New Work: Illustration in Issue 1 of Lionheart Magazine
The exciting and wonderful first issue of Lionheart Magazine has been published and is currently in a bookshop near you! I was asked to create a cherry blossom-themed illustration which I later learned was to accompany an article written by the rather lovely Cherry Healey. Above is my original illustration – the final version was...
Poste Mistress A/W11 Window Design
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
Review: Pick Me Up 2011 at Somerset House
Last Sunday I went to Pick Me Up, Somerset House’s contemporary graphic art fair, now in it’s second year after 2010 being so successful (read last year’s post here). I went with fellow Crayonette Rachel Price and met up with some awesome illustrators, including the lovely Jo Cheung, Emma Block, Emma Cowley and June Chanpoomidole...
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Exhibition: Outline Editions presents ‘The Joys of Spring’
Really looking forward to this one. Following its hugely successful winter show, Outline Editions is on a seasonal cheer-up mission, with a new exhibition of specially commissioned, Spring-themed prints at their buzzing pop-up gallery in Berwick Street. The show will include work from some of Britain’s most in-demand image-makers. Anthony Burrill, Kate Moross, Noma Bar,...
Thoughts on Style
“A personal style is like a handwriting—it happens as the byproduct of our way of seeing things, enriched by the experiences of everything around us.” —Massimo Vignelli I’ve been thinking a lot about style recently. Style is a very abstract word, it’s difficult to pinpoint and even more difficult to get right. Style is also...
Tea & Crayons featured on Tigerprint!
Hey guys, hope you’ve all had a lovely Christmas. Posting has been a bit erratic lately, but I don’t really blame myself, what with illness/Christmas/freelance/sleeping getting in the way. Tsk. One of my resolutions is to combat this but more on that in another post…. Tea & Crayons, the illustration collective I’m a part of,...
Proud Kitchen Launch Night for Amelia’s Magazine
Last week I was commissioned by Amelia’s Magazine to produce a couple of illustrations for an article by Jessica Furseth about the launch of new Camden restaurant, Proud Kitchen. The article discusses last Thursday’s opening, and by the sounds of it, the venue and food on offer were pretty amazing. Above is my first illustration;...
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Trends: Stationery gets fashionable!
This is a trend that I hope doesn’t go away too soon; Fashion design collaborations with stationery manufacturers. Some of you may know I have a bit of a stationery fetish; nothing like a crisp new sketchbook or a virgin rollerball pen. Mmmm. Marc Jacobs for Moleskine: Everyone loves a moleskin – I certainly do....
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Review: The AOI Head to Head Event, 10.11.10
On Wednesday 10th Nov I attended an event put on by The AOI called Head to Head, which presented “illustrators Jenny Bowers and Garry Parsons, who create imagery for a broad spectrum of commissioners, including editorial, children’s books, broadcasting and design. They talked about their work, careers, motivations and how they find work. The evening...
