Recently I was approached to contribute for the Alphabetica exhibition held at He Made She Made Gallery in Sydney along with other fantastic talents from around the world. Each contributor are assigned a letter each to illustrate in their style and limited prints from the exhibition will be on sale during the exhibition to raise funds for the Dandelion Support Network, I am contributing with the letter H.

The theme for the 2013 Australian Poster Biennale is “A mother’s life is precious”.

Entrants are invited to be inspired and interpret this theme in any way they wish. Worldwide 287,000 mothers die each year. Over the timespan of the Australian Poster Biennale, that’s more than 500,000 mothers.The majority of these deaths happen in the developing world and happen because of inequalities in the standards and conditions of women’s lives. Improvements to reduce maternal deaths, and maternal health in general, can be made if all women were educated, families could earn fair and adequate incomes, communities had access to clean, safe water, access to healthy food, stable living conditions, reasonable standards of hygiene and easy access to basic health services.

The Australian Poster Biennale calls on designers to create a poster based on the theme. The interpretation can be as broad, or as narrow as you wish as long as it is inspired by the issues relating to maternal health. You can approach the issues from a social, political or personal angle.
*extract from the competition website

For my shortlisted entry I quoted a proverb from my upbringing, my faith, and my culture. A Hadith as we call it or lessons from the Prophet's life (PBUH) that states "Heaven lies beneath your mother's feet' which was a lesson to teach one about respecting their mothers. As impressionable as I was when I heard this when I was young and not knowing the difference between sayings and fact I tried to look for the pearly gate underneath my mother's foot much to everyone's glee. 

I am fortunate to be part of the selected few who were the finalists for this competition and take part in the showcase exhibition as part of International Design week 2013 here in Melbourne.

I was recently asked to create a poster to promote the newly released typeface by the Decade Typefoundry in the same style that the font was based on

Poster design for Posterama.co based on a quote by Rudyard Kipling

Hand lettered custom numbers for AMP "Handcrafted' direct mail and online campaign that promotes their mission to customize your home loan rate to you.

Agency: Banjo Advertising Sydney
Art Direction: Marque Kabbaz

My humble contribution for Show us your type: Rio de Janeiro

I was invited to create a poster for Posterama.co from a poem titled "If" by Rudyard Kipling about the subject of Victorian stoicism and the "stiff upper lip" which had made its way into the British virtue. The poster can be purchased on the site along many other posters by a host of fantastic talents from all around the world.

I was invited to represent Australia in the Exquisite Collective project by Helou Studio. I used Dorothea Mackellar's iconic poem that describes the harsh landscape of Australia that she loves as a starting point.

MY COUNTRY

I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
Of rugged mountain ranges, of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me.
Though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country my homing thoughts will fly.

Core of my heart, my country, Land of the rainbow gold,
For flood and fire and famine She pays us back three fold.
I love her far horizons, I love her jewel sea,
Her beauty and her terror, the wide brown land for me.
Though earth holds many splendours, wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country my homing thoughts will fly.

Dorothy McKeller

I was approached to create this tutorial for Digital Arts Magazine UK October issue, to create this vintage typographic piece which was based on my "Good Old Days" piece. It is also now live to view online on their website. Magazine layout are the design and property of the Digital Arts Magazine UK.

Deepak Chopra was asked what was his key for success. The reply was very simple and concise; “Pursue excellence, ignore success”

Another way to look at it is that the journey is more important than the destination, once we feel that we’ve arrived at a place of comfort we stop and rest on our laurels.

Myself and Bobsta14 has taken this philosophy as the core of our collaborative effort, to strive for excellence with the tools and techniques that we have in our arsenal. Playing with the idea over the last few months, we offer this piece as our final outcome.

My submission for Karen To's deadwords project http://deadwords.info/

Historiaster (his-tuh-ras-ter) n.1887-1894, petty or contemptible historian
Ex.While Foucault is widely praised today, he was no more than a historiaster.

Branding for a tribute concert for Queen

Various marks over the years, from student work, freelance, and agency work

Submission for Threadless, I couldn't help myself when I saw the Vintage themed competition. The piece is based on vintage typefaces and ephemera designs. I took the lyrics from a Billy Joel song "The good old days weren't always good and tommorow is not as bad as it seems."

Australia infront is a resource centre for designers and creative types n Australia, and after my move here from Indonesia they did an article on me out of the blue. As an expression of my gratitude for the feature they did on me I made this typographic piece with their site name as the copy.

To say the least it was well received, and they were kind enough to feature the piece on their site http://www.australianinfront.com.au/news/article/presents-infront