Mitchell & Dent's Tittle Tattle

Emily Martin of The Black Apple is a curiosity peddler and a picture scribbler and the maker of this delightful doll of many doodads and disguises. Haven’t you always wanted to be a bandit or a bear?

theblackapple.etsy.com

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1. Beary nice
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The mesdames do occasionally step away from the letterpress and explore other media. If you were wondering what type of things Mitchell & Dent have to show at this weekend’s SODA Gift 2010 exhibition, here is a little sneaky peek of one of Leah Dent’s acrylic on ply paintings. And there’s more where that came from. You’ll just have to come visit – details in the post before last.

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1. It’s a gift
2. Girls who paint on wood
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Yes. You can get letterpress wedding invitations in Perth, thanks for asking. And Mitchell & Dent‘s lovely old 1905 Chandler and Price platen press, affectionately dubbed ‘Herbert’, especially likes to print the Cameo wedding stationery suite. He thinks the elegant typefaces, fancy flourishes and ornaments, and sweet little customisable cameos are most befitting the vintage printing technique of letterpress. If you do too, why not visit the website, request the catalogue or order a sample?

mitchellanddent.com.au

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1. And?
2. If you please
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If the stereotypes are to be believed, then Transylvania is all about vampires and being scared witless. Not decorative dolls and drawings of dancing dogs and delightful birds on unicycles. And given that Mitchell & Dent are not exactly your stereotypical Australians (bah beer and football!), we’re thrilled to discover Romanian artists Harem6 and must apologise for being presumptuous. Mind you, I did always like the Count.

www.harem6.etsy.com

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Marisol Spoon are a mister and missus living in NYC. I’m surprised. With the fairytale sweetness of their wonderful work, I was certain they lived in a gingerbread cottage in the misty mountains, surrounded by frolicking foxes and cavorting kittens, dining on strawberries and drinking dandelion wine.

www.mariolspoon.etsy.com

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3. Eek

Milwaukee’s Erin Paisley is quite possibly the sweetest, most self-effacing illustrator I have ever come across. Describing her work, she says “I’m terrible at planning things out”, “when I sit down to draw, I have a big eraser by my side”, “I usually don’t know what my drawings will be” and “I pretty much just belly flop into everything I do and hope for the best (I was never very good at diving either…)”. And then she makes works like these!

Eek Design on Etsy

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1. Rain, rain, go away
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3. Miss Milly

We recently met design student Miss Megan Isabella and had a nice cup of tea together, chitchatting about terribly important things like cats and Frankie magazine and paper dolls and, oh yes of course, design. We do get sidetracked at Mitchell & Dent. You however, you can cut straight to the point and see Megan’s winter portrait project by clicking here. There is no better way to support your up-and-coming illustrators.

meganisabella.com

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1. I resolve to
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I do love these images of children and animals by photographer Maxine Helfman. They are too too lovely and really quite creepy. Am I allowed to say that about a child? I’m not sure. I think I can say that about a goose though. I’ve never liked geese. They’re far too pecky and flappity.

www.maxinehelfman.com

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1. Cute or creepy?
2. Raining diamonds
3. Itsy bitsy animals

On the other side of the world to us, but clearly Madame Mitchell is not ready to let the warm weather go and face autumn. She has made these wonderful prints of her original ink and graphite artworks on tea-stained paper available through our little online shop Mitchell & Dent. Mind you, Madame Dent is just a little concerned about what kind of shampoo Madame Mitchell uses.

www.mitchellanddent.com.au

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Burnese-born English illustrator Nila Aye‘s work is so sweet it might give you cavities, but I think I have discovered Nila’s naughty side. Find her Flickr photostream and one of the funniest illustrations about boob jobs I’ve ever seen. Not that I’ve seen a lot of illustrations about boob jobs. Boobs. It is a funny word, isn’t it? I’m sorry Nila, I didn’t mean for this post to descend into smuttiness.

www.nilaaye.com

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