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Northcote Dog Blog

by Alex on 01. Sep, 2009 in Portfolio

This is an ongoing web project for a dog-owner who wanted a light-hearted website to show pictures of her dogs, as well as allow a blogging facility.
It uses Wordpress based on the free Woothemes Mainstream theme, and has had customisation.
I was responsible for every stage of this web project, from design, creating Twitter accounts, and [...]

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LEAN Conference Booklet

by Alex on 04. Aug, 2009 in Portfolio

The Labor Environment Action Network had its national launch at the ALP National Conference Fringe. As part of this launch, the LEAN distributed conference booklets to hundreds of ALP conference delegates and members.
The brief for this project was to show that LEAN was a professional, environmentally-focused organisation with a strong, authoritative policy agenda.
As copywriting was [...]

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Poster: Tour of Parliament

by Alex on 02. Nov, 2008 in Portfolio

Young Labor Left has a robust and regular communications agenda, promoting frequent events and activities. This poster is for the annual Tour of Parliament.
With each Young Labor grouping holding its own tour, this poster had to differentiate itself from other groups’ tours.
In this poster, a naturalistic looks was attempted using non-standard images, so that it [...]

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Design: Young Labor Left Journal

by Alex on 02. Nov, 2008 in Portfolio

Young Labor Left (YLL) is the progressive group in Young Labor. Activist is the YLL journal distributed to all of Young Labor quarterly. It features articles written by YLL members and Left Members of Parliament.
This issue of Activist was distributed shortly after the Labor Youth Conference to promote YLL’s success and policy agenda.
The turn-around time [...]

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Sub Rosa Issue 3 available

by Alex on 01. Nov, 2008 in Portfolio

The third copy of my Ars Magica fan magazine, Sub Rosa, is available for download. To download Sub Rosa, you must first subscribe.
Sample content from issue three is available here (pdf)
Sub Rosa has been running since late 2007, and is a production of PMC, an Australian group of game developers and writers.

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