Semi-Permanent gets underway at Darling Harbour, Sydney, next Friday, 19 March, and features two days of art, design, creativity, and a line up of speakers that includes triple j presenter and writer Craig Schuftan, US photographer Jill Greenberg, and Melbourne graphic design duo Tin&Ed.

Visual Response returns to the Australian INfront, albeit in a slightly different format, as submitted images can now include photos and scans, something not permitted in the past. The theme for the first of the rebooted Visual Response’s is “2010″.
Australian INfront is indeed back.

Katerina Orlikova’s kaleidoscopes use fonts to create their psychedelic patterns.

A huge collection of vintage style railway posters.

Nicholas Tassone has designed a series of minimal movie posters based on the novels of Stephen King.

Joey Parlett’s series of 36 sketches based on photos taken mainly during the Apollo Moon missions.

March is shaping up as a reasonably chaotic month (mainly because I’m trying to fit in a week off somewhere), but hopefully our Central Coast stay-overs will allow a visit to this year’s Look Hear art and design event, taking place at the Newcastle Region Art Gallery, every Wednesday in March from the 10th onwards.
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A selection of posters that were part of the Scalacolore Exhibition in 2008.
The concept was: Take a letter of an alphabet, looking for a selection of 10 cities in the world that starts with this letter, say which languages are spoken in these places, say where are you from and which is your language.

I can’t get enough of retro/vintage book cover image collections.

Taking an actual dinghy and its components, Michael Johansson has welded everything together with metal piping to create a life-size kitset model.