EVENT OF THE WEEK

spray it don't say it

This week the Melbourne Stencil Festival kicks off in their brand new venue J-Studios Artist Community in 100 Barkly St, North Fitzroy. The ladies of hml who are huge illo and stencil fans are most excited about the exhibition component 'Drawing Fancy' which promises to showcase artists that have names like 8-Bit, Mute 81 and Zombie Trash. What would our tags be I wonder? hml collective? craft-ho? We'll work on it and let you know. It was this time last year we had a crack at some stencil art ourselves, dodgy as ever but with the best of intentions!

CRAFT FINDS OF THE WEEK

stampede!
In our deep dark past several members of the hml staff were involved with what is commonly known as 'hack' journalism. This sharpened our pencils, our wits and our complete devotion to great typography. And while we plot and scheme our own use of Bookman or Baskerville we are content for now to play with this rather fantastic font designed by esteemed American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. This stamp set came all the way from NYC - the MOMA gift store to be exact. Lovely isnt it?

SHOW OF THE WEEK

just our type

The ladies of hml have been busy so we have pulled what is now known as a 'Bettina' (those of you that watch mediawatch will understand). Mind you the real Bettina wouldn't tell you that the below is lifted straight from the press release. We promise to return to our regular and original rants tomorrow! xxx-

The Tokyo Type Directors Club has been in existence for the past 20 years and has consistently challenged what is thought of as typography, typo-graphics and type design whilst remaining a bastion of the more traditional craft of typography. The aim of the Club and the Award is to firmly establish the field of type-direction in the visual expression of letters, reaching far beyond conventional character designing. The exhibition reflects the different categories of the award with design raging from posters, editorial/book design, moving image, packaging/signage & display, typedesign and experimental work and is both designed and curated by John Warwicker of the London-based design collective and club member, Tomato.

The exhibition, +&-=X showcases 20 years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club, and will expose Australian audiences to recent and past prize-winning designs from around the globe.

+&-+X twenty years of typo-graphics from the Tokyo Type Directors Club

Faculty Gallery, Monash Art & Design,

900 Dandenong Road Caulfield East 3145

t: 9903 2485 e: www.artdes.monash.edu.au/gallery

Monday to Friday 10-5 saturday 1-5 until the 5th of May

earthly paradise

CRAFT FIND OF THE DECADE ok, so regular readers will know that the hml ladies can often be seen at Savers buying raw materials for our projects. It was in fact this time last year we were collecting fugly jumpers for our Spod project. We always have a peruse of the ceramics first as we both have a penchant for cheesy figurines and 70's earthenware.
Those of you that know savers are aware that they sort ceramics into groups - plates on one shelf, bowls on another etc. I was scanning the bowl section when I spotted a set of 4 lovely soup tureens - all very commonsense cookbook - and was thrilled to see it had the potters mark underneath. Just then Beck sang out that she'd found some excellent plates, 4 of them in fact, in mint condition...that matched the tureens.
We both got that wild look in our eyes - you all know the one - when you've found treasure and you are terrified someone else is going to cotton on and nab key pieces. So we quietly went from shelf to shelf and got dinner, side and dessert plates, cups and saucers, bowls, and one very cute candle holder - all in perfect order, all from the same pottery and all for the princely sum of

$28.50

a great day at the office...
Different potters for different plates, does anyone know these chaps?

the ladies who lunch, well morning tea

STAFF MEETING PART TWO:

As we mentioned last week we planned a studel fueled staff meeting and we're happy to report that the apple filled pastry dish worked a treat. We managed to whip up three new product ideas, a scarf festival workshop and world domination all by 11.30am. On the inspiration-o-gramme we give the strudel a 7.5!

pot heads

CRAFT FINDS OF THE WEEK

As you all know, while Ramona collects the fine ceramic wares of such craft luminaries as Sue Robey, Gerry Wedd and Biggi Spiro, I am a complete victim of my teak sidetable and macrame upbringing and cannot go past the west german lava glazed stoneware pot. This is the lastest addition to the collection. I was pretty happy with it, even kind of cocky in my trash and treasure find, that is until my brother Matt walked in with this amazing haul.

The scene was set for a family showdown of epic proportions, until we came up with the excellent notion that instead of a german pottery death match we we would share the collection, each pick a color scheme and in future only collect within that palette. Crisis averted. So now i'm now all about the browns and greens and he's all about the blacks and oranges.

AND more importantly, i've managed to snaffle a few of his, and he's managed to pick up a few of mine. Genius! Grover would be proud.

Innovation revelation

SHOW OF THE WEEK


We were intrigued by this buttoned and bedazzled bird that graces the invite for the latest show opening this week at Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts. After a little investigation we discovered that this group show will have other treasures in store. Colin Duncan's lollypop forest last seen at Tarrawarra Museum and Del Kathryn Barton's beautiful and complex paintings are worth the trip. We aren't quite sure what constitutes innovation in contemporary art - perhaps fresh ideas, a sense of humour and beautfully finished work? We may get lucky.

Yes back over the river we go, we are becoming quite the seaside tourists aren't we?

www.lindenarts.org