Classic archive boxes from Monocle

I'm on indesignlive today. Thanks Alice!

Tuerca jewellery packaging, in the making. It takes me about 15 minutes per box...

That lovely feeling when someone in the world that you have never met likes your work and blogs about it. Big smile. 

"I HAVE NEVER WANTED SOMETHING SO BADLY"

Loving Google today, wish I still had my Gumby bendable toys. 

Was excited to win the product design category of the Melbourne Desgin Award last night. Thank you Workshopped for making this product a reality. 

Miam by Akama, via Yves. Amazing. 

"Takeaway is anything but ordinary" in these folded sheet metal beauties from Established & Sons. 

"In general, the question of what’s inside a box is more intriguing than the box itself. But the Takeaway turns this presupposition inside out"

Christian Gideon makes himself at home in this humorous series of well-shot photos of himself and his friends getting very settled in the megastore, location undisclosed.

"My friends and I started asking ourselves - what if you lived in Ikea? Well take a look…"

Diego Morales

'A simple, but statement oxidized sterling silver ring with a beautiful natural herkimer diamond'. andrea0503 on etsy. 

“I tend to focus on details, rather than the full picture, seeking order in chaos, and beauty in the mundane” Heiko Waechter

Bit of vintage beauty from Nixon. Images from Rick Shofield from his album Things. 

Favela Painting - Santa Marta: Praça Cantão, Communidade Da Santa Marta, Rio De Janeiro

Rebrand of Falcon Enamelware - a collaboration between designers Kiwi&Pom and Morse Studio. Photography by Sam Stowell. Really like this. Via Creative Review

Awesome colours and patterns in fine art and illustration from Matt W. Moore

Melbourne Design Awards 2011 - entries open today. 

Igor Siwanowicz via shoppedornot.com

Just arrived back from an awesome 10 days in Japan, primarily for Tokyo International Toy Show. The trip was fantastic. Will soon post a revised top 12 finds that made it back as excess baggage. 

The reason for the recent relocation down to chilly Melbourne is a new job - product designer at Moose Enterprise. Makers of Might Beanz, Beados, Gomu, Sea Monkeys, Party Animals and Aqua Sand (to name a few), most 20-somethings would remember them more fondly for their colourful yo-yo's, knuckles and fiddle sticks. Having followed Moose Toys since university I'm very excited to now be part of the team. 

Apologies for 5 months blogging absence. I've since moved to a new home in a new city to start a new job which has all kept me quite busy. Now settled, let's start again with plenty to report.

Rowen

ABC News are allowing you to swipe through before and after shots of the Queensland Floods in a creative yet shocking visualisation of the disasters effects on various sites. This second presentation was developed by Jim Whimpey and Andrew Kesper, executive producer Matthew Liddy. 

Great page of fun and inventive geek gadgets for your nerdy enjoyment

UFO by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. Rad. 

From Wired's blog Underwire - Lego, inception style. They've done a great job with the details. 

HUB's 20/20Bin roll-out continues across Sydney's major railway stations. Took this image today on my phone at Central - looking great, and the cleaners are loving them.

Time lapse video of Sydney's NYE fireworks. Loved the 'make your mark' theme, with cinematography by Murray Fredericks and editing Lindi Harrison for the City of Sydney

Restaurants occasionally hit the spot with a fresh web presence. These important marketing and information tools are sometimes as enjoyable as the food. Three of my local favourite food sites: bills, Guzman y Gomez and the Winery by Gazebo. Yummy.