Recently we got to design a range of environmentally friendly stationery for a local client! This image is from the card set, more images to come soon!

Created from post consumer recycled board and paper and printed with vegetable inks, this beautiful range is a great gift for that special lady. The Journals have a linen feel to the covers, with stitching detail, embossing, foil accents and a little bird charm, and the rest of the range is embossed with bronze foil accents.

The design features Australian native birds (Male and Female splendid blue wren) and Australian grasses (eg. kangaroo grass) which makes it ideal as an Australian souvenir, or even just and everday gift!

All are packaged in biodegradable corn starch packaging.

Range:

• A5 Journal (with pocket, stickers and bird charm),

• A6 Journal (with pocket, stickers and bird charm),

• Card Set (Envelopes, letter paper, stickers, gift cards),

• Slim Memo (with magnet)

• Mini Memo Pad

• Sticky Notes

Ps. If you’d like to buy from them, visit their website here: www.thelinenpress.com.au

Ho Ho Ho Merry Xmas to all our clients and website visitors! We hope the end of year is treating you well and not too manic! We know many family Christmas parties are coming up, and while the company may (or may not) be fun, one thing is certain – someone will definitely have to clean up! Something we’re not looking forward to!

In true Avalanche style, we debated this topic over some drinks and came up with ways to avoid doing the washing up! Why not eat everything out of pineapples, coconuts or watermelons? Why not eat only DRY food so we can dust it off?

Thanks to the Linen Press we were able to get a limited number of Organic Cotton tea towels screenprinted with our solutions.
As a way of saying thanks for all your support this year, we will give all our clients a limited edition tea towel for Christmas! We hope it makes you laugh, and could be possibly useful… unlike those corporate pens that never work properly!..

Illustrated by Andy and Ernie.

We’ve just completed the 08/09 Annual Report for the Victorian Bar.

This year features a very classic and sophisticated design with a spot silver ink on the cover and throughout the publication. The fine typography and delicate linework The silver really lifts the images throughout and gives it that very special touch! Andy also put his pen and paintbrush to work and created a series of illustrations to use throughout the annual report. If you look closely, you’ll see that they’re based on real staff members of the Victorian Bar. Can you guess which ones? ;P

Client: The Victorian Bar | Design: Ulrike | Illustration: Andy Warrington

Avalanche Creative, together with the Department of Sustainability, Grenda and Ventura Buslines, have been working really hard to bring you the new hybrid electric buses! There are two of them, one for Ventura and one for Grenda, both using different Hybrid-Electric technology. These are the first of their kind in Australia and are part of the Government’s plan to increase the use of low emission vehicles.

A big party was thrown at Essendon Airport earlier this year to mark the launch and was met with much support and press coverage (yay!)

From the press release:
“It is estimated this hybrid-electric technology will provide a saving of around 20 per cent on fuel and greenhouse gas emissions compared to a conventional diesel bus.”

Grenda Corporation will trial a hybrid bus along its 900 route from Stud Park to Caulfield while Ventura Buses will conduct a trial along its 250 route from Garden City to La Trobe University.

**update**
Ernie saw the bus for the first time when she was scootering down Princes Hwy last weekend! Looks good!