Graphic design relates to conflict in at least two important ways. The first is by destructively concealing it. The second is by productively revealing it.

READ ON → Against Branding

Dylan, as a popular performer and songwriter, is actually the direct result of the book form – not just as a source of content, or influences (“I read Erica Jong!”) but more fundamentally as a transformative technology. The development of the printed word manifested the possibility of an audience.

READ ON → Designing Dylan

Our previous studios have been burnt down, flooded, and eaten by locusts. We are now sandwiched between a bar selling craft beer and a mosque selling eternal paradise. We like to think our design services, like the studio itself, falls somewhere between these two offerings.

READ ON → Collective Magazine Interview

Why don’t we think and write about design as if people mattered, and as if design mattered to people?

READ ON → No Worries: Design Publishing in Australia.

For many, graphic design exists in some kind of twilight zone between high and low culture, between fine art and fashion. But it has never been just the relationship between a company and a consumer that's mediated by design, it's all of our relationships.

READ ON → Designboom Interview

We like to imagine the design industry as an impressionable comic book hero with erratic control over her super powers.

READ ON → Desktop Magazine Interview

Is there really nothing else to add that Google can’t retrieve or Wikipedia can’t explain?

READ ON → “A bullshit book”

The studio should be a personal and cultural laboratory – a supportive space that encourages creative growth.

READ ON → Studio Culture Interview

Awards are persuasive instruments of control. To enter a competition is to submit to authority, to concede bureaucratic command over a feral cultural terrain.

READ ON → Awards Madness

It’s a vicious assault on Australian settler culture and our incipient jingoism worthy of John Heartfield. It’s also a Brechtian metaphor for the unsettled nature of Australia’s cultural identity.



READ ON → Unsettled reviewed

visual poems that meld culture and nature, language and landscape

READ ON → Junkscape Poetry

Passion, compassion, disgust, anger, humour and a squeegee.

READ ON → Pop Properly

The way we work, play and communicate is transforming. Cinema is due a revolution because civilisation is due a revolution. In the end though, if all goes well, Hollywood will die and Greenaway will have blood on his hands.

READ ON → No More Bed Time Stories

The ray gun is an allegorical technology, a tool for transmuting messy violence into a symbolic contest. Not unlike breaking.

READ ON → Keeping the Beat: In Defence of Raygun