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Design Studio Directory
A Friend of Mine
Accompany
Alleyway Designs
Bandit Group
Base Design
Both
CD&Co
Confetti
Counter Forms
Design Studio
Evi O Studio
For The People
Garbett Design
Gesture Systems
GO:OD
Groundcrew
How by Why
Love + Money
Lovework Studio
M Giesser
M35
Meg Perkins Studio
More Studio
Motherbird
Mucho Design
Nectar
OCLH
Play on Play
Primary Works
Samson Ossedryver Studio
SCCO Studio
Sodaa.co
South South West
Space Between
Studio Chen Chen
Studio Hi Ho
Studio Mimu
Studio Ongarato
Studio Paradise
Studio Round
Studio SPGD
Studio Thomas Hatton
Superhaus
Swear Words
The Colour Club Studio
The Company You Keep
Thought & Found
Tric Studio
Universal Favourite
Weekday Design

Edition 1.01 - Evi O [Evi O Studio]

March 5, 2024

Evi O. is a designer, publisher and artist with over 15 years of award-winning industry experience. In the design sphere, she leads Evi-O.Studio – a design office renowned for their highly-crafted, impactful design which strikes a balance between beauty and function.
Through Formist Editions, Evi O. publishes cultural titles of the highest standards. She has participated in various international industry associations, notably as one of ABDA’s founding members and a member of the prestigious Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). Evi-O.Studio is based in Marrickville, Sydney, servicing the world. Evi O. is addicted to creativity.
@evi_o
@evi_o.studio
www.evi-o.studio

Edition 1.02 - Studio Mimu

April 2, 2024

Studio MIMU is the creative practice of designers Michael Souvanthalisith and Muriel-Ann Ricafrente. Focusing on projects within the fields of arts & culture, social activism and community-gathering. Our work blurs the disciplinary lines between graphic, spatial and sculptural design, embracing constant evolution through experimentation. We take a conceptually-driven and systems-minded approach to the creative process, crafting with respect to form, function and fascination.
@studiomimu
@m.souvanthalisith
@m.a.ricafrente

Edition 1.03 - Camilla Belton [Writing For Design]

April 30, 2024

Camilla is an experienced writer and editor who works with brands to tell their stories through compelling copy and content across print and digital platforms. After six years as Editorial Director at MAUD, Camilla started her own business, Writing for Design, where she undertakes everything from naming, tone of voice, content strategy and communications writing (brochures, websites and everything in between), to custom publishing and editorial for a range of clients.
Her experience writing for leading Sydney, Melbourne and London design studios such as DesignStudio, Studio Small, M35, Studio Hi Ho, Studio Ongarato and Frost Collective has only reiterated her belief in the power of words to enhance audience connection.
@writing_for_design
www.writingfordesign.com

Edition 1.04 - Tim Grove

June 5, 2024

Tim Grove is an artist and designer exploring visual communication and expression.
His aesthetic language is compelled forward by frantic curiosity. Perpetually seeking new forms and techniques, a dedication to constant incremental improvement inform a distinct, genre and practice melding style that overwhelms the daily noise.
With a versatile skillset with foundations in graphic design, he is fluent in 3D visualisation, motion design, print design, photography and art direction. This versatility is compounded by a deliberate and critical thought process, aligning strategic outcomes to a creative filter in reply to commercial and artistic briefs.
Long before a career in design, Tim was making crude digital art using Photoshop, Terragen and GIMP. Crossing boundaries of applications and exploring uncharted workflows, this habit persists in his art as a symbiotic relationship with design tools. He continues to create for the sake of creating and has exhibited both printed and digital work throughout Sydney and the world.
He has directed and produced projects for renowned musicians, artists and corporations such as, New York Times, DesignStudio, RL Grime, Tash Sultana, Coachella, Australian Open and Bauer Media.

@tim_grove

Edition 1.05 - Clayton Ciolac

September 4, 2024

Clayton Ciolac is a Sydney-based Designer, Creative Director, and under-10s Western Sydney AFL child prodigy. Currently working as the Associate Creative Director of MUCHO Hospitality Group, responsible for the visual identity of bars such as Bar Planet, Cantina OK! and Centro 86. Clay’s body of work is heavily rooted within the creative underbelly of Sydney’s art, music and rave terrains.
Cutting his teeth on cracked copies of Photoshop CS4 to design flyers for some of Sydney’s favourite bunker parties, growing up alongside a roster of talented musicians and DJs inadvertently taught him about the power of brand identity as a teenaged designer. Bearing witness to how powerful the creative process can be in DIY environments firsthand.
Guided by a chaotic spectrum of inspiration, his work seems to land somewhere in the dead centre of a nightmare Millennial Venn Diagram. An early childhood self-appointed profession of customising cars in Need for Speed, and a wholly dissimilar obsession with mid-century graphic design work from his Grandad’s books sum up an ever-evolving exploration of creativity.
With an interest and focus on the intersection of analog and digital artwork, Clay’s creative process bids to explore artfully-led reductive and maximal design ideas, carried through a variety of motion, digital, and traditional graphic design applications. His work aims to celebrate the charm of curiosity, silliness, and the weird.

@cccccclaytonciolac

Edition 1.06 - Domus Vim

October 2, 2024

Domus Vim is the design-led fabrication studio of lan Tran, specialising in bespoke installations, objects, and signage. Domus Vim collaborates with a vibrant ecosystem of brands, businesses and creative disciplines (architects, artists, and designers) giving form to concepts. Since beginning as an architectural model-making studio in 2012, Domus Vim has evolved over the past decade through curiosity and experimentation to work with clients and projects of all scales.
Having worked with the likes of AP Bakery, Fabbrica, Fish Bowl, Odd Assembly, Kosta’s Takeaway, Bella Brutta just to name a few. If you’ve accidently stumbled across Broadsheet you’ve probably seen a Domus Vim fabbrication. Domus Vim also runs an ongoing art project called Dinner á la perspex, recreating favourite restaurant dishes from perspex offcuts.

@domusvim
www.domusvim.com

Edition 1.07 - Ross Paxman [Primary Works]

November 6, 2024

Ross Paxman is an award-winning designer and creative director with over a decade of experience in brand creation and transformation. As the founder of Primary Works, a Sydney based design studio, his work is focused on unifying strategy, identity and digital, delivering cohesive experiences for forward-thinking clients of any scale or sector.
Prior to starting Primary Works, Ross spent time in some of Australia’s most respected studios, most recently as a design director at MAUD. There, he led major brand projects for household names like Telstra and NRMA, as well as cultural institutions like Sydney Dance Company and Melbourne International Film Festival.
Ross believes that good design should be useful, understandable and beautiful, and not limited by medium or market. Grounded in both form and function, this approach informs the studio’s output, which in a few short years has been recognised with multiple distinctions from AGDA and featured on Brand New, Visuelle and many more.

@primary.works
www.primaryworks.com.au

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Edition 1.01 - Evi O [Evi O Studio]

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Edition 1.02 - Studio Mimu

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Edition 1.03 - Camilla Belton [Writing For Design]

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Edition 1.04 - Tim Grove

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Edition 1.05 - Clayton Ciolac

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Edition 1.06 - Domus Vim

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Edition 1.07 - Ross Paxman [Primary Works]

Close Up is a free talk series that showcases creatives across different disciplines over a block of 4 months two times a year at SCCO Studio. The concept has been created from a lack of spotlight in the industry across creatives who work in small teams and as individuals. We want to provide a platform for these creatives who often get overlooked in sharing experience and knowledge.

Thank you to everyone who attended this series of talks. We'll be back for our first Edition of Series Two in Feb 2025!

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