We are pleased to announce we will be collaborating with the NSW Architects Registration Board to design and develop the NSW Architecture Diary.
Digital Eskimo has been commissioned to create the online diary to promote events that focus on Architecture in NSW. Ultimately the project aims to encourage and facilitate discussion and debate about a range of architectural issues in the community.
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This month’s greenUps was themed activism. We asked five ‘activists’ to hop on a milkcrate with microphone in hand to explain their ideas, all based on different ’shades of green’.
The Falconer was packed to the brim (what delicious food!) and there were many new faces from different sectors and with varying interests. Check out the new photos on Flickr!
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We’re very happy to announce that Dave Gravina, our Principal and Creative Director, has been voted as one of Sydney’s Creative Catalysts, part of the Creative Sydney Festival which runs from May 27 to June 12.
The Top 100 Catalysts list focuses on people with original, creative ideas who are giving inspiration to others in their field.
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The live local website was launched on Tuesday night at Table for 20, in Surry Hills and was well attended by experts in sustainability, business leaders (including Lucy Turnbull) social media gurus and TV personalities including Guerilla Gardener, Mickie Quick.
live local is a website where users can upload their stories, pictures and videos of living locally. It is free to use and already people are sharing ideas and inspiration. Examples include experiments as simple as #93 ‘A smile doesn’t cost a thing’ to local economic restructure in #99 ‘creating my own money’.
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Ronan gave us an entertaining and thoughtful insight into being a triple j journalist, the opportunities and limitations as a reporter for the national broadcaster, and the interaction of radio and online media.
Reporting for the Hack program, he would travel to remote towns and city streets. Hack speaks to a young audience and attempts to hit on issues that young people take to heart - music downloads, cyber-bullying, drugs. Ronan explained that the internet lets the Hack team monitor surges in interest in certain topics and use the email feedback from listeners to feed follow-on stories, be it pornography, working girls or truckies.
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The third Sydney greenUps was themed around film and the environment and was another full house.
Nell Schofield introduced us to GRASS.org.au her initiative to promote sustainability in the film industry. Director Maryella Hatfield presented The Future Makers a documentary on Australian innovation in renewable energy, and Mark Forstmann showed a teaser of Monkey Puzzle a new Australian film set in Blue Mountains. Phil Stubbs showed Holland Tunnel by the Neistat Brothers, The Age of Stupid film trailer, and Energy Wasting Day a humorous satirical site.
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We couldn’t help but notice the above poster, which was provocatively posted at our local café, The Wall recently.
An anonymous individual had obviously become annoyed at the growing awareness in the design community of its wider responsibility in the world and the exciting discussions that are now taking place regarding the power of design to help mankind in its hour of need. We’ve responded to the poster with our own asking people to visit this blog and begin a conversation (we’re also interested in hosting a round-table discussion in our studio, btw – more on that later).
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We attended a lively and interesting Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) talk featuring lawyer Chris Finn of Finn Roache last night.
The talk touched on that ugly elephant in the design studio, free/spec pitching in the context of the global recession – loosely defined as the act of doing significant free work (strategy, ideation or actual design) to win a tender or proposal process. It was refreshing to hear outright condemnation of this terrible business practice from the floor, although Chris’ legal “solution” worried me.
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(image courtesy of Ed Mitchell)
live local is our latest project which we’ve developed as a kind of joint social venture with Piers Dawson-Damer. The website is a place to share stories about improving our communities.
It makes it easy for local residents to document their experiences and adventures meeting neighbours, discovering neighbourhoods, supporting local economies, saving energy, water and much more.
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Two weeks ago, I was lucky enough to make it to DrupalCon DC (a.k.a. “DC/DC”). For me, the conference consisted of excessive geeking, excessive beer-drinking, and sleep deprivation.
Naturally, I expect nothing less from a web developer’s conference. DrupalCon DC was big, it was passionate, and it was jam-packed with high quality presentations.
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