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,...
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...
Festival Fever of the Reading variety
I was supposed to post this before I left but you know… packing and such. So it’s a ‘this is what I did’ rather than a ‘this is what I’ll do’ thing. First off, new hair: This wasn’t supposed to be like this. Well, the fringe was (yay hello fringeness my old friend) but the...
Found: The Perfect Satchel Bag
Remember my epic post about hunting down all the satchel bags out there, and finding the perfect one? Well, on my recent shopping trip I went and found most of the ones I posted about. Here’s my conclusion: They’re all too damn small. Dimensions on a website are reeally hard to visualise. These are the...
New Work: Leith Festival Fundraiser Poster Designs
Never underestimate the power of Twitter. I would never have got involved with this if I hadn’t seen the RT on my feed. Leith Festival (just outside of Edinburgh) needed a poster doing for their fundraiser, which sounds like it’ll be great – Leith’s Found Fashions: ‘The Evening will showcase outfits designed by local designers...
Nonsensical Spam Project: Sleep Late…
New work! How exciting. Been so busy with new job and everything that I haven’t done a new illustration in a while. Ntweetmeme_source = 'rachillustrates'; As soon as I got this spam comment, I loved it. It’s not even that nonsensical… in fact, it makes perfect sense! Click for larger. Ntweetmeme_source = 'rachillustrates';“Since it is...
Nonsensical Spam Project: Bravo
Bonjour! Another nonsensical spam illustration for your perusal and satisfaction. Aha. This one is for the rather wonderfully stupid comment, “Bravo, this brilliant phrase is necessary just by the way”. What brilliant phrase? Bravo for what exactly? and why just? Nonsense, I hear you cry. Well it is. I wanted to do a type-y illustration...
Competition / YCN student awards / augmented reality / digital media / fashion / store windows / ted baker project / vintage
YCN Student Awards 2010: Ted Baker Brief
I’m really excited about this year’s YCN Student Awards Briefs. There are so many good ones! It took me a while to to decide which one to do… I almost thought of doing 2 but didn’t want to make life stupidly hard for myself. Here are the ones which I found most interesting: Action Aid...
Coveting: Floozie by Frost French
Let me just say, it is entirely silly of me to covet these. I work in a large chain of underwear shops. I get a good discount. I do not have any need for more underwear. If I did, I would buy some with said discount. However. Frost French is an underwear line created by...
The Daily Ampersand Project: Day 5
Today’s ampersand is Courier New – lovingly reproduced out of tiny ampersands on a typewriter! Typewriters only come with one typeface, and they generally look like Courier. So there you go.Hundreds and hundreds of tiny ampersands make up this one. I said I wasn’t allowed to use a computer/photoshop, but I never said anything about...
christmas / illustrator / inspiration / portfolio / screenprinting / simon cook / typography / vintage
Coveting: Simon Cook’s Christmas Cheat Sheets
I saw these and thought they were brilliant. Simon Cook is a very talented illustrator, but also a genius in my books for inventing these ‘christmas cheat sheets’, which is his “attempt to solve the age old problem of buying clothes for your better half at Christmas time… So basically you fill out one and...
Vintage Times – lipbalm and labels
I’ve just been catching up on my RSS subscriptions and generally surfing the mintynet and I’ve stumbled across some awesome vintage finds. I know it’s the latest thing to love everything vintage but I genuinely do; things that have a history, a feel of the old, like they’ve been places, are very exciting to me....
