⇒ Charlotte Gainsbourg in Vogue Paris – so lovely! ⇒ Rebecca Wetzler‘s illustrations for Bloom combine ink and watercolour, two of my favourite things! ⇒ Bugs and Fishes makes some really adorable felt objects, and she often writes up tutorials on how to make things like these lavendar teabags. Cute! ⇒ I would love to…
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Happy birthday November babies
Today is my husband’s 30th birthday – he storms into his third decade on earth with panache! My sister celebrated her birthday on November 3, or Melbourne Cup day. She was rather sozzled :P
Friday Fance: cats, mangos and whimsy
⇒ I wonder what makes cats so fancy? I’m not a cat person myself, but I can’t deny Caitlin Shearer’s Leaning Tower of Cats has far too much whimsy for it’s own good! Caitlin will also be participating in Once Upon – her fairy tale is Cinderella. ⇒ There is nothing better than mango. NOTHING!…
Friday Fance: Late Edition
I wasn’t sure I’d get the Fance up today because I had a bunch of stuff to do, coupled with some stuff I forgot I had to do. I’m not one of those organised bloggers who has posts queued up for weeks… noooooo. This is genuine off-the-cuff blogging magic, right here. I took my carrot…
Friday Fance: Random Fance
⇒ If you move in the typographic circles online, no doubt you’ll have gotten wind of this already but I wanted to show you Jessica Hische‘s project called Daily Drop Cap. She’s an incredible letterer(erererer)! F stands for “Fancy”, indubitably. ⇒ If you like photobooths and fetishising French quaintness, you will probably lose your shizz…
Fanciful Friday: Random fance time
⇒ I am obsessed with the illustrations of Ernst Haeckel! ⇒ Early Vogue cover illustrations are so fancy, so wonderful! Check out a whole heap here. ⇒ The hair styling for this I-D shoot, by Paolo Roversi, is gorgeous. See more here at foto_decadent. ⇒ This ornamental typeface called Cadence is inspiring. It makes me…
Hello October!
Thanks to Nick for giving me the idea for this month’s desktop. Moustaches with curlicues! To download one of these wallpapers, click the link to go to the flickr page where you’ll have to go to “All sizes” to download it and pop in to your background. 1920×1200 1680×1050 1600×1200 320×480 240×320 This work is…
I love typography
I bought some books from Book Depository the other week and two of them were typography related, Mike Perry’s Hand Job and The Handy Book of Artistic Printing. I really relish these books because I don’t often by them for myself, and I’d been eying them for a while! As a result, all I can…
Might I ask a favour?
You might remember this from when I wrote about entering this piece in the Red Bubble/ Stefen Sagmeister collaboration; it’s open for voting now and if it’s not too out of your way, I would love you to vote for me! Thank you!
Save handwriting!
This quote from Drawn! makes me sad: The decline of cursive is happening as students are doing more and more work on computers, including writing. In 2011, the writing test of the National Assessment of Educational Progress will require 8th and 11th graders to compose on computers, with 4th graders following in 2019. Handwriting is…