Where Jasmine Dowling Finds Ideas for Her Handmade Work

Jasmine Dowling makes work for fashion and beauty companies by hand. She cuts and folds paper to build pictures and small worlds. She also makes animation, even though the work can take a long time. Animation uses a series of pictures to make things seem to move. Her interest in making things continues outside her paid work, too.

Reading about how people make things is one important source of ideas. She has received Issue 6: To Blow from Tools Magazine. The issue looks at the act of blowing in different ways. She wants to read it after work and learn about those ways of working. Books and magazines help her learn about making things by hand.

She also talks about visiting Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. An exhibition there looks at the worlds and characters of The Jim Henson Company. She would like to see that or explore the gallery's other works. After a visit, she would check the shop for new books and magazines. These are places where she can look closely at different kinds of making.

Nature is another part of what she notices in her daily life. For over a year, she has recorded patterns on flowers and leaves. She shares a photo of fallen petals from a flower. Petals are the thin, coloured parts of a flower. She connects this with her new phone case designs for The Dairy. Her choices show her interest in learning and making things by hand.