Archive for October, 2009

whitley artwork and beci orpin products!

Friday, October 30th, 2009

this week i have been struggling with a post-birthday hangover, a cold, feelings of ground-hog day after 6pm (parents out there will hear me!), endless tiredness (ari decided to start waking up at night again), leah being away  and a more hectic-than-usual workload. its not been the easiest of weeks. if i didn’t feel so lucky to be doing what i do, i would be preparing one big therapeutic whinge-post right now. but let the whinging cease here!

new whitley album “go fourth find mammoth” was released today, adorned with my artwork

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i had free brief for this one, which sometimes can be a blessing and a curse. in this case it was a blessing – i got to listen to music by one of my most favourite people and design my interpretation of it. and to my relief he liked it too. whitley is also touring in november… on stage he is charming, witty, and engaging. and of course he can sing like nothing else too. you should go if you have the chance.

also, after what has felt like a long wait… this week our new beci orpin line started trickling into stores. here are a selection of product shots we took recently - 

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my web shop is still not up… but getting very close. in the meantime, we have lots of nice retail stockist (compiling a list which will post later) and look out for press in frankie, real living and inside out, as well as giveaways coming up on the design files, three thousand and also here. 

see you later – i’m off to bake friday-night brownies and BBQ in this weird melbourne evening weather. perfect cure for a hectic week!

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malaysia photos pt 2 – penang and lang kawi

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

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last photo is us leaving… sad – was a great holiday. but on the bright side, now considering moving to lang kawi. you never know…

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malaysia photos pt 1 – KL & melacca

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

am not going to mention how busy i am. well i just did, oops. no more. but lets just say on a scale of 1-10 on busy-ness, at the moment i would be an 11. possibly a 25.

as all my brain-space is currently being used up in an exciting designing frenzy (set to last at least another 2 weeks), i wont write my usual wordy dribble – instead you get to go on visual holiday!  here are some photos of our recent holiday to malaysia. 

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links a-plenty!

Friday, October 16th, 2009

my workload has been CRAAAAAZY this week. i know i always say that, but this week… phew, will go down as one of the most insane. anyway… enough complaining. 

we have finally updated our tiny mammoth site with our summer collection! take a peek here. it also includes a secret colouring-in page to print out – see if you can find it! thanks to rex for making it all work

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another site that was launched this week (well more of a blog actually) – was the three of a kind blog. as you will soon discover, three of a kind is the title of an exhibition i am working on with 2 other artists – madeleine stamer and iggy and lou lou – which opens november 20th. even though i was trying to limit my involvement in exhibitions this year, when maddy asked me to be participate in a show with her, and also mentioned irene would be showing her amazing work, i jumped at the chance! the blog will be updated by us three with opening night details, exhibition work and other surprises. 

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and lastly.. a bit of parental pride… tyke wrote and recorded a song called “i’m in my rocket” with his awesome music teacher claire at school, and then performed it with her at the fringe festival a few weeks ago. you can hear the song here. apparently was played on RRR last week and they said was like “gary numan had been let loose in a preschool”. i am totally taking it as a compliment.

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in the studio today…

Monday, October 12th, 2009

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tiny mammoth sample sale

Friday, October 9th, 2009

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we are having our annual tiny mammoth seconds/samples/past season sale tomorrow at the wimble street childcare co-op fete. apart from many bargains from us there will also be all the usual fete goodness – BBQ, raffles, wine and cheese, jumping castle, face-painting, cake stall and 2nd hand goods. i love a fete of any kind so bummed i wont be there. raph will be manning the stall though -go visit! 18 wimble st, parkville, 10am-3pm

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i am still sorting through photos ….

Friday, October 9th, 2009

well actually, i feel like i hit the ground running since we got back, and i haven’t had a single minute to choose the best ones. but in the meantime here are some other things i have been up to:

we went to the opening of johann’s exhibition – raph has 2 little bro’s – joh and rudin. joh is the youngest (23), and he has just curated a show called “room service” which opened last night at the carlton club. joh’s artists selection is smart – each artist work is different,  but as a whole exhibition it comes together a really well. my favs were rudin’s (raphs other brother, who formally starts his career as a tattooist this week – go rudes!) beautiful old school tattoo style ink drawings, marty bell’s insane drawings and oliver and yoko’s room of paintings and screen prints. also in oli and yoko’s room was a little cupboard installation with their 3yr-old son akira’s drawings covering the walls and a “chuppa-chup grow room”! too much! below is a pics from their zine – colour versions of these paintings in the show. the exhibition is on until the 22nd – more details here. if you and melbourne its def worth a look.

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noe made a costume for sarah blasko. sarah blasko is currently on tour and noe made her stage costume. i went to see sarah perform on sunday night and the costume was sooooooo beautiful – noe did and amazing job. not only does it have crazy technical sewing detail but it has two surprises – the front drops down to reveal and patchwork spectrum heart and also just before she performed “no turning back”  the sholders popped open to reveal beatiful concertina colour detail! genius!

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leah made this print f0r fundraislinn exhibition - isn’t it amazing? i also put in piece, and many, many others contributed.  unfortunately aislinn passed away  on the day of exhibition. was also the day before her 30th brithday. i didnt know her, but its such a tragedy. the exhibition did raise $30,000 which will be passed onto her family and breast cancer research. 

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i finished this illustration for myer’s emporiom magazine. another nice job which came through jacky winter

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i am giving a talk in hobart tomorrow it is been organised by the tasmanian branch of the AGDA, and its called “breakie with beci”! cute!

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have a nice weekend! x

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patterns in malaysia

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

i am just back from our trip to malaysia – was so great, a real adventure!  i wouldn’t exactly say that it was relaxing – travelling with young kids can be hard work and we managed to squash a lot of activities into 10 days (from super-trashy theme parks to hanging out with monkeys in pristine rainforest). but i have returned feeling refreshed and inspired and like we really had a proper break. 

there were so many things i loved about malaysia. things that i expected – the food, lush tropical-ness and meeting raph’s (very extended) family, and things i didnt expect at all – the use of bright colour (aqua, pink and yellow houses are quite common), and an abundance of patterns everywhere. here is a small selection of the patterns i came across on our journey 

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am currently sorting through the 500 or so pictures we took, and once i have, will post the highlights.

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