The local Rag

Birds

Talking Heads is the local magazine distributed "out and about" the Barwon Heads area. I met with the local editor Trish who was a bundle of energy and ideas. She is planning product design and book illustration. First up will be illustrations for the local magazine....so many great ideas. It will be interesting to see how things develop. The image above is one of the images which will be published this month (not in the negative though) along with the two below.

Community Garden

Surfin' Maggies (aka magpies). The remit was to produce local images. Since magpies outnumber the locals, I thought it might be fun to have them surfing on 13th beach.






This past Saturday Richard and I attended the Melbourne Printing Museum's antique printing course. We are now budding letterpress artists (yeah right). After a full day of learning how typefaces are made, set and printed we came away with a few business cards from the Adana machine and two lines of typeface. The larger letterpress is awaiting my return to print a poster. It took the better part of 3 hours to find and set up the wooden typefaces (aka fonts in todays lingo). As we ran out of time around 6:30 we thought it best to let Michael, the instructor/curator go home for the evening. Personally, I was ready to spend the entire weekend there dabbling about with the various machines. I'm hoping to get back there on Thursday.

The museum is in dire need of financial help. They possess the world's most extensive collection of antique printing presses but not enough space to house or display them. They need to change locations in the very near future so if anyone has any fund raising ideas don't hesitate to let me know and I will pass them on to Michael. One thought was to have an auction of posters designed by well known people from all walks of life. "The Prince Print Series" to be held every year at the end of November.....