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Volleys

If someone were to ask me which question I get the most often, it would not be that. No, it would be: "I love your shoes! Did you buy them like that, or did you buy two pairs and mix them up?" I've gradually become much faster at answering this question by interjecting after "I love your shoes!" …

Tidal River

Each year, every year, for over fifty years, Scripture Union has put on a spectacular holiday program for all ages. Families have come for generations, every summer, to holiday down at Wilson's Promontory in the spectacular national park, and I'm really proud to have been part of the program that …

Japanese Patterns

The intricacies of Asian ornament and my attempts to re-create it. I've always been fascinated by patterns, but never more inspired to create them than when I loaned out a book from the library called " The Grammar of Ornament " by Owen Jones. This is truly a fascinating book, and an astonishing …

Photocopy Transfer

I've always liked my work Getting There , and wanted to create a version of this that more accurately reflected its Ukiyo-e inspiration. Without the tools nor skill to carve my own block of wood, I remembered a technique taught to me by my awesome High School printmaking teacher called photocopy …

Pantonese

If anyone's having trouble getting spot colours to work for the postcards, here's what I did, slightly different to Warren's version: Step 1 In Photoshop > save your different colours to separate documents, then convert each to greyscale (Image > Mode > greyscale) Step 2 Convert colour …

All The World's A Page

As part of my course, we were encouraged by John Warwicker to do a series of experimental projects in some way exploring type and/or poster design. One of the examples shown in class was All The World's A Page which takes the words of a whole book and deposits them on a single page, enabling you to …

Blades

1. Star Wars I recently watched a presentation by Doug Chiang , celebrated concept artist and art director on feature films, speaking on the much-maligned Star Wars: The Phantom Menace . It is a fascinating look into how designers create planets, solar systems, machines and creatures through …

tiny keyboard

I'm thinking about making a tiny keyboard based off the work of di0ib/40% club and I thought I should post my planning here to make it easier for others to build something similar as di0ib/40% club isn't too detailed in his methodology. If you know nothing about Mechanical Keyboards, it's best to …

Big Trees

Here are some of my favourite trees, or trees I'd consider growing. There's a block of land near Kyneton we're allowed to grow trees on, and I may also gift a few to my dad. The trees I'm keenest to grow right now are probably the taiwania cryptomerioides (impossible to find in nurseries - will …

Tools I Like

Power/Cordless Tools Track Saw: Makita 36v track saw without AWS - already acquired, thanks babe. Cordless control unit for dust extractor - Metabo COCO - $160 Mitre Saw: Compound dual bevel sliding 260mm Makita Mitre saw with laser - $1200 but fine to get this or similar saw second hand. You can …