Indeed it is raining and pouring, and just in time for this year’s Melbourne Design Festival, with the aptly selected theme ‘When it Rains it Pours’. This year, Ambiguous Horse is making a triple-pronged contribution to the festivities; a Pop-Up project titled There’s A Hole In My Bucket; event management of Down to Earth; and a stall for all of our wonderful designers at the Melbourne Design Market, July 8th at the Federation Square Car Park. And to think there are only 24 hours in a day… Thankfully we are consoling our busy heads with thoughts of the just-scheduled launch of 200 Characters, confirmed for August 30th at Horse Bazaar. That’s right folks, the best way to stay warm is to keep moving…
Created by Perth based textile designer Quyen Do, these gorgeous screen-printed bags will have you grasping for something to carry around. Each design had been meticulously screen printed onto the most sustainable of fibres - hemp, then finished to perfection with cotton linings and a sneaky inside pocket for your hardest-to-find handbag items.
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From little things big things grow! Starting out as a project in the 2006 Next Wave Festival, the Don’t Sweat Shop is now staging workshops to teach young people how to make and screen-print their own clothes from recycled materials, and in doing so, educate on ethical consumerism. We are now taking registrations for a series of 3 workshops in 2008. Download the Don’t Sweat Shop details. Visit the website.
View images from the first Don’t Sweat Shop
With several years, thousands of words and countless numbers of deadlines to our name, Ambiguous Horse knows a thing or two about putting together a publication. Before the horse was a horse she was PJ Carroll, a contributor to publications including 3D World, HR and Lucky Magazine. These years developed extensive experience is liaising with designers, writing copy, sub-editing, editing and supplying to print.
Now, Ambiguous Horse works with an crack team of subcontractors - graphic designers, writers and sub-editors who can deliver just about any publication imaginable. If your organisation needs to produce a catalogue, program, magazine, annual report, research findings or handbook, Ambiguous Horse will deliver a publication you will be proud to call your own.
See work done for Moonlight Projects.
With our first publication, 200 Characters due to launch in August, and the photographic book There’s a Hole in My Bucket following shortly after, Ambiguous Horse has recently come to fancy itself as a publisher.
As an independent printer and distributor, we are happy to consider submissions for publications under the Ambiguous Horse imprint. If you have an idea for a book, or any other printed material, email a short description and your contact details to Director, Pip Carroll.
Ambiguous Horse is committed to reducing the environmental impact of published items and only works with like minded printers.
Sometimes you have the client, you have the skills but you don’t have the time or patience required to make the two ends meet. Ambiguous Horse is a rare creature in that is speaks both ‘creative’ and ‘corporate’ and can translate in real time.
Specialising in projects that involve multiple stakeholders, we work in close consultation with your organisation to outline and execute a step by step plan. We attend weekly work in progress meetings with your organisation and handle all emails, meetings and phone calls off-site from the Ambiguous Horse studio.
The service is particularly useful for organisations that need to deliver an activity outside their normal scope of activities, large campaigns, seminars, renovations or change of location. See work done for the Arts House Foyer Renovation.
Ambiguous Horse revisited its partnership with the National Design Centre in 2007 to plan and deliver events in the Melbourne Design Festival. The major project managed was Down to Earth, an exhibition of outdoor landscapes that use little or no water. Landscape Architects and Environmental Artists creates beautiful landscapes on the sloping grasses of Birrarung Marr. View images from the festival.
What would you do if a performer gave you $500 and said you could keep it? Sara Juli’s The Money Conversation does just that. Direct from New York, Ambiguous Horse will present the show in September. The one-woman show is all about money - what it means, how much is enough and whether you would take it from a stranger.
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After seven years and 15 international locations, the Bicycle Film Festival came to Melbourne for the first time in 2007. The festival’s mission is to promote the role of the bicycle by celebrating the best art, music and film that is made by cyclists, about cyclists or for cyclists. If you have made, are making or are thinking of making a film involving bicycles, we are looking for films. If you like your bike, you are going to love this festival. Returning to Melbourne later in 2008.
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