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Tomorrow is my first Mother's Day, which is quite a milestone. For the sake of memories I decided to post the invite I did for my baby shower (next post), when I was full of anticipation and had no idea of how life with a new baby would be. I must admit I was terrified. I thought I'd be struggling with sleep deprivation and post-natal depression.
Now it's almost six months later and I couldn't have hoped for a better summer. I managed to skip the baby blues which I've really gotta thank Johnny for. He takes Lukas for 3 hours each morning so I get to sleep in - and was lucky enough to have a happy, cheerful, easy baby.
Thanks Lukas!!
I've made some bright, 3D flowers, and you can tell from the colours and squiggles that this whole motherhood thing has been really fun so far. I couldn't decide which picci to use so I posted both.
Happy Mother's Day to my mum and all the other great mum's out there.
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Johnny got home late so I've been listening to the Election Budget on television just doodling on the computer. Better drag myself away from the screen for something to eat. xxxx
It seems that Glynis Trail-Nash, fashion editor from Sydney's Sun-Herald and I have very different tastes. I love the dress she hates (above, right). She refers to it as 'That Dress' - but not in a good way. She said it was 'possibly the most horrific dress of the week - something that looked like it had been cobbled together by collecting bits and pieces from mother's sewing and knitting bags.' Isn't that a good thing Glynis?
It's blue silk, with a gold, metallic insert and bright green crocheting. It wouldn't suit my body type (it's too short), but if it did, it'd be on my wish list for sure!
Television was particularly boring tonight so I decided to do some drawing with my Wacom tablet that I just dragged out of the cupboard. To keep it Fashion Week specific I drew some outfits from well known Australian designers. If you're familiar to Australian fashion, see if you can match the correct designer to the correct outfit: Alice McCall, Zimmerman or Romance Was Born. All three designers are part of 2007 Sydney Fashion Week. If you need to see more details, click the drawing to enlarge.
I found these graphic washing machines (below) on the blog at aphic.com, and also over at Print and Pattern. It reminded me that about a year ago I was helping Johnny with a freelance job, and had to make a washing machine in 3D. I must have had some down time, because I started putting patterns on the washing machine and at the time thought I was going mad. Obviously not that mad, because as you can see below, LG and the Designers Guild in the UK have got together and put out this colourful range of white goods. Above are the one's I did. (I got the below image from aphic.com)
Today is World Graphic Design Day - and I celebrated by buying a new font, called 'Kelvar Slab' (which I've used above) from the fantastic design and typography studio 'Letterbox'. They took festivities to a whole new level, by putting a font for sale on eBay. I haven't checked the auction results yet, but it'll be interesting to see how it goes - it's never been done before.
Anyway, it's been fun posting about different designers all week. I've learned heaps and have new found respect for some designers I didn't know much about before. A highlight for me has been Paula Scher's maps. When I've finished my freelance job I might do a map of my daily walks in Bondi. Also next week is Fashion Week in Sydney. Won't be posting every day but will post my favourites.
xxxx
I decided to post on Deanne Cheuk today for a number of reasons. She’s a protégé of David Carson’s, she’s an Australian export, she’s female - and I feel a personal connection to watching her career. It was almost a decade ago that I picked up a copy of MU magazine from my local newsagency and was curious as to who was creating this unusual publication.Since then, she’s risen to stardom, being named one of the top 50 creative minds in the world by Face magazine, as well as many other accolades such as the ‘most influential designer’ by Yen.She started out in the late 90’s in Perth, Australia, where she art directed Mu magazine from her bedroom. She then headed overseas – to New York, working with David Carson, before art directing for Tokion Magazine. She's compiled Neomu, a self published ‘zine’ showcasing creative work from designers and artists - donating profits to charity. Also an illustrator, she contributes to magazines such as Nippon, Vogue, Flaunt, and Dazed and Confused. These days she’s involved in a clothing label called Liness with Rilla Alexander from Rinzen and Yasmin Majidi, a New York fashion designer.Her style has always been experimental, becoming more collage based and illustrative as time goes on. Above are some images of her early design work from MU, and a collage based work from the Liness website. Images of her creative use of typography at Tokion can be seen at Design Sponge.
David Carson is the first of the graphic designers I’ve looked at this week that isn’t formally trained in art or design. He has a sociology degree, during which he did a three-week graphic design course. His career started as a high school teacher, where he experimented with graphics and became part of the underground scene in North Carolina. He then began art directing a skate-boarding magazine, while also working as a professional surfer. His links to the surfing world helped land him an art directing job at the surf magazine Beach Culture. The design was so experimental that many advertisers stopped working with the publication, however his time at the magazine won him over 150 awards in the graphic design community. In 1992 he launched Ray Gun magazine. It’s cutting-edge style attracted public notoriety, with articles on David Carson appearing in Newsweek and New York Times. It can be said that after Ray Gun, design became equal to content in segments of the magazine market.
Since then he has published many books, including ‘The End of Print’, the largest selling book on graphic design. He now runs David Carson Design, which works on photography, film and web based projects with clients such as Nine Inch nails, Toyota, Mercedes Benz, Microsoft, Quiksilver, David Byrne and Pepsi. Recent work by David Carson can be seen in the book ‘Trek’ (image above), which is published through Ginko Press.
Images above are from typogabor.com and davidcarsondesign.com
Today I thought I'd post on Neville Brody - one of the 'rock star' designers who we can thank for a creative flare in typography that didn't exist before him. A London designer, he studied at the London College of Communication, and went on to create independent record covers at Fetish Records. He was influenced by rebellious styles of music such as Punk and aesthetically he was drawn to movements such as Da Da and Pop.
His work received a larger audience when he worked as an Art Director at Face, and then Arena magazines in the 80’s. In the late 80’s the book ‘The Graphic Language of Neville Brody’ was published along with an exhibition at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. From this exposure his client base grew and since then he has worked on major projects in Berlin, Japan and the Netherlands.
He opened Fontworks in the 90’s and became a director of FontShop International, who is responsible for FUSE magazine – a publication dedicated to experimental typography and graphics. He now runs Research Studios which is responsible for FUSE publications and conferences. Designers from Research Studio’s continue to work with exploratory design ideas have opened offices in Paris and Berlin.
After posting on two very neat, minimal designers I decided to add the extremely loud and experimental designer Paula Scher. One of the most well known female graphic designers of our time, she studied at the Tyler School of Art, and has a doctorate degree from the the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She has been art director for Columbia records, designed well known logo's such as Tiffany's and Citibank, and done work for The Public Theater, Target, Bloomberg and the Botanic Garden to name a few. She has received numerous graphic design awards, taught for at the School of Visual Arts for over twenty years, and has work in musuem collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
She is currently a partner at Pentagram, and has been crossing over into fine arts with paintings of huge, colourful maps. (above), exhibited at Maya Stendhal Gallery New York.
Images (above two) from noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com and underconsideration.com. Middle image from mayastendhalgallery.com and
bottom image from expositions.bnf.fr
