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TROPIC • UP FRONT

What’s hot and PHOTOGRAPHY BY
what’s not on Tropic’s WADE LEWIS
A renowned Cairns-based
radar right now. photographer who traverses
the country for clients, we
love Wade’s passion for his
subjects and ability to capture
striking images during his
WHAT’S HOT high-energy shoots. Some
of his shots for the Cairns
Indigenous Arts Festival are
absolutely stunning. Check
out his website wadelewis.art
and Instagram @romanpace

TROPIC STUDIO REBRAND
Our design and marketing agency
Tropic Studio has been so busy
rebranding other businesses, we STRAW NO MORE MEET EAT REPEAT ON FLORENCE
thought it was about time to give Cairns student Molly Steer and her Straw AND PETE MURRAY
ourselves a refresh. Our design team, No More campaign has been backed by FOR CPAC OPEN DAY
led by Caitlin and Amy, customised a re-elected Leichhardt MP Warren Entsch, We’re calling it early: this will be the
friendly, modern sans serif typeface to who vowed to make it his mission to get best community celebration of the year.
help establish the studio’s new identity. a national policy on banning single-use Happening on June 22, the CPAC Open
Curves and asymmetric elements are plastics. With success on gay marriage Day will include our foodie festival
representations of the flow of creativity and medicinal marijuana, Entschy’s got a Meet Eat Repeat taking over Florence St
and shaping of ideas, while hand drawn new cause, and we commend it. alongside a massive concert from Pete
aspects create an approachable feel, Murray. And it’s all free. See you there.
and personifies our approach to every
project and every client. The yellow
and blue colour palette portrays our WHAT’S NOT
tropical location and the ever-stylish
#000000 colour - otherwise known as
black - bounces off those brighter hues
to create a bold, confident, and timeless TIME TO TACKLE CRIME
look and feel. Our team at Tropic Studio TropicNow.com.au has been
strives to deliver next-level projects for covering crime issues in depth
clients (large and small) and we aim recently because the problem
to produce the type of high-quality remains acute. Cairns MP Michael
work you’d normally only expect from Healy and the Queensland
a capital city agency. We’d love to work NEW MUSIC GALORE Government should step up and do
with you on your next project. We’ve been spoiled for choice when it more to address youth crime in the
Turn to page 50 and page 59 to see the comes to new albums in recent weeks. suburbs and anti-social behaviour
new brand in action, or visit Some of our faves doing the rounds in the Cairns CBD. Take the
tropicstudio.com.au to find out more. of Tropic HQ’s speakers include The issue seriously, make it a priority
National, Tyler The Creator, Vampire and work harder to reverse the
Weekend, Crooked Colours, Alex Lahey, negative perceptions it’s creating
Interpol and more. for our city.

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