Showing posts with label visual. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visual. 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.
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Monday, September 10
Why you should love Instagram
I know it's probably a very popular thing to do and yes, maybe I have been totally seduced by the ease of creating fab pics from generic filters, but I really love Instagram and I'll tell you why. Firstly, if you are not one of the gazillion people currently obsessed by this visual feast then let me get you up to speed. Instagram is an app for your phone, you take a pic, crop it, apply a filter and bingo you are an instantly fab "phonographer" who can take atmospheric and sumptuous images by simply snapping pics on the run with no major crisis about the correct exposure, weather conditions, shutter speed or aperture. It's easy photography, some photo snobs may even say "lazy" but Instagram has a fair bit going for it and here's why. Good old Instagram makes you take notice. Suddenly every trip into town, every moment spent with the family, every outing, every landscape before you, every lost moment waiting for the bus or being stuck at the roadworks become an opportunity to look around you, line up a composition, focus on a colour, get happy finding a pattern or just see something beautiful amongst something kind of ordinary.
Being a visual girl, I tend to look for inspiration everywhere, pretty much all of the time, but now I can "collect" them, instantly, beautifully, easily. I guess in a ridiculous kind of a way, this "instant" visual fix makes you keenly present. In all of the rushing, in all of the to and fro, you take one small second to be still, to observe and to notice all of the detail around you, or the bigger picture. So is Instagram a spiritual experience? Um, well, I may be going a little too far there, but I do know one thing; everytime I collect an image on Instagram, this little gadget, app, novelty, I get to capture and document something really beautiful. So everyday I get to experience a beautiful image, and everyday I get to see other peoples beautiful images and I get to "like" that image, and talk to that person and I get to experience their joy at seeing beautiful things.
It may just be Instagram, but if more people could capture one single moment of beauty everyday in one little image I think that THAT is amazing. And when people tell you that art is a luxury and not a necessity, you point them towards Instagram and tell them to prepare to see beautiful things and smile at least once a day.
See my Instagram pics here
Being a visual girl, I tend to look for inspiration everywhere, pretty much all of the time, but now I can "collect" them, instantly, beautifully, easily. I guess in a ridiculous kind of a way, this "instant" visual fix makes you keenly present. In all of the rushing, in all of the to and fro, you take one small second to be still, to observe and to notice all of the detail around you, or the bigger picture. So is Instagram a spiritual experience? Um, well, I may be going a little too far there, but I do know one thing; everytime I collect an image on Instagram, this little gadget, app, novelty, I get to capture and document something really beautiful. So everyday I get to experience a beautiful image, and everyday I get to see other peoples beautiful images and I get to "like" that image, and talk to that person and I get to experience their joy at seeing beautiful things.
It may just be Instagram, but if more people could capture one single moment of beauty everyday in one little image I think that THAT is amazing. And when people tell you that art is a luxury and not a necessity, you point them towards Instagram and tell them to prepare to see beautiful things and smile at least once a day.
See my Instagram pics here
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