2013 in Pictures

Here are some Highlights of 2013 in an overload of pictures! 

Plays, Exhibitions, Cats in Cupboards, Crafty Finds, Greek Food, Exploring City & Country....

 

Having an amazingly beautiful Summer on Skye...

and trips to the Outer Hebrides including Harris, Lewis, the Uists and Beneray!

  

My Design & Illustration work & Opening my Etsy shop lead to some great opportunities:- My Murakami Bags were featured on Buzzfeed leading to lots of painting/sewing bags and shipping out lots of International Orders, Recovering the Classics Book Covers, Cards & Xmas Cards and One of my Idlewild Zine images became someone's Tattoo! ......

       My first Craft Fairs, Stickers, Quotes, Show us your Type Exhibition in London, Packaging orders, badges and an amazing Joseph Conrad Book Covers Commission for DailyLit.

Here's to much more in 2014, Happy New Year!
Bonne Année! Blwyddyn Newydd Dda! Feliz Año Nuevo! 明けましておめでとうございます! Glückliches Neues Jahr!. . . . .

Recovering the Classics on Scribd

In the Summer I created a few covers for the Recovering the Classics project (see my posts about my 'Heart of Darkness' cover and 'Swann's Way'). Now they are available to read and download (with my covers) over on Scribd (the world's largest library!) Check out:- 'Heart of Darkness' and 'Swann's Way' & tons of other great reads on Scribd!

Tokyo for Show Us Your Type

Show Us Your Type is an online project where each issue you have to represent a city typographically. This time it's Tokyo and instead of a 'poster' you had to make an animated gif. So here's my little Tokyo gif I did. {Also check out my London & Berlin submissions}

The next city is Las Vegas, submission deadline:- 23 Feb 2014 go here for details!

Autumn in London: Part 2

   

My second trip to London in as many weeks (see part 1) was full of changing trees in Kensington Gardens and I also saw....

 Henry Moore's Arch framing Kensington Palace... 

The new Serpentine Sackler Gallery....

  

with its inaugural show featuring an elephant holding up the gallery...

  

Marisa Merz's arte povera exhibition at the Serpentine and Shackleton outside the National Geographic Society...

              

Colourful Bulbs and beautiful red stonework at the V&A...

     

Xu Bing's beautiful other worldly utopia 'Travelling to the Wonderland' installation....

    

Some unbelievable animal photos at the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibition at the beautiful Natural History Museum...

and Mary Anning's prehistoric finds ( I read Tracy Cheavlier's 'Remarkable Creatures' over the summer which is all about Mary Anning finding fossils and the first plesiosaurus- I didn't realise how huge they were, amazing!)....

and how cool are these ammonite fossils in the plesiosaurus...

  

Shipyards and Roads from the air (we took the cable car over to the O2 Arena)...

  

Docks and the O2...

Red Boats from above...

The O2 with Canary Wharf behind and Antony Gormley Sculpture & Thames Taxis in front...

The great Mosaic Building that is Ravensbourne College...

  

The O2 and blue bubbles, can you guess what we were there to see?...

   

The World Tour Finals Tennis of course!...

  

We got to see the Bryan Brothers (and they chest-bumped!) and Novak Djokovic (the eventual winner) and Juan Martin del Potro. Yay! Roll on Wimbledon!

Thanks London, I'll be back in the Spring, there's already so many exhibitions I want to see like David Hockney: Printmaker at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Matisse: Cut Outs at Tate Modern.

Autumn in London: Part 1

 

 A few weeks ago I popped down to London to do a craft fair and also see some sights and exhibitions. Here's a few things I saw:-

  

 Cranes and Planes...

  

 Gasometer and Gormley...

 We took a trip on the cable car across the Thames (more pics and another trip on it in Part 2!)...

 Saw people climbing on top of the O2 dome...

Lines of the O2...

     

'A slice of reality' cross-section boat sculpture by Richard Wilson and industrialness...

 

Beautiful Shadow Type at Mordern Wharf...

 Beautiful Derelictness...

  

Cutty Sark in the Dark and filimg going on at the Royal Naval College (for the Man from Uncle remake)...

 

 The Shard & a London Bus and The Rose Window...

 Olde Map...

 

 Tate Modern (I saw the Paul Klee & Mira Schendel exhibitions  - both amazing) and St. Pauls across the Thames...

New Buildings are always popping up (how do you get 3 cranes on the top of a building?)...

  

 Murals near the Hayward (I saw the great Ana Mendieta exhibition) and one near Regent Street...

 

 Another Mural and a Cute Cat next to me on the train home!

-I had another London trip planned for soon after, details coming up in Part 2!-