My Etsy Shop is back up and running...

After setting it up this time last year, I had taken my eye off the ball, and let items expire, failed to update or maintain my Etsy profile...

So! I've re-populated it with some new items, and I promise to keep uploading new things every month!

I've already made one sale since re-instating my shop!

Phil and I are also working on a new G-R-A website, Small stories site + lots more plans for 2011...

and we promise promise promise to get the typefaceaweek CD done and dusted this year (only a year late).

don't forget, we've got a Small Stories facebook page too, where you can also access new images of my work and comment (please do!)

I <3 UTG exhibition

The first in a series of I ♥ UTG campaign awareness events;
"insert".

An exhibition of local artists coming together to help raise awareness for the problems facing Union Terrace Gardens & Aberdeen’s new Arts Centre.

All works based upon the theme “heart” and will be on sale for £20 per artwork to raise funds for the I ♥ UTG campaign.

Gilla Brooker
Alicia Bruce
Libby Day
Fraser Denholm
Jim Ewen
Jo Gannon
Katie Guthrie
Eva Merz
William Moulding
Gabrielle Reith
Stuart Simpson
Anita Stewart
Philip Thompson
Sarah J Tingle

and more to be confirmed……..

So come spend the evening with Project Slogan & I ♥ UTG and help us create a better, greener and brighter future for out city.

Typefaceaweek #22 up - perspex

Claypots again!... the builders are getting on great guns, the chippies are working so fast, it looks like they might set fire to the wood they use....

Creative Identities classes complete!

Gabi and Phil have completed their classes with Craigielea school... we've had a fantastic time working with the pupils and teachers - and we would like to extend out thanks to them as well as the Peacock Visual Arts - Creative Identities team. It has been a wonderful opportunity for us to not only showcase our typeface a week project - but to proves that we can facilitate and run classes as professional artists.

We've been asked to come back to Craigielea in the next semester, and we've also been asked to work further with the Creative Identities project - so things are looking fantastic creatively for us. Particular thanks to Adam Proctor and Nicole Plumb for having the belief and trust in our work.

Phil to make the POOT site

Phil has been asked to help POOT (Portrait of our time) - a community based website that will hopefully collate & curate the goings on of the rather disparate community of Finzean, Strachan, Balogie & Birse and Feughside...It will be a great opportunity to implement the lessons of developing RSS / CSS driven websites... It's a great opportunity to help a community that uses computers to communicate - to communicate effectively and "cleverly" meaning that individuals can actually contribute to a website without having to worry about programming HTML or uploading new pages via FTP!...basically, give a lot of pre-set blogs to some authors and mash up the feeds from RSS into "the portal" - presto - a live, evolving, current and relevant website! - watch this space.

Typeface Classes with Craigielea School

We've been working with Peacock visual arts for the "Creative Identities" project, where we've been working with some pupils from Craigielea school, Aberdeen creating handmade typefaces from a range of materials.

We are working for four sessions utilising Found objects, Ink & Paint and Animation with several finished outcomes planned for the creation of the type.

We'll be posting some of the outcomes here, and also featuring a suit of typefaces in the typefaceaweek blog.

We'd like to thank Peacock Visual Arts for this opportunity, and look forward to running more workshops with them!

New TFAW font by Jo Gannon

http://typefaceaweek.blogspot.com/2009/05/19-mysexy.html

Jo Gannon has submitted our first ever "guest" font to the Typeface a week project!...thanks Jo!
Gabi & Phil.

tfaw #18 up - pebbles

Pebbles is the new typeface (by Gabi) for the typefaceaweek project...

go fetch it from here : http://typefaceaweek.blogspot.com/2009/05/18-pebbles.html

Phil showcasing typefaceaweek at open knowledge networks

Phil will be doing a 15 minute presentation and practical example of how to make a typeface with photoshop & fontCreator at the fantastic open knowledge networks - at Peacock Visual Arts. I believe there is beer available too...

Typeface a week project for 2009

http://typefaceaweek.blogspot.com

Gabrielle & Philip are embarking upon an ambitious project for 2009. We are going to create a typeface a week! During 2009 Gabi and Phil will be creating 52 usable typefaces, including fonts from selected guests. The "weekly font" will be downloadable for one week only, then, at the end of the year, a limited edition download / cd will be distributed to subscribers. If you wish to subscribe to our projects outcome, please email us. info@g-r-a.co.uk