A portfolio well worth a flick through is that of Chris Maclean, a Creative Director over at Interbrand in Sydney. Chris, as well as being the world’s tallest designer, was the instigator of my journey over to Australia when he visited my Preston degree show back in 2008.

Australian Institute Of Company Directors (AICD)

The thought of moving into the world of ‘big brands’ was one that worried me a bit and i was quite hesitant at first, naively thinking that the work wouldn’t be as creative and/or challenging as i would like. But as you can see from some of the work Chris and the studio have been producing, i was very wrong.

Griffin Theatre Company

The team at Interbrand is now easily one of the strongest (and tallest) in Australia, I was lucky and got to work there for 6 months with some amazing designers whose portfolios are also well worth a browse through. Check them out > Christoper Doyle, Andrew Droog, Malin Holmstrom, Elliott Scott & Abi Singmin. Also not forgetting, TDOD’s very own Mike Rigby, who needs to sort himself out an interweb site.

Design For Obama

Just goes to show that, if your ideas are strong enough and you strive to be creative in everything you do, you can always produce good work. Whoever the client.

If you’re just graduating and, for want of a better phrase, shitting yourself a bit about finding work. I couldn’t recommend looking abroad enough.

I graduated from Preston 2 years ago, pretty much to the day, and I’m now a midweight at a small agency called Re, who work out of global advertising big bollocks M&C Saatchi, in Sydney – Australia

Nice neighbourhood

I’m now heavily involved in, amongst other things, a scarily large 4 year re-brand of the entire place, that being the country of Australia itself, the whole bloody shabang. We put together this (Slightly cheesy) video not long back for the launch.

Watch it, and prepare to want to move here. Good weather, good food, good people, lots of jobs, amazing beaches and, if you’re in fear of being home sick, there’s more English designers here than you can shake an ‘insert typically Australian thing here’ at. So look into it, it might just be the best thing you’ve ever done.

If not, at least you’ll leave with a tan and some proof you’re willing to go a long way for the chance to work in design.

Lee is a very talented illustrator and good friend of TDOD. If you haven’t seen Lee’s work you can take a look at some of it here.

The final 30 letters are close to completion and are due to be put in place this forthcoming week. They form part of a typographic roundel that is to be placed  on top of the stone circle structure already in place (see July 14th post – Circle).

A collection of minimal logo designs posted up on Twitter by Erik Spiekermann, I think Twitter is a great opportunity to see how many designers think and see what they find interesting.

An interesting guerilla marketing website I stumbled upon well worth a look.

Do something worthwhile today and sign this petition to help try and save the UK Film Council. It would also make this man’s day too. (Still from “This Is England” by Shane Meadows).