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The Design Files & Where They Create

Thanks so much to the fantastic Lucy Feagins of cult design blog - The Design Files - for reviewing Where They Create. Read the full review here.

Harxest pops into Where They Create Melbourne book launch

The gracious and incredibly lovely fellow - Stevie from pop culture site Harxest - was good enough to pay us a visit at Paul Barbera's Melbourne book launch for Where They Create, capturing the humble event with some great images.

You can check out the full story on Harxest here.

Amsterdam agency films short doco on Paul Barbera & Where They Create

Where They Create - Paul Barbera from Dolly Rogers on Vimeo.

Amsterdam based creative agency, Dolly Rogers, has just released a short doco about photographer Paul Barbera and his project "Where They Create" - the popular blog and now book (published by Frame this month).

Dolly Rogers went behind the scenes with Paul on a shoot at Thonik, a graphic design studio in Amsterdam, and interviewed him about his passion for documenting spaces. With Paul's approach to documenting spaces for Where They Create being that of a creative moth on the wall (given his enviable sense for light), the addition of Dolly Rogers shadowing Paul makes this quite an interesting voyeuristic assembly!

We love the doco, and the work of all involved.

Film Credits:

Images and edit : Dolly Rogers (www.dollyrogers.com)
Music : Valgeir Sigurdsson - Lungs, For Merrille

KK Outlet - Hand Written Letter Project

The offshoot of brilliant Dutch agency KesselsKramer - KK Outlet in London - recently launched a very simple initiative encouraging us to reconnect with the more analogue side of life. The Hand Written Letter Project engaged some of the world's most admired creatives to do just that...and in doing so, reminds us how much of ourselves we lose when our words are digitised. There's no font (not even helvetica) that translates the emotion inherent in our own handwritten words.

The project is to raise money for the National Literacy Trust, with the letters being collated into a limited edition book. Read more here and also here.

Paul Barbera & Frame Publishers present Where They Create – the book

We could not feel more privileged to be working with Paul Barbera – the incredibly talented interiors photographer, on the release of his first book Where They Create, based on his popular blog of the same name. Published by European design and architecture specialists, FRAME, the book will available globally in September. Gun is working with Paul on publicity for the launch, and the Melbourne launch event.

Twenty years in the making, Where They Create the book offers readers a candid peek into the process and working spaces of some of the world’s most creative minds including Jeremiah Goodman, Olaf Breuning, Opening Ceremony, Acne Studios, Fantastic Man, Wallpaper, and Australia’s own Paul Davies, Tin & Ed, 3 Deep Design and Nicholas Jones.

Interviews with each studio’s lead creative provide individual insights into the relationship and influence between the creative process and physical space, as well as revealing what’s hidden in their desks and sometimes in their fridge. Where They Create the book is a limited release with 5000 copies available globally, with 32 different cover editions representing each studio featured in the book.

The book and the blog are expressions of Paul’s ongoing curiosity towards the creative process, people, and his love of spaces. Where They Create is shot in the most natural and unobtrusive way, allowing the viewer to feel as if they have not only stolen a glimpse of someone’s personal space, more so to feel as if they’re actually in the room.

Paul choice of subjects for Where They Create is simple – he only visits the studios of people whose work he loves and whose space he thinks inspiring. Where They Create the book intimately explores the working spaces of creatives from varied genres, including architects, illustrators, painters, sculptors, industrial designers, media companies, graphic designers, fashion houses, set designers and even food designers.

Having moved from Melbourne, to Amsterdam and recently to New York, Paul works for numerous interior magazines around the world where the focus is on shooting very stylised and considered images. Where They Create counters this aesthetic, shooting things as they are, using only natural light.

Where They Create the book is released in September 2011. For a first glimpse at the book, visit FRAME Publishers.

To explore Where They Create the blog, click here.