Archive for August, 2007

I’m not going to make a secret of it – I’m fat. Plus sized, significant, curvy, voluptuous or however you want to play the semantics game, at the end of the day I’m still fat. One of the topics I plan to cover in my blog is fat fashion, and in this post in...
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This is still beautiful. I’d love to be a part of a design and illustration magazine with really old influences like the examples in this post. If you’re interested in design and typography, check these out… Some of the lettering even looks hand crafted! It’s also interesting to note that there are typefaces used...
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I don’t have a business card. I am a graphic designer, and I’ve created hundreds of business cards for people (given, I’ve worked for two large companies…!). Our small marketing company has three people in it, but in the next few weeks it will double in size. Which of course, means I have to...
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Last night was the inaugural session of Dr Sketchy’s Anti-Art Class in Brisbane, organised and hosted by the wonderful Omega, one of my very own pals! I’ve longed to attend a Dr Sketchy’s class ever since Molly Crabapple started the first one in New York in 2005 so I was chuffed when Omega announced...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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