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Full moon Friday

11.07.25

Full moon Friday! A project we’re working on in the studio has been getting us a little celestial lately. If, like us, you’re gazing up at night skies and wishing you knew more about astronomy, check out the ‘Sky Guide, Sydney Observatory’s Monthly Guide to the Southern Sky’ via the Powerhouse website…or better yet head down to the observatory one evening for a guided tour. It’s stellar!

Image 2 is one of the most memorable night skies we’ve had the privilege to witness, from Kate’s trip with @uluruastrotours.

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The idea arrives

07.03.25

"I’m interested in the tension between finding the idea and working hard at it. You’re sketching and it’s not there. And then you take a walk or you go swim and all of a sudden, the idea arrives, and that’s the lightness that I’m attracted to."

We love this quote, extracted from Paola Antonelli’s interview with artist Rafaël Rozendaal titled ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being Online’.

Great read, diverse and interesting questions with insightful, thought-provoking answers. Check it out.

And if you’re lucky enough to be in NYC see the exhibition IRL at ...

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Shapes in motion

15.12.23

Crafted by the talented Shell, our end-of-year illustration is a celebration of connection and movement inspired by Bangarra Dance Theatre performances. We love everything they do, all they are striving for and we are proud to support them.

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Vote yes

10.09.23

We will vote yes on October 14. 2023 Australian Indigenous Voice referendum

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On the tools

22.07.22

Lots to see behind the scenes of a recent location shoot in Melbourne, for our client smartstone.com.au

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Drawing us together

09.12.20

The NAIDOC 2020 community campaign we previewed a couple of months ago has wrapped. This project is close to our heart and it seems we’re not alone. Secret Harbour Square had over 60 kids’ artworks on display and almost 1,000 votes. Take a look at some of the Western Australian participants including the Pilbara indigenous author Sylvia Lockyer photographed at South Headland Square’s event. Drawing us together in more ways than one.

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Dream day

27.11.20

In the groove for an exciting new branding project and taking a minute to appreciate having the world literally at our fingertips! Mood-boarding is a dream any day but being able to access this insane inspiration is blowing our minds today. Thanks to all the humans who created it.

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Earthy Excellence

06.04.20

Always searching for new sources of inspiration, we are currently loving the balance in Bobby Clark's geometric compositions, the figurative shapes in Caroline Walls' paintings and the ceramic creations of Milly Dent. All three artists have beautifully unique work, but we see a synergy via the use of tonality, texture and minimalistic forms.

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Playful Palette

24.02.20

The Golden Age Cinema is one of Ikon’s favourite neighbourhood haunts and what better excuse to go than when 'Le Mépris (Contempt)’ screens at their summer series 'Ciao Europa’? A triple treat of location, primary colour and romantic tension, it is one of director Jean-Luc Godard’s most talked-about movies, Set between Rome and the south of Italy, majestic mediterranean seas contrast with a tumultuous relationship between Paul (Michel Piccoli) and Camille (Briget Bardot) in a bold palette of predominantly yellow, red, blue and white. Godard explores the power of colour to ...

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On set

01.10.19

Come behind the studio doors where the Smartstone team and our talented creative crew has converged to shoot the next advertising campaign for the exclusive new Smartstone surfaces launching in October. Art direction: This Is Ikon @thisisikon_ Photographer: Sharyn Cairns @sharyncairns Stylist: Glen Proebstel @glenproebstel BTS photos by: Christian Kalpou

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There must be some mistake

15.02.19

When malfunctions and mishaps inspire mixed media art. "I recently came across photographs on an old hard drive that had been damaged by some kind of technical fault. The result was a set of pictures in which an unexpected mistake and its visual traces seemed to mean something. Using this haphazard little archive as a departure point, I have tried to piece together a series of discernible markers (both abstract and representative) that stand in for the activity that takes place in the studio, where things both do and do not make sense, and where the pressure of the former must ...

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Masquerades + Mythology

01.02.19

Folklore is Fascinating. Defined by the Oxford Dictionary as "The traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth,” folklore is a rich source of inspiration for us.

From the far reaches of the globe we have most recently been fired up by Charles Fréger's incredible Wilder Mann series and the power of his new exhibition Fabula in Milan. See more in Lyon at the Yokainoshima, Spirits of Japan show and sit tight for his new book Cimarron due to hit shelves February 2019.

Stop by Houston Texas where the Egungun ...