Tin Roof Drawing Office

Drawn for shelves, shops and pages.

A few recent commissions. Hover over a drawing, or scroll on a phone, to see the inks line up.

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Labels for a Coal River Valley vineyard

The brief
Three new varieties needed labels that looked like a family and stood out in a bottle shop.
What we made
One set of hills, redrawn for each wine with the sun moving across the sky.
Where it is
On the bottles and the cellar door signage.
A pademelon crouched on the ground in about 2,400 blue dots, darker away from the light, with its shadow printed in mint.

Pademelon, a stipple study

The brief
A lead image for a magazine piece on Tasmanian wildlife at dusk.
What we made
A pademelon in about 2,400 dots, with its shadow printed in the second ink.
Where it is
A full page in the spring issue.
Picture book cover for The Lighthouse Cat: a striped lighthouse, a beam of mint dots and a large cat in a mint collar sitting on the rail.

The Lighthouse Cat

The brief
A cover that a four-year-old would point at and a parent would pick up.
What we made
A striped lighthouse, a beam of mint dots and a cat who looks like he owns the place.
Where it is
On the cover and the endpapers.
A walking map of North Hobart: a tilted street grid with Elizabeth St marked, kunanyi in halftone across the top, eighteen numbered mint shop markers and a dashed route.

A walking map of North Hobart

The brief
A map for a local traders’ group to hand out in shops and hotels.
What we made
Eighteen shops on one folded sheet, with the mountain at the top.
Where it is
Printed as a fold-out, and as a poster in shop windows.

The legend

The dashed route is the six shops open late on Fridays.

  1. Bakery
  2. Bookshop
  3. Record shop
  4. Florist
  5. Wine bar
  6. Greengrocer
  7. Coffee roaster
  8. Hardware
  9. Cinema
  10. Deli
  11. Barber
  12. Tea merchant
  13. Gallery
  14. Chemist
  15. Bike shop
  16. Pub
  17. Op shop
  18. Gelato

Spots for a column about sleep

The brief
Four small drawings a month for a newsletter column, turned around in a week.
What we made
A running set that stays recognisable from issue to issue.
Where it is
The newsletter and the column’s web page.
A repeat of blue eucalyptus sprigs, long sickle-shaped leaves hanging from short twigs, with mint midribs that sit just off the leaves.

A pattern for a tea merchant’s tins

The brief
A wrap that worked on three tin sizes and didn’t look like every other leaf pattern.
What we made
A eucalyptus repeat where the second ink never quite lines up, on purpose.
Where it is
Around the tins, and on the shop’s tissue paper.

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