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Jeremy Wortsman

Jeremy Wortsman has been known to ride his motorcycle in the bike lane, grew up near Brooklyn but has only ever been egged, and has read every issue of The Believer. Although this may sound comical you can be sure that he takes his work seriously. Following a passion for editorial design and typography in April 2005 he founded Is Not Magazine alongside four friends, and in 2006 he and design partner Stuart Geddes (formerly of Studio Anybody) were awarded the Premiers Design Award for Communication Design. Despite being dissappointed by not receiving a novelty sized cheque both he and Stuart have begun to establish their own studio, Chase and Galley, and are currently working on the new identity for Next Wave Festival. Alongside that, Jeremy’s personal project The Jacky Winter Group will seek to represent young and contemporary Australian illustrators in commercial overseas markets and is set to launch in September of this year.

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image credit // thomas jeppe

NowNow Gallery // Update

The third update is up on the NowNow Gallery featuring the work of Ben Baretto, Christopher Day, Josh Robenstone, Matthew Sleeth, Ryan Foerster (Canada), Thomas Jeppe and Thomas Stavnes (San Francisco).

Jonathan Lewis // walmArt

In Jonathan Lewis’s walmArt series pixelated images of consumer spaces are still instantly recognisable when reduced to colour and spatial arrangement. If the above image looks normal to you either get your eyes checked or check yourself into re-hab.

Olaf Breuning at 200 Gertrude Street

The Australian Center for Photography in conjunction with the Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane brings to 200 Gertrude street Swiss artist Olaf Breuning. His video “Home” and other photographic works depicting heavy metal / counter-cultural /alternative fantasies will be occupying the main gallery from today until June 16th.

If you haven’t seen it already, check out his hilariously labour intensive home page olafbreuning.com

Related links //
Gertrude Street
Chronology of work

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Things Not To Be This Weekend // A Color Guide

This book we bought on Amazon arrived today. It’s got some serious life changing potential but when it comes to this weekend it might be best to ignore the above page. A Book of Colors - Compiled by Shigenobu Kobayashi.