A quick update on our friend Walter the Wombat.

Walter now has his own website. The book is in production and updates to the website are just around the corner.
If you would like to support the project or would like further information please contact us.

We are on track with the artwork for the book, and the Media Kit will be out and about by the end of the week, and then the task of gaining sponsorship, media partners and publishing help. A sneak peak on a few more illustrations by Courtney. The web site will be up and running in the coming weeks with further information about the project.

We are currently in the early stages of our Children’s Book. Walter a grumpy old Wombat. With all proceeds going to the Victorian bush fire affected areas.

With the art direction and design taken care of by us, a lot of help has come from our good friends. The story was penned by linguist Davin Sgargetta from Raconteur Media. The story will be set before a unique interpretation of Australia’s rich native bushland and animals, illustrated by Courtney Kim, who has been working tirelessly on some fantastic watercolour illustrations. Which will also incorporate a clay model created by Dan Jones in Japan. We are still in the early stages of the project but here are a few pics to keep you in the loop. More to come.

Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a sponsor for the project.

One of our bicycle collaborative projects is very close to completion!
Here is a sneak peak image of the bicycle. We are just waiting on some art work to come back from the vinyl cutters and it will be ready to ride.

Stay tuned for the photo shoot!

There are still exhibition booklets available for purchase on the Story of a Secret State website. If you don’t already know, it is a story told through 27 individual pieces of visual, contemporary artwork. Seeking to illustrate the horrendous human rights violations taking place in North Korean.
The exhibition is being organised by volunteers, artists and individuals who are passionate about providing their personal expressions and insight into this subject matter. In order for this event to become a success, additional interest and support would be much appreciated.
We were a proud sponsor of the event which will also see the exhibition take place in South Korea, China, Indonesia and the USA.

Hello there dear reader,
Well our musettes , yes those reversible ones, with the pleasant message on the inside and our inconvenient CC & Co paraphernalia on the outside.
We have a surplus of them, so we decided to set up an online store via BigCartel

All of the screen printing was done by our friends at All of the Above in Fitzroy and the graphic design , cutting and sewing was done by us.  A lot of blood, sweat and tears!

Ultimately, this glorified piece of fabric isn’t going to solve global warming or make your life any better, its just another inconvenient bag, albeit a very nice looking one.

Another piece of communication from the kind streets of Collingwood.

We streamed the new LCD Sound System album off their site towards the end of the month. The album is out on the 17th May, it is a quality selection of tunes, make sure to grab it when it comes out.
The double banger gig in July will be outstanding!
We made sure to get the pre-sale tickets.

We just finished the Wax Museum Records /Inkswel street urchin. A nice sky blue powder coat, flat bar with some disjointed typography on the grips. It’s not a fixie . We race the track on those, so see you down there.

We have just received the exhibition booklets back from Condor for tonight’s opening of Story of a Secret State from 6pm, at Guildford lane gallery, Melbourne.

Hope to see you there.

We are currently working on our new website, and going through past and current work to add to the folio. Here are a few new and and not so new logos and logotypes we have created. And plenty more to add

From the creators of Entourage is a new show called How To Make it in America. We think its just become the CC & Co. favourite show.
The opening titles are clean and work really well with the photography.
Kid Cudi even makes his actor debut.

Looking through my Dad’s book collection I stumbled across The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke which was first published in 1915. By Australian novelist and poet C.J Dennis with fantastic illustrations by Harold Frederick Neville Gye who was also a writer.
This edition is a reprint from 1957 in the same size and style as the first edition and a great piece of craftsmanship.
Having looked further into the work of C.J Dennis it is said that he produced well over 4,000 pieces of prose and poetry during his 40 year career, quite a feat for any writer.

Pete

The month of March was a hectic one, a selection of great projects to work on, but the dreaded move out of our Cambridge St Studio was a task we really didn’t want to have to do.
The soundtrack for the month was the debut album from the Broken Bells. A collaboration between the always impressive Danger Mouse and The Shins front-man James Mercer. If you haven’t heard it its a must!

Coinciding with the up-coming Human Rights Arts and Film festival, one of our talented collaborators Courtney Kim is curating an exhibition titled Story of a Secret State, which we are a proud sponsor of.

Story of a Secret State is a group art exhibition that seeks to illustrate the horrendous human rights violations taking place in North Korean — it is visual art bringing a seldom heard story to a listening Australian audience. The exhibition will take place at Guildford Lane Gallery from the 29th of April until the 9th May. For more information check out the website where donations can be made. 

If you’re a keen cyclist like myself you know how annoying it is when the mobile phone is ruined by condensation in your back pocket. Bakpocket is a cycling wallet with a rider ID card. We have just launched the web site with an online store. Check it out.

Pete.

As we have mentioned in a previous post we have been fortunate enough to be designing some of The CROFT Institute gig posters. One of the coolest bars in Melbourne. If you haven’t been down there for a drink or two do yourself a favor and do it!

Pete.

Another month has passed and our iPod that is jacked into the studio amp has been on non-stop. If you like your music slightly soulful, with some Psychedelic hip hop tendencies ( we are really unsure if that is a genre I just made that up ) then get some GAS LAMP KILLER in your headphones! Looking forward to seeing him at Golden Plains.
Andy

New website completed for events company event logistics. We used the photographic work of vicki jones to show off what the company does best, organise amazing events.

We were contacted recently to design several of the Croft Institute gig posters. Deadlines are extremely tight but the briefs are very open. So it’s quite fitting that we have a lot of the Croft Dj’s mixes on high rotation in the studio. Take a listen Further production work from Inkswel can be found here

To our surprise there have been a few feedback postcards in the mail from the late Christmas gift we mailed out. Everyone seems to be after a fake ID or moustache.
And no, we are not that conceded, the special card WAS sent to us.
We really appreciate the kind phone calls and emails of thanks.

Pete & Andy

Bakpocket is a cycling wallet with rider ID card designed by Melbourne cyclist Glen O’Rourke. A great product to keep the mobile and other goodies free of moisture on the training rides and on race days A very handy product.

We were approached to design the online store which will be launched
in the next few weeks.

Pete

Another Christmas has passed us by, and as the last of the leftovers are eaten and the final receipts dug out from discarded shopping bags for the remaining returns, we’re reflecting on yet another big year at CC & Co.

We worked around the clock in 2009, in what was a very productive year. Like Santa’s workshop, the workload was heavy, and as the year drew to a close, we were never going to let this stand in our way of creating and delivering the Christmas cheer that CC & Co. has become renowned for.

Time was of the essence, and as there were enough Christmas cards and emails zooming around to all our friends and clients to satisfy that need, we wanted to offer something extra special.

The two things that we wanted the CC & Co. Christmas gift to be were functional with a humorous angle. We also wanted to offer a gift that we created from concept through to the final product.

We thought long and hard into many a night in the build up. Last minute decisions were made, brainstorming sessions were had and plenty of quality coffee consumed — here’s what we decided:

We warmed feet at Christmas last year, and we wondered what it was that people really wanted at this time of year. Christmas is a time of gathering, for getting close to those around you. By season’s end though, how many of us feel that others are too close — crowding, surrounding, swarming, suffocating?

We decided to give people some space: nine hundred and eighty square centimetres of the stuff, in the form of a handy musette.

Every one of the bags was created in our Cambridge Street studio, so if the sewing is a little bit off then the blame is on us. A lot of blood, sweat and tears were shed during the process — it was all worth it. The fine screen-printing was done by Elliot and the team down at All of the Above who did a fantastic job. They were, and we were, ecstatic with the end result.

We still have several bags left for sale so let us know if you’re interested in one.

One of our collaborative bicycle projects is nearing completion.
More updates to come.

For the entire month of December it has been late night after late night in the studio. So music has been the essential element in keeping us all sane. Jimi Hendrix and the Band Of Gypsys live has been a fav.

As usual the CC & Co Christmas gift is late, but that’s just because we are fine tuning the design before its sent out. So if you’re a friend, colleague, valued client, design partner or future client of CC & Co. Or maybe you’re just an all round nice person, you will receive some goodies !

Whilst having our afternoon cafe break, down at our favourite caffeine dealership, some cool tunes were playing in the background. So I had to ask, ” post punk, disco, their music has been heavily sampled by everyone! was the reply from the friendly barrister. “But who?” was my rapid reply ” I must know!” “ESG from the early eighties”.
So Emerald, Sapphire and Gold has been on high rotation in the studio for the month of November.