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.

Launched in October last year, Re:collection is Melbourne based graphic designer Dominic Hofstede’s collection of graphic design works created in Australia from 1960 to 1980.

A – male exclusive – list of ten people who defined the discipline of graphic design, including the creators of Photoshop.

An extensive guide to calibration, color space, color profile management, lighting and print settings, etc, put together by the ISO50 crew.

From 1900 to 1969, prominent events and moments in graphic design history.
Via Design Observer.

An explanation as to why different fonts – even though they are set to the same point size value – can still vary in size.
The reason is that the point size refers to the body that the character occupies, and although type of equal point size may sit on the same body, they will [...]

EyeSaw 2009 (Facebook login required) is on in Sydney until Sunday 16 August 2009, and will see Omnibus Lane in Ultimo undergo a significant transformation as part of the event.
Highlights of EyeSaw this year will include a re-creation of a third-world back street; a global ideology typeset in a font made of the flags of [...]

If you’re a graphic designer and were asked to describe your work, how would you go about it? Andy Jacobson has devised a great definition, one that design professionals in various disciplines can take inspiration from:
We’re getting paid to think, to create, to develop solutions! It’s not about the negative “what ifs”, it about the [...]

Daniel Eatock talks about the place humour has in graphic design:
Only in timetables, maps, manifestos, academic history books, signage and educational materials. Everything else should be very serious.

A list of 11 graphic design paradoxes, the best one is saved for last:
When a client says the words – “you have complete creative freedom,” they never mean complete creative freedom. Whatever you show them, they will find a problem with. Happens every time.