Ben & Jane

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Oh eight, oh nine!

In October, we were invited by the head of COFA’s School of Design Studies to submit a design for the university’s 08-09 seasons greeting card.

For this project, there wasn’t really a brief but rather we were given the freedom to develop a framework by ourselves. Along with our understanding that the card will be used to deliver the happiness across the globe; we then developed the main concept for this project - connecting the cities, from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere and to the rest of the world.

In the end, our design didn’t get to proceed further. However, we think that it would be good to put them up here for those who are interested to see our work. To us, the design will nolonger be valid after this year and we would like to put it in good use. We have decided to publish this design under our name in a small run to keep the concept rolling. Cards will be sent to friends and design studios around the world whose we love & respect. We are hoping to cheer them up in this old fashion way. (note: there were another dozens of designers and studios that we tried to send a card as well but we just wasn’t able to find their addresses at the time; and we still feel bad. 10.30.2009)

If you happen to be reading about our work(s) and would like to receive one of these festive fellas, just get in touch with us. We do have a small amount of them sitting around our studio.

Offset-printed on front & back
DL size (99×210mm)
Uncoated, 300gsm, 100% recycled stock

We would like to thank Ms Liz Williamson for inviting us to work on this project at the very beginning. We were deeply delighted although the project didn’t go as smooth towards the end.

UNSW / Complimentary object

At around mid 2006, we were invited by the University of New South Wales to design a special object as a gift for research graduates & VIP visitors. Shown below is the final proposal includes two anodized aluminium versions & a silver plated version.

Shown above are the black anodized version and charcoal anodized version accordingly.
Object dimensions: 45×45x125mm

You can click here to see a raw aluminium piece.
This piece was going to be one of the final prototype. However, due to an avoidable mistake made by ourselves, it has now become a piece of documentation of this project.
(note: all objects are handcrafted with careful measurement and metal working skills.)

The designed object comes with a supplementary card printed with the concept statement on the inside.
Opposite to the printed page is a non-printed area for personalised message when presenting to selected personals.

Card size: 160×78mm (1-fold)
Click for more details.

The following is how we look at this unique piece of object design:

Knowledge, the learning outcome. Learning is a lifetime process; acquired knowledge represents gaining experience, professional confidence and skills. During the learning process in university, knowledge is absorbed by individuals incrementally. In response to this process, an object is designed to record one stage of life’s learning. This object express visually the layering of knowledge, accumulated during a specific period of time - in this case, the time spent at the university undertaking post graduate studies.  The abstraction of the four letters of the university’s name are linked and layered mark the completion of this period of learning.

We would like to thank Wendy Parker & Liz Williamson in particular for organising everything relating to this project.