Delighted to report that Queensland Museum has acquired my US/ME/U assemblage.

This was the signature piece from the Bespoke installation I contributed to at the Museum late last year. More here.

Thank you Museum. It had your name all over it ; )

Six homes. Six homeowners. Six architects. In their own words.

Home by Six is a domestic architecture book designed for a domestic readership. A collaboration with Dan Pike at The Letter D, and his new publishing wing, Capital P.

Home by Six will hit the shelves in 2013. In the meantime, have a squiz at the pilot chapter, which features the Cabarita home of Danielle and Ashley Driver, designed by Paul Owen.

As Danielle and Ashley say, it’s a house that wears many hats: “Resort. Beer garden. Beach house. Park. Camp site. Play ground. Home.”

My wordy artworks at the latest Bespoke installation at Queensland Museum. Fitting in nicely with the salvage/recycle theme.

Collectors’ Café
Queensland Museum South Bank
24 August – 24 September 2012

Extended until end October 2012

Queensland Museum will be hanging some of my wordy assemblages as part of the next
Bespoke installation …

Collectors Café
24 August – 24 September
Queensland Museum South Bank

Extended until end October 2012

Join us for a drink at the launch party:
530 – 830 pm Friday 24 August

Always updating the Allergy Medical website with juicy new content and sneezy news items.

What a good client. And website.

• How can pet allergen be in 99% of homes when only half of us have pets?
• How can cat allergen be in Antarctica when no puss has ever set foot there?
• What ended the reign of Pharaoh Menes?
• Which poses the greater threat: a shark, a croc or a jack jumper ant?

Have a squiz.

Social media too.

Client: Allergy Medical. Development: Khemistry.

How does a company like Apple continue to bear fruit in an economic drought?

How does a product like the iPhone come from nowhere to dominate a saturated market?

Client: Australian Institute for Commercialisation Design: designfront

Building a growing community of followers for Allergy Medical via Facebook and Twitter.

Client: Allergy Medical [via The Letter D].

A couple of fun spots …

• “Nothing to sneeze at”
• “What are you waiting for?”

Produced by Keith Fowle at the Voice Plant.

From coffee table to bedside table, books that can indeed be judged by their covers.

Capital P is a new venture and adventure in publishing by those bold characters at The Letter D.

Been working with Dan Pike on the initial positioning and launch—and a forthcoming book on domestic architecture.

The Twitter-fed website went up this week.

More on the bookish collaboration soon …

Learnt a new word from my seven year old neighbour, Will, as he recounted a weekend backyard football match …

“It was me and Jackson versing Dad and Cain … ”

You and Jackson WHAT?

“VERSING DAD AND CAIN.”

It’s in the Macquarie …

verse²

// (say vers)
verb (t) (versed, versing) Sport (especially in children’s language) to play against in a game or competition: who are we versing this week? [backformation from versus (understood as a verb form verses, with the infinitive verse)]
Usage: While there are those who do not regard this form as correct, it is well established among the young.

Bibliography: The Macquarie Dictionary Online © Macquarie Dictionary Publishers Pty Ltd.

No worse than Olympic commentators verbing “medal” I guess.

Anyway, the word-wise Will’s team won 7 – 5.