Characters and Spaces

As part of the 2009 State of Design Festival Letterbox curated a project known as Characters & Spaces . The premise is a simple one. Take one city block of Melbourne and peels back its layers of design. Tell the stories behind the things you see every day – signage, branding, public art, lettering, billboards etc. Things we may pass every day and not think twice about. The sites shown in Characters & Spaces offer us 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.

An outer column on each page (called the Adventure section) seeks to involve children in the joy of design through questions and activities.

Characters & Spaces is a partnership with the State of Design Festival 2009 and the Communication Design Program at RMIT University.

The full 12 page program can be downloaded by going to the Characters and Spaces site.