General Musings On Life
Wowed by Showler & Showler Art
I’ve just been followed by @showlerart on Twitter. I clicked through to their website as a consequence and was very impressed with their wall art.
Showler & Showler sell a huge range of very modern, simple and beautifully illustrated wall art prints and postcards. Not only that, their website is a delight to browse through. Please visit them RIGHT NOW. Oh, and buy something, because it’s all super amazing.
Here are some of my favourites … Read the rest of this entry »
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
I have another great and completely FREE giveway!
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 »
