Dog Eat Dog Competition Submissions Due: Friday 31st May, 2013 Celebratory Exhibition: Friday 21st June, 2013 Along with media partner Desktop Magazine, Old...

Greetings everyone! Last Saturday we had the first day of this year's Old School New School two day Hand lettering workshop which commenced with sign writing...

Slow Typography Masterclass In an era when the choice of over 40,000 fonts readily available to choose from often seems equally ridiculous as a trip to the...

Greetings everyone So much to do this week! I am getting really excited as the anticipation builds up for this Saturday's Masterclass. The first priority is to...

Greetings friends! This week for a change we thought it would be refreshing to share a sample of student work. We have been telling you a lot lately about the...

Upcoming projects WIP Report Well we can't conceal our latest creations from you any longer, so we thought we would give you just the smallest sneak peak into...

That's an important message for you all in this day and age when we engage more than ever on a gut level. Hi everyone! much to share with you this week...

Greetings dear friends and supporters of those who wish to work toward using design to create meaningful change. Time is marching by, and while most Universities...

Finding Your One Thing Have you ever seen Curly in City Slickers talk about the Secret to Life? It's "One Thing" he says. I am sharing this with you because...

This Affects You Directly. More People are Talking About The Problematic State of Academia in Australia Greetings dear friends Have you noticed how there is...

This post is not for recent graduates. It's for those of you who have been out working for at least five to ten years. Thanks to Facebook, as time goes on it...

Thanks to Brooke Thorn, Megan Davis, Elli Mardas and Bianca Van Meeuwen (all pictured above from left) for being such engaged, dedicated and passionate students!...

The last week up at the New School was all about two things: 1. Process 2. Questioning the role of the Designer. Interns Busy Producing Two Exciting Books As...

Old School congratulates all students on their great performance Last Saturday June 9, 2012 marks the official date that Old School (the New School for Design...

Voice Short Course Finishes with Peer Review by Illustrator Madeleine Stamer It's time to say goodbye to our Illustration course for the year! After five...

Bamum, World Alphabets and Handmade Type Our busy student Anya Si Ying Ow has kindly written this blog post describing last Saturday's hand made lettering course...

The Lost Art of Walking Walking, Seeing, Sensing, Touching Walking. Just stop, and think how this simple activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary...

This month The New School teams up with some of Melbourne's most inspiring creative professionals to initiate an exciting new design teaching and learning discourse...

This article covers the topics of Social Practice, the boundaries between art and design and also the value of personal projects when I walk you through my own...

It is an exciting time, especially for Old School as much of our ‘new’ is driven by the myriad of available channels of online networking tools. The School is a...

Old School is Melbourne's New Design School with a focus on the role of the Designer to do good. This was demonstrated last Saturday when the School developed a...

Working with text and image Students from our Program last week explored the formal relationship of text with image by going out into the environment and taking a...

And you will see more, as your eye becomes more sensitive to the subtleties of what makes a great design solution. As both image maker and teacher this week, I...

Yes. As the founder of the New School of Old Ways, I am over the moon with the way things are settling nicely into place during the early days, and I am not just...

Lettering is alive and kicking at Old School, and we have been busy this week using it to inject some flavour into the workspace, to help us remember why we are...

Thankyou so much to everyone who visited and helped out with our Open Studio Day last Saturday. It was such a great day and so nice to receive all the offers of...

There has been a lot of talk about happiness lately. How to get it, how to maintain it. In our industry it’s a very relevant topic, the creative investment we put...

Did you know that Old School is only one creative new player in the changing face of alternative design education? This is the story of another in Sweden called...

Female artists in Kabul bring reality to an imagined future through creative practice Recently, Melbourne played host to the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival...

International Conference About the Impact of Design Design is about so much more than aesthetics, trends and luxury. At its best, design can change, improve,...

Don't be shy, because our 500 weekly readers would love to hear from you. If your idea fits ours, and it is accompanied by well art directed imagery, the chances...

Slow or Fast? How do you like your typography served? That is the question, and a very interesting one it is. This post will share with you all that happened in our...

Come join us! WHEN 2pm- 6pm, Sat 18 Aug 2012 WHERE Old School the New School for Design and Typography, 10 Grey Court, Coburg COST Free We are...

This great postcard of the London Design Museum's 2012 Design Awards finalist exhibition is brought to you by Megan Davis. A big thanks to you Megan for filling us...

Gordon Andrews - The Maker Today I am feeling nostalgic, with Anzac Day still fresh in our minds, it got me thinking about the importance of commemorating those...

We are Finding One Another The first 5 weeks have flown by and here is what I am seeing start to emerge. I have spent the last 5 weeks plugging in, getting...

"Lettering is an Art & Craft. It requires skill in draughtsmanship, penmanship and inkmanship. It requires a sure knowledge of forms and style supported by solid...

It’s Lift off! and Old School has launched. So what has eventuated in this the first week of our life? 7 things that have happened 1. The...

Educational institutions will have to transform as education processes change. Rodolfo Capeto contributed, among 22 reflections, to the Icograda Design...

Great News! We have a Wonderful New Contributor I would like to warmly welcome and introduce to you Emma Harrold, owner and Design Director of Studio Teepee in...

Exhibition Review Warning: Do You Hoard? I visualized my own death: I was in the middle of a tip, on top of a pyre consisting of my dumped ‘junk’. My...

These are the words of Jeremy Lay, illustrator and maker, and the second presenter at Field Trip Creative Conference I attended today, put on by the Jackie Winter...