What is Frank & Dixon?

ASIDE: What follows is what this part of the site used to say...but everything's changed now. When I find the words to write I'll probably re-write this whole website. (Chris Dixon -16/8/2006)

Frank & Dixon was formed, as a concept, on a bus somewhere on the way to Kathmandu in the middle of 2003. We were both working in Nepal and on our way to visit a printer in Kathmandu. By the time the 7 hour bus trip was over we'd already published several books on subjects covering at least three continents, won the Bollywood equivalent of an Oscar and released a one-hit-wonder on the Nepali pop music scene. Basically, we realised that we had far too many creative project ideas to just go our separate ways after Nepal.

Beginning with a few ideas and imagery we'd already generated while working in Nepal we launched frankndixon.com in August of 2004.

Frank & Dixon could, I think, best be described as an artistic collaboration between Tim Frank and myself, Chris Dixon. Sort of like a band, except without the music bit [when we're rich and famous I'm going to do a design, print it out and then smash up my mac]. The idea being, to create a platform upon which to work on creative projects, explore ideas and hopefully communicate some of the way we see this mad world that we all live in.

 

Then who is Chris Dixon?

Born 19 January 1976 [the year of the dragon] in Townsville, Northern Queensland, Australia. Grew up in a Christian, middle class family on the Sunshine Coast, Dad worked in Brisbane [the city] in a bank, I went to a small Lutheran school in the coastal town of Buderim.

Underachieving in high school resulted in being sent to boarding school in the country town of Toowoomba where my coastal origins were automatically equated with homosexuality. Fortunately, being thought of as cool by country boys wasn't that high on my list of priorities. After school, everyone I hung out with [all the other gay people] went off to study law or medicine in the city and I got a job at a supermarket back on the Coast pushing shopping trolleys.

Somehow I ended up applying for a Graphic Design course in the city and discovered that it was words, images and type, or a combination of all three, that was my obsession. I left Design College to work in a small advertising agency called Redsuit. Hung out in the Valley a lot.

Hoping there was more to life than advertising, I got married to the lovely Sara and went traveling through Asia in search of something else to do. I met Tim in Nepal who was then working for the International Nepal Fellowship.

Following two years of working with Tim in Nepal with INF we realised that actually, it was time to stop communicating other peoples ideas and time to start sharing a few of our own.

 

And what about Tim Frank?

One day very soon there'll be some sort of bio written by Tim here, but until that point, we can assume that he is very well occupied chasing his two delightful children around the Pokhara valley.