round.

The Bendigo Art Gallery signage playfully and colourfully extends the gallery identity onto the street.

The signage is designed to clearly identify the location and guide visitors to the gallery entrance.

Studio Round's work for Gingerboy has recently been featured in an international publication showing the best graphics and interiors for the hospitality industry.

An interview describes the collaborative process between the client, interior architects Elenberg Fraser and Studio Round.

Design Taste. Graphics and Interiors for Cafes, Bars and Restaurants

Victonary, 2009.

Studio Round has again been awarded
for its work with City Gallery.

At the recent Museums Australia Multimedia and Publication Design Awards, the studio won the invitation category for Walk, Talk and Chalk
and was highly commended for the
Urban Arboreal invitation and
Walk, Talk and Chalk catalogue.

Thanks to Eddie Butler-Bowdon,
Programs Manager City of Melbourne for his belief in what we do. Its always
a pleasure.

Studio Round were invited to design a limited edition print for the Melbourne Museum of Printing.
 

The open day saw Melbourne's design
& art community come together in an effort to raise money to keep the museum printing for years to come.

All proceeds from print sales went
to the MMoP.

Prints are available from the MMoP.

Its AGIdeas time of the year again. The conference celebrates excellence in design. As part of the conference, Studio Round hosted a Studio Access evening. Fourteen young designers from various disciplines joined us for pizza, beer and a conversation about process and collaboration.

The group were given an overview of some key studio projects and description of the process that led to the final outcomes. We then finished the evening with a hands on exercise. Each student was given two characters of the alphabet to redraw. The aim was to create a visual expression of the night. Once the group had pen in hand and a brief to meet, conversation and collaboration flowed. Thanks to all who participated. 

We trust you enjoyed it as much as we did, and hope you left with an insight into our studio, process and the design industry.

AGideas on in Melbourne, 4 – 7 May 2009.

Spark, Inspirational Graphic Design is a collection of visual short stories. Studio Round's work is featured alongside an interview with creative director Michaela Webb, who talks about her current inspiration, studio design process and interests beyond graphic design.

Spark, Inspirational Graphic Design, Pageone publications, 2009.

Studio Round's signage solution for NFL's docklands HQ is now complete. The final item to be installed was the ground floor lobby sign. The solid Elba marble sign weighs in at approximately 1.3 tonnes and measures almost 11 metres in length.

The impressive sign clearly communicates that you have arrived at National Foods. It is bold, provides
a sense of quality, authenticity and longevity. In addition to giving NFL ownership of the foyer, the sign is sympathetic to the architecture and use of materials in the shared entrance.

Understanding your rights when it comes to protecting copyright and your intellectual property (IP) can seem complicated. Working with Design Victoria, Studio Round have created two 'How to Kits' to help simplify
and explain the different types of
 

IP protection available to designers,
and help to increase awareness of
IP issues as they affect the graphic and industrial design industries. 

Featured in both Desktop (issue #248 April 2009) and Design Quarterly

(Autumn 2009) the How to Kits are a valuable resource for all graphic and industrial designers. Available upon request from Design Victoria.

We're constantly surprised how quickly the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival comes and goes each year. And this year was no exception.

Now the hangover has largely subsided, we're delighted to announce that Studio Round's Creative Director, Michaela Webb, was invited to discuss her experience of working with the architect of Cumulus Inc. to produce the brand identity for the restaurant.

An exhibition of bronze sculptures by Australian artist Robert Klippel opens at Anna Schwartz Gallery, Sydney, 4 April 2009. If you haven't yet visited

the Carriage Works gallery by Melbourne’s premier art dealer, then
you are missing out. Its qualities are monumental in all senses of the word.

On until 2 May 2009.

The latest exhibition to open at City Gallery is Community Treasures: 100 Years of The Royal Historic Society of Victoria. The exhibition presents a selection of historic gems collected by the Royal Historical Society over, well, the last 100 years.
 

Exhibition identity, catalogue, invitation and didactics by
Studio Round.

On at City Gallery until 30 June 2009

Collaboration is one of the central themes in the latest issue of Artichoke, which features Studio Round's work on the cover and contains the studio's thoughts on this topic. The cover image was originally produced for the New Views exhibition, held at Melbourne Museum 15 November – 15 February 2009, which responds to questions about the future of graphic design.




 

The studio would like to take this opportunity to again thank those who ate and drank with us and helped form our response. In no particular order, they are Mathew Herbert, Geoff Nees, Peter Bennetts, Kate Rhodes, James and Scottie Cameron, and Warren Taylor.

We’d especially like to thank Peter Bennetts for photographing the lunch.

And congratulations to Kate Rhodes
on her first issue as Editor of Artichoke, (we think she’s done a great job!).