Lately I’ve really been getting into hand lettering. I’m totally inspired by Marian Bantjes, Linzie Hunter and Chris Piascik amongst a few others. For a long time I’ve felt either overwhelmed or just flat out imprisoned by computer fonts, so I’m enjoying the freedom of shaping my own words. These are a few of...
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Tags: hand lettered, typefaces, Typography
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I don’t often post photography, but Paul Vanzella‘s D.I.Y featuring MissT blew me away tonight. The styling, the subject, the FABULOSITY!!!!
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Tags: Art, misst, paul vanzella, Photography, pin up
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Thank you notes for our wedding (yes, late but what else would my friends and family expect from me?) Some drawings of pretty gals. More magazine doodling. Felt paisleys. My rat Willis died on Saturday :( I’ve also been quite busy with freelance design work! If you want to check out my portfolio, it’s...
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Tags: A Creative Career, designed by natalie, drawing, felt, illustration, paisley
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Pens. PENS! I love pens. I used to be the stationery queen at one of my old jobs, and I got to order all the stationery for the company. I pretty much hated it, but I loved flipping through the catalogue looking at all the pens. The other week I ordered some stuff through...
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Tags: A Creative Career, drawing, elsa mora, jetpens, packages, pens
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you darn punks! by Paul McClintock I don’t often get into divisive topics here, but I need to talk about World Youth Day and what a load of civil rights intruding bollocks it is. Not only are the “celebrations” making it difficult for citizens of Sydney to move around their city for the month...
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Tags: Design, design as protest, red bubble
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Sometimes I doodle just for the hell of it, and there are a lot of times that I produce things that are kind of cool that I could never sell as prints. For example: lately I have taken to defacing my magazines – it’s a way to reuse paper, and often the paper stock...
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Tags: Art, Design, designed by natalie, drawing, illustration, paisley
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Lately I have been pretty busy and preoccupied with other things, and I feel bad that I have neglected my bloggerly duties. Sometimes, you get into funks and just don’t know what to write about! I am a very visual person, and often I feel like I could just communicate via images but for...
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Tags: A Beautiful Life, blog issues, cupcakes, designed by natalie, illustration
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