I’m very excited to announce I have signed with French Talent Agency Creasenso. I’m excited to see what new projects come my way through this partnership.
European Agent Creasenso
Art to Art
I’m pleased to say that I’ve been recently added to the Art to Art family and some of my original artworks are now available to buy online. There’s lots of great arts and craft pieces up on the site and it’s growing.
We Heart Numbers Exhibition
The “We Heart” girls are at it again. If you’re in Brisbane this Friday night, join us at 6:00pm Friday May 4 at The Rabbit Hole Gallery in West End, Brisbane to help open our latest exhibition ‘We Heart Numbers’ and share our love for those less celebrated characters of the typographic alphabet.
The Rabbit Hole Gallery @The Ideation Cafe, Shop 2/73 Vulture Street, West End, Brisbane.
Can’t make the opening night? Well the exhibition itself will be running until the 19th of May, there should a wide variety of pieces on show with 14 people interpreting numbers in their own unique way.
Swingin' Safari Talk
If you’re in Surfers Paradise on Thursday May 3rd, stop by Swingin’ Safari at 7pm. I’ll be giving a free talk about my tactile typography and then there will be jazz afterwards. Should be a fun night. Brought to you by the lovely folk at Community hArt.
Postcards from Rome
I’m very excited to launch my latest project, Postcards from Rome. In June this year, I will heading off to Rome in Italy to participate in a Masters of Typography workshop, run by the School of Visual Arts in New York and one of my typography heroes, Lousie Fili is going to be there. Yay!
Anyway, I digress, I’ve created a Tactile Typography Books Arts project that you can participate in … yes YOU.
Whilst in Rome, I plan to make a series of tactile typography postcards. These postcards will be inspired by you and your requests for people, places and things from Rome. The finished postcards will then be combined into a book “Postcards from Rome” which will contain photographs of these handmade postcards, the stories behind how they were made and your stories about why they were chosen.
So head over to Postcards from Rome, research the city and choose a meaningful place, person or thing you would like to receive a postcard from. Be as creative as you like—it can be the Colosseum, Julius Caesar, or a bowl of pasta, so long as it is quintessentially “Roma”, and then choose the payment option that best suits you.
For as little as $100 you can receive an original tactile typography postcard, a signed copy of the limited-edition hardcover book and the chance to participate in an International Book Arts project (option three).
I can’t wait to see what you come up with!
Made in the Now: part 2
My second Made in the Now shirt design will be available to purchase for the next 24 hours.
I really wanted to do a piece of tactile typography for my second design and todays’ news story was about Mt. Everest finally getting cleaned up by the Eco Everest Expedition.
When I read about all the piles of junk on Mount Everest, making the word EVEREST out of my own junk seemed like a great idea. I used the negative space of the word to show that Everest was going to be clean at last. Luckily my studio waste bin was full of rubbish, so I sorted through it and found lots of junk from the past few weeks. If you look closely you’ll find a tea bag, my Bluesfest wristband from yesterday, a nerf gun bullet and the organic mocha I had for breakfast.
I did consider using frozen excrement and dead bodies, but I didn’t think that would make a particularly nice T-shirt. The T-shirt is available to buy today only.
You can view larger shots in my portfolio section.
Dulux Colour Awards
Just found out today my Pixel Portrait has been shortlisted in the Dulux Colour Awards. The winner will be announced on March 28th.
There are some really beautiful interiors in the competition and I think it’s a great initiative by Dulux.
Made in the Now
My Made in the Now shirt design will be available to purchase for the next 24 hours.
Jimmy Ellis was most well known for singing on the awesome 70s track “Disco Inferno”, and he died on Thursday, so a flaming mirror ball shooting up to Heaven seemed the most fitting tribute. I also read somewhere they play this song at a lot of sporting events, so I wanted it to almost look like a sporting logo as well.
I had the song playing non-stop whilst creating this design, so it is filled with Jimmy’s spirit.
Working to such a tight deadline really tested me, because I usually take so long to create my designs, but boy it was fun and I can’t wait to wear the shirt.
I think once I receive it, I’ll add some tactile elements and customise it myself, because the print process used to make the shirt won’t allow for that, but of course, it has to be tactile if I’m going to wear it!
Seven X Seven DIA Queensland
Seven guest speakers. Seven minutes each.
I’ll be one of the seven speaking at the “Youngbloods” talk on March 23, 2012 at Rabbit + Cocoon on the Gold Coast, along with Kiel Tillman, Claudio Kirac, Paul Everest, Rob Bare, Luke Brown and Jolie Hertzberg.
Download the A3 poster with speaker bios here.
Square One
I’m pleased to say I’m part of an upcoming Strutten show called Square One, alongside a very talented friend of mine, Katelyn Hankison. Should be a varied and interesting show.
