AGI Oz Members

Evi O AGI member 2023 Evi O is an award-winning multi-disclipinary designer and self-taught artist based in Sydney. With a curious eye and mind, she is constantly exploring and observing her surroundings. Through paint, Evi O continues to explore the use of dominant abstract shapes, although the compositions she presents are broadly suggestive of earthly forms – animal, plant or constructed. The creatures she depicts, and the scenes that she relays are symbolic of people, places and scenes that have left their mark – and this affords her an intimacy with her subjects that infuses the images with emotional resonance. Colour is the cornerstone of Evi O’s practice, and her works are reduced, abstracted, and finely balanced colour works. Running a design practise that exposes her to 3D forms, and spatial design brings a unique dimension to her artworks. The presentation of her works will be an installation of painted walls and 3D forms that pushes the boundary of art and design. @evi_o.studio

Evi O AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @evi_o.studio

Evi O AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @evi_o.studio

Leif Podhajsky AGI member 2023 Leif Podhajsky is an Australian graphic designer and art director, well known for his distinctive album art working with artists such as Tame Impala, Bonobo, Foals, Kylie Minogue, Of Monsters and Men, Lykke Li, Toy, The Horrors, Mount Kimbie, Kelis, London Grammar and Aurora. Podhajsky has emerged as a promising photographer, with his brooding landscape photography attracting a large following through his popular Instagram and Facebook accounts. In addition to creating album art, has also created artwork for a number of record labels around the world, such as Warp Records, Modular Recordings, Sub Pop and Sony Music, with tour posters, T-shirts and other merchandise.[1] Podhajsky’s work explores themes of connectedness, love, fear, magic, the relevance of nature and the psychedelic or altered experience, and uses techniques such as pattern, recursion, balance, symmetry and repetition.[2] By utilizing these subjects he attempts to “coerce the viewer into a realignment with themselves and their surroundings”. @leifpodhajsky

Leif Podhajsky AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @leifpodhajsky

Leif Podhajsky AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @leifpodhajsky

Dominic Hofstede AGI member 2023 Dominic Hofstede is a partner and Creative Director at Mucho, an international design collective. Based in Melbourne, he leads Mucho in Australia, overseeing identity design programs for a diverse range of clients. Mucho Melbourne was established in 2020 and is the most recent addition to a growing international family. The studio creates strategic and systematic design solutions across a variety of mediums. Dominic’s wide-ranging graphic design career began at the end of the 1980s with an arts degree (with distinction) in graphic communication from Monash. He worked with leading multidisciplinary studio Nexus Designs before establishing his own practice in the mid-1990s. Hofstede Design (1996–2015) was renowned for its commitment to typographic craft, and the studio’s work was regularly awarded and published both locally and internationally. In 2009, he established recollection.com.au, an online archive of Australian graphic design from 1960 to 1990. In 2014, he was appointed an adjunct senior research fellow at Monash Art, Design and Architecture, and in 2015 was awarded a creative fellowship at the State Library of Victoria. Prior to joining Mucho, he was an Executive Creative Director at MAUD, where he oversaw the establishment of a Melbourne studio for the practice. His experience at MAUD included leading significant visual identity projects for clients including Australia Post, Holden and Schwartz Media. @dominichofstede

Dominic Hofstede AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @dominichofstede

Dominic Hofstede AGI member 2023 See the title tile for bio @dominichofstede

Jon Warwicker AGI member 2019 John Warwicker-Le Breton is Melbourne Enterprise Professor of Graphic Design at the Victorian College of the Arts and design editor of Art + Australia. Since 2012 he has been Visiting Professor at Zokei University, Tokyo, and since 2004 a member (and first non-Japanese member) of the Tokyo Type Directors Club. Warwicker is co-founder of the multi-disciplinary design and creative studio Tomato, a worldwide group of directors, designers, artists, writers, producers and composers whose work spans graphic design, typography, film and video direction, architectural design, art installations, interactive media, fashion and product design, branding and strategy, sound and music design. He has published numerous books including The Floating World (2005), The Typographic Mind (2010) and One Thousand Fathoms Deep (2016). In 2016, Warwicker curated and designed a major exhibition in Tokyo and publication, O Tomato Parco, celebrating 25 years of Tomato. He has won the Tokyo Type Directors special prize twice, for The Floating World and for the typography, graphics and publications for O Tomato Parco. #jonwarwicker

Jon Warwicker AGI member 2019 See the title tile for bio #jonwarwicker

Jon Warwicker AGI member 2019 See the title tile for bio #jonwarwicker