Il mondo di signorina Nina

I`m a 29 year old design student from Germany. I love fresh air, cool glasses, cake, Berlin, surfing,cellos, typography, cumbia music, race biking, good discussions, red hair and lots of other things.
Welcome to my collection of partly selfmade, partly random and lovely stuff.

Last weekend, we had a 1,5 day workshop at uni - with mister Darius Gondor the great. Loved it!

It was heaps of fun and I learned lots of things - some about about having / not having a logo or an idea and other things about opposites and definitions. Sounds weird, is not. 

Thanks Darius! 

I´ll have to wait and see what happens with this pattern based on a mexican dress my mama gave me for christmas a year ago … 

I´ll have to wait and see what happens with this pattern based on a mexican dress my mama gave me for christmas a year ago … 

Check out my photographic diary thingy on Instagram as long as it´s there - I´m not sure how much longer I want to be part of it considering their privacy policies.

We´ll have to wait and see where this is going to take us - make sure you stay critical tho… :)

I have made so many happy birthday cards over the years - some really silly ones, some with heaps of detail, but all with lots of heart involved.

Here are a few.

My discovery at a scrapyard in Ballina: really old golf clubs!

Obviously couldn´t all drag them into our van and take them onto our jolly ride, so here are some pictures of the beautiful type on the bottom.

Round 1 of various, partly handpainted, beautiful and curious signs found on our way through rural Australia. 

Surprisingly often, car mechanics and car washes have stunning examples. Maybe because they rely on walk-in (drive-in) customers more than anyone else? 

Enjoy!

My first etching since art school - and how much fun it was! Quite a challenge too: I had to write backwards in order to make the type readable.  Lennox Head, a small town on Australia´s east coast mainly known for its excellent surf was the last place I had expected to revive this very old printing method at. Being from the same place as the master Albrecht Dürer, famous for his many impressively detailed etchings, I´m going to try it out some more when back home!

My first etching since art school - and how much fun it was! Quite a challenge too: I had to write backwards in order to make the type readable. 

Lennox Head, a small town on Australia´s east coast mainly known for its excellent surf was the last place I had expected to revive this very old printing method at.

Being from the same place as the master Albrecht Dürer, famous for his many impressively detailed etchings, I´m going to try it out some more when back home!

No parking in residential Lennox Head, NSW Australia.

No parking
in residential Lennox Head, NSW Australia.

Some finger exercises I did during my last project at Swinburne University in Kuching (Malaysian Borneo). ‘S’ is such a bitch!

Some finger exercises I did during my last project at Swinburne University in Kuching (Malaysian Borneo). ‘S’ is such a bitch!

30minutesfun:

30 minutes for having fun with cats and pizza.