We are delighted to announce Spice & Co. Design won 2 awards at the Print & Graphic Excellence Awards presented at Hotel Realm on 24 November 2009.

Awards were given for our Corporate ID design for IT company Dataflex and for Environmental Excellence for our work on the Department of Health and Ageing’s Residential Care Manual (See below project profile).

Link: pageawards.com.au for full details of the PAGE Awards.

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Image: Department of Health and Ageing. Residential Care Manual

DoHA asked Spice & Co. Design to produce a Plain English and user-friendly Residential Care Manual as a guide to the complex legislation governing Australia’s Residential Health Care providers.

In essence we had to make something really complex, really easy to read. Our communication savvy client wanted us to design a look and feel that would inject a sense of modernity and respect among providers, and sought also to establish a brand that could be carried across a raft of upcoming publications.

We love a challenge, and thought we would add environmentally sustainable best practice to that pile of expectations.

The manual is an every day reference and will have a long shelf life and will therefore be subject to wear and tear through constant use so it was decided that plastic tab dividers, with a plastic ring bound cover and paper section contents would be the best choice, allowing the manual would be easily updated as legislation or policy changes occurred.

We worked with DoHA to ensure the entire publication was produced with recycled/post-consumer plastics and paper, and printed with environmentally friendly vegetable-based inks and water-based varnishes wherever possible.

Recycled plastic material was produced to order by Megara and Megara now have an agreement with the Department to collect and recycle the publication when the manual is eventually reproduced.

The Manual has been extremely well received by DoHA’s internal and external stakeholders and has gone on to be the brand cornerstone for a full range of publications. This project just goes to prove you can produce publications to the highest publication standards as well as the highest environmental standards. Thanks to our client, DoHA, Paragon printers and Megara. This project was a great team effort.

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Image: Hesh & Anthony, Spice & Co. Sydney

On the back of our successes through 2009 Spice & Co. Design opened a new Sydney office in Surry Hills. The Sydney office is now the head office for our specialised web team. We’ve brought on board 2 new members both working out of the office concentrating on backend and frontend web development.

Heshan Hewasiribaddana (Hesh) and Anthony Robinson are both senior developers with over 25 years combined industry experience. Their addition to the Spice team completes our long standing vision to bring all web building capabilities in house, ensuring greater quality control, technical capability and delivery times.

The guys have just finished the Virginia Haussegger site, and are now building a clients corporate intranet and getting ready for some exciting Federal Government projects in 2010 aswell as continuing to develop and refine SASi, our web content management system.

For information about our Sydney office location and contact details go to spiceandcodesign.com/contact.html.

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Image: virginiahaussegger.com.au

The newest SASi site to be released is virginiahaussegger.com.au. Virginia Haussegger is the face of ABC TV News in Canberra, a regular columnist with The Canberra Times, and President of the Canberra International Film Festival.

Her career as a journalist, author and commentator spans over 20 years, and she regularly addresses corporate and government forums on a diverse range of issues including women, power and leadership. SASi allows Haussegger to update her personal website with the latest articles by and about her, aswell as images, event information and links to sites of interest.

The website's look is as clear, cool and sophisticated as its subject, and not matter how much content it’s delivering to users it maintains its stylish appeal.

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Image: AGDA Act e-news

The Australian Graphic Design Association (AGDA) is the national organisation representing the Australian graphic design industry. Spice & Co. Design continues to support the association, and is deligted to announce that Spice & Co. Designs Creative Director, Georgina Carberry, and Art Director, Sander Egging have taken on positions with the National Council for 2010 and we look forward to representing ACT design nationally in the ongoing activities of the council.

Spice & Co. designs and distributes online event invitations and the AGDA ACT newsletter featuring updates on international design events and useful information for design practitioners, so subscribe to keep in touch with goings on.

Send an email to act@agda.com.au if you would like to subscribe to the AGDA ACT newsletter.

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Image: Open Manifesto

For those of you who are as mad about design as we are, the long awaited release of Open Manifesto {5} is out now. This one is all about Identity. We got our copy from Published Art but most design book shops can get it in for you. A must have for holiday reading.

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Image: Peace from us to you

We wish all our clients and associates a happy holiday season, and look forward to working with you in the New Year!

The Spice & Co. Design Canberra and Sydney offices will close on Wednesday 23 December 2009. We will reopen at 9am on Monday 4 January 2010.

Don’t forget you can stay in touch with us subscribing to our Twitter feed at twitter.com/spicepost.

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