I’m not entirely sure why, but I am absolutely obsessed with anything teal coloured at the moment. Day Dresses by Miss SelfridgePlatforms by Topshop A/W11 is certainly abundant with the colour right now; there’s a huge trend at the moment for anything jewel coloured; the deep, rich, sister tones that were everywhere during Spring/Summer. In...
As I’ve mentioned previously, I’ve started a new job at Office Shoes! Very exciting. My time at Yumi was great, I learned a lot, but I felt it was time to move on. So I’m doing the same sort of thing, Graphic Design, POS and visuals for retail, just in a bigger company. So far...
They Draw and Cook, a book featuring over 100 illustrated recipes (including my own!) has now been released and is available to buy! The recipe that is featured is this one: I can’t wait until I can get my hands on a copy! You can also buy prints of my recipes from here, and you...
On the 18th September, me and Rachel P from Tea & Crayons held our Postcard making workshop at the Domestic Sluts Paper & Penmanship Event, in conjunction with Homemade London! Beforehand, we both got involved in the Homemade London bookbinding workshop – so much fun! and so easy to do. Our finished books! So on...
I haven’t been keeping this blog as up to date as I would like recently; mainly because I’ve started a new job at Office shoes! Which is ace, very busy, am absolutely loving it. So not a lot of energy left to focus on this at the moment. I’ll do a separate post on it...
Us Tea & Crayons are really excited about this Sunday the 18th September 2011 – We’ll be holding a ‘Design your own postcards and letters with Tea & Crayons’ workshop at the Domestic Sluts Paper & Penmanship Event, in conjunction with Homemade London! I should have posted about this weeks ago but I’ve just got...
Crowd sourcing. Sometimes, especially within design, can be quite an ugly word; many people enter a competition, putting a lot of effort in, and only one can win. There’s always a danger that crowd-sourcing designs and ideas can mean you get a watered down version, or in this case, when the competition is voted for...
We all love a good Vintage sale – there’s nothing quite like rummaging through some bygone clothing to stumble across a gem. I love spending weekends wandering down places like Brick Lane (as I did today, in fact), in search of nothing in particular, just something unique, authentic and timeless. On Saturday 24th September, 12pm,...
Last week my friend Rachel P and I went to the ‘Life As An Illustrator’ Talk from the YCC, in conjunction with Jelly London and Creative Floor, featuring Matt Lyon and Alison Carmichael. Jelly London is a great multi-disciplinary creative agency, and so it was great to hear from two of their artists. Matt Lyon...
With the demise of Design Week recently (shocking news – that was a quality design publication), and countless other print magazines ceasing to exist, starting your own Magazine right now, seems like insanity. Helen Martin is doing just that; but I have a feeling she’s not crazy at all. People still like things. Actual, physical,...
More exciting news – Tea & Crayons, the illustration collective I am in, have been featured in the August edition of Digital Arts magazine, out right now! We were given the whole back page, where we gave an interview and had our portraits featured: Here’s a little extract - This was way back when we...
I’m a little obsessed with bright, single coloured bags right now. Massively so. We all know colour blocking is huge right now (and from the looks of the catwalks, set to continue in some form into AW11 and well into SS12 too, from my keen trend-hunting skills) but it takes a certain amount of confidence...
