Our new home

After much procrastination, we’ve finally finished designing and building our brand new website. It houses everything you can see here, plus stories gathered from our numerous talks & lectures over the years, and a shop where you can own a little piece of Design & Opinion, for a fraction of the price of a magazine redesign or corporate strategy.

Although our new site is now the best place to keep up-to-date with us, we’ll continue to update this space with all the latest as well, so you can keep track whichever way you prefer.

We’d love to know what you think of our new online home, so drop us a line!

10 things I've learned about being a designer

As part of their 2013 Design Forums, the University of South Australia invited Katherine to speak to their graphic design students about ‘the real world’, and hopefully impart some valuable lessons about life as a practising designer. It’s difficult to sum up an entire career in two hours, but the ten lessons below are about as good an attempt as any.

The value of Creative Thinking

As well as lecturing at various tertiary institutions around Australia, Katherine also delivers keynote addresses for a range of clients. One of these, BusinessWriters & Design, approached Katherine to speak at their 2012 staff and client conference, which was themed around the value of Creative Thinking. There are almost as many definitions of what Creative Thinking is as there are practitioners, so Katherine took a design approach to the topic, demonstrating how Creative Thinkers can take a written or designed solution to new levels, and how information design can not only be used to tell stories in an effective and memorable way, but can also give credibility (actual and perceived) to a business case.

It really does... ask us how

Arresting visuals—much more effective than a PowerPoint presentation