INfront Presents: Monster Children feat. Campbell Milligan

Overview

An openly social nature, a cool audacity, an independent spirit, and a little luck seem together to have formed the base materials out of which Campbell Milligan has forged his enviable career in creative design. When, at an early point in his métier, Milligan’s habit of turning work into play saw him clearing out his desk at a major publications agency (his boss may have had trouble accepting Milligan's ability to balance his job of designing advertisements with regular collegial visits to the pub), the firm’s creative director stepped in, promptly rehiring Milligan to design not the ads, but the magazines themselves.

After taking over the visual design of magazines like Slam, Surfing Life and Waves, Milligan broke loose of the agencies, and in 2002 launched (with Chris Searl) the uniquely eclectic and formidably cool Monster Children. Now in its 32^nd issue, Monster Children is a long-running testament to Milligan’s talents as the creator of radical, sometimes gritty, and ever-impactful imagery and editorial design.

‘Thinking Made Visual’ is the name of the talk that Milligan will give in what will be the eleventh in a series of presentations organised by design mavens Australian INfront and Apple. Milligan will discuss his beginnings in the publishing industry, the ins-and-outs of his creative process, and his vast experience in brand identity creation, design and advertising for some of the world’s most recognised companies. Open to the public and completely free, Milligan will offer his insights in the design-oriented surrounds of the Sydney Apple shop. Design devotees: save the date.