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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
After a captivating week of celebrating some of the most talented creative women of the last century, we must say thank you and farewell to the lovely Tess McCabe. Congratulations to Meaghan for winning the double pass to tomorrow's SOLD OUT Creative Women Circle event and be sure to visit the CWC website for more features and upcoming events! - Jenny x
Cipe (pronounced See-pea) Pineles was a graphic designer an illustrator and the first art director in the United States, working on many groundbreaking publications which still exist today.
She started as an illustrator in the 1930s, and her strong ‘ungendered’ portfolio of work often landed her job interviews with top advertising agencies in New York (but she could never quite get past the front door once they discovered she was female!). That was until Mr Conde Nast saw her work and promptly installed her in the design team to work on publications such as Vogue and House & Garden.
Cipe went on to become the first female art director of a major American publication, putting her visual stamp on many trailblazing magazines for young women such as Seventeen and Glamour. Apparently she was also the first art director to commission illustrations for editorial layouts and was always on the lookout for the hottest photographers to ensure her spreads stayed fashionable and fresh.
Her art direction and style was ground breaking at the time, and who could deny that she set the visual standard that many current publications still follow?
Thanks everyone for joining me this week! It’s been so much fun to research and learn more about the hardworking ladies whose design legacies live on and influence us all in our creative careers today.
I'm looking forward to meeting all those coming to the SOLD OUT Creative Women’s Circle event featuring designer and illustrator Beci Orpin! Sorry to those who missed out on tickets - remember you can join in the fun online via our blog or on twitter or Facebook.
- Tess x
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