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”.
All posts in September 2007
Flowers and Fabric – What an awesome Saturday.
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. My…
DefinataliesPeacockShapes1.zip
White Lighting Trend
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…
Photoshop brand too frothy
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 the doomsayers of the bubble logo trend! My co-worker and I joke about Web 2.0,…
Repetitive Strain Injury and Graphic Design
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…
Books + RGB = Super Nerdy Love
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 excited me so much I had to go and rearrange our book case. And that was when I discovered that a lot of my books…
Free vectors – Flowers
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. Bittbox.com has been offering fabulous FREE vector resources for…
Objects of Desire – madeit.com.au edition
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 makes cheap and chic objects of desire cost prohibitive. Big…
Some of my work
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, and I’m going to look into a press to get that gorgeous letterpress effect. A few…