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 Ceres Enviromental Park is a community-driven project dedicated to sustainable design and living.

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.

‘Crate Man’ is another great example of Melbourne’s diverse street art scene. Constructed from vibrantly painted milk crates, the huge figures have been found scaling fences, hanging off cranes, perched on rooftops and even fishing in a creek.

Last Sunday Melbourne residents were offered the unique opportunity to view some of the city’s most interesting buildings, normally off limits to the public.  In total thirty buildings opened their doors to the public for Melbourne Open House , with the Melbourne Unity building, Town Hall and Offices attracting a 4660-strong crowd of onlookers interested in the city’s history and architecture. See a gallery of images from the tour below.

Monocle Magazine have announced their annual index of most liveable cities. Zurich comes in top place mainly for its vast investment in transport; Copenhagen is second for its mix of metropolitan life, great healthcare, low crime rates and a relaxed vibe; at 3, Monocle describes Tokyo as the world’s most livable megapolis and praises the city’s commitment to plant 1 million trees; 4th is Munich which blends history and innovation with ease and is generally a good place to do business; and Helsinki comes 5th partly because it has no Starbucks. Here’s the full list:

Multi-disciplinary design studio Round have won the Invitation category at the Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards. The Melbourne-based studio won the coveted prize for their Walk, Talk and Chalk catalogue.  The catalogue was created for a City of Melbourne exhibition which covered the city’s history of parking enforcement.  Walk, Talk and Chalk is the most highly-attended exhibition the City Gallery has held to date.  Round also received a high commendation for their Urban Arboreal invitation.
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Craft Cartel is a Melbourne-based craft collective for “crafty types who don’t dig rose scented doilies”.  Celebrating all that is irreverent, ironic, kitschy, delightfully offensive and made lovingly by hand, Craft Cartel supports craft creatives who would normally sit outside the retail space by using avant-garde techniques and recycled materials, whilst dealing with subject matter that doesn’t quite fit the ‘craft’ mold. Craft Cartel is constantly working to promote a new image of ‘craft’ – interesting hand made objects rather than “mass produced plastic crap.” They proclaim: “We do not subscribe to art wank and we are prone to [...]

Created by Australian architects McBride Charles Ryan, The Letterbox House is a new take on the Aussie beach house.  Located in Melbourne’s Mornington Peninsula, the design begins as a letterbox and opens up to a 290sqm, four bedroom house.  Inspired by the large scale of the peninsula and the ‘openness’ of a typical Australian beach-side community, architects Rob McBride and Debbie-Lyn Ryan used irregular lines to unfold the huge veranda, giving the design an airy, “half-space” feel, half enclosed, half open; making the front door almost unneccessary.
[via Arch Daily and the cool hunter]

Melbourne street artists have pooled together to offer city visitors a tour of the best city street art hot spots on offer.  Claiming to be the first Australian street art tour run by the artists themselves, the Melbourne Street Art Tour begins in Federation Square and leads patrons down hidden alleys and arcades to discover the city’s undergrand art scene.  The tour winds up at the infamous Blender Studios, the self-proclaimed ‘hub’ of the Melbourne’s street art scene and owned by street-art historian Adrian Doyle.  Attendees can enjoy a beer and chat with notorious artists HA-HA and Drewster about [...]

¥ª₰ ¥∀₰ §฿₣∑₦₭$ or ‘Jah Jah Sphinx’ is a blog which groups bizarre and often incredible images in what appears to be a visual stream of consciousness.  Each post has a general theme, like Boyz III Myn or california dreaming, posting images loosely linked by similar textures, colours or subject matter. A perfect tool for creatives running dry on inspiration or for those with time to kill.  Jah Jah Sphinx has around twenty-four collaborators, many artists from Melbourne, Australia.
A word of warning, the posts occasionally contain explicit material which may be offensive to some.
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QR codes, which create physical world hyperlinks or hardlinks, have sparked the imaginations of designers and artists. They’ve been used to make public statements (QR code fences and Invader’s QR Code murals) as well as fashion statements (QR code scarves). Now they are being used to make a political statement. Knitted QR codes have become the preferred medium for Rayna Fahey aka Kakariki from Radical Cross Stitch and a large one called “QRacks in the Land” was recently featured at the Streets of Melbourne Festival this past weekend. Fahey says they are “a way of exploring non-corporate alternatives to [...]