I didn’t know KFC also built homes… What were they thinking?! To cheer you up… From Adverbatims This is dedicated to all the graphic designers in the world, and anyone else who ever has to do anything fabulous on a tight budget.
The Fad of Flourishes – Naff or Not?
Honestly, it feels like flourishes are everywhere. As someone who has doodled throughout her life, during classes at high school and university and later whiling away time in meetings in “proper adult life”, I feel a little sold out. But to tell the truth I also feel a little vindicated. I remember I first started…
For $500 I’m prepared to get Naked & Angry!
A little while ago i submitted patterns to Naked & Angry, a community driven site focusing on pattern and textile design, created by skinnyCorp – the guys behind threadless.com. I was stoked to see my submissions approved, and shamelessly promoted myself to all my internerd friends, and then promptly forgot about it. Tonight I came…
I’m about to betray myself…
I am a really daggy font nerd. I was browsing through a bridal accessories brochure today, and I came across the most amazing typeface. After doing a little bit of digging, it was identified as Affair, by Umbrella Type. It looks like it could have been based on Snell Roundhand, but it has much more…
Wedding Scrapbook
I’ve been enamoured of anything Victorian in recent months, but at the same time I’ve also had a lot of Asian influences in my life because I live in Australia and I’ve lived most of my life being surrounded by Asian culture and art. When I was a young girl, my auntie Katrina gave me…
briswiki.com
Nick and I bought the domain briswiki.com last year and never got around to doing anything with it. Nick’s developed quite the wiki fever lately, and so I suggested that we resurrect the idea. Anyway, if you’re wiki-mad like Nick, and you live in Brisbane – we’d like to invite you to contribute to briswiki.com.…