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marniemui is an illustrator, making magic* in her lil home studio in Sydney, Australia.

*commissioned illustrations & designs for clients, prints for her webstore and miscellaneous crafternoon activities.

behind the magic…

The giant crossword ✍🏼 an interactive game for our guests to play throughout the night.

This was a hit and a great way to bring different friendship groups together.

The design tied in to our other signage and stationary and I had this printed,

Our tattoo parlour ✍🏼 with designs combining our interests of golf, tarot, kewpie, yoga, games, alcohol, Lana Del Rey and boobies, all with an overarching theme of …

L❤️&zwj;🔥V E

📷 @alanis.k.photography

And can you believe I found this

Our wedding. My favourite project of all time.

I designed and created just about everything I could for our special day. From the invites, signage, flowers and games. I was definitely challenged and kept very busy for the last few months, but it was

THIS JUST IN ‼️ Well actually it has been a few weeks since it launched but the new menu I designed for @papagedesbar is now live.

“The Memento Mori Times” was the brief. Memento mori is an object kept as a reminder of the inevitability

Snapped, fresh off the printer 🔥 We went A3 for this one and printed it on smooth cotton fine art paper.
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This is Dewi 👼🏼 another special gift custom made for the zookeepers at Sydney Zoo.

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Last year I was commissioned by @zookeeper.sid to create this artwork of 5 gorgeous squirrel monkeys. I was given each of their names and little description about their personalities. By the end, I felt like I knew each one of them.

This week I fin

A ray of fabulous sunshine ☀️

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I’m kind of in love with this perfectly imperfect book mark I made today. As you can tell I have 0 embroidery/sewing experience and I did not watch any tutorials and I had the worlds fattest needle that did not want to go through the felt. But

While I have a few jobs still awaiting official release, I thought I would share one of my all time favourite creations 🐉

I created this piece last year as a part of a collection of illustrations for @papagedesbar cocktail menu. Each cocktail had a

I’ve tried writing a few different things for this caption but they aren’t working and my eyes are going cross-eyed and making me want to nap so I need to quickly move on to the next task or I’ll have to give in to the nap so this i

5 years ago today(edit: lol today is the 20th)! The very first thing I made for someone on this creative journey of mine 💕 all hand painted with posca pens. Thanks @megze14 & @timmay2019 for being my guinea pigs.
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#handlettered #handpainted