“The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia.”
This year’s was won by Del Katharyn Barton – a self portrait with her two children and titled: “You are what is most beautiful about me”
I am totally in love with it.
And appreciate it even more that she’s refusing to sell it. The rest are worth checking out too.
Of particular note: Sarah Blasko, The Archibald, Rodney Pople
Possibly the sweetest opshop find ever!
I got this Travel Journal (Beach) for $2.00 today. It’s unused. It’s clean. It’s fun. It’s still being sold for £9.95… so about $30AUD.
check it out from: sukie.co.uk
Today I will do homework during my lecture… clever girl. Ho-diddley-um.
I am still strapped for ideas, I have two now – neither which really float my boat but there you go. I have found some sweet materials websites/resources so at least if I have a half baked idea, I can make my research look pretty. Thank you for your ideas. Love the lollipops Jess – however I vaguely recall them saying something about it not being a small thing ‘like a lollipop’ (Crikey they used the actual item!) that has minimal consequence to society. Suffer ye little children.
As I have been asking everyone and anyone for ideas, I naturally posed the question at the dinner table, my mother came out with some strange story about bears rubbing their bums on trees to get bark to stuff up their bum’s to stop ants getting in while hibernating.
I’m still not quite sure….
On a more cheery note, we taught my family (Well, Mum, Dad and Em) Munchkin last night and managed to force Dad to lose 5 levels, let Em almost win, and Mum triumph.
This is very clever strategy on our part, it means that Emily enjoyed herself, Mum will play again because she won (and found the cards so amusing) and Dad will play to get revenge. Scary thing is, I predicted Dad’s response word for word about five minutes before he said it himself. Do note, that this would be my response so the same situation.
I don’t think in 3D and I’m ever so quickly starting to panic about the severe drought of ideas when it comes to my packaging design class. Sure give me colours and logos to make something pre-existing look pretty, but to be innovative enough to create some kind of new, environmentally, economically and socially sustainable package… I’m not so sure.
My problem primarily comes with identifying a bad packaging solution that encases a pre-existing product. Oh look, I’m sure are lots out there… but they are currently being elusive.
And I’m not studying chemistry so can’t create some new-wonder material.
Throw some ideas my way please… Packaging that annoys you in every-day life?
Oh yeah… and there’s the competition we enter our assignments in. I don’t care about winning much, but I wouldn’t mind developing an idea that I at least feel good enough about entering. If you don’t have ideas, you could pray for me. And I’m only half kidding.
I am meant to own the book, but I’m currently leaning on the website. It’s a good little thing. Saved my bum for some straight forward definitions. If you can find me the book online for less than $38 all up, I’d be grateful if you’d let me know.
Today has been filled with the painstaking task of drawing grids on tracing paper over A3 pages, labeling EVERYTHING and then going online to identify all the typefaces present. Oh Joy. Then I found Identifont. Needless to say, it helped enormously. There are too many millions of fonts/typefaces out there and when you’re looking for minor differences between 100’s of sans-serif options it gets painful.
I’m not doing this for fun specifically… I’m doing it for my class: Typography for Publication.
I never used to understand grids. I still half think they are stupid because people consistently break the boundaries and then simply give it a new name like a ‘muli-layered grid’. Why not stick to your margins or don’t call it a grid at all? However, I am slowly developing some kind of appreciation.
Despite the annoyance of filling my day, I half didn’t mind the hands on, focused aspect of it all. It keeps my brain flexible. I could happily spend (most of) my life online or in my head – sometimes they are one and the same.
