Last Day of Summer

Last day of summer today, but I think I'm still waiting for it to start. Its also the last day of my school holidays and being able to stay in my dressing-gown for extended periods every morning.

A photo I took in January using my Holga.

Although I'm sure in the coming weeks I will miss the laziness holidays has allowed, I am quite looking forward to student life and have been getting inspired by a few things that I would like to share here:

1.  'Girls Zine'

Even though its entirely in Japanese, one can still appreciate all of cute, quirky, naive illustration and design.  I often think that if I was Japanese I would be a better designer.  These are a few of my favourite pages in the book:

2. Valerie Anne Molnar knitted creations...

Images from Valerie Anne Molnar via id textile.

3. Pedal Pushers

Bike gang at uni.  We printed some tees for Bike Fest 2010 and we were back in the print room last tuesday making bags for orientation day. 

Click here to read a post I did for the RMIT textile design blog about the day.

It was a very short stint at tumblr indeed.  While the layouts are appealing (especially for people like me who doesn't know any CSS!) I am not interested in the concept of 're-blogging', and really don't understand it either! It was not a total waste of time... I'm using one of the layouts for a 'gallery' page on this blog which you can also view here.

Over the past month I have been doing some postcard and business card designs for a vintage clothing company.  It has been really enjoyable; especially because the owner is open to ideas and letting me have a fair bit of freedom.  These should (hopefully!) be printed in the next couple of weeks:

business card....

postcard....

concepts inspired by lovely paper doll sets like this one...

I'm currently experimenting with a tumblr blog and making my posts there....  Not sure if I'm as keen on it though, so it may be a reasonably short switch.
visit http://yolandazarins.tumblr.com/ to check it out.