AGDA salutes

As Australia's largest representative association of professional graphic designers, AGDA's aim is to assist you in your development as a graphic design professional. Our Member Services and benefits are targeted at designers who want to take control of their careers and businesses. In addition you will receive news of design events ("Events Menu") such as a our State-based seminar series and national and international events.

Gordon Andrews 1914-2001

This evening I took a little red wine and indulged myself with warm thoughts of Gordon Andrews, having read news of his death in The Australian earlier in the day. It was my good fortune to have spent an early autumn afternoon with Gordon at his home on the secluded west side of Sydney's Pittwater, where we shared some South Australian Shiraz and let conversation meander through topics including bushfires - for his home had been recently... More…

Lyndon Whaite

by Max Robinson It's amazing how many of our finest graphic designers have been largely self taught. Gordon Andrews, Douglas Annand, Jimmy James, Arthur Leydin, Garry Emery, Wayne Rankin, Brian Sadgrove. There are more (even me). It's not something the tertiary system would like shouted about, but it speaks to an almost mystical compulsion in some young people to do things they can't quite understand, and then Bingo! Somewhere along the way... More…

Richard Haughton "Jimmy" James, 1907-1985

by Max Robinson It was the Australian art world's worst nightmare. A toffee nosed, upper class Pom swanned into Sydney to avoid the war, and took charge of the art scene. Not only graphics, but industrial design, fine art publishing, broadcasting, art philosophy- the lot. He looked and sounded like Rex Harrison playing Shaw's Henry Higgins. And did the locals like it? Whaddyereckun! It was 1939. His feet had barely touched Australian soil. He... More…

AGDA Spicers Paperpoint Hall of Fame

A listing of all the previous Spices Paperpoint Hall of Fame winners: Year  Awards location Winner/s 2006 Canberra Brian Sadgrove Frank Eidlitz (D) 2004 Sydney Lyndon Whaite Jimmy Haughton James (D) 2002 Melbourne Bruce Weatherhead & Alex Stitt Geoffrey & Dahl Collings (D) 2000 Brisbane Arthur Leydin Douglas Annand (D) 1998 Adelaide Eric Maguire George Kral (D) 1996 Canberra Lance Stirling Max Forbes (D)... More…

Frank Eidlitz 1923-1997

To say Frank Eidlitz was energetic is to damn him with faint praise. To say he was hyperactive is a serious understatement. To say he was manic is getting a little closer to the truth, but this excessive energy was never wasted, he managed to channel it all into his work, and during the sixties and seventies he produced some of the most dynamic graphic design seen in Australia before or since. He arrived in Melbourne in 1955, from post-war... More…