Here’s a great site for Australian inspirations: The Design Files features studio/home tours, Melbourne design and craft, and interviews with creatives. The images above are from illustrator Beci Orpin‘s home.
Collage artist extraordinaire Aprile Elcich has a new show opening in Toronto on October 16:
“Entitled “The Royal Family”, this mixed media collage series was inspired by a pair of scrapbooks found at the St. Lawrence antique market filled with newspaper clippings of Queen Elizabeth and her family during the 1950’s and 60’s. Aprile’s collages recreate the scrapbooks, changing the composition and adding materials to give each page a deeper meaning. All of these pieces are created on the actual scrapbook pages themselves, resulting in brittle and delicate collages which further the character and feelings of nostalgia in each piece.”
Throughout breakfast I’ve been joyously scrolling through Cartolleria (surprised and happy to see a few of my images in there!) Enjoy.
Mariko Paterson has a new website. Check our her fun ceramics! {Mariko is also a co-founder of Box Social}
I received an email about the Tenerife Design Festival that will be happening this October. Located on the small Spanish island of Tenerife, the festival will explore local identity, landscape and tourism.
In the past day, we have had many virtual visitors from the Netherlands, many thanks to Good Inc and their BladBlog post about UPPERCASE magazine.
Thank you to Saskia for subscribing to the magazine. I encourage you to visit Het Zomerpaleis; it is a beautiful website.
Here in Canada it is the Victoria Day holiday, historically a celebration of Queen Victoria’s birthday and now recognition of Queen Elizabeth’s birthday. Other than the day off and some city fireworks, the long weekend is usually spent outside getting the yard in shape and planting the garden. (That is if it doesn’t SNOW today, which is apparently an actual possibility!)
For today’s post, I encourage you to visit another Victoria’s blog: sfgirlbybay! Victoria has recently returned from a trip to London, so it is quite fitting for the day. {photos by Victoria}
We’re very happy that Victoria will be contributing to the upcoming issue of UPPERCASE magazine.
1} Thank you Jamie Shelman for the print and samples of your work.
2} A letter from Paris.
3} A typewriter ashtray used for paperclips (ebay find from a while ago).
Here’s an interesting way to start a web search. Of course I searched for myself (ie UPPERCASE) first! I like the collage and newspaper influences on the search results. It’s fun to see all the UPPERCASE photos and search results jumbled together like this as well.
This is site is run by Sascha Endlicher, M.A., during ungodly late night hours. Wanna know more about him? Connect via Social Media by jumping to about.me/sascha.endlicher.
