One of my favourite magazines in the world is Wooden Toy. Produced and designed by Timba Smits who is an inspiration to all creatives, far and wide. He recently spoke at Semi-Permanent in Melbourne and is also a part of the Gorker Gallery in Fitzroy, Melbourne. If you haven’t purchased a copy then get the latest ‘Music Edition‘ which is out now!!!
Here’s an interesting fact – Timba studied at Shillington College in Melbourne!
Images via Wooden Toy
Well friends this week was a great week for us as we opened the pages of Giftrap magazine to see an interview with yours truly. Late last year I had a great chat with the Editor of Giftrap, Adeline Teoh on the resurgence of handmade, designer stationery products. Giftrap is a magazine for the gift/homewares industry full of great articles and information.
That’s right friends you can read all about ME over at the Women In Business website. Check out what I get up to during the day working on We Are Messengers and Rumpus Design. Whilst there have a browse around the Women In Business website for useful resources and information brought to you by Clare Lancaster, who was recently featured in Forbes.com as one of 30 entrepreneurs to follow on Twitter – the only Australian to appear on the list. Go Clare!
If you are unlucky enough to NOT have read the lovely Peppermint Magazine, then you need to scoot on down to the shops right this instance and buy yourself a copy.
Filled with beautiful pages of taste bud tantalizing goodness. I took my lunch hour today to the cool air conditioned shops, sat with my frappe and scone and drooled over Issue 4.
We are happy to say that we make a few little appearances in this issue, check out ‘Rapt’ on page 49 for some We Are Messenger goodness and you’ll also find us in the Marketplace on page 107.
We are super proud of this little gem of a magazine and think Kelley and Ben deserve more than 3 awards (did I mention they recently scooped up some awards for Best Sustainability in Publishing, Best Design in the ‘Consumer’ magazine category, and best overall Graphic Designer of the year!). Great work guys, now you have me sitting and waiting for Issue 5.
ps. They have an awesome gift guide for Christmas too!
Blanket Magazine has just released a new project that aims to uncover new, emerging talent. So if you consider yourself to be a young designer, illustrator or photographer – why not get involved in this great project and see your work downloaded by people all around the world! Get the full story here.
Isn’t it lovely a feeling when you are flicking through the pages of a magazine, only to stumble upon your own product! Thanks to the guys at Desktop mag for featuring our cards in their ‘coolstuff’ section in this coming months November issue. It’s on the shelves now so make sure you grab a copy!
