Ampersands and other things

New prints available on Society6

Great news! The Dacia Sandero is here! There are now two new pieces up on my Society6 store. 

Alter was created for the Imbalance exhibition by IncStamp, and the original is still available to buy here. Native was my submission for the sixth iteration of Australian Infront’s Visual Response series. As an added bonus, there’s free shipping worldwide until Sunday!

Buy Alter from Society6

Buy Native from Society6

incstamp:

Starting out at university studying a dual degree in IT and Science, Jacque soon realised that is just wasn’t for her. She began studying Communication Design the year after. While she really enjoyed Uni, Jacque feels her formal training has only played a small role in where she is today and where she sees herself going.

A lot of hard work (that is still going) and an ethos of never giving up have been drivers in her work to date.

“What helped most was the hours of experimenting with design, animation, illustration, typography, art and everything in between and gaining as much experience as I could through internships, jobs and my own or volunteer projects.”

From where/what/whom do you seek inspiration?
It sounds monumentally corny but I really do believe that you are inspired by everything and are informed by all of your experiences. Dated signage, the colour combination of a strangers outfit, patterns and shapes in architecture, the list goes on. Some of the numerous creatives that inspire me include Wim Crowel, Mike Perry, Jeremyville, Jon Burgerman, Kate Moross, Gemma Correll, Jessica Hische, Aakash Nihalani, Mikey Burton, Frank Chimero and Olly Moss. And my family, they’re the biggest inspiration of all.

By your own interpretation of ‘good’ or ‘evil’, which side are you on? And what can we plan to see in your Imbalance artwork?
As much as I enjoy a deliciously evil and devious character, I am too soft at heart to be evil. My conscience is like Dory from Finding Nemo – impossible to ignore! I often struggle to make good, disciplined choices for myself so my own internal fight between good and evil will inform my artwork for Imbalance.

What do you have planned for 2012?
I always have far too many of my own projects going on so in-between work and everything else, I plan on expanding my online store, exhibiting more of my work, exploring and developing my illustration and typography, getting back into printmaking and trying to reach that ever illusive goal of blogging more consistently.

Favourite places in Brisbane that motivate you to work on your art/design?
There are so many! Old power stations, like The Powerhouse and Substation Number 4; tiny little coffee places hidden around corners in The Valley and West End; any gallery or museum, from the huge GOMA to the tiny space where Nine Lives used to be; and the peace and quiet of parks where you can just escape everything and focus on drawing.

Your thoughts on the art and design scene in Brisbane?
I love that it is continuing to grow and gain more and more of the recognition it deserves, while still remaining small and connected enough for everyone to know what’s going on and never miss out on anything.


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Thanks to IncStamp for making one of their featured artists for their Imbalance exhibition. It’s on this Thursday from 6pm at Salt House, Level 1, 888 Brunswick St, New Farm, Brisbane and is being hosted by Sprinkl. Tickets are only $7 (which you can buy here) so make you get along to an excellent night of art!

Free wallpapers for all!

Last Saturday I created a tshirt design for Made in the Now. While the tshirt is no longer available, I have created a series of free wallpapers based on the design I made. There is an alternative version available for everything from iPhone to those with ridiculously huge screens and a special detailed version of the design I created just for iPhone and iPad. 

Alternative version wallpaper

iPhone
iPhone4
iPad
1024x768
1280x800
1280x1024
1440x900
1680x1050
1920x1200
2560x1440 

Detailed version wallpaper 

iPhone
iPhone4
iPad

If your resolution isn’t available, tweet me @jacqueprior_ and I’ll create the wallpaper at the size you need.

Tshirt design for Made in the Now

Yesterday I designed a tshirt for the wonderful people over at Made in the Now. Be sure to check it out as it’s only available until 2pm (Brisbane time). After that it’s gone forever; or at least until they do another back catalogue sale. I had heaps of fun designing it and the brief to design a tshirt based around a new species of moth found eating vine leaves in Italian vineyards was certainly one of the weirdest I’ve ever received!

New pieces and a brand new online store!

I’ve been working on some new abstract geometric typography (AGT) pieces for the past couple of months and I thought I’d finally introduce them all here. So please welcome Hidden (top), Gentleman (middle left), Miss O Ginny (middle right) and Stereo (bottom). Some of these pieces have been featured in a couple of places already. Miss O Ginny was included in the A Touch of Class exhibition at Somedays Gallery, which was part of the 2011 Sydney Design Festival. Stereo was part of This Little Teapot at Paper Plane Gallery and the entire set was featured on Typography Served!

To celebrate, I’ve started an online store over at RedBubble where you can buy prints of all of these pieces, along with two of my older works, Future and A Better World. Be sure to check it out and keep an eye on this blog as I’ll be adding further options in the not-so-distant future. Till then, here are some easy links to where you can buy each of the pieces.

Purchase Hidden
Purchase Gentleman
Purchase Miss O Ginny
Purchase Stereo
Purchase Future
Purchase A Better World

Font that I’m currently working on. Still not entirely happy with a couple of the characters, particularly the upper and lower case S and the lower case w. Thoughts, suggestions, feedback and constructive criticism would be most appreciated :)