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Rentfont Launch
Rentfont | Ampersand Two | In a classic chicken/egg scenario, it’s still not clear to this very day whether it was the book that inspired the exhibition or the other way around. Either way, the launch...
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Convoy Launch
Convoy | Ampersand Three | Launched at the (then) recently opened Public Office in West Melbourne, the Convoy launch packed them in once again and was the first type event to feature a type film...
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Assembly Launch
Assembly | Ampersand Four | A few months after a new millennium seemed a great time to launch Assembly – the work of many months research with interviewing schoolchildren on their recollection of...
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Grand Launch
Grand | Ampersand Five | In the multi-levelled Fad Gallery in Corrs Lane in Melbourne, the Grand launch saw a swollen crowd enjoy the Grand film (by Andrew Trewern) and the now very collectable set of...
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Fancy Launch
Fancy | The first of our events to require crowd control, the launch of Fancy saw a rotating set of hundreds enjoy the book and the opportunity to buy box sets of the completed Ampersand series. At...
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Character 1
Character One Styleguiding a City A debate on the relationship between corporate and cultural identity. Over 300 people from within and outside of the design professions came along to hear and to...
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Character 2
Character Two Myth-Busting / Political Neutrality in Graphic Design / Typo Film Fest / Typo Bus Tour Legibility: Myth Busting & Myth | Making From Benny Hill to Batman, Nirvana to Nazism,...
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Character 3
Character Three The Role of Accident in Graphic Design As Character is based on critiquing current graphic design practice and putting these issues up for open discussion, the third in the series was...
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Character 4
Character Four 26 Letters a second / Featuring the Australian Premiere of ‘Helvetica’ To mark this evolution, Character 4 hosted the Australian Premiere of Helvetica — the first feature length film on...
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Orbit Oblique
Orbit Oblique | A typographic tribute to the animals lost in space research The first exhibition of typography at Melbourne’s Craft Victoria, Orbit Oblique featured a series of large medical x-ray...
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Character 5
The fifth in the Character series, Characters & Spaces, takes one city block of Melbourne and peels back its layers of design. This self-guided tour tells the stories behind what we see in our...
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Character 6
For its sixth event, Character proudly presented the Australian Premiere of two very special films Typeface and Proceed and Be Bold!. In addition to the new letterpress films, a wider conversation on...
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Stereotyped
Letterbox was chosen to participate in STEREOTYPED: Sound + Typography – an exhibition based on exploring the relationships between the visual world of typography and the aural world of music. Each...
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Paper City
Paper City | Melbourne seen through its letterheads City Gallery, Melbourne. Thursday 14 July 2011. Curated by Dr. Andrew May (University of Melbourne), Stephen Banham (Letterbox) and Christine Eid...
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Characters Preview
The special preview night of the Characters book took on a distinctly neon glow, thanks to the monumental Astoria Taxis sign. Recently restored by Kevin M Gange from Silver Top Taxis, this amazing...
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