The nice folks at Voyeur Pacific+ (Virgin Australia’s in-flight magazine) asked me to put together a brief, insiders’ guide to great design experiences in Melbourne for a 2018 issue earlier in the year. I had […]

The nice folks at Voyeur Pacific+ (Virgin Australia’s in-flight magazine) asked me to put together a brief, insiders’ guide to great design experiences in Melbourne for a 2018 issue earlier in the year. I had […]
In a back alley in Brunswick, a grown man is behaving like a kid. Dean Sunshine should be running his family textiles business. Instead, the lithe, curly-headed 50-year-old is darting about the bluestone lane behind […]
Strike a pose: artist Guido van Helten with his mural of deaf dancer, Anna Seymour. Photo: Wayne Taylor. By Peter Barrett “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” musician Elvis Costello once said. Half that metaphor […]
Street artists Paul Round (left) and Frank Maiorana with their mural at Peanut Farm Reserve in St Kilda. Photo: Wayne Taylor. Tennis players at St Kilda’s Peanut Farm Reserve now have more than their backhand to […]
Artist Tai Snaith and her architect partner Simon Knott from BKK were given the kitche spy treatment on June 16, 2015. This story appeared in the Age and the Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Food sections. […]
July 11, 2015 Peter Barrett Meet Emma Farrarons, 32, the best-selling author who hasn’t written a word. (Well, almost.) The French illustrator’s first “literary” effort, The Mindfulness Colouring Book: Anti-stress art therapy for busy people, sits on top of […]
Couch potato Norm was created by Alexander Stitt for a 1970s health and fitness campaign. Image courtesy of the artist. Last Saturday my story about Alexander Stitt, the graphic artist and creator behind campaigns including ‘Life. […]