Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label australia. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10

This blog is moving house!



Our blog is moving to it's new home.  We've been busy busy busy and we've just launched our new website. We're happy with it, and although there will be some inevitable tweaking, it's so nice have all of our pages and galleries and information in one place - finally!  Our letterpress studio, tucked up high in the hills of Northern NSW is purring away each day, creating hand-made objects and products of beauty and use. This really is the main focus of our work place, making beautiful things that have a place in each and every home, things of usefulness and pleasure. As well as printing custom design jobs, we produce a range of hand-printed and assembled letterpress products such as notebooks and gift cards. Our new range of notebooks are coming together this week, they are inspired by the hues of Japan and it's breathtaking textiles;  it's exciting watching every aspect of their design materialising before us. We hand-print our gift cards also, and one by one our designs are rolling of the press and into our online stores and bricks and mortar stockists.  I can't tell you how great it is to be creating everyday and doing precisely what we love.

So from this moment on, all of our blog posts will be published directly from our new website.  It's the spot to visit if you're curious about who we are, where we are and what we do.  We'll be posting about our most recent print jobs, our inspiring clients and the business of making (or trying to make) a living from a creative life.  We will bring you links to people who inspire us in our everyday creative practices, artists who blow our minds, designers who we admire, friends who are toiling away at their own beautiful creative lives and some fine sites and blogs to visit.

We would love you to visit our new online "home" where you can explore our work, find links to our stores and stockists or find info about up and coming workshops. If you do visit be sure to say hi, you can leave a comment on the blog or drop us a note via the contacts page.  We'd love to hear from you.

Monday, February 4


Time to get back to work! I'm so excited to be moving into a new studio this week. Our beautiful Heidelberg press resides at our home in the hills,  but all of the drawing, printing and ideas work will now be happening in the Murwillumbah studio.  The best part of being in the town studio this year will be the people I'm surrounded by; all unique mentors in their own way and all marvellously inspiring and endlessly creative. I can't wait to see what work comes from all of this positive energy. Is your studio a ball of electric energy or are you the country mouse motivated by solitude and peace?

Sunday, July 1

Fire + Book + Bind Workshop

 



I love taking workshops, facilitating them and teaching them.  I love seeing people achieve amazing things and I come away so inspired by the day. Totally recharged, energised and motivated to create.
The best thing to hear from someone who does one of our workshops (I work with the super talented Heather Matthew) is that it was the "best day I've had in so long" or that "I never give myself the opportunity to be creative and I love it".  The thing about creating is that it is so good for the soul, it gets you in touch with your "humaness" (if that is infact a word!), it is one of those activities that helps us find our voice, be still for a while, think it through and make something to be proud of.  We all love to learn and that little welling of pride that comes from success in print form, or book form is precious and to be treasured.  We feel alive when we make and that is something to do and do often.

xoxoxo








Monday, April 9

type and text workshop gallery









we love paper, folded and torn
we dig inkiness, buttery and delish
we love hanging with amazing people
who are fearless and brave and just "make"
no matter what
we love the studio 9 in uki vibe
we love collaboration and sharing 
we love cups of tea
we love print


thanks gorgeous type and text workshop people
for coming together to produce beautiful things

xoxo


































Wednesday, February 29

Memory Stack


last day of summer, cool iced coffee in a cool place, inspired by the energy of a dear friend, dashing in tutus, icy-poles and weaving roads, a busy studio stacking papers for women who run with scissors........

a glimpse of one hot day

soon to be a stack of memories

a memory stack?



  









Friday, February 10

I love poems that don't rhyme

I love the disjointed, the little shock, the yuck/yum.  It makes me smile when things are not quite right, slightly off to one side, so unmistakably wrong, so unpalatable that they are delish. I like fluro yellow next to beige, strange colour upsets, a beautiful discord, a slipped finger, a wrong note played. I love the imperfect and the lop-sided, the dropped and the smudged, the rained on and the eye-sore.


A teacher once referred to me as "disjointed", my mother panicked but I smiled a deep smile, brushed my ponytail aside and wore it with pride.


I love poems that don't rhyme.