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2004 we co-founded Sydney's only annual exhibition of
sustainable and socially responsible graduate design works.
With the invaluable help of a small team of Change Designers,
we again co-ordinated and managed the event in 2005. Amongst
our many and varied roles, in both years we provided:
exhibition design and detailing; catalogue design, layout
and editing; and graphic design of posters and flyers.
In 2006 the exhibition was passed into the capable hands
of a new group of dedicated students to manage and co-ordinate
themselves. We did however provide graphic design for
the promotional posters, flyers, and catalogue one last
time. The event now lives on without us, and continues
to attract appreciative audiences.
For more details on our curatorial involvement with Changex
visit the
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April 23 - 27
Medium Rare Gallery
Redfern
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the 2004 exhibition we designed a complete visual identity
for the project based around an aesthetic of re-use and
recycling. For fitting out and detailing of the exhibition
space, we leased objects from local waste recyclers Reverse
Garbage, including re-used cardboard shipping tubes and
wooden crates for plinths. Second-hand demountable cardboard
furniture was sourced for the information desk.
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romotional posters were printed on Ecocern 100% post-consumer
waste recycled stock, then screen-printed by hand using soy-based
ink from The Natural Paint Place (these actually started disappearing
from walls soon after we pasted them up, which was amusing!).
All labels and information graphics within the exhibition
space were printed on the same recycled Ecocern stock.
The catalogue case was hand-made using pattern-making board,
framing tape and stencils, with the booklet itself printed
on Envirocare 100% white recycled stock (which also has a
high post consumer waste content).
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Changex 2005 |
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March 17 - 20
St. Margaret's Urban Village
Surry Hills |
hangex
2005 was included in the Sydney Esquisse Art + Design
Festival at the unfinished building development of St.
Margaret’s Urban Village in Surry Hills. Our exhibition
was located in a disused concrete interior, destined to
become a restaurant, which we transformed into a temporary
gallery space with the help of a swathe of extension cords,
desk lamps and miscellaneous objects leased from the Bower
Re-use & Repair Centre, and non-toxic wall paint supplied
by The Natural Paint Place. |
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esponding
critically to the Sydney Esquisse theme of ‘shopping’,
the promotional graphics for Changex 2005 featured distorted
advertising sunbursts and high-contrast silhouettes of the
‘products’ being exhibited.
A minimalist, low-tech aesthetic was employed in displaying
the works within the gallery space, each being represented
by a collection of mono-colour A3 posters pieced together
to form a large graphic, pasted directly onto the concrete
columns and walls. |
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 ach catalogue
cover was unique, being made from scraps of reclaimed fabric
sewn together and stamped with the Changex logo. |
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collaboration with the 2006 exhibition committee, the
event’s visual identity took on a more chaotic,
DIY sensibility - with spray paint, stencils and illustrations
collaged together on paper before becoming digital, then
having colour applied by hand once it was printed (on
good old Ecocern again). |
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