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Design IS:

Locality: South Melbourne, Victoria

Address: L4, 180 Albert Road 3205 South Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.designis.com.au/

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24.01.2022 Design IS: sustainable. Part of an in-hospital campaign to help turn used IV bags, tubing, etc into useful products such as playground matting and garden hoses. #vinylcouncilofaustralia

23.01.2022 Design IS: Apps designed and built for the Vinyl Council of Australia's 'Shaping the Future' international conference. #PVCAus2018 #designIS:Apps

22.01.2022 The Vinyl Council of Australia's international PVC Conference is coming together. Programs delivered today. #pvcaus2018

21.01.2022 Design IS: Websites 'Calling all artists' APC Art Show gathers momentum for the 2019 event.

20.01.2022 Design IS: experimental photography. The Old Gatehouse detail and complete image.

19.01.2022 Design IS: creating Will Studd's organic feta labels for the US. Looking forward to trying this new line. #adrianlanderphotography

16.01.2022 Design IS: typefaces. After designing a custom futuristic font for branding the last Vinyl Council of Australia Conference, I have turned it into a ‘real’ typeface. #fivefive #displayfont #squarebutquerky

16.01.2022 Transparent PVC look for the Vinyl Council of Australia's 20th Anniversary logo.

15.01.2022 Client meeting at 555 Bourke. Loved the wayfinding.

15.01.2022 Design IS: posters. I call this 'The Designer's Dilemma'.

15.01.2022 Design IS: packaging. This artisan Manchego is fabulous. Great to be involved in its success.

14.01.2022 Another of Will Studd's delicious 'French Royalty' range arrives in Oz. Design IS: packaging. Adrian Lander: photography.

14.01.2022 What a fabulous visual solution by BBDO Dusseldorf.

11.01.2022 And I swore I'd never go back into publishing! These were such fun times! The three of us working days at Melbourne Theatre Company and evenings setting up Purple Egg. Getting that first diary out was a real labour of love and a great bonding experience for a partnership that lasted many years. So many recipes to test and taste. Wines to match. And as a designer, discovering the joy of creating books.

11.01.2022 3.5 years and 2,000 pages later, our encyclopaedia of Australian aviation, Volume 2, hits the shelves. I can still remember the call from Gino, a printer friend, asking if I’d be interested in helping a 90 year old war ace finish a book he was working on. With a love for book design and a teenage fascination for aircraft, I agreed to meet this renowned aviator. We got on well. Keith had a keen, but dry sense of humour, a compelling, intense passion for his subject and severa...l gongs to his name. Because of the subject matter and this fascinating author, I took the project on. I’d recently had the odd quiet period and this would also fill in some gaps between regular client projects. Little did I know I would become Keith’s part-time carer, as he ping-ponged between his home, hospitals and rehab centres with various physical and mental ailments. As his faculties started dwindling it became trickier to get the answers I needed and the project slowed. Getting to understand his expectations and way of thinking, enabled us to keep going. Our weekly meetings initially at his home, were being convened in hospital facilities across Melbourne’s inner-South. In July this year after a final edit by one of Keith’s sons, this extensive compendium was packaged up and off to print. My work was complete! 3 months later, it is printed, bound and boxed. Keith received the first copy off the press and sounds very happy with it, though he has requested a meeting to rearrange the content for the next edition. I’m sure his shiny-new copy is already covered in red biro! ‘And there’s also Volumes 3 and 4 to produce’, he sparks up. Because of COVID lockdown, I haven’t seen Keith for 3 months now, though we talk on the phone most weeks. He’s been planning different ways to escape from his aged-care penitentiary. His current scheme is to 'marry one of the lovely nurses and move in with her. It may come with added benefits’, he tells me with a cheeky grin. If you know of anyone interested in the books, email: [email protected] Tell them I sent you!

09.01.2022 Design IS: rebranding. Part of our proposed rebrand for Great Britain, reflecting the current state of the national psyche, a ‘confident’ road ahead and a distinctive shift to the right!

08.01.2022 Design IS: recently created branding for the Vinyl Council of Australia's 2018 international PVC conference.

08.01.2022 This is one seriously amazing cheese, and I am proud to play a small part in its success.

07.01.2022 The old pilots library. Currently working with ex-RAAF pilot, Keith Meggs AOM, on his ‘History of Aviation in Australia’.

07.01.2022 Custom display font (inspired by forming PVC) developed for Vinyl Council of Australia's 'Shaping the Future' 2018 International Conference.

05.01.2022 Le Duc Vacherin baked in the box - exquisite. Packaging by design IS:

04.01.2022 Time Out acknowledges social isolation with a minor rebrand and shift in content focus.

02.01.2022 Design IS: Illustration The Gatehouse, Princes Pier, Port Melbourne.

01.01.2022 Design IS: Communications Mac.Robertson Girls' High School gets a lively new look to its newsletters.