Posts tagged spring

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN!

Had a morning in the garden today. It’s looking great, even if the effort of keeping up with all the cutting and weeding is nearly killing me at the moment with all the rain we have had.

A cheery front garden that is well tended, always exudes a sign of “welcome”. It reflects pride, love and energy, and these are contagious, something attractive that we all want some of!

COWPARSLEY, RED BOTTLEBRUSH, & OTHER RITES OF SPRING

All sited during my ritual morning 30 minute walk, and taken with the i phone. I know that cowparsley is just a weed really, but i just love it for its ethereal lace like beauty, and the purity of its white! Other favourite sitings for morning walks at this time of the year, are the red red bottlebrush, which attracts the yellow honeyeaters, and bolshy wattle birds, the yellow lichen down at the creek, and the slivery flowering grasses.

THIS IS MY VISUAL LANDSCAPE. THE PLACE WHERE I RECORD PONDERINGS, SITINGS, MEETINGS AND OTHER HAPPENINGS.

I am an ethnographer, illustrator, publisher, graphic designer and educator. I am interested in telling stories with pictures.

I have just written, illustrated and published "What the Hell is Your Problem?" A Kit for Uptight White People.

If you click on the kit in the links section, you can check it out!

I lectured for six years at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. I also have a graduate Diploma in Education, and a Masters in Cross Disciplinary Design.
I have taught Communication Design at private colleges, and set up the inaugural Communication Design Program for the Box Hill Institute in Kuwait. Most of my past professional design work has involved designing identities for grass roots organisations, such as community health centres, and the Brotherhood of St Laurence.

I am interested in the developing role of Design as an agent for positive social change, around which I centred my final masters project, by designing a "kit for uptight white people", to raise civil engagement.