Meredith Allen

Over a five-year period, Meredith Allen snapped shots of slowly dripping ice lollies of familiar licensed cartoon characters set against a clear blue sky in various beach locales.

Meredith Allen

Toypography

Dainippon Type Organization

Formed by Hidechika and Tetsuya Tsukada in 1993. They are experimental typography performers who disarticulate or combine Japanese characters and alphabets into unique new typography.

http://dainippon.type.org/

Australian Arts Prizes

An odd little page i found out of nowhere, listing quite a broad range of arts prizes for both established and emerging artisits in Australia 2007. Worth taking a peek.

http://www.solutionsindata.com/artist_opportunities/australian_artist_opportunities.htm

Melbourne Design Guide

The first design guide to Melbourne presents the city's wealth of creativity and the products, people and stories behind it.
Whether it's a brooch, a bridge, a bar or a building, this project has been carefully researched and written to give locals and travellers a sense of what's happening in this, Australia's creative capital.
Take a tour of Melbourne's cutting edge architecture, discover the latest design talent, where to buy their wares and where they drink and dine.
The Melbourne Design Guide is the perfect companion on a journey to the hidden treasures of this city's thriving design scene.

Founder Paul Charlwood
Publisher lab.3000
Editors Ewan McEoin and Viviane Stappmanns

You can order it directly from...

http://www.melbournedesignguide.com/

for $30 +postage and handling

or buy it from one of a bazillion stockists in and around Melbourne.

Marc Monzo

Have you ever fallen in love? I do on a regular basis, and today it's with Spanish jeweller and object maker Marc Monzo
(thanks ma roulotte for sharing Marc on your blog for the rest of the world to enjoy!)

RIPE

The RIPE: Art and Australia/ANZ Private Bank Emerging Artists Scheme promotes the work of emerging artists, publishing an image of the winner's work on the back cover of Art & Australia magazine. RIPE recipients are further supported via the purchase of at least one of their artworks. Entrants must be visual artists who have been practising professionally for no more than five years, and who have had their work publicly exhibited.

Closing date: 1 February 2007

For more info go to...
http://www.visualarts.net.au/grantsprizes/ripe

Mina Perhonen

Japanese textile and fashion label Mina Perhonen make beautiful prints and textiles. Though they are a flat medium, their simple forms and sense of movement and colour has inspired me in my 3d medium of jewellery and object.
Their website, even the english version, is a little difficult to grasp, with statements like,

'May buy with net the male roughness this Focusing on mina and north European ones chair or miscellaneous goods etc',

and their self described 'successive beefsteak style of mina perhonen' (?).

So i've included little tasters from one of their books 'Print' which, with a little persistance, can be bought from japanese amazon.

(english version of...)
http://www.amazon.co.jp/In-English/b/ref=sv_gw_6/503-3505515-9780768?%5Fencoding=UTF8&node=1094656

Sigrid Widmoser

Unfortunately the information on Sigrid is in German, but i thought i'd use the universal language of pictures...

Sweet Sweeds...

...and when i need a break from words on a screen, i like to look at nice things, things such as this Sweedish designed make up brush from Funkis



You can also drool over their clogs, wallpaper and table ware, clothes, jewellery...ah, candy for the eyes...

The Program

I'm still just begining to wade through the amount of information this site offers young Australian creatives, from vocational opportunities, resources, competitions, giveaways, articles...so, while i wade, i thought i might pass on the link to you now, as i might be a while...

http://www.theprogram.net.au/home.asp

to fast track to the guts of this site, go to the navigation list and head on in through there...

ReSkin

ReSkin...

"reSkin will be an intense three-week period that will focus on wearable technology, embracing the skill-based practices of object and fashion design.

The reskin lab will place four international and national facilitators with twenty participants including jewellers, textile artists, fashion designers and media artists. Together they will research, develop and rapid prototype sensor, time based and reactive clothing, jewellery, shoes, bags and personal environmental and device designs – anything wearable and technologically integrated.

reSkin will end with WearNow, a one-day forum of critical dialogue looking at our wearable futures at the National Museum of Australia on 3 February 2007."

I don't know anything more about this project, but take a look at the website if you're keen to follow it's progress...
http://www.anat.org.au/reskin/

Flickr

A fantastic way to show your work on line without having to set up a website. Flickr is an online photo sharing site that allows you to set up your own page/s where you can upload photos, add a brief profile and connect with other flickr users who share interests or inspire you. much like myspace, flickr is an open sharing site, however you can add privacy and copyright settings to your images. i have been using flickr for about a year now to show my work, inspiration and other bits and pieces to both friends, family, potential clients and to other flickr users. i have met a huge network of creatives working in all fields of the arts and design, creating a great resource and support network.
check out www.flickr.com to find out more and feel free to check out my flickr site to see how i use it. www.flickr.com/photos/form_function/

Design Papers

The National Design Centre at Fed Square Melbourne is now publishing 'a beautifully presented publication that features design stories, profiles, issues and events from Australia and the world'. Though available in local cafes and selected bookstores, you can subscribe to them via this link...
http://www.nationaldesigncentre.com/index.php?c=196

A really nice broadsheet paper with quality content.

NOISE

http://www.noise.net/homepage.asp

Noise is an online youth arts organisation, promoting young artists and makers (under 25) on a global scale. Based in Australia, Noise invites makers, designers, writers, film makers etc from all over the world to submit work to be published on their site. Successfully published works then have a chance of winning various competitions running throughout the year such as 'Vote for Art' a monthly prize of $1000AUD for a work that has accumulated the most votes within the month. There is also the annual SOYA (spirit of youth) awards. Sponsored by qantas, winners receive $5000AUD and $5000 AUD worth of flights to anywhere in the world. So, if you're under 25, take a look at NOISE and submit your works. Published works are viewed by hundreds and thousands of people, the exposure itself is invaluable.

Youth@craft.design

http://www.craftaustralia.com.au/forum/2006/

Youth@craft·design: Creating and making a living in the arts today.

Youth@craft·design is for young and emerging craftspeople, students, professional makers, and designers to interact with some of Australia's most successful emerging craft·design practitioners. Join the youth@craft·design bloggers and learn how they made a successful transition into the commercial world.
Four blogs have been set up where the youth@craft·design bloggers will share their experiences and stories in creating a viable practice. You are invited to get involved - ask questions, make comment, view the videos, complete the survey, or share your own experiences and ideas on the meaning of success.

Note: this site is a great resource for emerging makers, it has some really useful information on getting started professionally in your field. plus it has some great links to manufacturers, interesting sites, grants, and other really useful & interesting sites.

Realise Your Dream

an early bird posting for makers, designer, creatives under 26 (from Oz) to start thinking about next years 'Realise Your Dreams' competition. Run by the Brittish Council of Australia, 6 awards are given out each year to make dreams happen in the UK in the form of cashola and a mentorship. Read more to find out...
http://www.realiseyourdream.org.au/index.htm

Extremely White

http://www.otrodiseno.com/extremelywhite/overview.html

Extremely White is a simple exhibition. Good design with a premise: to be white.
Organized by Otro Diseño, the exhibition brought together designers from all over the world to show the Dutch audience a collection that interprets, in the most diverse white objects, the material qualities of textiles, ceramics, porcelain, acrylic, paper, glass and sugar.
These objects have a deep personal relationship with the author and are also able to create strong links with their user. The designers and companies had the courage to produce and the ability to make their ideas into a beautiful, meaningful and successful product.
Extremely White was presented within the frame of Inside Design Amsterdam 2006 in the impressive 17th century building of Taot N Thea, in Amsterdam. The public could see and buy all the products on display.
A selection of the products is available at Otro Diseño's shop and gallery at Molsteeg 9, Amsterdam.
Enjoy the online exhibition!

hello and welcome

hello and welcome to 'colour between the lines ', a blog that investigates relevant websites, information, blogs, articles, etc for makers starting out in their fields. i will endeavor to bring you current information to do with grants, competitions, exhibitions both local, national and international. i am based in melbourne, so a lot of the information will be relevant to melbournian makers, however, i will try to expand and generate interest and hopefully collaboration on a greater scale. please feel free to send me any information that would be relevant to this blog or if you have anything you'd like to share about your work, exhibition, achievement, please drop me a line and i'll be sure to include you.