I have a lot of talented friends, and I only realised it when I sat down and thought about writing profiles on all of them to share with you here! I have friends who are photographers, artists, designers, models, performers, publishers, writers, musicians and activists. For most of these guys, I’m lucky to have fallen…
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If I had a cupcake shop…
If I had a cupcake shop, I would have so much fun designing the packaging. Actually, I don’t want to own a cupcake shop really… I just want to design fun stuff. So I guess I’m in the perfect job already. ha! I made some cupcakes for my friend Ellie’s birthday! I think that smug…
Bruises are Semi-Permanent too: the Brisbane conference
Yesterday I attended Semi-Permanent 2009 in Brisbane at the Convention Centre. I left feeling overwhelmed, inspired, intimidated and SORE… my head was so full of ideas that I was a little scared, truth be told. I guess if you are scared of ideas, you shouldn’t go to these things :P The highlights of the day…
New year, new business cards!
I had been wanting some new cards ever since I got married last year, because nothing is more unprofessional than a graphic designer scribbling out their old surname on their business card and hastily scrawling their new surname! I decided to use my gocco because my style lends itself much more to “DIY chic” than…
The giftmas that won’t end
Tonight I’m giving the gifts we bought in Melbourne to my family, as well as Mum’s birthday present because she was born on this fabulous day. I am pretty sure none of them will check my blog today, so I’m going to post photos! I didn’t do quite so much elaborate drawing on these because…
Marimekko does Avon
My mum gets Avon catalogues every month which ensures trashy toilet reading when I visit, and that we always get something Avonish for Giftmas. Maybe I’m a snob, but the cosmetics smell like soap! Any way, I heard a while back that Avon had licenced a Marimekko print for a promotional thing and was interested…
Speaking of typography in poster design…
These are from the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (via Speak Up)… and they’re intimidatingly frelling brilliant. Paul Grabowski TDC NY on the DRUPA 2008 University of Applied Sciences Wuerzburg-Schweinfurt John Passafiume (Process) Indiana University Bloomington
World Youth Day, not so much for youths of the world
you darn punks! by Paul McClintock I don’t often get into divisive topics here, but I need to talk about World Youth Day and what a load of civil rights intruding bollocks it is. Not only are the “celebrations” making it difficult for citizens of Sydney to move around their city for the month –…
My doodles (how rude)
Sometimes I doodle just for the hell of it, and there are a lot of times that I produce things that are kind of cool that I could never sell as prints. For example: lately I have taken to defacing my magazines – it’s a way to reuse paper, and often the paper stock is…
Adobe eSeminars in July
Adobe are conducting free eSeminars for Australian and New Zealand designers in July – you can register for quite a variety of online seminars catering to web and mobile developers, video and print designers and photographers. I’ve signed up for all the design seminars already, as well as the Creative Fesival which is kicking off…