We’re proud to announce that our typographic brand design work has been recently acknowledged with several branding projects selected for a new book by Rockport Publishers, entitled LogoLounge Master Library Vol.4, Type & Calligraphy Logos. The book is available now at arts book stores or through www.amazon.com.
View news imageVisua were commissioned by Australia Post in late 2010 to design a series of stamps that reflected the life achievements of Dr Phillip Law AC. The stamp issue marks the centenary of the birth of Dr Phillip Law AC (1912-2010), one of Australia’s most experienced polar explorers. Law was a pivotal figure in developing Australia’s Antarctic science program and in securing a commitment to the region.
In his 19 years as an Antarctic explorer, Phillip Law took part in 28 expeditions. Under his direction, some 5,000 kilometres of coastline were charted. He led the party that established Mawson Station in 1954 and in 1957 established Davis Station. Of all his achievements, Law considered the first landing at Larsemann Hills to be his greatest. In early 1958, after days of negotiating ice-free peaks that rose to 500 feet, the ANARE leader led the first party to land at Larsemann Hills. In his honour, the Law Base was established at the site in 1986-87.
Phillip Law passed away in Melbourne at the age of 97.
© Stamp images reproduced with permission of Australia Post.
View news imageIt’s been an extremely busy start to 2012. One of the many interesting projects has been the branding of an exciting new business creating educational Apps for the iPhone and iPad.
Grammar Matters is a Queensland based company specialising in linguistics. We are privileged to have been involved in branding the business as well as designing the user interface for the Apps, which will appear in the Apple App Store in the coming months. Visua have also developed the new website that will go live at the same time as the App. Stay tuned…
View news imageJanuary saw the launch of Volume’s second store, located in Melbourne Central. The store continues the brand aesthetic established in the Westfield Doncaster pilot store and occupies a high traffic thoroughfare in the street fashion and entertainment precinct of the centre.
For more examples of the Volume brand and store concept, visit the branding section of our website.
View news imageWe’d like to take this opportunity to thank all those who have supported Visua throughout the year. We look forward to working with you on new and exciting design challenges in 2012, which we’re sure is destined to be bigger and better than ever. Have a safe and happy holiday break and a prosperous New Year.
View news imageThe end of November sees the launch of a new brand identity and website for Taylor Reynolds, specialists in multi-residential development and design services. Based in amongst the side streets of Fitzroy, Taylor Reynolds’ new identity draws its inspiration from Fitzroy’s gritty urban environs, the juxtaposition of business, fringe and cafe cultures and the tapestry of advertising, street stencil art and tagging that adorns most walls. The identity is very much about an expression of ‘place’ and as such utilises a custom stencil typeface which can be dressed up for serious business or dressed down for casual fun, spray stenciled on walls or dissected to create intricate patterns.
Stay tuned, images to follow soon.
View news imageIt’s hard to ignore the speed at which the online communication industry is changing. With the continual evolution of devices and their varying formats, it’s essential that you move with the times or get left behind. It was almost a year ago when Visua launched its first blog, but a lot has happened since then, monthly traffic to the site is in the hundreds and the site needed to be rebuilt to meet these demands and keep up with new best practices.
We’re proud to reveal our all new ‘responsive’ blog. So what’s ‘responsive’ you ask?
Responsive is a whole new organic approach to website design, automatically customising your website experience to any device including desktops, iPhones, Blackberrys and iPads to name just a few.
Visit http://blog.visua.com.au on any device and the site will fluidly reformat itself to the proportions of your device.
Now we think that’s pretty cool!
View news imageThe first of many Volume stores opened last week at Westfield Doncaster and the first few days of trading have been extremely successful. The new Volume store is undoubtedly the new showpiece of Westfield Doncaster and Westfield’s management team couldn’t be more pleased. Retail interior designers Studio Ginger have weaved their magic once again and the result is truly stunning. The Volume rebrand was headed by the team at Visua, name generation by Incognito Sum, interiors by Studio Ginger and photography by Lynton Crabb Photography.
Stay tuned… The new Melbourne Central store will be open in late November and additional stores will follow throughout 2012.
View news imageThe Visua team have been hard at work developing an exciting new brand for an Australian chain of high-end audio stores, scheduled to launch in August. The project entailed the generation of a new company name and the rebranding of an established leading retail business from the ground up. Our team worked closely with interior designers to ensure the new brand vision was realised. The result is a fresh and exciting, truly unique concept store.
Stay tuned… more details and photos to come following the brands official launch.
April saw the launch of the new Visua Blog. The site was developed to showcase design innovation and inspiration from the global design community. The blog has also been designed to work on both iPhone and iPad, so you can stay up-to-date on the run. If you have an iPad and want to bookmark the Visua Blog, visit the site and select ‘Add to Home Screen’ from the iPad menu.
View the Visua blog at blog.visua.com.au.
View news imageWe all know Facebook is rapidly becoming an essential business tool. Visua has been tracking developments in social media for some time now and is well versed in the pros and cons of social networking. Earlier this month we created our first official Facebook Fan Page. Since then the fan base has been growing steadily and we’ve just reached a very minor milestone in gaining our 25th fan. This means that Visua now has its very own Facebook URL.
You can now keep up-to-date with what’s happening at Visua via your Facebook account. Just search Facebook for Visua or visit www.facebook.com/StudioVisua.
You can also follow Visua on Twitter at www.twitter.com/StudioVisua.
View news imageWe’re proud to announce that our brand design work has been acknowledged once again, with several recent branding projects selected for a new book by Rockport Publishers, entitled LogoLounge Master Library Vol.4, Typography and Enclosures. The book should hit shelves later this year or early 2012.
View news imageThe team at Visua would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who helped make this year so successful. We look forward to working with you on new and exciting design challenges in 2011. Have very Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year.
View news imageVisua has modified our website to give the rapidly growing number of iPad users a similar experience to the main website. Also, if the website is added to the iPad Home Screen, the next time it’s opened from the Home Screen it will launch in fullscreen mode the same as a native iPad application. To add the Visua site to your Home Screen simply go to www.visua.com.au and press the + symbol in the top browser frame of your iPad and click ‘Add to Home Screen’.
We are also working on an iPhone version of the website that should be complete in early 2011.
View news imageMobile devices such as the iPhone and iPad do not currently support websites with Adobe Flash components, this left Lynton Crabb Photography at a distinct disadvantage when it came to marketing their business. Their previous Flash based website also didn’t give them the flexibility to easily update components within the site. The new html site utilises a sophisticated Content Management System that automatically optimises photographs as they’re uploaded and gives absolute freedom to tailor the website as desired. Another custom feature is the integrated lightbox that enables visitors to the site to short list photographs and then download the selected images as a PDF document. Visit www.crabb.com.au
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