Concrete Playground

As if Object Gallery's Spring Series were not, with its bicycle dinners and inflatable couch parking lot takeovers and studio tours and pretty website, endearing enough, here is an exhibition with a pun in the title! A double one! Curated by Joan-Maree Hargreaves (Object's Producer - Digital & Publications) StereoTyped looks at sound design and typography and how they come together in contemporary practice, questioning received attitudes about design and designers in the process. And by received attitudes, we mean stereotypes. See what they did there?

Featuring works by Stephen Banham, James Cecil, David Chesworth,Amanda Cole, Nils Crompton, Future Classic,Ellen Lupton, Gemma O’Brien, Tin&Ed, Brooke Trezise and Jared Underwood, StereoTyped is an immersive exhibition that brings viewers into close consideration of the works, pairing up visuals with big black headphones around the arc of Object Gallery's Project Space. Pieces employ print, film and sound recording to explore the potentialities of multimedia communications as forms diversifying beyond formally skilled practitioners into broader cultural applications accessible to non-professionals via new publishing technologies. Specialisation is being challenged here, as is a view of design as something that's applied to represent a concept rather than being a part of it. Get excited, inner dorks who like fonts!