Archive for April, 2009
April 30, 2009 at 2:02 pm
· Filed under Magazines, My drawings
I had the opening night of my first exhibition in January and as a ‘well done on your opening night of your first exhibition’ present my flatmate Beverley awarded me a scorpion soap and a pack of index cards (What more can a girl ask for?)
Later that week with a brief to complete for Blue-themed issue 14 of Blanket magazine thanks to consuming an entire 2litre bottle of Morrisons lemonade I not only had the sugarific energy I needed for optimum drawing creativity but I also had 100 4×6 lined mini-canvases of possibility. Here’s my illustration for an article about Joni Mitchell’s downhearted ditty. As for the concept I realize I may be in the minority in admitting that I found waves more inspiring as a concept than acid, booze, or ass… Hey, I’m wild! I’ve got a scorpion soap!
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April 30, 2009 at 11:37 am
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April 29, 2009 at 11:55 am
· Filed under Graphic Design, words
I got the chace to listen to a talk by Adrian Shaughnessy yesterday. He is a self-taught graphic designer (he said ‘all I did was look, and by looking I learnt.’ Man! I’ve spent £9,000 on looking around at university.) Writing his book How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul has no doubt made him think extensively through the role of a ‘creative’ and it was invigorating to listen to someone with a very clear understanding of what he does/we do. Design is only half of it, he explained. Noone ever really talks about the other non-designing bit. Which won’t happen without integrity, communication, and cultural awareness. He mentioned an interview with Iain Sinclair, who when asked how he had researched a book, said “What do you mean research? My life is research.”
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April 29, 2009 at 11:01 am
· Filed under People that are good, Things to buy
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April 28, 2009 at 9:06 pm
· Filed under Books
Armed with common sense and a strong will, sophisticated Flora Poste takes the future of the doomed Starkadder family into her own hands and resolves each part of the problem until all is hunky dory. Read this for a funny parody all about other peoples’ problems.
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April 28, 2009 at 11:07 am
· Filed under Illustration, People that are good, words
“Nearly nothing else gives me as much joy as laughing at or with a drawing”
Paul Davis, you are brilliant. I would like to buy you lunch. Thank you for clearing it up for me, because I am beginning to understand.
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April 24, 2009 at 2:16 pm
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Yesterday I attended a youth trend analysis workshop at PZ Cussons innovation Centre. It was lead by a Captain Crikey, a trend speaker who has run trend workshops for over a decade, for clients ranging from global FMCG brands to African NGO’s and he’s written for a hundred different magazines and newspapers to boot. He is very much in touch with what is going on in the world today; culture, news, fashion and so on. Without our input and views the day may have been redundant so it was a brilliant chance to speak about what we’re into and also to get some of our ideas about the future for products we want to buy.
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April 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm
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April 22, 2009 at 9:53 am
· Filed under Things to buy, gifts
and I would like to come to Manchester.
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April 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm
· Filed under words
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I had the opening night of my first exhibition in January and as a ‘well done on your opening night of your first exhibition’ present my flatmate Beverley awarded me a scorpion soap and a pack of index cards (What more can a girl ask for?)
