Saturday
May052007
Bus roll brag
Sat, 5 May 2007
One of my favourite things is bus or tram destination rolls. Love the black and white typeface. Imagine my surprise when I opened the autumn/winter decorating and renovating guide from Inside Out. There was one of MY vintage Sydney bus rolls. I produced a series of these a couple of years back and sold them through Shop 73 in James St. All gone, no more except a set in my living room and a few metres I'm saving for a special day. Makes me want to start on the Brisbane bus rolls I have squirrelled away.
Reader Comments (8)
We're all looking for those bus rolls. ~Sigh.
Jo - how cool that those were yours and ended up in a mag!! That's a fantastic photo to boot!
wow! that must be such a thrill! congrats! (and *very cool* idea, btw).
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That's so great Jo - to see your work be published, a pleasant surprise ... and perhaps just the inspiration you needed to start a new series! hope you and Kim are having a fantastic weekend! Cheers!
this is so cool.
and the bus roll looks amazing. how's it feel to be a trendsetter?
where do you get these bus rolls? can you find replicas of them anywhere?
Sorry Monica not that I know. It's either ebay, antique dealers or if your lucky fleamarkets where they don't know what they are. I have a friend of friend who works in a bus depot who can get me relatively new ones but not the lovely vintage ones. I got mine but sheer luck.
http://geezeescanvas.blogspot.com/2009/07/destination-bus-roll-canvas-art-you-ask.html
How fun, I just started to offer these Bus Rolls (customized) to my clients! Check out my blog!