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Folklore, Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album, is a tour-de-force and one of 2020s best albums (as proven by six Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year). Not only because of its simple heart-wrenching arrangements, but also deep calculated lyrics. Once again, Taylor proves herself as the unstoppable force in the music industry. 

The rollercoaster of a year that is 2020 does make horror movies loose their adrenaline pumping action, but I assure you Rami Weekes’s His House will make you fall in love with the genre again. 

Food waste is one of the biggest problems our modern world is currently facing. Thus, it is understandable that one of the biggest creative competitions in the world, Cannes Young Lions, took the theme as this year’s brief. Contestants need to come up with a viable solution for food waste, particularly at the household level. However, there is one twist: solutions presented must be action-based and straightforward enough to be executed in all household levels, meaning a simple billboard or print-ad is not enough. 

Despite not participating in the competition, the brief gives me the idea of a zero-waste recipe booklet that can be distributed in major supermarket retailers. Not only retailers can benefit from the possibility of cross-selling their items which will increase profit, and audiences now have an idea of where to start reducing their food waste. 

“A rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.”

The plot of 1922 summarises what the movie captures: greed, family violence, guilt, regrets, and lots of rats. This poster tries to capture the messiness of the main character’s inner mind, represented by rough jagged typefaces and rustic layouts with no consistent hierarchy.

Last month I collaborated with Kasih.Project, an social program aimed to help international students in Australia by giving them free food and miscellaneous. They asked me to design a simple thank you card for donors. It was a small yet incredibly fulfilling experience.

A simple poster inspired by the song If The Worl Was Ending by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels, produced by Finneas.

Freud, a German Netflix series which centres around the mysterious murder spree and strange occurrences in Vienna during the time of young Sigmund Freud. As most of us already know, Freud is a pioneering psychoanalyst who believed in the power of subconscious mind. 

Although the series is not the most accurate depiction of his life (or works), it still captures the scary and fascinating capabilities of our subconscious.

It’s pretty easy to imagine what the cover of Strawberry + Cigarettes by Troye Sivan would be. 

How is your quarantine going so far? Mine is filled with self-induced paranoia after watching Contagion. There are two key learnings from this experience: 

1) For fuck’s sake WASH YOUR HAND! 

Two Suns is a child from the marriage between Australian malt (and wheat) and Japanese technological precision. The sub-brand of Asahi has been flooding the Australian market with it’s catchy name, yellow-ish branding, and expensive look.