From the monthly archives: September 2007
I’ve had my first request for a tutorial! It never occurred to me that people weren’t aware of how to get elements “weaving” in and out of other elements (like text) in Illustrator. So click through and check out my first tutorial on “Weaving Flourishes”.
Yesterday I went to the flower market with Mum and my sister Michelle, then to look at fabric at Sckafs. I’m really glad we did, we got an awesome quote on flowers and met a fabulous woman at Sckafs Indooroopilly who basically pulled all the fabrics and colours I wanted out of my imagination.
All I’m hearing is that black and white are “it” for decor. It’s a little too stark for my own personal tastes, but I’ve noticed a quirky little lighting trend harking all the way back to the 50s and 60s coming into vogue again. It makes sense, seeing that mid century furniture is all the [...]
I would never have picked Adobe to go backwards, and by backwards I mean to follow any crappy trend. Especially the Web 2.0 nightmare inflicting itself all over the internet right now – you’d expect Adobe to take heed of
This is a really unsexy topic for me to blog about, but I wanted to draw attention to the issue of RSI in the graphic design profession. It’s an injury that is very real in the workplace, but it doesn’t get much press. Usually sufferers pass it off as “just part of the job”, but [...]
If you read Craftzine.com you’ve probably seen this already: an amazing flickr group called “Rainbow of Books” dedicated to pictures of people’s bookcases that have been organised by colour.
This post marks the first of my free vector shapes posts, and today I’m offering a cute flower shape in positive and negative. I saw this flower in a piece of fabric and thought it’d be nice to turn into a vector shape for future use.
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Often I go scouting for pretty things on etsy.com that I can’t afford, but today I came across madeit.com.au, an Australian website supporting Australian independent craftsters. I think this is brilliant, because shipping from overseas on etsy (or any other site for that matter) often [...]
You can see my current obsession with green and brown, and also in the second image my now waning obsession with red and cream. In the near future I hope to start investigating putting my little scratchings to print, [...]
Fashion
Body Image
Fat-o-sphere
Fat-o-sphere - Australia
Fatshion - overseas
- A Giant Screamer
- A Well-Rounded Adventure
- Blog to be Alive
- Chubble Bubble
- Diva in Deep Thought
- Dollface is Candysweet
- Fat Girls Like Nice Clothes Too
- Fat Nurse
- GABIFRESH
- Heebie Jeebie Jaya
- I'm on my way…
- Jasifers Lions Club
- Le Blog de Big Beauty
- Mezzo Fatshionisto
- On The Q Train
- Pretty in Plus
- Return to Sender
- Stop!! You're Broke!!
- The Bargain Fatshionista
- The Full Nilson
- The Musings of a Fatshionista
- The Pale and Pallor Princess
- The Pocket Rocket
