After writing my previous post I had a look at Gareth Holt's other work and discovered his ingenious flat pack hat design. The wool felt FlatHat has lattice cuts and can be "folded, stuffed or rolled within a pocket when not worn, without being crushed or damaging the structure".
Brilliant!
Wool Felt FlatHat
15 April 2009
The Art of Visual Communication
As a graphic designer one of the things that interests me is the art of visual communication. So I was tickled to find these brilliant examples which are a collaboration between Ben Branagan and Gareth Holt for an exhibition called 'Rank': Picturing the Social Order 1516 - 2009.
These imaginatively designed 'charts' were created to depict statistical data exploring different aspects of social hierarchy. The text is easier to read on Ben's site - the charts aren't so meaningful or impressive if you can't read them!
Socio-economic classification of the working population, Spring 2002Image Source: Ben Branagan.
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Embroidered Paper
I have a thing for paper. I was origami mad as a child and have always loved creating anything with paper. I've been working on some 3D paper forms lately and I've been experimenting with paper embroidery. I'm not really ready to show anything yet, but I will when I'm happy with it all. Anyway... this is a round about introduction to some embroidered paper and embroidered illustrations I've found. I love the somewhat unexpected combination of paper and thread.
I blogged about Darren Song's work a month or so ago, and then I just had to order a custom made 'Ollie The Red Panda' from his etsy shop. I took some close up photos (above) to show you how wonderfully layered and dense the stitching is.
I had a little wander around etsy and found these lovely examples of embroidered paper.
One-of-a-kind Embroidered Map Collage - East, by Shannon Rankin of selflesh.
Happy card, by orangedotgreen.
And I love this Gem Rain card by sissyFIST.
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A slow and gentle start
14 April 2009
After being away for the 4 day weekend I'm off to a slow start. I had a complete break from work and the computer, which is very unusual for me. As a consequence I'm finding it difficult getting into the swing of things, despite the long list of things that need my attention.
So as you can see by this post I'm easing myself into the day and the week ahead...
I hope you had a wonderful break. Did you eat too much chocolate? We did. I think it's the only time of the year that you can somewhat justify eating chocolate for breakfast!
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Happy Easter
09 April 2009
I'm looking forward to the four day Easter break after such a hectic week filling egg orders.
I have to say a big thank you to Lee Tran Lam who generously wrote about my Chalkboard Eggs on her blog The Unbearable Lightness of Being Hungry - isn't that the best name?! - and spoke about them on the radio. To top it off she managed to get them featured on NotCot (very exciting), which resulted in a flurry of orders.
Then my eggs started popping up all over the place on the net including on Apartment Therapy. Amazing.
Edit/Update: Thanks also to Free People and Poppytalk for featuring my Chalkboard Eggs. I'm truly grateful for all the wonderful exposure on these and other blogs.
Thanks everyone for your support, enthusiasm and orders!
I am going to keep selling my Chalkboard Eggs throughout the year as I've had orders that aren't specifically for Easter. Here's the shameless plug: They would make a fun and quirky gift for many occasions and you can order them through my website.
Apologies for not posting more today, but I'm a bit snowed under. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend and I'll see you back here on Tuesday.
Oh and do check out Lee Tran's foodie blog, especially if you're in Sydney - she's written a mouthwatering post about the best Easter chocolate finds around town.
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