Once Upon an Art Show in Sydney

Once Upon launched last Thursday night, and by all reports it was a fantastic night in Sydney. I wish I had the cash for plane tickets down for the last week, because Happenstance were launching their second issue (which I’m in!) as well! One of my pieces sold, but the other three are still for…

My Collection

I keep forgetting to do the My Place and Yours theme! This week’s is My Collection, set by Fox’s Lane. I have collections of a few little things: pens, pencils, doilies but nothing big. They’re all useful things too. The biggest collection I have is buttons… just random buttons. Pearl buttons, shirt buttons, spare buttons,…

New Work

I am drawing my arm off lately for lots of people, but the other day I had a day to do something for me. This piece is bigger than I usually draw, but as a result I can’t scan it without doing bits and stitching them all together. I don’t have the time or patience…

Lettering, a lolly and a lady

This month the lovely Lady Melbourne is being lovely on the cover of Peppermint magazine; my lettering is quite chuffed to hover at her shoulder! And most exciting, Peppermint won three awards for design and sustainability at the Publisher’s Australia Excellence Awards. Congratulations, I feel awesome by proxy having worked with you Kelley!

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…

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…