Another Designers Marketplace is fast approaching guys. This time being the biggest yet with over 40 stalls selling a diverse collection of high quality, bespoke and contemporary art, ceramics, fashion, textiles, accessories, photography, graphics, illustrations and interior products. So thats a a room full of arty folks and most likely (hopefully) early christmas cakes and all that malarky, sounds good to me.

Details of the event are provided above or you can visit their facebook page for further details.

Designers Marketplace is heading to Leeds on saturday 3rd october so save this date in your diary guys. They’ll be plenty of  talented arty people squashed into one room selling lots of designery goodies… Early christmas shopping perhaps?

Also Designers Marketplace is holding a miniature Designers Marketplace sale as part of The Studios at Forbes opening evening this wednesday 6-9pm. More information of the event can be found on their facebook page.

Here’s a little something to enjoy. Forget the stag head I wanted for my wall, these wall pieces by AJ Fosik are my new must have thing. Head over to Fosik’s feature on the FecalFace website. It’s all gooooooooood!! 

So many things have been started and not finished so its not a surprise that I randomly wanted to illustrate guns and sneakers, hence the title “Guns don’t kill people, sneakers do”.  I must get round to finishing the other projects started in the last couple of months, but I find myself illustrating the most unrelated objects to my concepts that I set myself.  I’ve gone from dollar bills to guns & sneakers…  do these objects have any relation? probably not but I’ve enjoyed illustrating them and that’s all the matters right? In fact I’ll probably just end up blending them all into one concept. Colouring in book for children I’m thinking or even graphics for children’s wear. Sure both of these are slightly controversial but I like it.

Finally I’ve give into this whole Twitter malarkey so if you want to hear from me and read the most random daily quotes (most meaning absolutely nothing) twitter me!

Get down to the CCAD degree show on thursday 4th between 7-9 hosted at the Hartlepool Art Gallery. This does mean to say that it has been a whole year since graduating……. Crikey!

Further details of the event are on the invitation above.

With not much work on the go at the minute I’m just finding myself browsing through blog after blog for hours on end making the day go by quicker than really needed. Also I’ve been slowly adding to my online portfolio as I’m still awaiting positive replies from design jobs.Not forgetting that 3rd year Textiles & surface Design students have approached their final deadline of the course meaning the degree show is almost here. I shall post the dates and times in the my next post, but for now back to the job hunting and blog browsing.

Au revoir.

Yes! So already one whole year of blogging been and gone in what only feels like a matter of months. Also happy one year of blogging to Witchmountain (today) & Lyndsay McBean (for tomorrow I think?) I guess I’ll make some sort of resolution to take me into my second year which could be to update this thing more. Yuuuuuup! I guess this is like a second birthday… Except less exciting of course.

Anywhoooo, thank you for reading guys (whoever you may be) and keep checking back for what I hope will be more exciting things to come in the next year.

Au revoir.

Here I am Illustrataring away at the computer and just deciding on what to do next. Im still just trying to play about with composition, shape and lots of colour. Heres what I’ve been working on throughout the day…. Oh and he’s called Augustus apparently, Sooo watch Augustus transform.For some reason the colours of the design when uploaded seem to differ a little bit so I’ll get back onto that tomorrow, but now I think its time for carrot cake and a fresh brew yuuuuuuuup!

Right! So I’m going through all these design websites lately while on the hunt for a design job (Yes still!) and while on the hunt I’m slowly starting to realise that I really need to get my sketch pad out again and start to do some real drawing for a change and mix things up a bit from all this flat illustrator work?.. And so hunting for a spare sketchbook after thinking about the whole drawing stuff I came across this little illustration I was given. It’s actually a Christmas card that I received when I was staying in London back in December 06 (god how time flies) whilst working for a textile studio. I loved it at the time, still do but just didn’t know where the hell I had put it but it ended up being in the back of an old wallet.

On the topic of drawing and illustration look at these. Its a little series of illustrations by Laurie Rollitt who worked (or still does work?) for one of my favourite Uk based design studios Peagreen. Niiiiiiiiice!

Back with another post and yet nothing to report apart from actually making it to the last day of Yoko Ono’s exhibition at the Baltic Museum. Although I wanted to see it so bad & not been able to get tickets to her lecture she gave to the public It wasn’t really what I was expecting from her; although some bits good and some bits bad I got round the installations rather quickly. There was one bit I did like BUT that was mainly thanks to the public who were able to write small notes about their mums and taping them to the wall. My favourite notes being “My mum has Rosy red cheeks like a slapped arse”  & ” My mammy is not open minded to Yoko’s art”…Maybe it was to someone else’s taste.

On the other hand I’m still trying to plod along with this new project and getting some rough sketches together ready to illustrate for some finals. Although the ideas are very clear in my head they don’t seem to go down onto paper very well or as good as I thought, but that’s always the case isn’t it?

P.S. Go over and look at my Online Portfolio if you haven’t already.