Maricor/Maricar is a twin sized studio specialising in hand embroidered illustration and lettering for publishing and advertising. They also direct for stop motion animation, hand craft props and design custom lettering in a variety of mediums.
For illustration work we're represented by Jacky Winter in Australia and The Bees Knees in Japan.
We have original hand embroidered artworks and giclée prints available in our shop. We also offer digital embroidery patterns through our Etsy shopfront.
If you are interested in a custom artwork for a gift or a one of a kind artwork for your home we do take commissions. Have a look through our past projects and if you would like to enquire about a custom made artwork please submit a message below. In your message please include reference examples of our work that you like the style of, what size you would like the final artwork to be and the phrase or lettering you would like sewn. Depending on the size of the finished artwork and the length of the phrase you would like stitched, artworks may take from 2 - 6 weeks to design and complete.
With this information we can provide you with a quote for the artwork which covers:
- 2 rounds of black and white sketches of the type design and layout
- we work with you to create a custom colour palette and once the sketch is approved we create a colour digital mock up for final approval to move onto embroidery phase. We can base the colour palette on reference images you provide which can be a favourite artwork, landscape photograph etc
- Embroidery phase to include WIP photographs to show the progress
- Once embroidery is completed, final artwork stretched on board for framing
Thanks and please get in touch if you have any questions!
Myer Australia
Vogue Japan
Shinsegae Department Store
Hong Kong Airport
Clemenger BBDO
Havas Worldwide Hong Kong
Saatchi and Saatchi NYC
The Monkeys
BMF Australia
Weight Watchers AUS/NZ
West Elm
TOMS Shoes
Charles Perkins Centre,
University of Sydney
Pan Macmillan
Riverhead Books
British Council Australia
The Land of Nod
Design*Sponge
Oh Joy!
The Washington Post
GOOD Magazine / Levis
Telegraph UK
ESPN Magazine
SHOP Magazine
Desktop Magazine
Paulette Magazine
Esquire Magazine
Wired Magazine
Meanjin Magazine
AFAR Magazine
Net Magazine
2012 Art Directors Club: Young Gun
2010 British Council Australia Realise Your Dream Award
AIGA Eye on Design
Type Worship 1, 2, 3, 4
It's Nice That
The Design Files
This is paper
Broadsheet Sydney
Dwell Magazine
We are the frontier
The Fox is Black
Plenty of Colour 1, 2
Design*Sponge
BOOOOOOOM
"Stitched Illustration, Needle Work" 2014
"Page Magazine" 2014
"Neue Folk" Desktop Magazine, Nov 2013
“Stitch Show” 2013
"In stitches" House and Garden Magazine, Oct 2013
“Twins and needles” The Sydney Morning Herald, April 2013
"Reinventing Lettering" Gregory, E. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012
MAPS, Koskela Gallery, Australia
Turns of Speech & Figures of Phrase, Mart Gallery, Australia
Materials with Meaning, Jam Factory, Australia
Material Edge, Wangaratta Art Gallery, Australia
Hoopla, He Made She Made Gallery, Australia
Pick Me Up “Selects”, Somerset House, UK
Needle Work Needle Play, Brunswick Street Gallery, Australia
Alphabetica, He Made She Made Gallery, Australia
Beautiful Bitmaps, Art Central, Canada
Alphabet Soup, The Wall, Sydney
Jim Henson Tribute Show, Gallery Nucleus, United States
Denim, Mr Kitly, Australia
etcc, Ambush Gallery, Australia