Snip & Chu, two webcomic characters – created by Shaun Britton – who are the product of waste and rubbish, now feature in their own graphic novel which is being launched on Saturday, 14 November 2009, at Horse Bazaar in Melbourne, from 4:30pm.

The Melbourne Museum of Printing was once a type-foundry until owner Michael Isaachsen decided to turn it into a museum.
Melbourne Museum of Printing (MMOP) is a working museum of typography and printing. Since 1993 the museums focus has been on the retention of traditional printing methods and equipment. Initially established as the Australian Type Company [...]

Melbourne based motion and interactive designers 21-19 relaunched their website last week.
I haven’t seen too much of their latest work however as the Pong game on the splash page is proving way too distracting.
I swear the game gets faster each time I visit the site as well. :)

Ok, since a fair number of my family reside in and around Melbourne, I present Melbourne Today, a great photo blog featuring the work of Michael Blamey.
Digressing as I do, a chef I once talked to made an interesting observation about the differences between Melbourne and Sydney, at least in terms of dining out.
He [...]

Sydney has been voted a spot on the playing board of the international version of Monopoly, and is situated along with London and New York on the red section of the board.
Interestingly, Melbourne gained the most votes for a spot on the board among Australian voters, but Sydney managed to cross the line after international [...]

Hoiser Lane in Melbourne is the place to check out some world class artwork, which also includes contributions from well known international artists such as Banksy.
There is a huge street art and graffiti culture in Melbourne. Unlike most Graffiti which is seen as a public nuisance, it is often encouraged and often even commissioned by [...]

The winners of the 2008 TV Fugly Awards have been announced.
For those who missed the actual awards ceremony in Melbourne last Friday, here’s a great run down and some photos.
The empty seats are in fact the platinum seats, and being very late is the height of fashion for platinum ticket holders :)

John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin re-launched the Web Directions website last week with the aim of centralising the vast array of information and resources gathered from the Web Directions’ conferences held since 2005.
Far beyond the appearance of the site, it was important for us to tame what was becoming a large number of event specific [...]

Brad Howarth interviews Dan Fill, Head of Multiplatform Production at ABC TV, at Port 1010 Digital Harbour, in Melbourne for The Domain Networking Night, next Thursday, 13th March.
As The Head of Multiplatform Production, Dan is responsible for strategizing ABC TV’s movement into Multiplatform Broadcasting; The Distribution of ABC TV services onto emerging digital platforms; Overseeing [...]

[weAREtheIMAGEmakers] presents May Contain Traces Of Nuts, an exhibition featuring the work of Ben Frost, Trent Whitehead, Jae Copp, Ainslie Fletcher, Adrian Knott, Sam Smith, and Mr WATIM himself, beastman.
The show opens at Melbourne’s Paper Shadow Gallery on Friday 14 March, and runs until Sunday 16 March.