Cornwell invited us to illustrate one of ten covers for the Open House Melbourne 10th Anniversary program.

Our design features one of Melbourne’s iconic buildings – Collingwood Arts Precinct. There is eclectic beauty in the dilapidated building that sits on Johnston Street in Collingwood; the symmetry of the entrance, it’s many windows, and the conflicting sections of brickwork. It lies solidly on the hill, a dormant beast hungry for creative combustion. Keith Haring’s iconic mural adorns one side of the building, brought back to life recently, as vivid and engaging as it was in 1984. Reimagining one of the most visceral elements of Haring’s mural – the caterpillar – our illustration celebrates the impending creative revival of this wonderfully eccentric space.

The program can be bought here, and bookings for the Open House Melbourne Weekend can be made here.

The merging of Design and Other’s pixelated silkscreen prints and Song’s intricate thread atop paper result in vivid tactile landscapes. Deconstructed elements of flora and their surrounds are interlaced with hand stitched zoomorphic designs.

To view catalogue of prints from the Biota series, please contact us at requests@designandother.com.au

Like many of our prints we reflect on a moment in time, an adventure, a shared experience.

Printed at AGA in Amsterdam.

Printed at our new studio in Brunswick.

We had the immense pleasure of working together with Harmen Liemburg to produce this print at Kees Maas Zeefdruk in Amsterdam.

Fountain Fountain is a play on words, an investigation into form (the fountain as a monument) and colour (the split-fountain technique).

In a series of silkscreen prints, Design & Other deconstruct the wondrous elements of the fountain and reinterpret them as solid and liquid forms. Each print represents a new tier, gradients collide and ripple across the page, cascading upwards to the final spray.

Fountain Fountain was completed during D&O’s residency at Kapitaal, Utrecht (Netherlands). As part of their travels throughout Europe they are focused on undertaking projects to further understand the medium of silkscreen printing.

The prints are 11 and 15 colours respectively – some serious chopstick colour mixing was required!

Created during our residency at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier (AGA) in the Dutch capital during late 2011, the bold, vibrantly coloured works trace a 17-month period of travel through Asia and Europe.

Whether capturing the spectacle of the aurora borealis in Reykjavik or uncanniness of wandering carpet-lined streets in Istanbul, each of these works draw on two distinctly personal recollections of place and experience, engaging in notions of the keepsake or souvenir and exploring how memory can be articulated via creative process.

Created during our residency at Amsterdams Grafisch Atelier (AGA) in the Dutch capital during late 2011, the bold, vibrantly coloured works trace a 17-month period of travel through Asia and Europe.

Whether capturing the spectacle of the aurora borealis in Reykjavik or uncanniness of wandering carpet-lined streets in Istanbul, each of these works draw on two distinctly personal recollections of place and experience, engaging in notions of the keepsake or souvenir and exploring how memory can be articulated via creative process.