Amy Borrell

Amy Borrell is a freelance graphic designer, photographer and illustrator for Mambo, Frankie Magazine and Darren Hanlon. She is the founder of Bakers Dozen, and runs a collaborative blog with Luci Everett (who designed the identity for Insert Coin Here) entitled We Make Words.

Her work was recently included in The Photo Album, published in 2009 by Frankie Magazine.

Award Ribbon Brooches, 2010, felt, paper, brooch pin

Sweet and petit award ribbon brooches, made from handcut paper and felt, in happy splashes of colour. Intended for wear on days that need a little brightening.

www.cakewithgiants.blogspot.com

Brittany Veitch

Brittany Veitch is a felt and soft sculpture artist trained as an Industrial Designer. Brittany makes handsewn toys under her label, The Vibrant City, which was launched in 2007. In 2009, Brittany collaborated with Ben Landau to present Bio-Accessories at the City Library niches as part of Craft Victoria's Craft Cubed festival program. In the same year Brittany was part of Veni, Vidi, Vici, a group exhibition at C3 Contemporary Art Space with Katie Jacobs and Rohani Osman.

Pardon My French!, 2010, felt, chain, thread

French profanity, curse with style. Hand-embroidered felt speech bubbles in black, de rigueur for Melbourne chic, slung from gaudy gold chain.

Pardon my French! is a tongue in check expression of fashion frivolities mixing cheap material, commonly associated with mass production, with traditional craftsmanship skills to bring a subtle quality to what is an essentially crude trinket.

Emblazoned in finely detailed hand stitching, Zut!, a French expletive, pays homage to Paris, France, an icon for fashion.

And so to this folly, say oui oui, and curse to your heart’s content.

www.thevibrantcity.blogspot.com

Gemma Patford

Gemma Patford runs fashion label called NotToday out of her studio in Melbourne. NotToday is a small independent clothing label which embodies creative ideas with simple, recognisable, fun and above all comfortable designs. NotToday sells a variety of handmade goods and clothing.

Gemma is primarily a pattern maker and seamstress and her works are known for their use of colour, texture and popular forms. Gemma’s work draws heavily on popular culture references, primarily everyday objects enlarged and used in contrasting circumstances.

NotToday is stocked at Dagmar Rousset, I Like You, John Citizen and Hunter Gatherer in Melbourne.

Motorola DynaTAC Plushie 2010, 2010, felt, stuffing and pin backs

DynaTAC Plushie 2010.

Before the iPhone, before the Blackberry, before emails, there was the Motorola BRICK!

With the fax machine becoming gradually more affordable, the people of 1983 were looking for something new. iPods weren’t invented, and it was going to be several years before Sony had a Portable CD player with Electronic Skip Protection.

Retailing for about $4000, the Motorola DynaTAC 8000 was the hottest thing out, being cavorted about by Wall Street wheelers and dealers, corporate big wigs and Michael Douglas in ‘Wall Street’.

Gemma Patford’s take on the DynaTAC 8000 is similar on many levels. The call quality is poor, and it's still sans email and instant messaging.

www.nottoday-nottoday.blogspot.com