The magazine Desktop invited a studio from each Australian state capital to create a psychogeographic map of their city.

Dan Pike’s response utilised the geomapping ability of Instagram to capture the landmarks and moments that have made an impression on The Letter D.

Dan Pike was asked by AGDA (Australian Graphic Design Association) to sit on the judging panel and review the past two years of design output, from Australia and New Zealand.

With a weekend in Adelaide to scour over 1800 entries, a short film documenting the process was made by Earl Carter, Andrew Ashton and Scott Matthews, and can be viewed here.

Kevin O’Brien‘s Finding Country Exhibition explores ideas in relation to the spatial use of Country (aboriginal place) in Australia.

Contributors to the exhibition were asked to respond to a specific section from a map of Brisbane city, and reinterpret the land use.

A crowdfunded campaign was undertaken to take the exhibition to the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, with The Letter D asked to design the catalogue and accompanying website.

The Letter D was invited to take part in Brisbane’s Terrible Twos exhibition. An initiative by The Design Kids, pairing emerging design students with established design studios, to work collaboratively on interpreting a compound word for auction.

We had the pleasure of being teamed up with Billy Blue student Lachie Brown, settling on Day-Break.

While collaborating on various other projects, the copywriter Alan James asked The Letter D to assist in typesetting and specifying one of the pieces he was putting together, as part of an exhibition of his text-based artwork.

Referencing oval vanity mirrors, the diamond-etched lettering creates a bevel-edged effect reminiscent of traditional mirror signage.

‘Signs of Life’ opens at the Redland Art Gallery, from the 4th to the 29th of December.

After the success of HEAT Architecture, the Queensland Government extended their HEAT initiative into fashion, asking The Letter D to develop a refreshed graphic direction.

Taking the form of a file directory filled with Queensland fashion talent, the system will rollout across various collateral soon.

Photography courtesy of the designers.

As part of a trans-Tasman alliance with Webb’s in NZ, Michael Reid asked The Letter D to develop an ad for Joseph McGlennon’s upcoming exhibition, to be printed in Webb’s catalogue.

It has been a solid few months, finalising the art direction for the 2010 AGDA Awards, culminating in the Presentation Dinner, with a full showcase of the collateral uploaded soon.

Photography by Seesaw.

The State Library of Queensland‘s book is now in the final stages of production. With the working title The ABC of SLQ, The Letter D photographed elements of the building’s architecture to form the 26 chapter intros——detailing each letter of the alphabet.

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The book was developed as a ‘scrapbook’ of resources, illustrating the diversity of SLQ’s collection, as well as documenting Donovan Hill’s architectural journey – almost like a ‘how to design a library’ book.

The Letter D commissioned Vincent Long to photograph Hughes Pastoral‘s end of year Campdraft, as the foundation for the suite of imagery that will appear across their website.