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Andrew Ashton Design

Locality: Balaclava, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9525 9844

Address: Carlisle House, Suite 12, 320 Carlisle Street 3183 Balaclava, VIC, Australia

Website: http://aa-design.com.au/

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21.01.2022 @malcolmgladwell I see Smog beyond in his hall of stuff. Loved this week’s RH.

18.01.2022 The costs to arts culture. Today @onenightinfootscray announced a postponing of the 2020 event to 2021. There is a regular sound bite in the media stating that life after COVID-19 will be different. Our community understands sport, business, finance, buying stuff, the great outdoors, the fair go, however the time and investment in developing the creative arts in Australia runs and is created with very modest means. The mainstream idea of creativity is that it just happens a...nd it’s yours to download. Every book you read, every film you down load, every sound track you enjoy, every tune in your head, every visual artwork you see, countless people driven by passion, love, and midnight oil won’t have the space in their lives to create truly beautiful things, when life gives them no choice but to pay the bills. Churchill in the Second World War was queried why he was continuing to fund the arts in wartime. He responded that people will need a culture to return too. Support our arts culture however you can they truly need your attention. See more

15.01.2022 Wow this just landed, it’s limited edition and you can wear it! Cheers Slanted, it is so humbling that out of 3000 entries this one caught your eye. Aa

11.01.2022 2009. Eyesaw Poster project in Sydney. What sort of designer were you 11 years ago? What images and ideas were you making? Where was it all going? Who will you be? At the time, 11 years ago, I wrote for the Humanity / Equity theme developed by @markgowing and @garbettdesign : Posters design is an individual process and it is difficult to develop a poster image that speaks of the idea, means something to its designer and connects with an audience. We thought of humanity/equit...y in terms of grooming compassion, nurturing our hearts. Everyone knows that to care for a plant you have to think to water it regularly for it to grow, so we twisted this metaphor and invited viewers to nurture their hearts. Ok some big ideas, clunky writing, sound reasoning I suppose. It was nice to see that poster work, the wind grabbing the silver streamers and watering that black heart. I like how it was low cost to make. Tick. More importantly I was humbled that @dominichofstede and @col1001_demo and @simeonking put it up for me (Dom and Wendy jumped in and made it happen, as Sim was wrangling a young Jasper) As usual there was some fiddling and Dom and Wendy has their own works to complete. Creative people if they like what they do, get asked to make things and put it out there. At the time this project mattered, and I was determined to make work that mattered, the event comes and goes and the effort is mostly forgotten. In hindsight it’s hard to make sense of why you bother, and the only reason I can contend is that the effort makes you think and make beyond yourself and the business of deadlines.

11.01.2022 Hi type types, My luscious limited edition (101 signed) 2021 Aa wall calendar is now available. Delivered November. It’s big (1000 x 350mm flat), bold, 240+pt, fine, unexpected, serif, sans, script, default, latin, foiled, 250gsm, silver wiro, Australian, International and indigenous. Comes in a sexy shipper, printed with love in Melbourne by Gunn & Taylor.... Pictured here using printer’s proof, sexy PR finished shots coming ; ). Designed to sell out fast, purchase your copy now ($45inc gst+post). Jump onto Aa-shop.com.au Cheers Aa https://lnkd.in/dkBREeG

03.01.2022 Turn it upside down. Change is a constant and it is encouraging when big names take it on and have a go. Only one the world’s leading fashion voices takes on the photographic documentation of fashion and put the interpretation in the hands of a leading cache of artists and illustrators. Bravo bravo @italianvoguee Jessica Testa of The New York Times on Jan. 2, 2020 reported... What is a fashion magazine without photo shoots? Without those glossy images of models, photographed in glamorous locales and produced by a small army of hairstylists, makeup artists, editors and assistants? It’s a more environmentally friendly magazine, for one. Or so says Italian Vogue, which aims to make a statement about sustainability this month by omitting photo shoots. The best of the creative process is the willingness to challenge convention and investigate what happens. CV19 has forced change, what happens if we create a future where challenging and review was part of our ongoing process? Shouts to Magman1 (Jason) on EBay in the UK for getting me this little treasure, twice, my first copy went AWOL.