Personal Side Projects

The Home Arts

The Home Arts

Memento Travel Posters

Memento Travel Posters

Surface pattern design

Surface pattern design

Abundance, book design mockup, hand drawn to vector title lettering

Abundance, book design mockup, hand drawn to vector title lettering

Book love - side project book mockups

Book love - side project book mockups

Forage magazine side project mockup

Forage magazine side project mockup

Gelato, book design mockup

Gelato, book design mockup

Surface pattern design, stationery set

Surface pattern design, stationery set

 

The Home Arts

Journal side project

Can mum’s make art?
 

A journal for women facing the simultaneous challenges of the artistic life, home and family. The content for this journal was inspired by a recent documentary Lost in Living by American filmmaker Mary Trunk, and the book The Divided Heart: Art and Motherhood by Rachel Power (Australia, 2008, 2015) which both follow the lives of artist-mothers and their various predicaments across the arts.

‘Can Mums Make Art’ used with permission by Susan K Perry.

‘Art as Adultery’ coined by Caren from Lost in Living.

 

 
 
Memento Travel Posters, perssonal project, vector illustation. MORE INFO ON PRINTS PAGE

Memento Travel Posters, perssonal project, vector illustation. MORE INFO ON PRINTS PAGE

 

Surface pattern design

Icon, patterns and colourways concept

I designed this icon based on an art deco aesthetic which lent itself to pattern variation and colourways.
Shine icon and pattern design, personal project

Shine icon and pattern design, personal project

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Stationery set and recipe cards mockup

Colourways and pattern variation

Colourways and pattern variation

 

Book love projects

Inspired side project book mockups

A love of books, especially the visually rich coffee-table recipe books, inspired these ideas and designs.
 

Abundance

recipes for a seasonal glut

Book love side project, concept mockup, art direction, hand drawn to vector cover title, book design

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Mockups for my book idea Abundance: recipes for a seasonal glut

Mockups for my book idea Abundance: recipes for a seasonal glut

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Inspired by my mum’s Sunbeam Mixer recipe book, to create a book with an element of contemporary nostalgia.

Gelato

ice creams, sorbets, granitas

Book side project mockup, lettering and design

 

Forage Trail

Magazine concept personal project

Forage Trail - mockup for personal project. Illustration and design.

Forage Trail - mockup for personal project. Illustration and design.