I have become a bit of a blog reader of late and over the coming months the Fresco team will show case some of their favourites. I thought I would kick it off with this wonderful blog by a UK based designer. She loves design and all things related. I am always inspired when I read her blog and her latest illustration posts are just devine. The use of colour, form and detail are just perfect. The artist is maja lindberg from Sweden. Once a day she creates a new illustration to publish on her blog. So I guess that is another blog I will be following.
You can discover the world of print and pattern at http://printpattern.blogspot.com
As a graphic designer it is important to stay inspired and thanks to this wonderful blog my daily inspiration is covered. :)
Louise
28th May 2009
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A friend of mine just recently sent this to me…I have just started to learn how to embroider and who have thought. WOW people are so clever.
A set of hand embroidered posters based on Gill Sans Light. First poster shows the combinations of four CMYK colours. Second poster shows the increasing resolution through letterforms stitched with Cyan and Yellow thread. Green colour becomes visible from a distance as the blending of colours takes place in the eyes of the viewer. In the third poster a single large scale letterform is hand stitched using conventional screen angles and the equal blend of four CMYK colours.
http://evelinkasikov.com/Letters.html
Louise
19th May
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One of the wonders of the natural world, the Great Barrier Reef stretches along the coast of Queensland like a psychedelic cacophony of color and form unparalleled on our planet. But global warming and pollutants so threaten this fragile monster that scientists now believe the reef will be devastated in coming years. As a homage to the Great Reef sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim instigated a project to crochet a woolen reef. The sisters, who grew up in Queensand, have been heading up the project since 2005, quiety watching as it has morphed into an unexpected and far-reaching wordwide movement.
Loopy “kelps”, fringed “anemones”, and curlicued “corals” have all been modeled. The quality of yarn, style of stitch, and tightness of the crochet all affect the finished forms so that each is as individual as a living organism. As a whole, the Crochet Reef is made up of many different “sub-reefs,” each with its own colors and styling: these include the Bleached Reef, the Beaded Reef, the Branched Anemone Garden, and our largest work, The Ladies’ Silurian Atoll, a ring-shaped installation with close to 1000 individual crochet pieces made by dozens of contributors around the world.
In addition to these woolen reefs is the massive Toxic Reef crocheted from yarn and plastic trash – a part of the project that responds to the escalating problem of plastic trash that is innundating our oceans and choking marine life. This is an amazing and topical project that brings to light the amazing creative abilities and vision of so many skilled artisans from across the world.
- Sionen
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Sydney has long lamented the lack of groovy intimate Melbourne style wine bars, but that has all changed with the arrival of bars like Vini and Mille Vini in our very own Surry Hills and my latest discovery Bacco Wine Bar and Pasticceria in Chiefly Tower (Louise its just around the corner from Deutsche Bank you’ll have to get Stuart to take you!!).
Anyone that has read any of my previous blogs knows I am absolutely obsessed with all things Italian, especially good Italian food, and its here that Bacco is a real hidden gem. It has all the groovy touches of a Melbourne bar; the low level intimate lighting, cosy European design style, the beautiful and charming Italian waiters in waistcoats, but where Bacco really shines is the food – its exceptionally good. Truffled Pecorino cheeses, home made duck ravioli with creamed artichokes, duck pates, slow oven roasted fennel pork, the creamiest Buffulo Mozarella I have ever tasted – and a wine list that would satisfy any Dionysian reveler! Lush, devine hedonism springs to mind when i think of Bacco.
Fulvio Lancione has brought his creative talent for food direct from Rome, and I cant wait to get back there to sample his warm chocolate tortino with dark marinated berries (there just wasn’t enough room in my tummy for that one!)
Check it out at www.bacco.com.au
Triscia (7/05/09)
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Last week I thought I would find out what our favourite fonts are and why. New fonts are always being released and depending on the design piece depends on the font used. For example for an invitation design font choice is more exciting as one can experiment, but if designing something more corporate like an annual report or company brochure fonts need to reflect the very nature of the conservative document. This is more challenging…as the typography can dictate the design.
So I took it to the studio and asked our design team what their favourite fonts were and why…
One of my favourite fonts is Brock Script. It is a stylish calligraphy font which evokes elegance. I recently used this font on an invite I designed for the Australian Ballet – Nutcracker for NAB. - EFFIE
Mrs Eaves is a mix of just enough tradition with an updated twist. It’s familiar enough to be friendly, yet different enough to be interesting. Its a typeface the is beautifully traditional and astonishingly contemporary. It’s useful for giving presence to small amounts of text such as poetry, or for elegant headlines and for use in print ads. It makes the reader slow down and contemplate the message. Its memorable and uniquely beautiful. “Mrs Eaves” is named after John Baskerville’s mistress, Sarah Eaves who helped him design the font. An honor to the sometimes forgotten women of typographic history! - SIONEN
My favourite font is Flim-Flam, It brings fun and creativity to a design. The loose style can bring another dimension to text heavy document and looks great with freestyle illustrations. - SARAH
Louise 4th May 2009
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