The trend we’re crushing on this week is passionate pops of cobalt blue. Whether it’s teamed with monochrome or spliced with sunny yellow, cobalt blue is a fast favourite of ours.
1. Vintage Vogue Print | 2. Flower Crown | 3. Blazer | 4. Resin Bangles | 5. Druzy Pendant | 6. Bench Seat | 7. Lace Bralet
Here is an example of a public service announcement that works. A cute song and accompanying animation deliver Melbourne Metro’s train safety message aimed at the young and dumb. Yes, the proof will be in the pudding but with over 16 million YouTube views thus far, I think we’re placing pretty safe bets.
***Update***
This is a repost from The Wondery’s original blog (from late last year) as we are merging our two creative ventures. It turns out we were onto something! The Dumb Ways to Die video has just won double Grand Prix in PR and Direct categories at Cannes!!
How beautiful is this photographic art by Berndnaut Smilde? According to Design Squish, the artist creates his dreamy subjects with a smoke machine, moist conditions and dramatic lighting. Although beautiful and inspiring, I kind of feel sorry for the cloud trapped indoors… is that weird?!
It’s been a crazy few months for us at Follow that Faun as we’ve been setting up our new design studio, The Wondery. Bianca and I had our first official day of work the Monday after my engagement party back in March and it feels like we haven’t stopped for air since! We have been meaning to share these piccies with you since then… I hope you can forgive our tardiness!
M and I had our engagement party in my fiance’s grandparent’s gorgeous garden and we really wanted to have an open-air space… but it was not to be! It rained for weeks right up until the day before the event so we hired a marquee, just to be safe! Although the rain thankfully stayed away on the day, the marquee ended up being a lovely space just the same.
Our theme is possibly best described as the lovechild of a mermaid and a sailor… but perhaps more eloquently: nautical meets glitter with a palette of gold, red, navy blue and mint.
With the help of some (almost) willing family and friends, we made the tissue paper tassel garlands and glitter spot garlands. Don’t ask me how many we made! We bought the cute navy and white striped bags from The Party Table and the heart pegs from Emerald+Ella. Invitations and stationery design by The Wondery.
M’s grandfather made us cute little chalkboard signs to point our guests to the party and the marquee was lit up with gorgeous golden string lights.
There were plenty of seats to choose from! We hired the chairs from Hodge Podge Hire and the arm chairs were an ebay bargain!
A massive thank you to our friends and family for helping make our engagement party a beautiful night!
Photography by Bianca Schurman – thanks B!
Daily Dishonesty is a hand-lettering blog that Lauren Hom started during her senior year of college. It combines her love of typography, humor, copywriting, and illustration. The blog documents the lies she (and us all) tell ourselves on a regular basis. The type treatments on her posters is just stunning and creates fun excitement to our graphic designer souls.
If you want to start your own hand lettering series check out her tutorial on her process from start to finish. You can also buy prints from the series at her Society6 shop and remind yourself of your daily dishonesties.
We would like to introduce our new design studio called The Wondery. We tether visionary branding and marketing strategies to beautiful design, exploring a range of mediums along the way. The Wondery draws on curiosity, asking the right questions, to develop branding, digital and graphic design solutions for companies big and small.
Big changes are happening in the studio and we are updating the website with new projects so make sure to come back and explore The Wondery soon. In the meantime feel free to contact us for your next design project from blogs, logos to website design.
Into the Garden is a new spring season campaign by Anthropologie. Their new store window treatments just took our breath away and if you have ever had the opportunity to stroll through their stores you know the creativity doesn’t stop there. We have always loved their stunning window styling with lots of attention to detail and uniquely different to the rest of the retailers. They really make you stop, look and imagine these beautiful places with them. The hand crafted flowers, fruits and veggies creates an exciting garden environment that compliments their season colours perfectly
Here are some more examples of their window styling campaigns for Christmas and Spring.
This week we’re loving the versatile material that is acrylic! It goes by many names including perspex, plexiglass and the more technical poly methyl methacrylate. Whatever you like to call it, acrylic is a wondrous substance that lends itself to making virtually anything. From jewellery to furniture and everything in between, acrylic isn’t a new trend but it’s one that seems to continually produce new and creative products.
If you fancy designing your own laser-cut acrylic items, it’s easy to make your own at Ponoko. Their acrylic is available in a great range of colours. You simply submit your design and choose your colour and voila! your designs become a reality!
1. Typographic Kern Ring | 2. Drape Pendant Light | 3. Bowls | 4. Tuilleries Cocktail Table
5. Josephine Boudoir Stool | 6. Miniature Green House | 7. Acrylic Feather Bracelet
Everywhere you look lately is some sort of pattern relating back to the simple repetition of a half circles, aka the scallops. We have found a plethora of examples from fashion, stationery to event styling.
Easter is nearly here and if you go into a supermarket you’ll likely find yourself drowning in Easter eggs. As delicious as they are, being surrounded by their chocolatey charms is not great for those trying to limit their sugar/fat/insert-health-concern-here. This is precisely why we just adore this clever little DIY tutorial by the beautiful Brittany of The House That Lars Built. Also, terrariums are cool! See the full DIY instructions and more darling pics here.
We thought this is a great opportunity to highlight some stylish blogging goodness. These are 8 blogs we are currently following and loving and thought what a great opportunity to share with our readers.
1. Little White Space: This is an Aussie blog (QLD) that shares inspirations, ideas and work for design, styling and everyday living.
2. A Beautiful Mess: Another girl design duo with lots of crafty ideas, daily inspirations, DIY projects and recipes. Their main belief is best things in life are homemade.
3. Ampersand Design Studio: These ladies do some really colourful and fun posts. Anything from fashion, design, prints, patterns, art and not to mention some cool etsy products they make and sell.
4. Made by Girl: A NYC girl who loves to read and write about art, fashion & decorating. She also sells some amazing paintings on cocoa & hearts. Make sure to check them out.
5. August Empress: This blog is about patterns, design and inspiration in surface, textile, graphic and web design. You’ll also see goodies you can download, helpful resources, and perhaps little snippets of her daily life in the Gold Coast Australia.
6. Mr Cup (formerly known as Graphic-Exchange): This is a blog for all you graphic design crazies out there. It is a collection of stunning design works of studios and designers across the world. There are 16 categories of design goodness ie. interior, editorial, packaging, events and lots more.
7. Style.Life.Home: Simone from Noosa, Queensland is a interior stylist with a passion for all things beautiful. Her blog is full of stunning content and neat photography that is very pleasing to the eye.
8. Mrs Lilien: For all you fashionistas out there that loves girl nights out, accessories, beautiful homes and believes all things should sparkle. Well this is the blog for you. Mrs Lilien is one clever design and stylish cookie and we are blown away with her stunning mood boards and fun girly posts. Definately a girl picker upper for those rainy moody days.
We hope you enjoy these blogs as much as we do and feel free to submit yours here, we just might include it in our next blogtastic.
Don’t tell my fiance but I recently subscribed to Her Fashion Box… A monthly subscription to all things beauty and fashion. Well, the first one JUST arrived and Oh Em Gee just look how cute it is!
The concept has been floating around overseas but it has only just launched in Australia (YAY!). The HFB signup is super easy and what’s great is you can customise your profile to ensure you get products that are relevant to your complexion, style and beauty concerns.
My loot included:
- A silver filigree collar necklace
- A silver bow hair tie
- Redken Diamond Oil hair care samples
- A Master Makeup blending brush (I have been wanting one of these!)
- Maybelline colorsensation lipgloss
- Circa Home soap (which made the box smell amazing!)
- Moxie sample box
I think they could have come up with a better name but overall it was an exciting experience and I was happy with all of the items I received… Yeah, you know you want one. Get yours here!
There is something very whimsical and feminine about watercolour artwork. Here are some pretty paintings we have fallen head over heels for…
1. Purple Beauty | 2. Flowers | 3. Pink Haired Girl | 4. Lipstick | 5. Wolf | 6. Feathers | 7. Brown Bag
Oh yes please! What a fun retro bag from Kate Spade. Inspired by old-fashioned handheld radios with a modern twist. It even has 14-karat light gold plated hardware. Just darling.
Our hearts just melted when we saw this adorable toddler photography by Vanessa Lewis. Vanessa took it upon herself to create an amazing toddler photography studio when she couldn’t find a decent portrait studio to take pictures of her child Nina. In her studio, kids are photographed in adorable sets re-enacting their actual playtime. Themes include, circus, forest, pilot and tea time. Not your standard portrait studio, make sure to stop by if you are visiting South Africa. Go see the rest of the images here.
Follow that Faun is a collaboration between two designers, Amy and Bianca. We like to design things, make things and immerse ourselves in the world of our friend, the faun. Metaphorical as he may be, he teaches us to follow our curiosity and explore our creativity everyday. We're glad you have joined us on our journey! |
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