Design is about functionality and purpose, not merely making something look attractive.
Graphic design and layout
We design text, figures, graphs and photographs to showcase your content and engage your audiences
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)
AccuRate software user manual
CRCCARE
Remediation Australasia
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care
AURA 2016: first Australian report on antimicrobial use and resistance in human health
Data visualisation
We present your data to ensure that it tells a story, reflects the information accurately and is easy to understand
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Australian Government Department of Education and Training
Data literacy and data visualisation training
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
State of the environment report 2016
Infographic on STEM in secondary schools
Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet
Data skills and capability in the APS framework
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Data visualisation
Which graph should I use?
Data visualisations pique readers’ interest and engage their visuospatial mind.
Data visualisation
Why making graphs is not as easy as you think
Software packages make producing graphs quick and easy. But they can also make it quick and easy to produce a bad graph.
Interactive displays, video and animation
We bring your content to life with scripts, storyboards, graphical elements, video shoots and voice-overs
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Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
DFAT security management framework
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Energy
State of the environment report 2016
Cancer Australia
Cancer Australia’s Consumer Involvement Toolkit
Cancer Australia
Cancer Australia – healthy lifestyles
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Creating content for your audiences
The origins – and cost! – of bureaucratese
As a plain-English editor, I spend a lot of time converting dense ‘bureaucratese’ into language that is clear, accurate and matched to the audience. One of the main tools in this trade is simple language: using short words in place of longer words and phrases.
So I was interested when my son recently came home from school with a list of words and their replacements.
Writing and editing
Plain English leaves no room for doubt
Have you ever gone house hunting and noticed the effort that goes into styling the properties on the market? A splash of colour spills across a bed of plumped-up pillows. A well-designed artwork calls from a freshly painted wall. A recognisable wine bottle and 2 glasses rest on an outdoor tray. Not an object seems out of place.
Information architecture
The art of structural editing
Although there are many guides to writing, copyediting and proofreading, structural editing (or ‘edit1’) is harder to define and explain. At its heart, it is about the audience. The aim of an edit1 is to make sure the audience can quickly and easily grasp the information you are presenting; a logical, intuitive structure helps you to achieve that.