In May 2013, Chris Norman of Melbourne-based 313RGB put on, in conjunction with Ian Anderson, a street-budget retrospective of TDR™’s work at No Vacancy / QV Gallery in Melbourne’s CBD.
This is some of the upside down press jibber-jabber about the show — "Ian Anderson / The Designers Republic™ — UpOverDownUnder™ held at No Vacancy, is a major showcase of the iconic work of The Designers Republic™ featuring the powerful visual language of consumerism and ironic plays on culture that have so heavily influenced a generation of creatives worldwide. Expect an array of large-scale work and installation which blitzes you with provocative imagery punctuated by manipulated, abstracted and questioning texts.” This is a link to the website https://www.tdr-upoverdownunder.com/

People who attended Ian's workshops (in Melbourne & Sydney) got one of these totes ‘free’ and there were around an extra 100 or so intended as giveaways / thank yous to sponsors / volunteers / TDR’s ‘little helpers’ etc (so 200 in total). There was another version (different material) available for sale. They’ve gone. And, apart from the 4 we exhumed from the archive available here, these have too.

Printed in reyt thick silver and double hit fluorescent Pantone 806 inks on black cotton, you'll never look so good saving the planet one bag at a time as you will with these beasts.