Design Is Not Decoration

Design Is Not Decoration

Jetis is Creative Director of Cabinet of Wonder, a Sydney studio with thirty years of practice behind it. He has…

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Where to Study Design in Australia: An Editorial Assessment

Where to Study Design in Australia: An Editorial Assessment

An editorial guide to studying design in Australia — what…

Mambo, Reg Mombassa, and the 1980s–90s Australian Pop Visual Language

Mambo, Reg Mombassa, and the 1980s–90s Australian Pop Visual Language

How Mambo and Reg Mombassa created Australia's first globally recognisable…

The Sydney vs Melbourne Design Schools: A Cultural Comparison

The Sydney vs Melbourne Design Schools: A Cultural Comparison

How do Sydney and Melbourne's design cultures differ? An editorial…

What Makes Australian Design Distinctive? Landscape, Light, and the Antipodean Eye

What Makes Australian Design Distinctive? Landscape, Light, and the Antipodean Eye

What makes Australian design recognisably Australian? An editorial argument about…

The Design School Debt Trap: Is a Design Degree Still Worth It in 2025?

The Design School Debt Trap: Is a Design Degree Still Worth It in 2025?

Design degrees cost $40K–$160K. Meanwhile, top agencies hire portfolio-first. Are…

Grunge Design Returns Distressed and Deliberate

Grunge Design Returns Distressed and Deliberate

Torn edges, scratched surfaces, typography that looks photocopied fifty times.…

Nagai Hiroshi and The Infinite Reproduction of Nothing

Nagai Hiroshi and The Infinite Reproduction of Nothing

In his Tokyo studio, Hiroshi Nagai still uses an airbrush.…

The Technical Craft Behind Hyper-Bloom

The Technical Craft Behind Hyper-Bloom

A rose the size of a building. Petals that blur…

How Gradients Got Rough

How Gradients Got Rough

Instagram's logo is a rainbow. Spotify Wrapped bleeds colour across…

The Evolution of the GIF

The Evolution of the GIF

The “Graphics Interchange Format” was created by Steve Wilhite at…

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