Arts and cultural events website Flavorpill is looking to extend their reach to the southern hemisphere, in Melbourne, Australia. Flavorpill is now on the search for an editor to run the site.

The Coop is Matt Gibson’s winning entry for the 2009 Australian Interior Design Awards. Taking out the Retail Design category, Gibson’s entry sits between an experimental installation and a retail tenancy ‘incubator’.

A text-based street art installation appeared mysteriously in Sydneys’ Denham Lane earlier this week.

The manufacturers of the Iconic Australian spread Vegemite have recently released a spin-off version of the yeast-based product. To name the new cream cheese-vegemite blend, Kraft ran a competition, with the controversial name officially announced during last weekend’s Australian Football League Grand Final.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

Artist William MacKinnon has created a captivating body of work which communicates his experiences of the driving and the land.

Behance is a company that organizes the creative world to make ideas happen. Every Wednesday, Behance shares 5 fresh art and design projects from their network with PSFK.

For architects working on projects in historic districts or in an area with a concentration of period buildings, solving problems can suffer reduced emphasis over adhering to the predetermined style. Kavellaris Urban Design(KUD) in Australia were challenged to design a house on a vacant lot in between a row of Victorian terrace houses and an Edwardian weatherboard house. The firm saw an opportunity to critique the surrounding historic buildings, many of which underwent predictable interior renovations to make them more ‘modern’. The architects concluded that the demand for the historic houses was based more on people’s romanticized nostalgia for the [...]

PSFK recently wrote about the crowd-sourced-design of Australian beer ‘Nelson’.  The Melbourne-based micro brewery has recently teamed up with local Indie band The Temper Trap to design a limited-edition label for the brew.  The now London-based band collaborated alongside graphic artist Reece Hobbins to visually represent their unique sound.
Mess and Noise explains:
a white silhouetted human profile, which symbolises the mind as the “hub of emotion” and the human “condition” (a reference to their debut album Conditions, out tomorrow). The maze leading up the neck represents the obscurity of the Nelson beer project, as well as a sense of “confusion that [...]

Seek, an Australian online job search firm, is finding social opportunities in this economic crisis. The company, with the help of The Boston Consulting Group, is using its technology platform to match volunteer do-gooders with non-profit organizations all over the country.

Australia already has a long-established history of corporations participating in community causes but the recent scarcity of jobs, the persistent drought and the tragic bushfires that erupted earlier this year is increasing national demand to reach out. Seek Volunteer – which claims to earn no revenues for its services – seems to have come at just the right time judging [...]

A bold ad campaign by Ausie advertising company JWT for the Australian Childhood Foundation.  Designed for their ongoing Stop Child Abuse Now initiative, the street campaign seeks to draw attention to child abuse which often goes on unseen.  Featuring life-sized child mannequins half-covered by billposters, the advertisements were placed in high-traffic areas, reading,  “Neglected Children are made to feel invisible.”  After some time the mannequins were ‘torn out’ and removed, making the text, “Thank you for seeing me” visible.
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Some interesting fashion equations from Australian designers Trust Fun! on their blog.
Glory Holes – Tru$t Fun! and Kris Moyes

A collaboration between WorkSafe Victoria and local creatives, the Big Mouth Project is designed to get people talking within the workplace to prevent injury.  With workers aged 15 – 24 at the highest risk of work-related accidents, the state workplace safety system has rallied together local and international artists, writers, animators, web designers, model makers and photographers to spread the word on workplace safety.  World-renowned typographer Luke Lucas is behind the initiative’s logo and UK street artist D*Face has also pledged his support, unveiling his ‘Loudhailer’ sculpture outside St Kilda’s Luna Park, urging people to [...]

In late May 2009 Sydney will be hosting the biggest light, music and ideas festival in the Southern Hemisphere. The festival, developed by Events NSW, will turn the Opera House, The Rocks, Circular Quay and the city centre into a “living canvas of music and light”. A preview:
- Luminous – Curated by “the father of ambient music” -  Brian Eno, the “music, debate, light and performance” festival will present light and art installations, including Eno’s own 77 Million Paintings:
Harnessing ‘self-generating software’, three hundred of Eno’s hand-drawn images are cut-up and rearranged to form an infinite number [...]

Slate takes an insightful look at factors contributing to the sharp downturn suffered by the Australian wine industry which, depending on who’s reporting, has seen exports to the US fall by 15 percent to 26 percent in value during the last year. While a number of a uncontrollable circumstances – fluctuations in the global economy causing inflation in the Australian dollar and unforeseen environmental factors – can’t be dismissed, the most influential player in this current spiral might come down to branding.
Due to the overwhelming success of Yellow Tail - a cheap and flavorful wine with an easily recognizable label – a number [...]