Sometimes you can find a friend in the most unlikely places.

This is the story of a lonely Lamp who spends her days watching everything that happens around the theatres. Lamp wants to share her stories with you!

In this interactive journey, a series of talking lamps will take you and your family on an exploration of Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building. Guided by a magical book that brings the lamps to life, this illuminating and unexpected adventure reminds us all that a friend is never too far away.

Approached by creators Sandpit, Nick Lewis Design was engaged to design and illustrate the magical The Story of Lamp book, guiding users through an exhilarating and interactive journey through the Arts Centre. 

Rebranding of the iconic South Melbourne Market Food Hall to coincide with the opening of the newly renovated space. 

A Christmas giveaway for Melbourne based lighting design company Bluebottle. A promotional item that showcases recent projects also doubles as a functional deck of cards all housed in a discrete "black box".

Engaged to help develop and rollout and comprehensive way finding system for Melbourne’s iconic South Melbourne market.

Given the size and visual complexity of the site an intelligent and cost effective solution was required. Pre-fabricated commercially available off-the-shelf components were resprayed and customised with typography and colour that reflected the zoning of the market.

Colour coordinated floor stencils were also installed at key sites to help aid the visitor through the sometimes crowded and complicated site. 

Selected photographs by Kristyna Hess Photography.

Branding and collateral for Esther Weinberg, a Melbourne based jeweller and maker working with resin, perspex and timber with an emphasis on metal. The identity and applications including business cards pictured here reflect the nature of her work — creating three dimensional, personalised pieces for clients with her extensive knowledge of silversmithing.

Mural for ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) Quartetthaus. Inside this monolithic box a quartet play to an intimately sized audience on a rotating stage. Commissioned to paint the box with design masters David Lancashire and Andrew Ashton — we three responded on our respective sides of the box to the idea of music, audience and feeling. These giant eyeballs lure the spectator to a focal point with a tiny inscription making, for a moment, the spectator the spectacle!

FKD are an architectural visualisation studio in Melbourne creating outstanding images for Australia's most renowned architectural practices. Both their meticulous attention to detail and cheeky sense of humour lead to the creation of this identity and it's meticulously laser cut business card application.

www.fkdstudio.com.au

This first of its kind in Australia, the Study Melbourne Student Centre provides practical support for all international students in Victoria. The homely centre fitout was designed by Bluebottle — Nick Lewis Design was asked to develop interior and exterior signage as well as rollout a suite of collateral. One entrire wall of the centre was covered in a magnetic base coat and a large, moveable foam Tangram was created as its centerpiece. Being a tangram puzzle — it can be rearrange using the same 7 pieces to configure countless images and patterns.

Design & illustration for iBeacon enabled wayfinding app

Interactive whiz kids Sandpit asked Nick Lewis Design to help them design and illustrate an interactive journey through Southbank whereby users interact via an app with location aware iBeacon technology hidden in paste ups around Southbank for the Summersalt Festival. Users can follow the misadventures of one of three different characters to retrace their steps on a night they'd rather forget.

Users navigate their way through the journey via actual phone call prompts and text messages from these characters and get rewarded with animations and discovery of additional physical paste ups around Southbank.

Bluebottle are a Melbourne based lighting design company with expertise in combining light and form in inventive ways for theatre productions, galleries, museums and architectural spaces across the country. A business card that is an extension of their work, it interacts with different light to go from subtle and near invisible to dazzling and dramatic with the tilt of a hand.

www.bb3.net.au

Refresh of the identity of the long time hit music quiz television show. Hand crafted letterforms and vinyl record, rolled out over all advertising, signage and merchandising.

Site Art and Wayfinding

Over 5 weeks in summer 2015 Melbourne’s art precinct turned itself inside out spliling music, dance, circus, theatre, puppetry and art on the streets of Southbank.

Nick Lewis Design was commissioned to address multiple aspects from site art to way finding. An easy to use stencil and corflute hand signage suite was created to quickly and easily develop a flexible and updatable signage/info system.

Redrawable magic marker faces, chalk bombing, ground stencils and more let the audience interact and create much of the site art themselves.

Brand identity and business card for renowned Secret Studio, who creates high quality architectural illustration and renderings, drawing on over fifteen years of experience working with the world's leading architects.

Heide is a contemporary art museum in Bulleen, Melbourne, and the former residence of prominent Melbourne art collectors John and Sunday Reed. The site contains three separate buildings all exhibiting different shows concurrently.

Each new show requires a unique and beautifully produced catalogue reflecting the theme of the exhibition. Here is a sample of various catalogues designed over a three year period.

Studio: Design By Pidgeon

Poster design competitions and commissions are a great way to flex the creative muscle — here are a sample of some of Nick's posters over the last few years.

1. The Brazilian. AGI Brazil poster submission.

2. DTAC Xmas Poster. DTAC make and install ground surface tactile indicators for the visually impaired. Completed while at Design By Pidgeon.

3. Sampling The Future. Australian Poster Annual.

4. Trivial Moustache. Voiceworks magazine.

5. When It Rains It Pours. Australian Poster Annual.

Rather than heating juice to high temperatures (pasteurising) to kill bacteria, Preshafruit uses an innovative technique of high pressure processing in cold water. This increases shelf life, natural fruit flavor and retains a higher nutrition rate. The unique shape of the bottle allows more units to be processed at the one time and gives the product a unique point of difference — essentially three front sides.

Studio: Design By Pidgeon

Identity and collateral for conservation company focussed on conserving, protecting and enhancing the natural environment, including wetlands and flora and fauna.

With no budget for photography, one of the directors — an accomplished artist: Rod Bax — was approached to develop and build a library of illustrations from which to roll out the collateral. Giving Wetlands & Wildlife a unique and distinctive look and feel.

The RocKwiz Live: Some Kind Of Genius Tour 2012 held its Melbourne shows at the famous Festival Hall. A specific poster and advertising campaign was developed for the Festival Hall shows designed to channel the days when it was known as The House of Stoush and the home of boxing and wrestling.

The most feared graphic design job of all time — Your Own Business Cards. Put off for years and resorting to scribbling phone numbers on post it notes — or worse — other people's business cards, the day has finally arrived. Nick Lewis Design has it's own business card. Using KW Doggetts Keaykolour Navy, the deft hands at Avon Graphics applied a silver holographic foil and blind emboss.

Brand identity and business card design for Melbourne based jeweller, Megan Webb, who specialises in handmade and ethically sourced/fabricated engagement and commitment rings. 

If you have a fondness for lies, smut, insights into the human condition, ninjas, mantras, brown is your favourite colour — plus you're morally bankrupt and vaguely humanoid. Then you've found a kindred spirit in the Mahogany Log, the Brownest of the Brown, he who goes by the code name Number Two: the very cheeky Ringmaster himself.

Currently, with three illustrated volumnes and a collection of smouldering Turd Merchandise — all available from the killer new website:

www.turdcircus.com.au

Green Hat Workshop's planks are specifically designed building blocks to inspire creative minds. Planks can be used to create both simple and complex structures depending on the desire of the user.

This bold and eye-catching graphic approach to branding and packaging has helped Green Hat Workshop stand out in the educational children's toys crowd.

Studio: David Lancashire Design

Commissioned by Spicers Paper as a promotion for uncoated paper stock Freelife and Flirt: a custom embossing process, this second publication follows John Gollings and his photographic studies on various architecture across the world. In this issue John examines Renzo Piano’s Jean Marie Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Nouméa.

Studio: Design By Pidgeon

Oxigen is multi-disciplinary landscape architecture and urban design practice based in Adelaide. The Oxigen brand was given a refresh to better reflect their standing as an important innovative figure in the industry. The new look and feel was rolled out over the entire range of Oxigen collateral.

Completed while at David Lancashire Design

A major brand redevelopment for DTAC who design, manufacture and install the highest quality tactile indicators in Australia and lead the world in tactile innovation. Over the last 18 months all aspects of DTAC’s brand communication has been updated, culminating in the launch of their new website which is a powerful tool and resource for all specifiers and users of tactile indicators.

Completed while at Design By Pidgeon

For the Windsor-based cafe, Mr Mister, the interior was designed to make plants and herbs one of it’s strongest visual features. That, along with the name, lead naturally to a fun and basil leaf mustachioed identity.