Guides

  1. 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.…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. 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,…
  5. 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…
  6. 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…
  7. 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…
  8. 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…
  9. How Knitters Turned a Street Pole into a Yarn-Bombed LandmarkA plain street pole can disappear into the visual noise of a neighbourhood: parked cars, traffic signs, shopfronts and power lines. Add colour, texture and…
  10. From footpath chatter to tracks: an Australian composer profileIn a foam-paneled back room of a Brunswick share house, a Melbourne-based composer builds entire songs from the voices of strangers. No instruments are played…