Ethnographic Installation update
Apr 30th, 2013

www.ethnographic2013.com art by Erik and Shannon Newby, Artspace, Raleigh NC

 

With over 130 entries from all over the world, we're happy with how everyone has responded to the installation so far.  The work itself is growing, with typed entries on muslin fabric being sewn together with red thread

 

New art installation: we'd love for you to participate!
Apr 16th, 2013

 

Erik and I have been busy working on an art installation, called “Ethnographic 2013."  It's a collaborative project that will be displayed in the Raleigh Artspace Pop Up Gallery.  We are inviting anyone (and everyone!) to answer the question: What does the next generation need to know?


All Creatures Here Below, Part II
Feb 6th, 2013

The rest of the pieces in the exhibit were larger in scale and implemented steel (a new and fascinating material for me!).  Here's how they turned out, and what original source materials inspired the work...

 

Why hello there, 2013
Jan 4th, 2013

2013 sounds like the name of some futuristic sci-fi film rather than the year we find ourselves in.  To commemorate the start of a new year and the entrance into the 20-teens, we are running a special in our Fontface shop:

 

 

 

 

Show Opening
Dec 2nd, 2012

 

 

new fontface item
Nov 1st, 2012

 

We've been eager to announce our newest product:

our 2013 desk calendar!  

 

in the studio this week
Oct 31st, 2012

My workspace has been become more like a science laboratory rather than an art studio.  New forms are emerging and progress is being made - slowly but surely.  Science textbooks, biology and botany illustrations and pod-like clustered forms are taking up every inch of table space...

 

 

 

in the studio this week
Oct 26th, 2012

This week, I have been busy getting some more pieces ready and brainstorming names with my dad.  To narrow down the search for an appropriate scientific name, I've been looking at images of natural forms that are similar to the pieces I've made and have (whether consciously or not) inspired each work.  Peppered with a little bit of imagination, and a lot of help from a Latin dictionary, here's what we came up with.

 

 

Inspiration from natural forms:

new card design
Oct 21st, 2012

It's Monday and we've got another card design now available in our etsy shop!  

 

It can be tough to find a really unique thank you card these days.  {We've seen one too many that are cheesy, boring or just say "thank you" in a swirly cursive font.}  So we decided to make our own.  

 

new card design
Oct 15th, 2012

Over the next few weeks, Fontface (my little side business / collaboration with my husband) will be releasing some new card designs and a nifty little 2013 desk calendar.  

 

I've always thought there's something really magical about giraffes.  What strange, beautiful, graceful, freakishly elongated creatures!  :)  On that note, here's our newest card design - available now in our etsy shop.  

 

 

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