there’s a chance to win $10,000 for students and $20,000 for professionals. Have a look at the
website to see what’s on offer.
- By Sam Allan