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Been on the hunt for the perfect little clutch that holds all your bits and pieces safe and sound? Oh, got one? How about if that clutch had an equality kitschy and cute plastic Mahjong pattern stamped all over it with a matching tassel? And how about the perfect mesh tote bag to put it in? We’re always looking for the perfect tote to sling our bananas in at the markets and we think we may have just found it in Olive Made.

Olive Made is a bag label based in the depths of Melbourne’s very...

Melbourne is where it’s at with ceramics right now, we’re sure of it. High in calibre and output, we can’t take our eyes of the good stuff generated by the young people in this city. One of these creatives we’ve been ogling with a fixed and excited gaze is Claudia Lau, a young design student and ceramicist.

In her final year studying a Bachelor of Communication Design at RMIT, Claudia splits her time between university, assistant work and her own ceramics practice. Her mentors are highly praised in the Melbourne ceramic world, having honed her skills...

John Zabawa is a bit of a mystery. We’ve seen his paintings cropping up all over the place over the last year or so, nestled deep in Tumblr’s art blog archives and thrown up on fashion Insta’s as #inspo. Googling his name brings up beautiful, simplistic, clean graphic design work in the realms of branding and art direction for American lifestyle brands. And while he is clearly a very talented designer, we’re drawn even more-so to his paintings. Documented on a blog by the name of ‘topmatter’, an elusive link noted very humbly at the bottom of his...

George Greaves is a graphic designer and illustrator working out of Bristol. Clearly informed by his studies in visual communication at Westminster University, he lets colour and form speak all of the volumes in his work. Minimal and sophisticated, detailed yet simple.

George’s work is influenced by architecture and built environments. He also looks to his heroes of the modern classics like Matisse, Miró and Hockney for inspiration. We see recognise a version of Hockney’s ‘A Bigger Splash’ painting and even find our minds wandering to Magritte with a few of George’s more geometric, dream-like vignettes....

Fluid, chunky lines we want to run our finger along. Subtle monochrome tone on tones. Gestural strokes with perfect control. Melbourne artist Caroline Walls’ work is a soft, calm, relaxed and very mature playground for the eyeballs.

Using a range of media, Caroline creates work inspired by the everyday experiences and visions we enjoy as humans. Her gaze is turned to the female form, using painting, drawing, soft sculpture and print-making to play on canvas and paper. The movements of limbs, folds of skins; explorations of the female body are abstracted, distilled and reduced to images...