NB VOL 2 | “A stranger walked into a room. And found a mirror.”
What happens when you step out of your own space?
In The Ghost in the Studio, photographer @ryanmurphystudio enters @bybraddock ’s studio alone. No brief. No direction.
He photographs what’s there.
What comes back feels less like documentation than something else.
A record. A trace. A kind of evidence.
Braddock reads the images back, trying to understand what they reveal – about authorship, control, and the stories we tell ourselves about our own work.
Read more at the link in our bio.
NB VOL 2 | “It’s evocative, interesting and uncomfortable.”
The latest Notes on Block (Volume 2) article is a deep-dive by @maxveenhuyzen on our 2024 rebrand of @pica_perth and choosing to take the road less travelled.
Read more at the link in our bio.
NB VOL 2 | “You can’t please everyone and as always, there was a section who loved the red, green and white anchor. But I think there was mostly great support from the fans—both ours and even the opposition’s—about the change.” – Matthew Pavlich @mav_29 .
Rebranding a football club was always going to be intense, and when it's your own club there's a whole lot more at stake. Fifteen years ago, Block was charged with creating a new look for @freodockers - the result was one of the most successful rebrands in @afl history but it wasn’t without angst.
Read "The Rise of the Purple Reign" by @stevebevis in full on 'Notes on Block' at the link in our bio.
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NB VOL 1 | Support workers are invaluable to their clients and the community, quietly contributing to our everyday lives. In 2023, Block was tasked with boosting retention and recruitment at @avivolivelife , a disability support and aged-care services provider. In a recent 'Notes on Block' article, three experts—a phycologist, a social impact researcher and a peer support worker—share their experiences and insights about the nature of support. Read "Sculpting Support" by @rosamundbrennan in full at the link in our bio.
NB VOL 1 | Block’s CEO Tanya Sim first met Denise Kuriger in New York City in the late 1990s, when they both worked for Naomi Leff, a respected figure in interior design who was known for creating spaces for celebrities and retailers like Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani and Helena Rubinstein. In “Making Connections” featured in 'Notes on Block’, the two former colleagues reflect on their formative experiences at the interior design firm and taking the leap to start their own businesses. Read the article in full at the link in our bio.
NB VOL 1 | Test Tube and Zekka were two pioneering concept retail stores in Perth in the early 2000s, both owned and run by Romina Gil De Matos.
Selling designer homewares, Test Tube was a tiny glass-fronted store positioned off a side street in Mount Lawley. Zekka followed in 2006, focusing on cuttingedge international menswear at a time before online shopping, when tastemakers had to physically travel overseas to Europe, Japan or America to be able to own a lacquered-steel Moon Dish by Munich designer Matthias Demacker or to drape themselves head-to-toe in the rough-hewn jersey of Rick Owens.
Block’s Mark Braddock and Romina Gil De Matos have shared a 15-year creative and collaborative journey that has been through many iterations, weaving in and out from client to collaborator, to colleague as well as friend. Their most recent project together is @roam_ps based out of Palm Springs.
Read more on Notes on Block, a new editorial platform capturing the insights, processes and stories that have shaped Block’s work and thinking over the past two decades (link in bio).
