In Limbo...

My travels/holidays have been delayed by the second coming of an ash cloud from a volcano in Chile.  Cancelled flights feel a little strange.  I have said goodbye to everyone here yet I remain in Melbourne, kicking about...

A few days ago I thought I lost a sketch book which I carry around with me in my bag.  It was not a good feeling.  To fill the void, I started a new one.  A day later, I found the old one (such a relief).  Was good to start something new and will be continuing scibblings/scrap booking in the new book which has a unique, elongated shape.

I wanted to share my latest $2 find from Sydney road; this colourful and fun rug!  Its quite small (about A2 in size).  I bought two because they were so cheap and have sat them together under my desk.

concept design for shower screen

A snippet from my favourite project this semester.  Macquarie Island daisies in gesso, photocopy transfers, oil pastel, gouache, ink and pencil on transparent etching board:

Photo taken a few months ago in the Sub-Antarctic hut in the Hobart Botanic Gardens of a Macquarie Island environment:

Road to recovery

Party at our house last night; the day was spent recovering with Futurama on the dvd player and some good  food. By 'good', I mean containing chocolate.  I also got onto some internet searching trying to find things to do on my holidays. I ended up browsing through the 'Snuff Puppets' website wishing they would have a performance in Melbourne again soon!

Images from Snuff Puppets website

'Its-a-lovely-day-today...'

I was very happy this morning... Holidays are fast approaching, it is a lovely, sunny, cold but crisp day, and when I got home I got a nice cuddle from my cat.  Looking forward to getting my blogging shoes back on in the weeks to come and seeing people I haven't seen for a while!


 

Over the weekend I had some fun turning my dad's oil paintings into patterns:

You can't see it here because of the photo quality; but zoomed up in photoshop there was a strange demonic figure in the middle one.  On a less creepy note, there were also what looked to be beetles and butterflies! How lovely....

Oh my garsh....

Some of the most enchanted things I have ever looked upon by Husmann/Tschaeni:  

For more, go here on the internet, or better yet go here with your feet. 

Just another...

I was very happy to have been part of 'Just Another Female Skateboarding Exhibition' last week at 1-5 Faction.  There was some really amazing/inventive pieces to look at.  Highly recommended viewing!  Its on until the 28th of March; for more info head to the Faction website here.  I'll be putting a photo of the board I made into the 'gallery' section of the blog in the next few days.

Last Day of Summer

Last day of summer today, but I think I'm still waiting for it to start. Its also the last day of my school holidays and being able to stay in my dressing-gown for extended periods every morning.

A photo I took in January using my Holga.

Although I'm sure in the coming weeks I will miss the laziness holidays has allowed, I am quite looking forward to student life and have been getting inspired by a few things that I would like to share here:

1.  'Girls Zine'

Even though its entirely in Japanese, one can still appreciate all of cute, quirky, naive illustration and design.  I often think that if I was Japanese I would be a better designer.  These are a few of my favourite pages in the book:

2. Valerie Anne Molnar knitted creations...

Images from Valerie Anne Molnar via id textile.

3. Pedal Pushers

Bike gang at uni.  We printed some tees for Bike Fest 2010 and we were back in the print room last tuesday making bags for orientation day. 

Click here to read a post I did for the RMIT textile design blog about the day.

It was a very short stint at tumblr indeed.  While the layouts are appealing (especially for people like me who doesn't know any CSS!) I am not interested in the concept of 're-blogging', and really don't understand it either! It was not a total waste of time... I'm using one of the layouts for a 'gallery' page on this blog which you can also view here.

Over the past month I have been doing some postcard and business card designs for a vintage clothing company.  It has been really enjoyable; especially because the owner is open to ideas and letting me have a fair bit of freedom.  These should (hopefully!) be printed in the next couple of weeks:

business card....

postcard....

concepts inspired by lovely paper doll sets like this one...

I'm currently experimenting with a tumblr blog and making my posts there....  Not sure if I'm as keen on it though, so it may be a reasonably short switch.
visit http://yolandazarins.tumblr.com/ to check it out.