The house that alternative built
For close to 20 years, Blunt Magazine was the heartbeat of the alternative community in Australia, drawing eyes from all over the world.
Overview
Blunt Magazine has had a prosperous past, one of Australia’s leading alternative music point magazines it could be found in almost all magazine retailer outlets. Come forward to 2020 and the world is a much different place. Print has reduced to a nicety and music absorption gone online.
Opportunity
The online music and culture magazine space is a highly competitive one. It’s a sharp point of trending culture and new sounds all of which now consumed as online traffic. Blunt were seeing the need for time spent reading online.
Anywhen helped Blunt understand their place on the web to increase their audience with a scalable and modern visual design.
Anywhen helped Blunt understand their place on the web to increase their audience with a scalable and modern visual design.
Features
Established new online Art Direction and Design System
Introduced longform reads UX/UI design
Video channel landing page
Responsive mobile design
Website architecture and strategy for WordPress
Introduced longform reads UX/UI design
Video channel landing page
Responsive mobile design
Website architecture and strategy for WordPress
Release
The site was released in March 2021
Blunt Magazine is produced by The Complaints Department
All development and code by Nick La Rosa
Design & Strategy by Anywhen Studio
Blunt Magazine is produced by The Complaints Department
All development and code by Nick La Rosa
Design & Strategy by Anywhen Studio
RECENT WORK
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UI DESIGN
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Webby Award Nominee, 2021
Sites developed for the distribution of entertainment content or focused on the entertainment industry; including, sports, games, news, gossip, humor, reviews, or promoting a specific celebrity or group.
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Happy Mag
happymag.tv
UX DESIGN
UI DESIGN
CULTURE PUBLICATION
Webby Award Nominee, 2021
Sites developed for the distribution of entertainment content or focused on the entertainment industry; including, sports, games, news, gossip, humor, reviews, or promoting a specific celebrity or group.
We are a remote design practice offering;
Product Design - Discovery, definition, growth design, UX, UI
Content Design - Empathy, UX writing, copy creation, social media strategy
Art Direction - Cultural insight, visual communication design
Branding - Honesty, Product vision, identity design, design systems, style guides
Sound Design - Comosition and sound design
Product Design - Discovery, definition, growth design, UX, UI
Content Design - Empathy, UX writing, copy creation, social media strategy
Art Direction - Cultural insight, visual communication design
Branding - Honesty, Product vision, identity design, design systems, style guides
Sound Design - Comosition and sound design
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Anywhen Studio acknowledges the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants of the nation and the traditional custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.