Caption Studio

Caption Studio is a design and web development practice based in Naarm (Melbourne) using research, collaboration and vision to create thoughtful and effective visual solutions.

Services include:

  • Print & digital communication
  • Website design & development
  • Website production & managment
  • Visual identity
  • Creative direction

For project enquiries big or small, or to learn more about the practice, please be in touch.

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Caption Studio is grateful to operate on the lands of the First Peoples of Australia—the oldest continuing culture in the world with archaeological evidence of human occupation dating back over 65,000 years. We recognise their continued cultivation of culture, community, and Country. Sovereignty was never ceded. This website is typeset in Karl by Source Type.

IMA Gala 2024

Identity for the Institute of Modern Art's 2024 Gala, an event to raise funds for Australia’s oldest independent public art gallery.

IMA Gala 2024 print invitation
IMA Gala 2024 print invitation

Print invitation with die cut square using Colorplan China White and Bright Red papers.

IMA Gala 2024 social media graphics
IMA Gala 2024 social media graphics
IMA Gala 2024 social media graphics
IMA Gala 2024 social media graphics

Approximations

Website design and development for Seventh Gallery’s 2023 Emerging Writers Program, Approximations. Writers were paired with an exhibition for which they created a written accompaniment. The program was convened by Zara Sigglekow.

Castlemaine Art Museum

Identity and website for the Castlemaine Art Museum. The museum has a unique collection of Australian art, First Nations cultural material and historical artefacts reflecting the early history of the region.

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CAM 2023–2024 Annual Report.

Art Guide Bookstore

Identity and website for Art Guide Bookstore, a retail space that houses a curated selection of the best Australian art publications being made today.

Illustrations by Caitlin Aloisio Shearer.

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Photography by Fred Kroh.

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Photography by Fred Kroh.

VCA

Website and publication designs for the annual graduates of the Victorian College of The Arts.

VCA Art 2023 website.

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VCA Art 2019 publication.

FUTURES Gallery

Identity and website for FUTURES Gallery.

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Postcards for FUTURES Gallery's booth at the 2024 Melbourne Art Fair.

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Platform 2024

Catalogue design for the IMA's annual exhibition series Platform. The exhibition showcases commissioned work by emerging artists Miguel Aquilizan, Mia Boe, and Sarah Poulgrain.

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Platform exhibition catalogue, 28 pages with Colorplan Mandarin cover stock.

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Graphic for Platform exhibition catalogue.

IMA Digital

Social media graphics for the IMA Zine Fair and gallery shop event series.

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Graphics for the IMA Zine Fair.

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Graphics for the IMA's gallery shop event series.

Greysun

Identity for Greysun, a London-based Australian producer and DJ.

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Once in a Lullaby

Once in a Lullaby is Mia Mala McDonald’s book of photographic portraits and interwoven stories of Australian LGBTQIA+ families. The contributions shared by participants are reflections on the politics of family, the complex processes of having children, family, loss, love, and what it is to be human.

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Once in a Lullaby. 80 pages, 20 x 26 cm, section sewn hard cover, edition of 750, published by M.33.

Melinda Harper

Catalogue published for the exhibition Melinda Harper in Conversation with the Collection, Castlemaine Art Museum, 19 March 2021—February 2022.

Micky Allan

The power of delicacy roomseet

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Exhibition room sheet for Micky Allan's exhibition The power of delicacy at Castlemaine Art Gallery, July 2025. Printed on Iridescent White Pearlescent card.