Happy 2010 guys!! May this be a better year and hopefully good things to follow. A bit belated with the new year wishes but I’ve been busy trying to get round to organizing myself and sending out mail. I’ve written my list of things to accomplish in 2010 which is actually so long I’m going to have to complete at least two tasks a day to complete them all, but so far non of which have been fully complete. Main things to achieve is the big move to London (or wherever my career will take me) and to get a new site designed and up and running. Also a new collection of  prints is to be completed which will go on sale at the end of February – I’ll keep you updated on an exact date.

So with an optimistic outlook on the year of 2010 so far here’s some featured sites to get them creative brains motivated.

Little Paper PlanesAirsideHuman EmpireCity of SkiesWanken

I should really keep up with this blogging malarkey. I keep finding lots of bits & bobs but keep forgetting to share all my inspiration and finds with you guys. I will update on a regular basis from now on though, promise….. I’m finding twitter to be a helpful tool for finding new designers and design studios. Follow me.

I seem to have gone back to my letterpress craze and the obsessive blog browsing is also kicking in, I could seriously browse blogs for days on end but it’s stopping me from doing any of my own work which is in desperate need as i’m feeling very useless without paper, printer ink, pens (they run out before the pen even touches the paper) and a lack of motivation to do my own work…. and also now I lack a letterpress which I am in dire need of or in my case just want, so if anyone wants to buy me one your very much welcome.

Adam Ramerth at Lark designed this unique set of letterpress wedding invitations which I must say go beyond the usual traditional bland choice of wedding stationary. Studio On Fire have also done an amazing job with the letterpress work. Niiiiiice!!

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.