Characters and Spaces
15 – 25 July, 24 hours
Location: CBD block between Swanston, Elizabeth, Flinders and Collins Streets.
Phone: +61 3 9388 8778
Email:
Website: character.rmit.edu.au
Cost: Free
Characters and Spaces takes one city block of Melbourne and peels back its layers of graphic design. It tells the stories behind what we see in our visual environment, things we may pass every day and not think twice about. It brings out their meanings and highlights their significance in our lives.
There’s plenty of beautiful type, art and design out there on the streets. The sites shown in Characters and Spaces offer us a greater depth through the telling of their stories. Seemingly unrelated things are then connected – a style of lettering, a form of architecture, a time in social history, an art movement or even a long-gone Olympic Games.
It poses the question – if there is so much richness in just one city block, how many other stories are there to uncover in a whole city?
Pick up your copy of the State of Design Festival guide, which includes maps and information on how to participate or download a copy of the program here.
Presented by Character
Supported by the RMIT University Communication Design Department
Curated by Stephen Banham
