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Recently the Icelab crew washed down cucumber sandwiches with Pimms and lemonade at the opening of the Stanley Melbourne Bruce exhibition at the National Archives of Australia.
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Recently the Icelab crew washed down cucumber sandwiches with Pimms and lemonade at the opening of the Stanley Melbourne Bruce exhibition at the National Archives of Australia.

The National Museum asked us to help them re-build their Audio on Demand website, an evolving collection of lectures, forums and symposiums held at the NMA.

The ANU has literally hundreds of webservers, and providing a consistent design which meets everyone’s needs is a challenge. We worked with the various stakeholders at the University to craft a design that reflects the prestige of Australia’s national university.

Eco Logical Australia, an Australia-wide environmental consultancy, asked us to redevelop their website.

Featuring images by some of Australia’s best photographers, this exhibition at the Museum of Australian Democracy documents the impact of the drought on the land, people and psyche of rural and urban Australia.


We hate bad coffee. We hate the way it tastes, the way it smells, and most of all we hate forking over hard earned cash for a poorly made espresso.
Decaf Sucks is an app we built to help each other to find the good cafés and avoid the bad ones.
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Max’s puppy does important design work for a museum client. I get the feeling she’s not all that pleased with this version of the design.

Michael was recently asked to contribute to the discussion at The Punch about the merits of the four-long-day workweek.

Not content with having a Cricket touchscreen in the Australian Journeys gallery at the National Museum of Australia, we’ve downsampled, re-encoded and repurposed it for in those of you who prefer the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Clear your cache, install Flash and get into it.