Healthy dessert

You need:
- a handful of almonds(that you've soaked overnight)
- dried dates
- 3 Tablespoons (or more) raw cacao powder (or organic dutch process cocoa)
- Tablespoon of grated orange zest
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 bananas, chopped and frozen for at least 4 hours
- some raspberries for decoration /sauce.

Process the almonds with a handful of dates + 1 Tablespoon of the cacao/cocoa. Your food processor won't like you much, but persevere until it all sticks together. Press into a cling-wrap lined tart shell with removable base. Place in the freezer while you get the next bit ready. {You can add orange zest and roll into balls to refridgerate overnight if you have extra - yumyum}.

Clean out the food processor. Place the bananas, cinnamon, the remaining 2 Tablespoons of cacao/cocoa, orange zest inside and process until creamy. It will turn into crumbs first, then a paste then into soft serve-like icecream.

Fill the tart shell with the icecream. Freeze for 20 minutes if you can bear waiting. In the meantime, puree the raspberries reserving a few for decoration.

Remove the tart from the freezer and gently ease it from the shell, pour over the raspberry sauce and raspberries.

Makes 1 small tart with lots of icecream filling.

Lab Partners

I'm in love with lab partners. They say their illustrations are inspired by: summery breezes, curious books and tiny companions. As far as I'm concerned, they can Do. No. Wrong. Much like how I feel about Akira. One is letterpress (San Fran print) and the other gocco. I can't wait to get these, thanks Sarah! Lab Partners

Lesser Known Polygons

Steed Griffin does some beautiful work. So, I had to buy something.

I'm loving the Nevis Bold, the angles, the shapes, the maths I don't understand. I feel smarter just for ordering it, much like when I put on glasses.

Says Steed of the Lesser-Known Polygons (No 13):
I think there's something beautiful and pure in geometry that we often miss, even if I can't stand the math involved quite frankly. I thought there might be something worth pursuing in it. And thus, the lesser-known polygon series was born.

www.steedgriffin.com

The Flate Rate

Ah, so this is why some companies can afford to only charge $45/hr... the Flate Rate - cutting your design bill in half by leaving out half the service. Like proofing, for example. Why would you need that?

2oo8 christmas card

Clients and friends (oh, and anyone that knows my Mum), expect to see some of these in your mailbox soon! I'm starting the screen-printing next week.

Simultaneous, Sequential at Galerie Düsseldorf

Slow Fast Articulation IV 2008, Caspar Fairhall

Head to Galerie Düsseldorf in Perth from 16 November - 14 December to see my friend Caspar Fairhall's amazing work. He's also participating in Linden 1968 at the Linden Centre for Contemporary Arts in Melbourne from 7 November - 14 December.

The works in this exhibition represent an effort to explore some of the deeply counterintuitive ideas in contemporary physics, particularly as they relate to ourselves as embodied subjects. Since it is impossible to directly represent ideas such as relativistic space-time, or the many extra spatial dimensions in string theory, it is necessary to hint at them using various visual strategies, thus drawing on the familiar to extend the imagination into unfamiliar territory. More important to me is the sense of disorientation and dislocation that these ideas can induce.

Most visual art – often even when highly abstract – retains a sense of conventional space and time, certain assumptions about materiality, and the comfortably familiar sense of inhabiting terrestrial space as we are accustomed to seeing it. The world as it is has no respect for our metal handrails such as solidity, simultaneity, horizontality and verticality. The sense of uncanniness and dislocation that we feel when considering a world without these handrails is my starting point. (Caspar Fairhall 2008 via Galerie Düsseldorf)

Beating the clock

I picked up a beautiful leaf skeleton the other week with the intent to trace its intricate veins. It was as delicate as could be. I scanned it and it crumbled some more from the weight of the scanner lid :( Soon after, I only had half a crumbly leaf to trace. Each day has been busy of late so I've only had 10 minutes or so to spend on it here and there. Time was running out.

I finally finished tracing half the leaf and have made up the other half. It is merely leaf dust now, but I have captured it's digital skeleton - soon to be utilised in gocco screen-printing goodness.