the social network

I don’t really blog about films iv seen but I just have to blog about ‘The Social Network’ I went to see it last night and I was soo impressed, it was enlightening, fascinating and had humour to it. 

I am a BIG fan of Facebook and have never really thought of how it became or the story behind it. I don’t know whether some of it was fabricated or not but I’m guessing the main story line is true. I actually cant believe it was created by a Harvard student, in my student days all I thought about is the next deadline and when’s the next cheap student night, not codes and ‘traffic’. All I can say is Thanks Mark Zuckerberg.

If you’ve not seen it I recommend it highly, it kept me engrossed the whole time, and the way the story is conveyed is brilliant and well thought out. Plus Justin was unexpectedly a great actor.

ooo Fun Fact: facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is Red/Green colourblind and blue is the strongest colour he can see.

Watch the trailer here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53OUHupfqws

Recreate

An object is no longer being used for its original purpose in life! That purpose has expired and I have recreated a beautiful 'something else'

Katie Thompson

Oh my Days I want this Sooooo Much!! 
Interior / Furniture Designer Katie Thompson has made this. It is from her Recycled furniture collection called Recreate. the range of products shows antiques in a new light, unconventional but beautiful. She marries suitcases with chairs, cola crates with tables, cushions with buckets, typewriters with lamps! I want the whole website! genius 

Tattoo work

These are a few of my illustrations iv been working on as tattoos.

"Sailor girls R Us"

Sandrine Estrade Boulet Illustrations

Sandrine Estrade Boulet Illustrations

Wandering around the worlds of blogs (looking for a dress I saw on a celebrity) I came across some darling illustrations and thought I would just have to share them. They are the work of Sandrine Estrade Boulet a French artist; she is inspired by the simple everyday items, the environment that is setting of her life. Her work is ironic and playful, she uses sarcasm and emotions to create her work. I love these illustrations, they are just lively and quirky.

http://www.sandrine-estrade-boulet.com/sandrine_boulet/Home_Sandrine_Estrade_Boulet.html

Armed to the Teeth

Small ongoing project - finding interesting quotes and illustrating them. 
This is my first quote I have done:
Armed to the teeth :

Re(collection) exhibit

Last week 28^th September 2010 my wonderful friend Alessandra Mostyn and her friend Zara from MMU had their opening of their Re(collection) exhibit in the Holden Gallery Café. It was to celebrate the history of our Manchester Art School and Sandra’s design work for all the exhibits she curated last year. It was a gorgeous exhibit and delightfully insightful into the 1920s life of teachers and students of the time. Showing video footage of the courses that were on at the time and teachers/students messing around and playing up for the camera. If your in Manchester do go have a gander.

http://recollectionexhibit.tumblr.com/

http://www.amostyndesign.com/

IKEA Cookbook

Ikea has found a new niche

Ikea has developed a Cookbook: Homemade is best

The Swedish Super-duper store has commissioned Carl Kleiner to design a distinctive style for their cookbook.

It is reminiscent and echo’s the idea of Ikeas “Do it yourself’” philosophy, using the idea of flat pack furniture. Carl worked with food stylist Evelina Bratell to create this superb minimal effect.

The book is a 140-page coffee table recipe book containing 30 traditional Swedish baking recipes. Each recipe includes two images: one of the ingredients and one of the finished product.

Ikea states “we let ourselves be inspired by high fashion and Japanese minimalism”

This book is gorgeous and corresponds superbly with the IKEA way of life. I think they struck gold with working with Carl Kleiner.

Oh and they have produced an app too, working you through the recipes step by step.
http://www.carlkleiner.com/

I love Snes

I don't know what made me think of the classic Super Nintendo maybe it is the new advert celebrating their 25th Anniversary ?

Anywho I just thought I should reminisce about the good old days, and the fact it wasn't as traumatic as the video games of the present. You could use Mario Paint and basically draw with your snes but not as well as with actual paper. Or you could make sweet Music with the compose game, using: dogs, love hearts, mushrooms, houses and Mario heads to compile a indescribable 2 minute sound that resembles a song.

These games don’t sound that interesting to you probably but I loved them! They didn’t make you cry and you always win, I can’t handle high stress. I panic even when I’m watching someone else play. Games like Tomb Raider are not for the faint hearted; I’m even apprehensive when the butler is following you around her house. Anyway go watch the advert it made me recall some right good times, back in the day when I used to carry a plastic turtle around and wear snowsuits.

To the Queen

Lover of everything quintessentially British I bought a gorgeous cushion recently with a brilliant pattern on it and I thought it would look wonderful as a illustration - so here it is, well I edited a tiny bit.

Pac man re-invented

watch on Youtube >>> Pac Man


Trawling through the world wide web today and I stumbled across this little gem on 'BuzzFeed':


"111 human pixels play a stop-motion game of auditorium Pac-Man over the course of 4 hours as part of the GAME OVER Project from the French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. In France, Pac-Man says “glouglou glouglou” instead of “waka waka”."


Genius and has a great great attention span! 4hours!

Hello Sailor!

New Illustration of mine, bit 'o' Nautical Niceness 

Coca Cola

Filling my time doing illustrations, this is a development of a Coca Cola poster.

Illustration play

This is a illustration I have made recently, to just warm myself up again, this is a timeline of how i designed it. Angry Old Owl Lady.

Morgan Spice Website

This month from 2^nd August through to the 22^nd Morgan Spiced Rum brought out their very first advertising campaign on the TV.

It was designed and made by Grey London, who has also created wonderful adverts such as the Boss Orange ad with Sienna Miller and Country Life Butter.

The ad was called the ‘Modern Adventure’ and features a group of men undertaking a succession of eccentric adventures on their way to their local bar, it is to encourage people to take risks and adventures in the everyday.

At the of the ad it promotes their new can of Rum and cola that you can get a free sample of if you enter their website. And I love a freebie so I had a peek and I love their website, it is what you would expect from Morgan Spice it is dark but inviting and has a quirkiness to it, it has some great flash design and is very very entertaining, telling you interesting ‘ice breakers’ for meeting new people. ‘Golden attire’ :what to wear on your adventures. And the best of all, you can type your postcode in and it will find all your local bars and pubs.

I love Morgan Spiced Rum and I always have, maybe I’m a bit biased but I don’t think so. Have a look yourself…. As Tony the Tiger would say “Its greeeaaattt”

www.morgansspiced.co.uk

http://www.grey.co.uk/

Wallpaper pattern design

March of Magpies

wallpaper pattern design

Dino Army

Wallpaper pattern design

Animals

This is the first installment of my animal design project, I thought of this a few weeks ago, to make me brush up on my drawing skills, so I think I will make it into a extensive project. I will be exploring illustration and patterns to create maybe a sequence or wallpaper pattern design. So here is my first go at an animal. This is the quintessentially British Bulldog.