Australias to TEN Logos

1. The ABC I beleive is the most recodnisable logo, the reason for this is largly due to the fact it is a TV station. Also its symetry, its completely symetrical (infinite), and another reason is the sound thats coupled with the logo itself - so as to create the effect that as soon as you see the logo you repeat the sound in your head.


.2 This logo has also been arround for ages, this logo has an effective tagline attached to it "which bank?" witch again for see your mind to repeat the phrase one first glance when you see the logo. Unfortunatley for them if the choose to change this it will take a considerable amount of time for there customers and the general populas to adjust to the new phrase.



3. ANZ - Acronym, Definition. ANZ, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Limited. There logo hasn't changed over the years and they too have a sound component to there logo, they also have cleaver TV ads witch always help.









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Having posted my top ten, I would however like to add that the top ten would be relative to what or who you accossate yourself with and your various cirumstances to pick a top ten from a group of different people of different ages and for them all to pick the same logo would be a testiment to the brand not so much the logo. However having an exceptional logo will always go down well.

More highlights

^^^ what a dude!









^^^ mmm cosy and funky
















and some more deciphering:



mmmmmm......but waht does it all meant???

"AHUH! I FOUND IT"

Art & Design Graduand Show 2009

The creative works of over 250 final year Design and Fine Arts undergraduate and honours students from Monash University's Faculty of Art and Design will feature in the annual Graduand Student Exhibition, which will be officially launched on Friday 20th November, 2009.

The of work showcased in this years exhibition derives from the disciplines of interior architecture (interior design); industrial design (product design); visual communication (graphic design); multimedia and digital arts, sculpture, metals and jewellery, painting, photomedia, printmedia and glass.

As you walk about this amazing exhibition/show you suddenly realize that you are surrounded by art, the Faculty of art & design was done in such a way that every where you looked there was art, it was quite clever. However finding your way around was “interesting” to say the least! However the quality of the work was of a high standard.

The art piece that I found particularly interesting was a work done by “Amber Harris” called “E+mc2”. Impressed by the vibrant colour, how it was situated on the wall, and how it communicated the idea (how interpreted anyway) that although every action has
a reaction and most things can be explained there is almost always something in every subject/theory/question (almost like the ever ongoing debate about creation vs evolution) that can not be explained and understood – I see this through the design in which amber has laid out most of the colour paper squares in a geometric which starts as an arbitrary layout as it has come out of the bin, however whist this organization is going on you see to the right, a straight pink line of the same subject matter witch continues from the bin all the way round the wall continuing in a straight line from bin to finish .

Whist the art and shot movie stuff was very well done, the multimedia and visual communication (uni talk for graphic design) was a bit lack luster – the MM didn’t have the wow factor and the Graphic design was a bit average, I would have liked to see more typography as the advertising alluded too.

All in all I found it too be a good exhibition to good too, well done Monash
Pretty good for a uni lol



some of the highlights in our epic journey

deciphering the code a t the train station:



Some highlight of the exhibition:
needless to say i was very impressed








some other highlights...




wait for it....

Transformation - J Space

The Transformation exhibition is all to do with the subject of transformation. The fellow students work made up of sculpture/prints/and digital work. The use of all mediums helps to make the space come alive with the interesting pieces.

“The transformation” can be seen though the digital mediums more (personally),. The through the use of digital mediums the artists are able to put them selfs in to “transformation” situations with the help of green screens and the editing software. From the transforation angle the exhibition has much merit, However to your average passer by some of the work I found, I failed to understand and appreciate.

The statement was made at this exhibition that “digital art is not art” to which the speaker gave her rebuttal. With the overtone being that digital art is a new window to express passion for the arts. While I agree with this I also have my reservations.

Digital art is more then just whacking some images off the net and using as many of the different Photoshop filters as you can to create an “artwork” - this in itself has already been done, and done and done. “Real” digital requires as much in not more effort then that of traditional artwork, :ie if you are to do a collage or build an artwork around (in layers) a central image it MUST be the right dpi and quality, or at least used in a way that masked its lack thereof. Photoshop or image manipulation filters must be used with a purpose or to create a certain atmosphere. With out going into detail digital artwork is very much acceptable ONLY when it is done properly!

If this is not the case the work can be cheapened or look uneducated in its execution. Fortunately this will on be apparent those who are involved in the digital arts industry or who appreciate image clarity. You can have the best conceptual idea however if it isn’t properly executed it can look cheap. Unfortunately that the impression I got when viewing some of the work at the transformation exhibition.

Not all the work I view had this effect, there where some well developed digital art there of a very high standard with no pixelaisation or negative distortion. The sculptor was very interesting also. All in all I enjoyed the exhibition, it was an opportunity to see the depth, understanding and the thought process of my fellow students, which is always a good experience. Below are some example of very well executed digital art work:


Mireille Beaufremez - cubist face

Annie Watkins - Blue Night

Yvone Picot - Foxes in the Chook House

Walker st gallery - Peter Biram & Peter Rowe

Peter Rowe
Recent works on paper
Peter combines collage, and various media to explore colour, space and energy. Torn fragments from a range of photographic images are re-constructed into a surreal landscape comprising a series of layers.

Peter Biram
Environmental reflections with undertones of possible disaster
Peter investigates the fine balance that exists in the natural environment, the Order & Chaos found within nature and the balance of power shifting between the two states.

I found peter Biram work to be vibrant and alive! I quite enjoyed this work because of the life about it, the loud colours the chaotic line work and brush strokes. This brush work coupled with sections of solid dot work not dissimilar to our indigenous artists, however not so similar that it would cause upset. The dot work considered there in was done freehand but straight enough that one could easily be misled into thing that it was done by a machine or computer

I enjoyed his work on two different level or design element & principals, in that I enjoyed both the colour and the subject matter. Witch is somewhat of a rarity for me. I found that his work would look just as good in both black & white and in colour! Not only this but it had amazing texture flowing through it, another aspect that is very high on my aesthetic list. I was most impressed Biram’s work!

Peter Rowe on the other hand, I failed to grasp the aesthetics of his work I found them to be the very opposite of Peter Biram’s work - that being dull and life less, and very two dimensional.
Which was in shier contrast having the art work in such close proximity that made even more obvious the difference between the two! I know that, that was the very intention of the curator, the contrast of the two peters having completely opposites styles. The only thing that I found that this achieved is that it made one artist work better (Biram) and one artist look worse (Rowe).

Having said all of the above I very much enjoyed the view of both works despite my disagreement with the curators layout, Had I arranged the space I would have had Biram’s work set up with another artist with a style similar to that or Piet Mondrian, there couldn’t be a greater contrast!

The Rant

One of the most inpiration text animation on the net
AND one of the Funkyest - enjoy

Figures in an Exhibition - Mc Clelland Gallery

The Figures in an Exhibition… exhibition draws together sculptures, paintings and photography from Australian art, ranging from the Colonial era, through early Modernism to the inspiring examples of the present. These various representations of the human figure reflect a variety of concepts of beauty and style as well as portraying various ideas of personal and national identity.

Within the exhibition, amongst others, the poetic feminine figures of the sculptors such as Bertram Mackennal and C.D. Richardson stand in elegant contrast to the masculine hyper-real detail of Ron Mueck and Sam Jinks figures. Figures in an Exhibition encapsulates the changing ethos of Australian art.

If found the hyper realism of Ron Mueck quite striking, not only in tis size but in its amazing detail! If someone asked me to define this style or genré of art I would show them the wild man of Ron Mueck. In The Wild Man a giant clutches at his seat. In his nakedness, unarmed he shies away from our gaze. This is a real circus strongman, caught naked and unable to defend himself from our presence and our gaze. His eyes wide open fend us off and there is an expression of "whoa – what are you doing here?

The other art piece that engaged my attention simply because of its rarity and weightiness in terms of how profound Edgar Degas’s work was and is in the stream of time. I like the idea of is cheekiness and how Edgar Degas’s art works/poses always seem hold a very private or intimate pose, as if the viewer was not suppose to be look at the portrayed model – like a “peeping tom”, or as I like to call him a “dirty old man” (which in this case I use as a term of endearment).

Edgar Degas’s Dancer Looking at the Sole of Her Right Foot (fourth state), The figure is one of four in a series of surviving figures—each in a slightly different position but all doing the same thing—that exemplify Degas' fascination with subtle changes in the dynamics of movement. This one was long thought to be the final one in the series owing to its relatively finished surface, but one of Degas' models asserted that in 1910 she was asked by the artist to assume the difficult pose of the plaster cast while he modeled another small figure. So it seems that, in fact, the less finished versions are likely to be the later ones.




As for the rest of the sculptures I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and this time there was no question as to what was and what is art, there was in almost all case’s a cense of awe with the sculptures. I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.

Robbie Rowlands's - The Offering

The Offering is a contemporary art installation in a century old church and community hall in Dandenong
earmarked for demolition, created by Robbie Rowlands in a single story weatherboard church and community hall. The Church was officially opened in August 1904. In this same month – 105 years later – Rowlands’ arts intervention took place. The artwork is produced using only the materials contained within its walls to create a visually powerful site specific installation. It reveals the history of the site through exposed layers and sculptural forms that peel and bend the inner surfaces of the building.

The Offering is open for two weeks prior to the site being demolished, to enable construction of the George Street Bridge. The Offering provides the community the opportunity to experience for the final time a church and community hall that has housed local meetings and prayer for some 105 years.

The Offering builds a bridge between removing structures from the landscape and building them back up again. It provides an opportunity for the community to witness change in their community, and to share their own personal memories of times in important and historic spaces. This project is a marriage between the practice of an artist who seeks rare opportunities to work with pre-demolition sites, and organisations who recognise that within the context of urban renewal, there is an obligation to honour, reflect, discuss and record the things that are being lost in the process of change.

Rowlands work is made all the more poignant as the timber floors had already been removed in anticipation of the demolition, leaving only the supporting stumps and bare earth. “The bare earth presented an ideal opportunity for this work and the community to consider the raw landscape. With the buildings removed we are invited to consider if the land alone can retain a kind of memory or is it just defined by the structures we build,”

Rowland also made the comment about his photographing the piece he has constructed as saying “the church is celebrated through his images”. Rowland’s was and is celebrating the church’s “good innings” in terms of its life span as a church. Not only this but his aim was also the encourage the inner child we all have within us the be enchanted by the this (the offering’s) space. He likened it to exploring a hunted house or exploring something new like an abounded house.

“I am hoping my work allows the community a chance to reflect on their own connection to the land and to be part of its transition.” - Robbie Rowlands, artist.

The question was asked of Robbie “Do you call this art??”, his reply was most interesting. Whilst calm and controlled he gave a witty and most artistic answer to the question. He said “art is constantly moving,” and that what he’s done is like pottery, except “I’ve moved from the pottery wheel to a house or in this case church”.What I pulled from this exhibition in particular was that art is a perception not so much an understanding, I find that Robbie is an artist with a vision, and he is willing to push past that “tall popie syndrome” and push is art to the next level witch is out side the realms of most people’s understanding and hopefully will find its way into there perception.



Some other pics I took
In remeberance of the Offering





and my fovorite the baptism bath

ACCA Visit "The Dwelling"

To begin with I wasn’t looking forward to going into the city having to deal with the weather etc, however after trudging though the acca door and into the art space and inspecting this exhibition called the dwelling which was a collaboration of International artists exploring the ghostly inhabitations of the ‘home’.
In an all new group show at ACCA, presented as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

Curated by ACCA’s Artistic Director Juliana Engberg and organised by Hannah Mathews,The Dwelling brings together a series of spooky works from leading contemporary artists, each exploring the surreal, the haunted and the very strange.

Artists included are Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chantal Akerman, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, David Haines & Joyce Hinterding, Michaela Melián, Callum Morton, David Noonan & Simon Tevaks, Sofia Hultén and Calum Stirling.

The idea behind this exhibition was to look at the “home” in an eary spooky light, a spooky creepy psychical way of perceiving the home or.....(more creepily put).... “The Dwelling”
Apart from the whole creepy spooky theme, that had going on the art pieces that stood out to me where:

Callum Morton
International Style (1999)
Morton reconstructs Mies van der Rohe’s infamous Farnsworth House (built in Illinois, 1945-1950) with the laughing, chattering and glass-tinkling of a cocktail party culminating in the sound of gunshots and desperate screams. Not only the way it was set up but the story behind it I found very interesting and eccentric.

Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller
Opera for small room (2005)
Cardiff and Miller’s Opera for small room is a tour de force of sound and effects. Their absent protagonist is evoked by lights, a gravelly voice, and the mechanistic theatre of record turntables, and shadow plays. The viewer is privy to the private world of some sinister hermit. He lives in the woods or plains: somewhere remote for sure. A wolf howls around the hut. This pieces was just awesome, the way it was put togeather, the way everything work with each other was very impressive.


and another one i took when no one was watching....