Year of Creativity 2008

Admcom have heralded 2008 as the Year of Creativity and I’ve taken up their invitation to be someone else. Of course, I needed new business cards to complement my new career, and AdmCom delivered with their hilarious business card creator. No more minding my Ps and Qs! I’m removing any guise of censorship on definatalie.com!…

Get FUNK’D! Say no to design contests.

FUNK’D have posted in the Red Bubble forums (and I suspect a few others) about their label competition. Please consider absolutely all the entry conditions before entering a design contest like this. From their website’s FAQ: Do you offer a cash prize? We do not offer a cash prize. The winner will have their design…

Mum, where does fabric come from?

I just adore textiles. There are so many new textile designers emerging in Australia and it’s incredibly exciting for me because it’s something I have always wanted to get into. I read the blogs of Kristin Doran, Lara Cameron, Danielle Smeets and Bianca van Meeuwen and besides the longing I have to own some of…

My TED696 entry is up!

Go to tedcreated.com.au, click on the GALLERY page and scroll on down until you see my piece of fabulosity. Click on it and drag the slider to “I’m diggin it!” You can vote every day, so keep going back every day to vote on mine! I wish I could direct link, but it’s flash :(

Stop. Request Time.

Now that I have more time I’d like to be able to focus on contributing more to the knowledge base available for Adobe Illustrator on the world wide interweb tubes. If you have a tutorial request, or a simple question, let me know so I can start planning a series of posts on de-mystifying this…

Do you have a pretty face?

A while ago I collaborated with my amazing friend Heidi and contributed some of my artwork to her campaign. Now, the pictures of lovely pretty faces wearing the pretty face tshirt design are rolling in! The drawing is based on Things You Should Say Every Day #1 and if you like it, buy a print…

Infinity is for Lovers

Another Valentine’s related piece but this time it’s the one I drew for my fiance for V day! I received my copy of Marian Bantjes‘ Fox River collaboration the other day and I’ve been utterly inspired ever since. I tell you what though, it was SO hard trying to get a copy of this to…