Turkey Holiday Sept 2011
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...
Exciting News: Workshop at Domestic Sluttery Paper & Penmanship Event
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...
Velvet Brigade: Crowdsourcing Fashion Designs
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...
Event: Lost in Vintage
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,...
‘Life As An Illustrator’ Talk from the YCC
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...
Sneak Peek: Illustration for Lionheart Magazine
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,...
Feature: Tea & Crayons in Digital Arts August
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...
Coveting: Colour Blocking Bags
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...
Vintage Finds: Ephemera Society Fair
A few sundays ago I floated on over to Russell Square (after a particularly hardcore sesh of pilates in Holborn; hence the floating) and had a little nose at the most recent Ephemera Society Fair. I hadn’t been before but have been meaning to go for ages; I think they are held about twice a...
For the Love of Fame – Is Essex the Only Way?
My latest @Mindbubble blog post is now up; discussing the rise of the ‘Docu-Soap’ – or more commonly known as TOWIE/Made in Chelsea/Geordie Shore (and apparently there will be a Mersey Shore? Really?!). It’s Sunday morning, and as I type this, I’m watching the cast from Made in Chelsea get more-than-slightly ridiculed on T4. The...
Review: Pattern by Orla Kiely
I’ve been wanting this book for ages; I wrote about it all the way back in November 2010. I was kindly sent a copy to review recently, and I love it! It’s so huge and chunky (check it out on my dresser) and packed full. Whether you’re new to Orla Kiely, or are a die-hard...
Review: Outline Editions ‘Clear Your Head Every Day’ Exhibition
On Thursday 9th June I was invited to the Private View of Anthony Burrill’s new show atOutline Editions, which is situated on Soho’s Berwick Street Market in a former second-hand record store; I’ve written about it before, here. Following on from its debut show ‘Into The Forest’ and the recent ‘Joys of Spring’, Outline Editions is now...
