I blogged about start up business Dupenny in November last year and just popped onto the Dupenny website for the first time since and pleased to see they are still churning out some BEAUTIFUL illustrated homewares in my very favourite vintage type of style.

Some stunning designs from them are shown below
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A few weeks ago I visited another student final year art exhibition, it was in Sutton Coldfield College Design Centre, just 5 minutes round the corner from my office

Here are some images of my favorable/most interesting items. And of course my comments also.

This comic strip was very well drawn, there was also blood splattered at the bottom corner of the installation space to mirror the storyline:

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You may or may not be aware that I regularly create t-shirt designs for Dallas based wholesale and retail fashion company Katydid Collection.

Below you can view one of the latest designs launched under the theme and design brief of “Peace, Love, Bulldogs”, which is a very popular school mascot sports team theme across the US.
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I’ve just come across this beautiful Print And Pattern book on the Print & Pattern original blog recently. It looks stunning and should prove very useful and inspiring for illustrators/pattern designers.

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The second I walked into the Found! student art gallery space on Thursday last week (see my last blog) my retro obsessed eye spotted this vintage styled gallery booth in the distance and between that and the incredibly cool vintage inspired girls lingering around I could barely contain myself from trying to take sneak photos of them as they stood next to me during the speeches.

This installation belongs to student Emma Harrison and aims (and doing a fine job of it too) to promote
Vintage Sweethearts (vintage photography). Below are my fabulous photos from her gallery space, complete with girls!
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Last year I visited the Forbidden Planet comic/sci-fi shop in Bristol (awesome city by the way) and of course had a good rummage through the art books section.

Please note I am not a sci-fi geek, I was simply in the company of a geek. That’s right, I said geek.

I found (and bought) this stunning book below from Harper Collins Design called Gothic Lolita Punk and showcasing the work of talented illustrators and artists designing in this style. And yes, it’s taken me an entire year to get round to writing about it! Shocker.
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I was in Waterstones this morning buying my niece a giant annotated Brothers Grimm Fairytale book for her birthday tomorrow (because a childhood isn’t complete without Brothers Grimm), and spotted these …

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This illustrated ‘Support The Troops’ (US) motif is to be printed on to t-shirts and other garments for Dallas based fashion brand Katydid Collection and should hopefully be stocked in their range soon.
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I have just created these with my bare hands for Eve Street, I feel rather pleased with them and it’s been a while since I did character drawings like this (which I love) so feeling rather creatively satisfied right now!

Zoom in shots after the link …

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In October I blogged in excitement about some t-shirt designs I created for highly successful Dallas fashion brand Katydid Collection, and even got in a right tizz about the thought of Jennifer Aniston wearing one (well, they did mail her one, the very least she could do is show some semblence of blinkin’ gratitude and wear it … oh yes and then get photographed in it also.)

Well, I have exciting news ….
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