Some Awards!

www.cleverdesign.com.au - animated website
Nominated in the 'Best Website' Desktop Create Awards Client: Clever Design Architects

www.shannonfricke.com - animated website
Nominated in the 'Best Website' Desktop Create Awards Client: Shannon Fricke

1st Runner-up 'Best Commercial Photography' Desktop Create Awards Client: Bird Textiles

I've just returned from an awards ceremony in Melbourne, for the National Desktop Create Awards, where I picked up 1st runner-up in the 'Best Commercial Photography' section, for the image above, along with 2 nominations in 'Best Website Design' and a nomination in 'Best Packaging Design'.

Then this week I found out that the image that I entered to the prestigous Fairfax 'Shoot the Chef' competition is a finalist. The overall winner is being announced at the opening to the Sydney Good Food month on Sept 22 & all 8 finalists will be exhibited in the State gallery for the month of October. Wish me luck! The concept is based on a parody of the image in the movie 'Australian Beauty' where the actress is lying on a bed of petals.

Shoot the Chef Entry - starring Dave Ferguson of Fishmongers Byron Bay.

Latest Projects

Here are images from the latest shoot that we have completed for Bird Textiles.

We have been working with Bird for several seasons, and each time we try to come up with a very different concept, that is still focused around the abstract theme of sustainability in design.

The concept in this case, was based on the idea of the utopian world we would be living in, if the world converted to sustainable living - like the Lothlorian of Lord of the Rings, or our own Nirvana... a total rebirth, almost equivalent to what we perceive to be heaven, after death... making us less 'human' in terms of our failings, and more in-tune with the natural world.

We have also updated the bird website, www.birdtextile.com, along with producing a new bird Look Book, which is the 5th in the series, all bound with hand-stitching by the client.