::Who lives there?::

‘Who lives there?’ is a character design workshop I am instructing at the Burrinja Cultural Centre over the next month or two. It coincides with the installation of a giant cardboard house (about the size of your average cubby) in the foyer of the centre for their Play n Stay series. The cardboard house will be…

::Flutter::

Eeeeek! So exciting! My work featured as part of the Jacky Winter promo for ‘Flutter’. ‘Flutter’ is the animation service provided by Jacky Winter in collaboration with 21.19 . As you can see they did an amazing job getting my birdies from page to screen! The work of Tin and Ed, Toby and Pete, Travis…

::Onomatopoiea::

Are you in LA? Do you know Gallery Nucleus? Do you like typography/illustration? Well, then what are you waiting for? You can see my work (above) as well as the works of amazing talents such as Jessica Hische, Yellena and Jared Andrew Schorr.

::Barcode::

Just an entertaining video for you to marvel this Friday afternoon; BTW the Japanese refer to a balding man with a comb-over as a ‘bakoudo’ (barcode), pure brilliance! This gives me an idea for an image that would work well as one of these: Design company D-Barcode came up with these illustrative versions of the…

::Headline needed here, thanks ta::

The title of this post comes via the local newspaper in my area, one whole page of articles with that exact headline. Obviously they ran out of time before going to print…. as have I recently….. ::Kimono Hime:: My creative life of late has been eclectic, explorative, fickle, haphazard but most of all frustrating. Fear…

::Crying Koi, Grrls and other orphans::

Here is yet another irregular post for your reading/viewing pleasure. I was recently interviewed by the awesome Brad Eastman for weAREtheIMAGEmakers as I currently have some works on show at aMBUSH gallery for the new WATIM show “Grrls”. Above is one of the new works I recently created for the show “Cry Baby Koi”… this…

::2007+1=Year of New::

::i can has maneki neko!:: I rang in the New Year in our backyard in 40 degree heat, entertained by my neices… seriously hilarious… they had us on the floor laughing until our sides ached. Nothing like an insight into the minds of a 9 and 6 year old and their reaction to the media…

::Christmas of Merry to you::

::Starlight, starbright… may I record your existence tonight?:: Ok, so it’s a tad late for wishing Merry Christmases….. The blur of days that preceded Christmas since Japan and ‘Arare chans’ last post was highlighted by one enormous event. The Jacky Winter Hoo Ha! Held in the galleries above the Carlton Hotel in Bourke St Melbourne…

::Good news_Bad news::

Ncha! Hiyo! Well I gots good news and I gots bad news ….. Good news is : innocentgirl’s illustration appeared in the Dec/Jan edition of Nylon (US) magazine….. Bad news is : I lost my boot! Still it’s not all bad, innocentgirl promised me a whole new outfit as compensation…. bye cha!!! PS(This pic was…

::Illustrious::

I meant to blog this as it was happening but seemed to have got myself caught up in some kind of worm hole that spat me out two weeks later instead…. so here it is now, it is certainly no less relevant to what’s been happening of late so … Illustrators Australia had their first…

::Note to self : take less notes::

For anyone who knows me well I am an avid notetaker from way back, in fact some years back I found a note I had written when I was around 10 or so listing, in order of priority, what needed to be done on Christmas morning eg: open presents, wash hair, eat breakfast, put hair…

::Illustration Renaissance::

Detail from ::I love you, but it’s complicated:: Muwa ha ha! I love it when I’m right…… “What is it with contemporary illustration? It just won’t follow form. Illustration was never meant to be this cool, this sought after, this in vogue. But it is. After a decade climbing the ranks following a period as…