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Circle
In prelude to their new Australian album release, the studio is currently working with Monday Records‘ artists ‘Circle’, to generate a holistic look and feel for their debut album ‘The Middle’. Pairing with this is collateral, possible merchandise and film clips! As an extended approach, we are progressively collating brilliant design inspiration as we come ...
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Album Art
I am glad to present to you one of our latest projects, the album cover for Monday Records artist Girl is the New Boy- an indie electronic duo with a sweet, playful and haunting new EP. Featured below are earlier versions of the final design work. The cover and concept stems from some nice photographs ...
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DPM Soldiers Without Guns!
One of our latest projects here at DPM is targeting our colleagues working in government. Our message is that we work well with government and as a visual connection we’ve incorporated the message and style of WW2 propaganda posters. We are the “land army,” the “home front,” and the workers in the factories providing the ...
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Creative Mess
• Sewing machine – Check. • Badge Press – Check. • Super Dots – Check. • Amazingly-fun-colourful-blow-you’re-mind-DPM-campaign-complete with badges, foiling AND handstitched – Check. We like to get our creative fingertips away from the Macs as much as we can, and into a creative frenzy. Which is what you can see has happened in this ...
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A good book…or 50000
I think almost 92.65% of designers* would be insanely envious of people who actually have a huge space to fill with books and magazines and a whole bunch of creative inspiration like Karl Lagerfeld’s studio. (pictured above) If there was no visual inspiration around for designers then to put it simply, there would not be ...
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Daily deadlines, weekly miracles
I’m a pretty humble, easy going person* (so I think) so don’t get me wrong, I’m not trying to sing my own praises with what I’m about to say. But I would like to take a moment to take my hat off to designers that thrive on a daily basis with deadlines. Of course, let ...
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Typestaches
Sometimes I wish that I was a cute old Lady* so no one would question why I want to eat cakes and dessert items for breakfast, lunch or dinner. But There has never been a time that I wished I could grow a mustache – UNTIL NOW! This would be the typographic type of stash ...
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Ink
People can underestimate the power of simplicity when it comes to design. Business cards especially, People tend to over-do it and try and get the best looking card around, or they go the other direction try to get the cheapest price, which unfortunately leads to cheap quality. Over thinking it and a million different choices ...
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Eco correspondence
It’s exciting to me to be involved in design at a time when green issues are being thought about by a growing number of clients. It seems most of us actually do think about the environment throughout our day – whether we think about grabbing our coffee in an eco sustainable reusable coffee cup, or ...
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Sprung
Seems there is something in the air… something has sprung that isn’t spring. When people say they do a bit of ‘Spring cleaning’ you know tidying up things that have collected dust over winter or just refreshing their space at home, work etc. Lately lots of our lovely clients have been ‘spring cleaning’ themselves or ...