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Rone
Everfresh Studio
This influential Melbourne-based studio has played a major part in driving the rise of street art in Australia. Everfresh counts among its members some of most respected, innovative and widely recognised underground artists in this country: Phibs, Sync, Rone, Wonderlust, Prism, Meggs, Reka, and the Tooth.
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Leon Calero and Kathy Sinclair
Magic Bean
Magic Bean is about planting the right seeds and nurturing them. We specialise in promotional strategies for businesses and start-ups within art, culture, entertainment & sustainability.
Only people know just how to talk to people – so said John Lennon. Magic Bean’s ethos lies in building strong relationships with clients based on trust, flexibility and above all, communication. We work closely with our clients to help meet their communication objectives, reach their audience and reach for the sky.
We’ve been taking on a diverse range of projects from various creative facets since 2005. When we’re not hard at work we like making soup, making music and looking out the window.
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Justin Maller
Freelance Illustrator
Justin Maller is a freelance illustrator and art director based in Melbourne, Australia. He has been creating digital art for over eight years, and has produced professionally in both a private and studio based capacity for the last two. He is represented by the Jacky Winter Group.
Justin has had the pleasure of producing illustrations and concept art for a diverse array of companies and publications worldwide, and enjoys a cordial collaborative relationship with several prestigious international design studios. Justin is also the Creative Director of depthCORE, an international modern art collective established in June 2002. This role sees him direct and interact with many of the worlds most talented and prodigious young artists, musicians and designers as they illustrate and orchestrate the thoughts, hope and dreams of all corners of the globe.
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John Calabro
21-19
John Calabro is a friendly chap who operates day to day happily jammed between a life of pairings: A country boy in the big smoke, with Italian heritage in an Australia world, and having grown up a musician before becoming a designer; John now designs with both head and heart on jobs between broadcast and print, finding himself the hyphen between numbers in a company called 21-19.
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Jackson Mussett
Motherbird
Motherbird is an emerging multi-disciplinary communication design studio with a passion for branding, typography, photography and print-based media. They are a Melbourne based team of young creatives; Chris Murphy, Dan Evans and Jack Mussett- who are focused on strong design principals and aesthetic values. The dynamic studio environment they are now creating is a result of the notion of allowing ‘experimentation’ to be introduced into the design process. In combination with this experimental attitude, the collaborative approach with a client always yields innovative, lateral design outcomes.
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Drew Funk
Street Artist
Graduating with a Bachelor in Multimedia & Design from RMIT University, Malaysian born Illustrator/Artist Drewfunk now resides in Melbourne after deciding to quit his full-time job as a designer to live his passion. He draws his inspirations from the city streets whilst staying true to his oriental heritage and has been known to have an aerosol addiction.
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Danielle O’Shea
Cato Purnell Partners
Danielle O’Shea works at the internationally acclaimed design studio Cato Purnell Partners. She was awarded this position a mere 4 months after graduating from Swinburne University of Technology with a first class honours degree in Communication Design.
Danielle credits this appointment to a previous industry placement as a Publication Designer at Blue Boat Design and her active involvement with the 2009 AGideas Committee; during which time she obtained a three months internship with Cato Purnell Partners, designing the promotional material for AGideas. This evolved into the permanent full time position she enjoys today.
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Daniel Peterson
Fabio Ongarato Design
Daniel Peterson is a Melbourne based Graphic Designer. He works at Fabio Ongarato Design having completed an Honours degree in Communication Design at Swinburne University. He is currently reading ‘One-Dimensional Man’ by Herbert Marcuse and listening to ‘Monoliths & Dimensions’ by Sunn O))). He dates back to the year nineteen eighty one.
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This year’s First Five Out event is all coming together and not a moment too soon!
The artwork’s ready, the paper stock is organised and the printers are warming up the press…
We’ve got a wide range of speakers from photographers to freelancers to street-artists to start-ups to designers working in established studios.
Sounds good? Now what?
Well, here’s some hints:
1) Check out who’s speaking
2) Find out what topics they’ll be covering
3) Check out the latest from our awesome sponsors, Paperbound and Doggetts
4) Then get all the gritty details and buy tickets
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