Design Federation was shocked to learn today that Melbourne artist, illustrator and typographer extraordinaire Timba Smits was stabbed in the leg in London whilst defending elderly passengers on a bus. 

Timba, publisher of the Wooden Toy Quarterly magazine has been in London for the past 18 months after winning the British Council award for talented Australian artists. He is in hospital for another few nights and says “I’m pretty sore but feeling very lucky.” 

You can read the Herald Sun article here