I'm back!

After a long break setting up my freelance design business I'm back and will be making regular post's from now on... so please watch this space!

Noma Bar - Genius

I went to a great talk last night featuring the illustrator Noma Bar. His work was absolutely brilliant and throughly inspiring.
Deservedly, he is very successful in the industry and his work has been featured in The Guardian, BBC, Random House, The Observer, The Economist & Wallpaper, amoungst others.
He uses negative space in the form of a related object to create faces (in the Maggie Thatcher portrait he uses the Tory logo, in the Soporanos, a gun, and so on).
Not only is it very clever but despite his incrediably simple style, you can tell immediately who each face is. Brilliant.

Very cool.

Magnus Muhr

I saw these in The Metro on the way home from work today and thought they were really funny.
Sweedish Magnus Muhr (good name) creates the pictures from dead flies he finds in lights and windows and then painstakingly arranges them with tweezers, drawing on legs and backgrounds with pencil.
Simple but very effective.

RIP Alexander McQueen

I cannot claim to have been a follower of Alexander Mcqueen and neither did I know much about him. But the tragic news of his death last week prompted me to find out more.
Crowned 'British Designer of the Year' four times between 1996 and 2003, it is commonly thought that McQueen's defining moment was the resurection of the 'bumster' jean, in the 90's.
I think the most character defining report I have read so far is the story about him sewing 'I am a c**t' into the sleeve lining of Prince Charles' suit. Hilarious!

Who done it??

I saw this 'portrait' on the side of a building in Brick Lane, and thought it was brilliant. It was scrapped out of the wall, the latest form of graffiti perhaps?
I have no idea who it was by... it didn't appear to be tagged. Maybe all will become clear when it starts popping up around London.
He looks very fed up, who ever he is.

Columbia Road

I finally managed to visit Columbia Road in the East End of London just before Christmas, and it was everything I hoped it would be.
There were so many amazing shops, from Rob Ryan's boutique, Ryan Town to several beautiful antique china shops.
I was in my element.








































http://www.columbiaroad.info/shops.html
http://ryantownshop.blogspot.com