My work exhibited at Melbourne Museum
Published on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – 8:07 pm
Back in early April I announced that I would be attending two Australian design conferences, one called Semi Permanent (that I reviewed here) and another called agIdeas which is in May.
Well the agIdeas conference (sold out) also had a side design competition called agIdeas NewStar that allowed you to enter some of your previously designed work for judging to see if it would be worthy for exhibition at the Melbourne Museum. Well I entered, and have just got word that my work got short-listed and will be appearing at Melbourne Museum! (For those not familiar with Melbourne, it is Australia’s second largest city.)
The NewStar exhibition will be on at Melbourne University from 24 April to 24 May (10am to 5pm). I will also be in Melbourne from May 4th till May 7th so if you’re in the area and want to say hello, please do let me know!
More info about agIdeas 2009 NewStar
agIdeas NewStar is an awards program for design students and new graduates. The Collie Print Trust Award’s the winner with a 2 week international scholarship including flights, accommodation and 2 weeks work experience at one of the following studios: (Ahn Sang So Korea, Browns UK, Guerilla Games The Netherlands, OJ South Africa, Pentagram USA, Prologue USA, SeymourPowell UK).
agIdeas NewStar Exhibition is part of the Designed to Inspire program at Melbourne Museum. The program offers public recognition of the work of talented emerging and practicing designers. The role of the museum is to increase design literacy in the general public, to broaden national and international awareness of the quality and diversity of contemporary Australian design, and to enhance Victoria as a centre of design excellence.
Entered Pieces
You were allowed to submit as many entries as you wanted however each entry had to have 3 pieces in it. I only submitted one entry (with 3 pieces inside) and you can see them below. I assume all three pieces will be on display at the museum as I haven’t been told otherwise.
FITTUCI Custom Windows & Doors Logo Design
Description: FITTUCI Custom Windows & Doors is a comprehensive source for superior custom doors & windows. They specialise in luxury state of the art doors & windows. The logo depicts an illusion of either windows or doors.
I wrote about the design process of this logo in full here.
Wedgetail Premium Citrus Vodka Bottle & Packaging
Description: Brand and identity development, 3D rendering, packaging and photography for Wedgetail Distillery’s Premium Citrus Vodka Premix alco-pop marketed towards 18-25 year olds.
I wrote about the design process of this project in full here.
Photoshop For Right Brainers
Description: Book cover design for a book targeted towards creatives who wish to use Photoshop for photo manipulation. The illustration depicts a man’s right side of the brain and the vertical text forces the viewer to tilt their head to the right to read the name of the book (hence right side of the brain). The word Photoshop also depicts an exclamation mark.
I was approached by John Wiley & Sons (one the world’s largest book publishers) to design this book cover back in September last year.
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Conor on Apr 22, 2009 said:
Congrats man! Best of luck with it
Chris Stonestreet on Apr 22, 2009 said:
Great work Jacob.
This is great information and inspiration to any designer, go out and enter competitions as you never know where it could lead you!
Mali (@eatingdesign) on Apr 22, 2009 said:
Wow Excellent! Good Luck my Aussie designer
Alex Charchar on Apr 22, 2009 said:
Wooooaahhhh… well done!
Hope you do well and am very much looking forward to your thoughts on AGIdeas! Especially sagmeister..
a couple people i work with saw him a few years ago when he was out here and said it was very inspiring and served as great motivation to push themselves to the next level creatively.. so cant wait to see what you think
Luis Eduardo (@EXXCORPIO) on Apr 22, 2009 said:
congratulations man, there you have big chances to win, your work is really good.
I wish you good luck for this award.
Nikhil (@powerusers) on Apr 23, 2009 said:
Congr8s Jacob,
This is awesome,
The designs you submitted are of-course winning designs.
Its great news for you & your fans also (me too)..
GamesForXbox on Apr 23, 2009 said:
good work!!!!
Fernanda Carvalho on Apr 23, 2009 said:
Congrats Jacob, nicely done.
Jacob Cass (@justcreative) on Apr 23, 2009 said:
Thanks everyone for your comments!
Alex,
I am also looking forward to his talk, I saw a video of him the other day, and never realised he had such a strong accent. Wasn’t what I suspected but should be good none the less.
Devlin (@devlindonnelly) on Apr 23, 2009 said:
Congratulations! I hope you win.
GoldenMoonCasino on Apr 24, 2009 said:
I wish you the best…
Valentine's Gift on Apr 24, 2009 said:
Cool! Congratulations! Your artwork deserves it!
HotelsFitzgerald on Apr 25, 2009 said:
congrats!!!
HollywoodCasinoST on Apr 25, 2009 said:
Excelent work, please keep improving.
r_shahin on Apr 25, 2009 said:
Well done mate and congrats! and I must say you deserved it! Really!
Sell Art Online on Apr 25, 2009 said:
That is incredibly exciting! What a great honor!
nFormas on Apr 27, 2009 said:
congratulations!
The works are really good!
selling art online on Sep 17, 2009 said:
Well done, exciting stuff, did you win??