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November 14, 2011 • 10:13 pm 1

Merry Chraftmas – Thelma + Louise

After the super success of their first Crafternoon the other month Thelma + Louise are putting on another Christmas – y afternoon. Essentially grown adults: cutting, sticking, making, sewing, buttons,  fabric, ribbons, string, paper etc…etc.. Fingers crossed I can make it…anyhow check the link and book yourself a spot!

In their own words…

“Get into the festive spirit of a crafty, homemade Christmas by kicking off December with Thelma and Louise. As well as your DIY craft kit there will be lots extra of crafty supplies to play with and extra kits to buy if one just isn’t enough! We’re also going to have a stall selling our wares, which will make perfect Christmas presents, even if we do say so ourselves…and unlimited tea, cake and mince pies.”

The Mill Co Project,
Lime Wharf, Vyner Street, Tower Hamlets London, E2 9DJ
1pm until 5pm

Sunday 4 December 2011

Words and pic Thelma + Louise.

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November 13, 2011 • 8:27 pm 1

Paperlux, Novum 11/11

Paperlux: Novum 11/11. Know very little about it other than the what is on the credits. All I know is that I want to get my hands on a copy…but it looks like it is only sold in Germany…hmmm….

Anyhow saw this via Graphic Exchange, just mindblowing skills in design, repro and commitment to a great product. The film of ‘the making of’ is lovely and upbeat. Enjoy.

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November 12, 2011 • 10:44 pm 1

Wit + Delight

I have just stumbled across Wit + Delight via the always stunning and unbelievably committed Graphic Exchange. On first viewing it looks absolutely amazing, will have to spend some serious time checking it out. More wonderfulness coming out of Minneapolis!

“Wit + Delight is run by Kate Gabriel, a graphic designer from Minneapolis with a serious love for impractical shoes, modern design, vintage decor, thoughtful typography, and photography.”

Words and image Kate Gabriel.

Filed under: Blogs, Design, Graphic, Reference,

November 7, 2011 • 10:40 pm 1

Debbie Smyth

“Debbie Smyth is textile artist most identifiable by her statement thread drawings; these playful yet sophisticated contemporary artworks  are created by stretching a network of threads between accurately plotted pins. Her work beautifully blurs the boundaries between fine art drawings and textile art, flat and 3D work, illustration and embroidery, literally lifting the drawn line off the page in a series of “pin and thread” drawings.

Project featured is Fly Away Home: 8 metres wide by 3.5 metres high

Created for Stroud International Textile Festival and installed as part of the exhibition, “WordPlay” at the Museum in the Park, Stroud. Artists showcased tease the written word into tactile images, interpreting their observations with stitch and mark, challenging the viewer to seek fresh ways to see their world.”

Words and pics Debbie Smyth. Seen via What Makes Us

Filed under: Graphic, Illustration, ,

November 7, 2011 • 10:07 pm 0

VIB event by Soon

Possibly one of the best things I have seen for a while. Loads of photos on their Behance page, here are a selection…just amazing…

“VIB is a life sciences research institute, based in Flanders, Belgium. They perform basic research with a strong focus on translating scientific results into pharmaceutical, agricultural and industrial applications. For their fifteenth anniversary, we did the entire event branding, for which we used only chalk and a huge blackboard. For this event we also designed a box with nine books in it. For the books only we made more then 200 large chalk drawings.

“Soon is a Belgian studio that creates visual identities in combination with photography. Most of our work is hand crafted and afterwards transformed into a digital image.”

Vimeo link for Soon

Words and pics by Soon via the Behance network

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October 29, 2011 • 9:10 pm 0

London Design Festival – 2

Although the festival is now over for another year, here is some of the promotional collateral that Pentagram designed. 2nd post on the LDF, love this work though. Pics via Pentagram.

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October 17, 2011 • 8:48 pm 2

Animal note cards – Melanie Kimmett

Cards by Melanie Kimmett,  (a fab designer from Vancouver with a fab blog).
You can buy them via Etsy‘s shop.

“A happy maker of cute paperie things here in Vancouver, Canada. I’m heavily influenced by clean, modern design and illustration but take many inspired cues from the quirky urban world around me. Every one of my greeting cards are printed on 100% recycled, FSC-certified paper.”

Words from the Etsy site, pics from Melanie Kimmett.

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October 17, 2011 • 8:32 pm 0

Poppytalk

A wonderful blog called Poppytalk. Found via the wonderful Melanie Kimmett.

“Poppytalk is a Canadian (Vancouver-based) design blog collecting inspiration and dedicated to promoting emerging design talent” founded and run by husband and wife Jan and Earl.

They also run an “online street market (Poppytalk Handmade) to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.” Words and pic from Poppytalk.

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September 25, 2011 • 10:16 pm 1

Cavalier Essentials – Taylor Pemberton

Seen via the wonderful Graphic Exchange.

Cavalier Essentials is a line of vintage products designed for the rugged, yet sophisticated gentleman. Cavalier was always briefly explained as–“If Steve McQueen carried a beat-up leather duffle bag on the back of his motorcycle; what would be in it and how would the products look?” This simple idea married an appreciation for lifestyle design and vintage accessories. All of the products possess a hand-made quality while responding to the modern influences of today’s culture. Words and pics via Graphic Exchange and Cavalier Essentials.

Designed, directed and produced by Taylor Pemberton – designer from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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June 22, 2011 • 9:59 pm 3

Mélanie Kimmett – 1

A bit of a love in of Melanie Kimmett’s portfolio and blog. I discovered her site yesterday, checked out some of it today and am so impressed with the content of the blog and the fantastic work she does. Melanie is a designer and illustrator based in Vancouver “specialized in conceptualizing identity + brand design, print publication and illustration”. The work that she (and her team) worked on for the Vancouver Olympics is fab – in particular the AMAZING mascots that she was involved with – “from colour/fabric selection, approval of shape and form as well as calculating and producing 3D sewing patterns to ensure the placement of specific characteristics matched the 2D drawings”. I actually wanted these (and still do)!! Words and pics via her site. This will be the first of many posts…!

Links: the Vancouver Olympics 2010 work here.
Blog site here.

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