Category Archives: Design

30inch

Posted on 28 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


30inch baby.

Christina bought a new 27inch iMac and she’s given me her 30inch Apple monitor. Plug and play! I’ve now got my big monitor (which is so tiny in comparison to the Apple 30″) set to portrait on the right of the 30inch.

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MC Cyclery

Posted on 27 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


New MC Cyclery web site.

When I met Grant from MC Cyclery a couple of years ago I’d just missed out on the opportunity to re-design his web site for him. It turns out he’d already asked Damien and Zann to design his site, all good as both Damien and Zann are my Australian INfront business partners (small world!).

A couple of days ago I was asked to re-design the site, to make it clean and simple in order to not alienate everyday customers. It’s a new direction which Grant is taking the bike shop. Where we were once gunning for everything rad and gnarly we’re now focussing back on “suburban bike shop”.

Current site: http://www.mccyclery.com.au
My new site: http://www.mccyclery.com.au/blog/

Yes it’s built in WordPress, yes you can see it’s using the same theme that I’m using on this very blog. Clean, simple, flexible and most of all easily up-datable. It’s a work in progress but it’s pretty much ready to go live any day now.

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Top One Automotive

Posted on 24 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


New Top One Automotive web site holder.

I’m always happy to do design work for passion related stuff and I’ve offered my help to Dedy from Top One Automotive for years now. He always told me he had someone working on the site and being the nice guy he is he didn’t want to stuff relations up with the guy who was working on it.

Well the site went live not too long ago and I almost fell off my chair when I saw it (you can check it out here: http://toponeauto.com.au/oldsite/).

Yeah……….. so I pleaded with him to let me take the site down and put a one page site there instead. 1 page sites rock out in my opinion. No confusion, clear contact details, done. A simple business card online.

Visit: http://toponeauto.com.au

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Designer Disco

Posted on 15 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

So INfront’s Designer Disco kicked ass last night. So great to see some of the old crew (designer veterans yo!) and meet some new faces too. I snapped a few pics but I did spot photographer Keith Saunders (who took shots of me for the BIG exhibit) rattling off a few shots too so I’m hoping Keith will send me some better shots soon.

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Designer Disco

Posted on 14 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

We’re (Australian INfront) putting on Designer Disco tonight, the official after party for Sydney Design Festival. Kicking off at 10pm, we’ll be taking over the Civic Hotel so come along if you’re reading yeah? I’ll be there, with camera at hand and my dancing shoes on too!

More info here.

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BIG

Posted on 14 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

I dropped in to check out BIG today at the Object Gallery Surry Hills (an exhibition I was featured in as part of Sydney Design 2010). It’s small but really fun, especially the slides on the lightbox that you have to close one eye and peek into. They’re damn amazing (so 3D!).

A few pics:


BIG – put together by designer Stephen Goddard and photographer Keith Saunders.


Screen on entry (BMU RPRSNT!).


The exhibition space. That’s me at the back left in the lightbox.


These photo slides were sooooo good and added a level of interaction which is always great at exhibitions (if it was me I’d have done the entire exhibition in this style!).


It’s the me!


My little blurb.


Nice to see the bike path in between the foot path and the road outside the gallery too, very cool and the way it should be!

The exhibit runs until the end of this month. More details here.


Christina and I thought we’d make the most of the great weather so we dropped into Paddington Markets to buy some bread and also to consume the best Belgian chocolate waffle we’ve ever had (sincerely, don’t ever remember a waffle tasting better than this!).


Random: real estate sign.

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Will work for Booze…

Posted on 13 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

I was doing pretty regular design talks at various schools a few years back and Daniela, who used to teach at Shillington College, remembered me from a talk I once gave there. She’s been teaching design at Kogarah TAFE for the past few years and a few weeks ago she asked me if I’d be interested in talking to her students. Despite my initial hesitation (no matter how many talks I do I always cringe at the idea of getting nervous in front of a crowd) I said yes and today I headed in to talk.


I spotted this in the TAFE carpark. When I got to the lecture theatre I realised I needed to borrow a laptop to present with (!) and it turns out that the guy who owns this car was also the guy who lent me his laptop (I realised this because the desktop wallpaper on the laptop had this car on it!).


The room before students came in.


The students after the talk (I presented for about 1.5hrs).


The only catch was that there was no money to pay for my time but Daniela did promise to pay me with some good wines and that she did!

I’ve come full circle with talks. I used to focus on creative process but now I focus on getting to do the things I want to do through design (for me it’s cars, bikes, fish tanks or anything else I choose to be obsessive compulsive about!). It’s about being in the zone all the time because I want to be in the zone, not about forcing myself to be in the zone on something I’m not at all into.

As usual I walked away on a high. It’s rewarding to reflect on getting out of my comfort zone and hopefully I planted a few good seeds in the minds of the students too.

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Mia – Day 5

Posted on 11 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


Freaky stretch!

Christina’s been sick for months now (since before she left for China). Initially the doctor diagnosed it as tonsillitis and after 2 courses of antibiotics we’re now waiting for a blood test to see if it’s perhaps glandular fever.

Mia’s been keeping her plenty busy though and spends most of her time walking all over Christina’s keyboard or resting in her lap. Day 5 and she’s been great! Such a good girl!

In other news: I’ve been invited to give an inspirational design talk this Friday at Kogarah Tafe. It’s been a while since I’ve done a talk so I’m pretty excited and will spend some time tomorrow putting together my presentation. I’ve been slugging away at Modern Pet Shop too which is looking pretty damn good I have to say (click here to see what it used to look like and click here to see what it currently looks like). I’ve got another fashion store to do for Tendy’s wife so hacking the matrix is really helping me get up to speed with shopping carts. I’ve also been hired to help get a new community off the ground (a secret for now), automotive and community related but it’s coming along nicely. I’ve been keeping up daily maintenance on the fish tank and last of all Peter from Bodyform (he’s arguably the best body kit manufacturer and fitter out there) has asked me to re-design his web site. Busy? Yup. Stressed out? Yup but it’s good stress and I’m loving everything I’m working on at the moment.

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See-Saw – Opening Night

Posted on 7 August, 2010 by Justin Fox


A good turnout!


I met Ravi. He’s deaf so we communicated via his iPhone. Highlight of the night for me!


Speeches (in which I was handed a bag of goodies and a bottle of wine!).


Our installation went off. I got so much great feedback on the night and people were actually playing with the 3D shapes which was great to see.

Despite feeling tired (my left eye is twitching uncontrollably!) I made it to the See-Saw opening night tonight. All the students I mentored were there, all the other students, mentors + friends and family too.

It’s been a really fun experience and I’m super happy with how it all went. The emails I got yesterday from my group thanking me for being involved made my day (it’s most important to me that they had fun!).

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See-Saw – Day 2

Posted on 5 August, 2010 by Justin Fox

Today was the final day of the See-Saw project for my group (group 4, one to come). Time crept up on us but we got everything done and displayed by the deadline (Gaffa Gallery shuts at 6pm). It’s been a challenging and rewarding experience for myself and the students in my group too I’m sure.


Day 2. Ben and Yerevan hard at it.


Dave was meant to be the “invisible” photographer but it was hard to not notice the guy, he’s a giant! (PS: top guy too!).


Another killer lunch today.


Setting up our space looking in from Gallery 1.


Our massive golden mean sits on the right wall. Below it you can see the pieces which we cut out of the golden mean to form our letter shapes.


Our little room sits between Gallery 1 and Gallery 2 so we aptly named it Gallery 1.5 (our typeface in action!).


Visitors are encouraged to move the 3D shapes in front of them to form letters from our typeface on the far wall.

Be sure to drop into Gaffa Gallery this Saturday afternoon from 5-7pm for some drinks and to check out what all the groups have done.

For more information visit: http://www.gaffa.com.au/#171073/Gallery-One-29-July-9-August-2010SEESAWGroup

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