This small design firm has some very large accolades. Urban Village visited co-founder and creative director Jaimy Walter and digital designer and business partner Adrian Kotik at their office on Albion Street, and talked about the evolution of the design industry and the changing suburb they find themselves in. In the seventeen years that walterwakefield […]
If you’ve ever walked down Crown Street, you would have walked past number 321 and seen a red poster of a palm and the words The Fortune Teller written above it. If you’re like me, you probably wouldn’t have given it a second thought. Or, you might have mused briefly on the idea before filing […]
Before owning Zeus Street Greek in Surry Hills, Peter Diles was a sound engineer who worked at electronic music festivals around the world. In May of this year Peter and his wife Mardi, with his brother and sister-in-law, opened Zeus on Foveaux Street. The owners are proud of their Greek heritage and closely associate food […]
The 14th annual Sydney Comedy Festival returns in 2018 delivering to us all the laughs, talent and side-splitting hilarity we’ve come to expect from this absolute “comedy behemoth,” as Festival Director Jorge Menidis calls it. “We set a brief that was simply to make it bigger, funnier and unmissable, and that is exactly what I […]
The corner institution serves coffee till late and sources Italian produce you can’t find anywhere else. Owner Joe was in the pub game before he decided to switch to the family business of groceries. He and his family have owned Crown Street Grocer just six months shy of a decade, and like all longstanding local […]
The LGBTQI community has long been sharing stories, creating and writing their histories, disrupting and transforming conventional ideas about narrative, family and community. Queerstories is a storytelling series at Giant Dwarf Theatre, featuring a diverse lineup of Australian LGBTQI icons and new faces. The show has sold out every month since it began in September […]
The bold new initiative supports emerging artists and low cost theatre. For the first time in seven years, Belvoir is opening its downstairs theatre free to artists to put on their shows, as well as rehearsal space and marketing support, with the aim to nurture new creative talent and encourage artists to create without excessive […]
It is time to introduce you to another creative member of our chamber. Through their Creative Director, Nitin Mistry, we would like you to meet Deepend! Could you please begin by briefly explaining what Deepend is and what you do? We are Australia’s largest independent digital agency, with a focus on communications, content and platforms. […]
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