Designers talk about their careers after ten years on the job. As always it's the attention to the seemingly smallest, and least relevant, of details that is the most important, knowing how those you work with like their tea. They say it takes 10,000 hours or 10 years to become an expert at something, which isn't long if you're working an 80-hour week. So what advice would people give ... Read full entry

Saw the Sidney Nolan Retrospective at the Art Gallery of New South Wales on a rather damp Sydney afternoon yesterday. He considered himself, for various reasons, an "artist warrior", but aside from the stunning artwork, the biggest thing I got a kick out of was seeing his hand written journal in one of the showcases. Sidney Nolan would have ... Read full entry

Francis Ford Coppola - A Life Behind the Lens. A retrospective that looks at the film work of Francis Ford Coppola, director of The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, and The Cotton Club, to name a few. In the last 35 years, the master filmmaker has created many of cinema's most iconic films. The Godfather Part II, aside from being considered the greatest sequel ever made, has another claim to fame, by ... Read full entry