He’s the founder of the infamous pre-Monster Children design magazine from Australia, Refill Mag, in its first few years easily the best creative culture journal around. Through Refill Magazine and its companion creative conference RPRSNT, Luca Ionescu brought together some of the most influential and eclectic creatives in the the world, including Pablo Ferro, Mr Cartoon, and A-Ron the Don.

The magazine and conference were not enough to contain his fascination with today’s creative thought-leaders, and so smaller projects including collaborations and art exhibitions emerged from Luca’s Sydney-based Like Minded Studio, all in the name of creative community and mutual inspiration. His innate knowledge of contemporary art, design, typography, illustration, motion graphics, and media is the product of Luca’s own creative evolution as a fan and peer of the artists he features.

You see Luca, is an artist, too, of the most eclectic kind, or should I say “type.” Luca Ionescu is a digital graffiti writer, a manipulator of common letterforms and an innovator of the art movement we know as Typography. His is the kind of work admired by niche artists including sign painters and title sequence animators. As a contemporary of the creatives he follows and admires, Luca’s beautiful commercial print and motion works graces top product and media brands including MTV, Nike, RVCA, and Tiger Beer. His personal experimentations in letterform have graced many galleries around the world, are manifested in exclusive product collections at Artsprojekt , and featured in a new collaboration with Adobe for its release of Creative Suite 5.

Luca Ionescu is a seasoned leader of the contemporary design world, creating typographic and illustrative compositions at once deserving of admiring gaze and detailed scrutiny,

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There’s a wonderful sense of symmetry amongst the sharp lines and clean, crips graphics of Sydney-based designer, Andrew Fairclough’s work. His clients are generally US and Canadian, for whom he works on everything from snowboard graphics and advertising, to exhibition design and branding.

You’d be hard-pressed finding a designer with a more impressive background than Jessie Hill. While most of us were waiting to outgrow our awkward teenage years, she was already on her way to Los Angeles. Leaving her Sydney home at just seventeen to pursue her love of fashion, it wasn’t long before Jessie Hill made a name for herself, styling cool kids like No Doubt and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. But her talents aren’t just reserved rock royalty. She launched her own label back in 2005, giving us regular folk a taste of what Los Angeles’ fashion set have known for some time. And if the latest Jessie Hill collection is anything to go by, this is one label to keep your eye on.

The graduate exhibition of third year graphic design students at Sydney’s Design Centre is called 342 Seconds and relates to the estimated time required to view the show. The exhibition takes place on December 3 and looks to be well worth checking out, if these works by Jenny Lee [above] and Sean Batchelor [below] are anything to go by. You can check into their blog and stay up to date with events leading up to the opening.

If you thought that fashion and science had nothing in common, think again. Now we creative types have little time for heavy discussion about scientific facts, so we’ll get straight to the point. Emerging Sydney designer Dion Lee has interpreted ‘mitosis’, the process where cells divide, in an impressive first collection that’s already gaining a cult following. His wearable designs form cell-like constructions around the body, in blood orange, bone white, flesh pink and silver grey hues. If that’s the result of a molecular muse, it looks like science just got interesting.

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Finding an original accessory these days is a bit of a rarity. I mean, when every second person you see is wearing one of those damn Palestinian scarfs, you know the industry is crying out for a fresh take. Enter Sydney-based jewellery label August + Pemberton. They’ve got the market stitched up with their unique Mokume Gane rings. Just in case you’re not down with jewellery making terminology, Mokume Gane is when two or more metals are blended together. The label’s designer Simon Grew works this technique by mixing rose and yellow gold with silver and palladium. And the result? A standout piece that you won’t see everywhere you look.