Guides

  1. Classic slots strategy for smarter, more creative playClassic slot games have a visual language that feels instantly familiar: fruit symbols, bells, bars, sevens, simple reels, and clean win lines. Their…
  2. Through a broken lens: the photographer dreaming in double exposuresJude Marlowe drops a vintage Pentax 67 onto the concrete floor of a Sydney share-house kitchen, and a star-shaped crack splits across the front element. What…
  3. Why I Finally Shared My Unfinished Work and Stopped Hiding ItFor years, my studio in Brunswick East was a graveyard of half-finished things. A poem missing its final stanza. A photograph cropped until the magic bled out.…
  4. When A Café Becomes A Live Portrait StudioOn a rainy Saturday afternoon, a neighbourhood café can become something wonderfully unexpected. The grinder keeps humming, cups clink against saucers, and a…
  5. How a Designer Rebuilt the Everyday Receipt From the Ground UpEvery week, billions of receipts slip out of tills worldwide, and most are forgotten before they reach the bottom of a bag. A graphic designer named Jordan…
  6. Inside the handwritten weekly newspaper on a single sheet of paperIn a quiet studio above a converted warehouse in Collingwood, a writer bends over a sheet of A3 paper with a fine-nibbed pen and fills every margin with news,…
  7. silicon meets string: a conversation with an e-waste puppeteerIn a tin-roofed workshop tucked behind a fibro cottage in Brunswick, puppeteer Theo Rinaldi is soldering a vintage modem into the shape of a jester's head. The…
  8. A Rooftop Florist Finds Beauty Above The CityAt street level, the city can feel all concrete, traffic and hurried coffee runs. A few storeys higher, a florist is tending calendula, cosmos, herbs and…
  9. The Day After a Creative Breakthrough Needs a Softer PlaylistA creative breakthrough can leave you feeling strangely alert and completely spent. The idea may have arrived with a rush—during a late-night edit in Naarm, on…
  10. The Commuter Sketches That Turn Train Rides Into EncountersAt first, the illustrator looks like any other passenger on the morning train: sketchbook balanced on one knee, pencil tucked between two fingers, attention…