General Musings On Life
Ken Dumps Barbie
Apparently Barbie has been rampaging all over forests, damaging habitats and stomping on endangered species, and has hence been dumped by long time beau ‘Ken’. Read the rest of this entry »
David Airey Exposes Shutterstock Artist
I know there are a hell of a lot of cheeky ‘designers’ (word very loosely used in this scenario) out there, but this example is just amazing … check out how David Airey exposes how someone blithely sells the MGM lion in vector illustration format on Shutterstock for £29 a pop: Read the rest of this entry »
Matryoshka Dolls in Commercial Art
Maybe it’s because of the influx of Eastern Europeans to the UK of recent years, or maybe for no particular reason at all, but Matryoshka dolls have become very popular for use in commercial art of recent years.
I was browsing through The Dieline blog earlier and spotted this cute idea for vintage styled Russian Dolls … Read the rest of this entry »
FREE OFFER: Your logo printed on a garment
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Clothes2order would like to offer one business owner a free custom printed (with your company logo for instance) garment item from their high quality collection.
There are absolutely NO catches with this offer, and delivery is free within the UK. Read the rest of this entry »
Graffiti Knitting
I’ve heard it all now … I give you ‘graffiti knitting’. Banksy eat your heart out. Read the rest of this entry »
Lady Sovereign Ahead of Her Time
You know, I just happened upon a music video of Lady Sovereign, who I only remember having a few hits at the time, and observing that her style is VERY similar to many current artists enjoying massive success. Read the rest of this entry »
Truly Ace, in a real book!
As described in my next blog today, I went to the Ikon Gallery, and whilst having a mooch around their very nice shop/bookstore my eyes landed on this!
I thought to myself “Wow, it’s that book published some time ago that my artwork is ‘apparently’ in according to the editors”.
So I checked and indeed Truly Ace IS in the book! A REAL book, that you can get an a proper real world shop and all 
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Lulu Self Publishing
Yesterday I was really excited to receive delivery of my daughters first published ‘book’ in time for her 10th birthday party this weekend.
She has always been a HUGE book lover, and from the moment she cottoned onto the fact that I have the ability to turn one of stories into a real book (since she was about 5yrs) she’s been begging me to do it just about every year since, so I’ve finally done it!
Below is the finished article ready to be gift wrapped: Read the rest of this entry »
Disaffected Youth
Photo curtesy of the Ealing Gazette
We cannot fix this generation by giving them things to do, or more money.
They already have far more money and possessions than the ‘poor’ people of yesteryear. And yet in the past this did not breed disaffected youth.
We can only make changes to prevent more children being raised in this way for the future. We need to change ‘character’ not circumstances.
