Stephen Banham News Today

The underlying vibe of the Winter 2023 edition of Meanjin is one of tremendous energy with an emphasis on the intensely topical.

Typographer and designer Stephen Banham contends that a mere font can represent our lives and the times in which we live.

A carer a father and a footballer all appeared in court

Hundreds of thousands of people travel along the M4 everyday that takes you on a route between London and Wales, passing through Reading.

Fun facts about the word “orange.” A 1909 patent for a font that can be read either from left to right or right to left. How typeface choice can impact learning and comprehension. Public radio may help save newspapers. Graphene’s uses in dental applications. Meet the Flingbot and its approach to abstract art. What’s behind The Great Resignation? An approach to removing ocean plastic that just might work. A traffic camera confuses a T-shirt with a license plate. Fisher Price’s classic C...

Blak Cook Book, shortlisted for a Victorian Community History Award, challenges the one-sided view of explorer Captain James Cook and looks at the

Advertisement Earlier this year, Maree Clarke visited cavernous spaces deep beneath Melbourne. In fluoro vest and hard-hat, Clarke contemplated an underground site below St Kilda Road, near the Shrine. She saw this upside-down world with new eyes, and sized up a huge tunnelling machine, responsible for extracting vast quantities of soil and rock. Little wonder Clarke has been thinking big and deep ever since. Many would be overwhelmed by the scale of her own project: as the commissioned line-wi...