Surface design : Mag-O {Angela Stevens}

surface design

Angela Stevens lives in Las Vegas. It sounds wild, but she explains, “It’s a notorious vacation spot yet a quite peaceful place to call home.”     Perhaps the constant busyness does have  some effect – Angela’s patterns fill...

Competition! Digital Fabrics ‘Botanical Extracts’

small biz, surface design

Calling ALL Australian surface designers – especially those of you who love florals as much as I do!! Digital Fabrics is a print-on-demand business based in Sydney, which offers digital fabric printing onto a huge variety of fabrics in a range of sizes up to...

The geometries of surface design : Claudia Owen

surface design

I love how Claudia Owen plays with colour. Starting with classic, elegant geometrics, she breathes new life into them with details in clashing, vibrant hues of hot pink, yellow, green and orange.     Based in Canberra, Claudia first studied graphic design...

Surface design : RuseRoux {Yenty Jap}

surface design

One of the biggest challenges Yenty Jap has had to face was figuring out how to make a classroom full of kindergarten kids sit still long enough so she could teach them about the computer.     Working as a graphic designer for many years, the kindergarten...

Opinion : Hot or Not?

about me, illustration, opinion, surface design, the crafted object

Yippee! SO excited about this new segment on tractorgirl. What I’m going to do is pick a current trend in craft and design, review it, and pull it apart to see if it’s worth having as a trend. Whadya reckon? Be warned, the vagaries of my personal taste are...

Surface design : The Fabric Drawer {aka Rebecca Ng}

surface design

Once upon a time, while Rebecca Ng was living in London, she had a dream of returning to Melbourne and starting her own shop called  ‘Fabric Drawer’. “I’d source beautiful fabrics from around the world (and so would be able to continue travelling — another great...