We shall strike again soon.

With love. 

The Midnight Artists. 

Nice & Nasty Produce

Now I can spend my time making beautiful things. 

When i grow up I want to live in Jacky Winter Wonderland

This is the ultimate collection in Melbourne illustrators (also a few illustrators/designers such as tin & ed and the amazing padarosa)

Anyone like a Hand Job?

An amazing book that I've seen around and finally got my hands onto is Hand Job - A catalogue of type, compiled by Michael Perry. It is an amazing collection of HEAPS of hand crafted lettering. It is hugely inspiring. 

It also includes a lot of hand drawn typography in context, such as posters completely compiled by both hand drawn type and illustrations, CD sleeves, book covers many other layouts that include a plethora of quirks and flaws.   

ACCA is Awesome!

ACCA puts NGV, especially Ian Potter, to shame. If you  haven't been your shit. Not only does it showcase some of the most innovative contemporary art in Melbourne, it is always a beautiful gallery with wonderful, helpful staff (and more often than not, volunteers).

I checked out the NEWO8 exhibition a couple of weeks ago and found it incredibly inspiring. I had that moment, when you look at a piece of artwork or design and think "that's it, that's how i can do it! YES!" 

ACCA runs NEW every year, their major exhibition to boast how brilliant Australian artist are. Two of  the standouts this year were Daniel Argyle and Matt Hinkley.

Daniel filled a room with old 12" record sleeves which he had intricately cut patterns out of. Each cover not only worked beautifully independently, but as a collection they were breathtaking. 

Matt Hinkley's work focused on intricate detail and unbelievable precision. One of the staff had to explain to me, that what appeared to be a room of blank, perhaps grubby, framed paper, was actually fine drawings of lines and dots to create shadow and the appearance of toner residue. I found this idea appropriate in that although using a pen by hand to create patterns and 'colour', these area's appeared to be computer generated (or perhaps computer mistakes) graphics. 

Alas, I can't find any good examples of his work that show this amazing skill...SO JUST GO TO THE EXHIBITION!!     

Inspirational Money - Literally

This stuff is AMAZING, although a little funny. 

From the god of all type sites, Hoefler & Frere-Jones

Baseline

Just a query, does anyone know how I can purchase Baseline - the International Typogrphic Magazine - in Australia? 

When I went to MagNation they had no idea what I was talking about.