Interview with Sam Jinks (NSFW)

The new music video for ‘Against The Grain’ from emerging Melbourne indie-folk artist Hudson sees him collaborate with film maker/animator/VJ Dropbear (aka Jonathan Chong), producing a vibrant and colourful clip based around a mainstay from our humble artistic efforts throughout childhood – coloured pencils.

Fresh new site and some more great work from Lilian Darmono and Mungo Horey. “We are storytellers, who believe in touching people’s hearts with what we create. Our work, which is also our passion, helps us define ourselves in this world. In every character we make, in every universe we imagine, there is a piece of [...]

Ken Taylor and Deb squared off in a live art battle for Melbourne’s Secret Wars. The rules were no sketching on the canvas, black paint only, 90 minutes allowed, and the piece must reference the other artist. Via OMG

Congratulations to Hackett Films and the crew on Dirt Girl for winning the Australian Film Institute (AFI) award for best children’s animation.

Echo Cocoa. Recently updated showcase of design & illustration. Currently available for work and collaborative projects. This post was submitted by Sean Leonard.

An on-going series of paintings: 12.5 x 18 cm Nice style by Chelsea Gustafsson. check out her site here.

Multimedia designer Burak Canpolat has some nice work over at dec85.

The cats at Sixty40 have relaunched their site with some quality new work and a new reel. Check it

Great concept from Bryan Lee, check out his behance page to read more on the project. “The A.N.T is designed to enhance humanitarian organizations such as the United Nations for transportation of food, water, medical supplies and housing units to disaster stricken areas. Having swift as well as all-terrain capabilities, the A.N.T incorporates a new [...]

Some lovely graphic design work and art direction coming from Nick Dart, Ex Queenslander currently based in London.

As part of the State of Design Festival, Climate ReDesign tries an experimental collaborative project: Two public design-workshops to generate ideas, connections and friends for action. They are asking: How to increase measurable mainstream support for action on climate change? What can a designer offer a climate change campaigner? What can a climate change campaigner [...]

Melbourne based Motion Designer/Director Benjamin Ducroz launched a great new reel: “Inspired by the forms, patterns, and movement found in nature and the built environment, Benjamin works with found objects and visual abstraction to create dynamic single channel videos and animations.” via: Ventilate.ca