Thanks for stopping by!

The last two Sundays were craft show days, Artist Row and Hearts and Crafts. Both were really awesome and I just wanted to thank everyone who stopped by, took an interest, or bought anything. And a big thank you to Laura who shared a table with me! My next show is Saturday November 6th for Mayday Underground Craft Show Luau at Village Gate! In the meantime I expect to be very busy making new products and replenishing my wares. 

sneak peek! Artist Row is tomorrow!

Artist Row at the Rochester Public Market ("America's Favorite Market") is tomorrow from 10-4! I've been incredibly busy but here is a sneak peek of some shutters I got to display my earrings. So excited!

hello studio!

I recently moved into a shared studio space in the Hungerford building. This past weekend was awesome because of it. I made a lot of stuff. Today I made the Alliance Table in real life. It's no longer just a computer rendering! Here it is with some of my stuff behind it.  And Brady already using it as a laptop table. It went together really easily. It took maybe 2 hours to cut it all out and sand it (and I got to use my new jigsaw). 

Sunday night we had a mask making party for an Alice in Wonderland Masquerade Ball that will be held Friday, October 29th by Writers & Books. I started to make a walrus (from The Walrus and the Carpenter fame). He still needs some whiskers, tusks, neckfat rolls, eyelashes, and maybe a monocle? Anyway he is going to be a slammin walrus when he's done. 

Also here's some other random new stuff. I made this huge weird necklace out of parts of egg cartons (see the earlier egg-carton-waves post) but I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it. I like the ruffly skeletal vertebrae effect of it, just not sure what to do with it. And a new pair of earrings I made.

the mad fawn typeface and Droog

I've been really enjoying graphic design lately.  It started with drawing the mad fawn logo. I wanted really long skinny ascenders and descenders and a very tall condensed look. I made an alphabet to go with it. Then I made a poster for the Dutch design collective Droog, as a fun exercise with my new typeface. I really admire many of Droog's designers. It states part of their manifesto that I really like:  

"Droog stands for a luxury of content and experiences... that change perspective on daily life whether it's...  authenticity, slowness, humor, engagement, nature, the abundance of what is scarce is true luxury." 

My goal is for my products to do that as well- having an abundance of substance over typical "luxury". Droog has a very tongue in cheek approach to design that isn't found very much in the US. It borders on fine art in the way that the object's importance is the message it's sending, not necessarily its functionality. How lovely the thoughtfulness of the design is, even if it's a little esoteric or impractical for American consumer culture to really embrace like the Dutch do. It's maybe kind of a geeky ID thing to drool over but it's worth a look around their website. 

http://www.droog.com/aboutus/

use every part of the egg carton

So, I like eggs. A lot. And I like the new-ish turquoise pressed fiber egg cartons from Wegmans. I had this vision of a layered dimensional sea as a backdrop for some of my felties so I saved up cartons for a while (weeks? months? it's been a while).  Here's another version of squidopus on the sea that shows off the handcut waves a little better. The other version has this gritty feel that I liked too though. And squidopus has a great gleam in her eyes in the other version.

After making the sea, I had all these oblong curved scraps. I pressed them onto a piece of fabric tape and it made a cuff bracelet very nicely. Reuse, reuse, then reuse some more. Soon to come: an outrageously oversized necklace made from the waves in the back row of the squidopus photo.

dreamy little prints ft. the mad fawn products

Apologies for the lack of posts. Figuring out day job situations and studio arrangements.  That's right- I now have a studio with 5 other artists in the Hungerford Building, which also houses many an art studio other than ours. 


Other than that, my craft company with Maddy Roslow has evolved from the name Fawndeleine to the Mad Fawn. I've started making postcard sized prints featuring some of our objects. Our next show will be September 19th at the Rochester Public Market for Artist Row!

The first two are my felty mermaid and squidopus on an egg carton sea. The next is a bag Maddy made from vintage handkerchiefs. The last is my feltie musk ox on a felted kool-aid dyed background.