Recent Reflections

Make no mistake, creating a yearbook, jewellery, video or creative production is no easy task. The process involves the input of tens/hundreds of contributors. The pressure for excellence is high. The deadlines are unforgiving. Anyone who tells you that they don’t make mistakes is lying. We’re human. Mistakes are part of our life and blood. [...]



Snotty Sydney People

What is it with Sydney? What is it with our snotty little attitudes, wanting the world, wanting it perfect, and wanting it NOW. I’m having one of those moments where you suddenly realise themes that pop up consistently in day-to-day things. Rockstar being snotty to Optus Rockstar aren’t perfect. We try hard to be, but [...]



So today we filmed Australia’s first lip dub…

… and it went amazingly awesome! A huuuge shout-out to all the Year 12s at Baulkham Hills High School – an absolutely amazing grade! We wanted to jot down some of the lessons we learnt from directing and filming today’s lip dub. Hopefully this will be useful for other budding lip dub organiser and directors! [...]



7 new positions – we’re hiring

It’s almost September, and we’ve almost hit 4th gear! We’re looking for 7 awesome people to join our crew: 1 x Music Video Choreographer We’re filming Australia’s first lip-dub music clip, with 200 students dancing to Just Dance – Lady Gaga and Good Girls Go Bad – Cobra Starship. Can you choreograph dance and lyrical [...]



Round-up of Rockstar Orientation 2010

It’s 10:39pm Sunday night. After 6 hours of solid cleaning, the studio is finally back to clean, ready for another fantastic week! Rockstar’s annual Orientation took place last Friday, and it was an absolutely awesome event! The fifth one we’ve ever run, each year keeps getting better and better. Orientation is Rockstar’s way of welcoming, [...]



Deadlines, Guidelines – all sorts of lines!

It’s nearing the end of second term of the Australian school year and Winter holidays are just around the corner. Mmm! Sipping tea curled up on the couch with a good book! If you’re a school yearbook coordinator or editor, things will probably be pretty calm at the moment but come Term 3 and Term [...]



7 Reasons to choose Rockstar

Best Quality Guarantee :: Best Prices Around :: Australian Locations :: Trusted by Hundreds of Schools :: The Best Service in Australia :: Supporting Young Australian Designers



Introducing the YearBox!

Whatever happened to that kindy class photo, fabulous dinosaur drawing from art class, friendship bracelet, trophy for winning the school soccer competition? These treasured keepsakes can so easily be lost and forgotten, if there’s not one special place to store them all…



99 ATAR and Med at the 1.

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Karen is in Japan

In mid 2007, we had Karen join us as a student graphic designer. She was a little different in various ways. We like different. Karen was obsessed with Courier New, but left us after a couple of weeks. I later found out that she told some of the others that I (the boss) was “missing [...]